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DISCLAIMER. MOUNTAIN BIKING CAN BE DANGEROUS. YOU JOIN US AT YOUR OWN RISK.

SAFETY BRIEFING.

  • Wear a helmet. Despite recent advances in medical science, brains still cannot be mended nor replaced.
  • Wear gloves or mitts. Hands often hit the ground first. Cuts and grazes invite infection and a hospital visit.
  • Wear eye protection, it only takes a twig or thorn to lose an eye. Crud catchers are a good idea in mucky weather.
  • When downhilling, for your own protection, allow plenty of space behind the rider in front.
  • Bring a bare minimum emergency tool kit and a spare inner tube.
  • Breakdowns are a bore. Plan not to have any by ensuring your bike is in perfect working order.
  • Punctures are also tedious. You can minimise them by fitting latex tubes, slime tubes or running tubeless tyres.

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Greetings from the warmer north - or there are no easy miles up here...

Hey all

Just thought I'd drop by and say hello. I'm finally back on a bike now - damn near a 2 month layoff what with the xmas off and the move. I am so hideously unfit it isn't even remotely funny. Compounded by the fact that the mountain bike I have up here is the old winter hack (in Duncan's words, worth rather less than the Hope BB it surrounds) and that something's gone wrong with the topography round here. I get on the bike outside my garage and then it's 60 m of climbing just to get to the top of the farm track to the main road. The 4 mile round trip to the village involves more climbing than half the 30 mile CamMTB rides! I miss the flat lands at the moment... Still, as long as I can keep getting out regularly I'll hopefully get back to some semblance of fitness...

I'll be back in cambridge the first week in March so hopefully I'll make it out to the pub or on a ride this time. Last trip it was too icy to risk the partially healed ribs on two wheels and there's precious little point in driving to the pub...

Cheers

Paul

Re: Greetings from the warmer north - or there are no easy miles up here...

the noo the noo
pedal and pedal,. Mr salmond awaits your political leaning.:-*
diggers, the best veggie resturant i have ever been to is in edinborooougghh, tip top... sorry the name escapes me but.... It was amazing
or....... you could go to the mackkie D on the rooooooodeaaboootttt. me iiii prefer the veggi shit
Ppppp.s. what does a sporon fetch on the yyankee tourist train at mo.....best ask the biatch..enjoy :-)

Re: Greetings from the warmer north - or there are no easy miles up here...

What on earth was this about.......
Must have been the "Gods own" cod & chips I had. I don't know.

Re: Greetings from the warmer north - or there are no easy miles up here...

I think you mean Henderson's Duncan, on Hannover Street. I can highly recommend their bistro round the corner on Thistle Street as well. We had a most agreeable lunch there on Tuesday

Glad to hear you're finally getting familiar with the terrain up there Paul!

Richard