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Ride entry, 10 February 2012

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Bike: Spot
Route: Steppingley loop
Distance: two hours
Playlist: Unplayed last six months
Wildlife: stotting deer, buzzard

Spot BrandTime once more on a Friday afternoon for a ride. With the wider bars I have decided to go with stil on the shelf at my LBS awaiting my collection it was as quick and easy to get out the geared Spot. Now with all the current talk of fat tyres on the forums (the new niche nbow that 29ers can quite comfortably be said to be mainstream), did I have an inferiority complex about mere 2.1s? Not really. I have five stone on some of the fat tyre riders (no, really), so my ground pressure is probably about the same.

Holga Spot
Holga Spot

Last nights snow was still untouched by mountain bike wheels, nary a walker had been out either, and just a couple of 4x4s on the byway. I did think that a walker had been up there too, but on closer inspection it looks more like it was a passenger in one of the 4x4s doing some spotting and photography. I’ll be checking flickr later to see if anything matches my suspicions.

Ride entry, 4 February 2012

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Bike: Hunter
Distance: !.5 hours
Playlist: Punk and New Wave Faves

HunterBack up north for the weekend I took the Hunter and revisited the trails of my youth and first forays into mountain biking. Recent forestry work – diseased Larch – has destroyed many of my secret trails. C’Est La Vie. It’s a working forest and was always going to change, Increasing popularity with the likes of the BogTrotters who send 30+ incompetents at a time over the peat has caused me as much, if not more, grief over the years.


Diamond Meadows

What tyre for a thin layer of snow over sheet ice? The bitter cold just about froze the top layer of peat enough to ride on, but if you went through you went through. It’s been a very wet year up there based on the sogginess underneath.

Is carbon fibre affected by the cold?
Is carbon fibre affected by the cold?

I should never commented on the Singletrack forum thread about carbon being affected by the cold. Caught the bar end on a post due to too much speed, lack of braking and steering and above all skill. I’m sure on a warmer day it would have survived.