Next Pennine massive and co MTB ride

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

Yes, like I mention, you can go down and around Derwent water and if you want even more Ladybower. Its not as interesting to ride but it will sure shove some mileage on. With Derwent id guess 14-15miles and with Ladybower upper another 5 as well. So can do that as optional depending on how people feel. That ok?

Sounds ok to me - but tbh, I'd be more interested in riding something exciting than piling mileage on for the sake of it! The last five miles or so of the Dalby ride just pi$$ed me off!

If mileage is really important to some folk, and the straight-line route is as awesome as it sounds, why not do it twice?

Originally Posted by Roberrrrt

Sounds ok to me - but tbh, I'd be more interested in riding something exciting than piling mileage on for the sake of it! The last five miles or so of the Dalby ride just pi$$ed me off!

If mileage is really important to some folk, and the straight-line route is as awesome as it sounds, why not do it twice?

Ha ha, well depending, im happy to just lig out and chill while they do more miles.

Suppose like I say, the beauty is that we can do things like that.

[Paul the 6th]

How about:

For those who just wanna do the route there and back (i.e. lazy me, ridiculous bike nick and pished off rob), we can do that....

Then for mike the machine, owenski mileage plenty and tom the great (can' think of owt funny) they can do the extended loop?

As for attending, I'm working away for the first half of july, then tied up for the last 2 weekends, then busy for 2-3 weekends in august... typically...

So I'll have to check my calendar but prolly won't be able to make it

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

As for attending, I'm working away for the first half of july, then tied up for the last 2 weekends, then busy for 2-3 weekends in august... typically...

So I'll have to check my calendar but prolly won't be able to make it

To be fair, I'm not sure why im getting involved either - cos I'm busy most of July and August! hahaha

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

As for attending, I'm working away for the first half of july, then tied up for the last 2 weekends, then busy for 2-3 weekends in august... typically...

So I'll have to check my calendar but prolly won't be able to make it

Originally Posted by Roberrrrt

To be fair, I'm not sure why im getting involved either - cos I'm busy most of July and August! hahaha

I was hoping it would be late August anyway, I'll not have a bike / fixed the GT before then thats for sure.

[Paul the 6th]

ah righto - late august might be a good time then

Fair enough, Late August should be cool for me too.

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by Roberrrrt

If mileage is really important to some folk, and the straight-line route is as awesome as it sounds, why not do it twice?

Mileage per se is not important, but driving two hours for an hour of riding then two hours back home seems to be a little lop-sided. I would be happy to do the route twice if it is as good as everyone says and if it is awesome / hard, then maybe it will take a bit more than an hour?

I supose with the 9miles there and back has a few advantages:
If you want to do just 9miles then Imagine the route as A(Start), B(top) and C(Stones) you can go A-B-C-B-A which is 9miles, or do A-B-C-B-A-B-C-B-A which would be 18, or for the inbetweeners do A-B-C-B-A-B-A which would be around 13.5miles.

Proper geeky long winded way of doing it I know, but its the only way I could think to convay that point with out physical emphasis.

I think it will be more than an hour. ill get on google earth and get an exact measure. With the terrain and hills you will be hard pushed to do it in under 2 hours id guess. but its been a year since I did it so I cant right remember now



Right EDIT;

Right its 5 miles each way, so 10 miles and big ar$e hills. So ill guess ~2 hours riding so say 2.5 with stops and sorting stuff out, depending on how long people want to rest/hang about. That's to slippery stones and back. Its a 700 ft climb.

I'm not certain if you can cross on the dam half way down Derwent, so if you go all the way down to the bottom of Derwent it adds another 10 miles, sorry for the poor guestimates. Should have sorted this out better huh, it will be easy going as on one side its tarmac almost all the way and the other is hard pack hardcore.

Sorry i've only just got all this in stone but well ya know... I'm new to organising, im normally a mere sheep



That is from car park to slippery stone (where I have highlighted with big arrow, then down round derwent and then back to slippery stones. So add another 5 miles on the end and bam, 20 mile ride.