Reading Time: 2 minutes Ouch , blinkin heck , that hurt.😪😂 !! I’ve always had an issue and some previous form with the race number 13 or 13th of the month , does not have to be a Friday ! So to do an off road ride today the 13th, in the foul weather after a tough weekend was […]
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Category: Off Road
Describes any off-road activity, outside of competition.
A tale of ice, no fire.
Reading Time: 2 minutes It was high time for an off-road adventure after a January hiatus, so 5 of us went fairly local and met up at Macclesfield Forest on Saturday last – at least we did once the initial Google maps confusion was sorted. Amazingly though, with all expected riders well on time even this slight delay meant […]
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ...
Reading Time: 3 minutes The starting point for this months MTB away day was Trentham Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent. It was riders choice as I had two routes planned and was happy to navigate either of them. However, for two of us, Rob and myself, the starting point was Middlewich. On our way to Trentham we would meet up with Steve […]
Cannock Chase. Bloody ace.
Reading Time: 3 minutes A guest blog here from Paul Harding, following a brilliant, (if busy) trip to Cannock. It’s been a while since I’ve returned from an MTB ride and thought, ‘I really must dust my bike’ 🙂 April’s MTB away day was a visit to Birches Valley, Cannock Chase. With a prompt 10am start on the cards […]
North Mancunian Misery.
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s been a while since I’ve written an off-road blog shamefully, particularly when viewed against the journalistic volume and quality of the road oriented contributors here abouts. I’ll make an excuse that our mountain bike jaunts are best illustrated with shots of a train of colourful riders swooping down dusty trails into dramatic vistas, but […]
Delamere off-road 5th Nov. 2016
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lovely ride in the forest today with just Steve Marlow, Mark Gavin (on his first WVCC off road ride) and me. Matthew and Andy Beswick couldn’t make it as they were on course clearing duty for next Saturday’s cyclocross at Greenbank. Fantastic autumn colours on a bright, crisp morning. We set off up Old Pale […]
With the benefit of hindsight….
Reading Time: 3 minutes …on Saturday 15th October we had what was nearly a perfect club MTB ride. I’d found a route on the Internet around Rivington Pike and the attendant reservoirs, which are just outside Horwich in Lancashire that looked like it was spot on for a sensible day out. Nice distance, a reasonable amount of climbing, not too […]
Alpine mountain biking – yikes!
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I booked us both onto a cross country Alpine MTB week (with a company called Trail Addiction, in the French Alps near Les Arcs) I had the idea we’d be riding on beautiful contouring trails, through Alpine wild flower meadows, under snow-capped mountain peaks. The chap I liaised with assured me that the riding […]
Castleton Carousel.
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘Why is it called the Castleton Carousel?’ Nick asked me as we pushed up the fifth tasty climb of the day. My thought was it went round and round in circles, (one large, one much smaller included for a stupendous final decent back into Castleton) but as we were approching 4000ft of climbing his suggestion […]
Lift up – plummet down.
Reading Time: 2 minutes On the face of it there’s not a lot to report about a day out at Antur Stiniog. You arrive, chuck your bike on a trailer, ride to the top of a hill in a minibus, tear-arse down to the bottom and repeat, (x15) until it’s time to go home. Or you are broken. Or […]
An off road weekend of ups and downs. An...
Reading Time: 4 minutes The dates chosen for this year’s club off roader glamping weekend coincided with the ever popular Borderland Rotary Mountain Bike Challenge, so in democratic fashion I deferred my choice of the Scottish borders for the Welsh ones and last Friday evening eight of us arrived in Llangollen for the traditional MTBing triumvirate of eating too much […]
Green Jersey Gravel Rush.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Four of the gang rolled out to Clitheroe yesterday to take part in what was billed as an on/off road sportive organised by a cracking little Lancastrian bike shop, The Green Jersey.  You might have cottoned onto the term ‘gravel bike’ which is a new attempt for companies to part cyclists with their cash genre of […]