The trail maintenance Core Team (consisting of Maggie from MCP, 4 guys from Meet Up plus Markymark, Ryszard, Groundskeeper John, Sandy Slater and myself) met up for the first time last Saturday (14/1) . Here’s what happened…. Continue reading
There’s a new event happening over at Glentress on Sunday 27 May. Organised by Tweedlove and POC, it’s an Enduro style event (Enduro like rally racing, rather than 12/24 hour). Thought some of our faster Trail/All Mountain riders might fancy giving it a shot.
Anyone found a source for wheel hub cone nuts? I cant find any on the internet.
From the promoter:
I hope you don’t mind me contacting you. This is just a quick email to see if you and/or some of your mountain bike group might be interested in coming along to an event we’re holding on Saturday 28th January in Glasgow at the Mitchell Library Theatre called the UK Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. Continue reading
Glentress 7
Pretty much following on from Graham’s post on riding goals for this year, I have been thinking for a while about doing an ‘event‘ to provide some kind of focus to encourage me to ride more, improve my fitness and just to do something different. I have looked at 10 Under and the Selkirk Marathon. Following on from Dene’s previous posts about the Glentress 7, this sounds like the kind of fun event that could be suitable for this first timer. Not too long, not too far away and, I suppose, not too expensive. Continue reading
Dene, thanks for your post suggesting a club ride at Glentress! Great idea! Really sorry you couldn’t make it along because of your snowboarding injury. But Dene, if you’re reading this, it was a terrible day out; nobody enjoyed it, the trails were grim, the bikes were terrible, the weather was just awful. Now, for everyone else, here’s what you really missed…..
The format for Trans Wales is changing for 2012. They’ve condensed it into a long weekend with a longer night stage and more special stages. The core of it is still sociable fun riding and scoffing large amounts of lovely food. Anyone interested in doing it with me? Teams of three or solos. You can still ride with your mates even as a solo, you just race the special stages separately. 17th -19th August in the middle of Wales (about 5.5hr drive from Glasgow).
Me and Zoe heading out tomorrow for a ride. We’re still sorting transport so it may be Dumyat since you can get a train there. If anyone is keen to come along let us know and we’ll keep you posted. If I can get my car for the day it might be somewhere more adventurous.
This weekend the sun will shine and winds will be light. Time to get out and play in the big outdoors.
Not sure about good enough snow coverage to justify heading north.
What’s the consensus out there ? . . . . . Head north or go to Glentress and ride on Sunday (Dene has already proposed this).
Will car share or come in my van.
Cheers,
Simon
Graham reminded me that Alpines give club members free demo bikes. So, phoned up St. George’s store with my request for a full susser for GT on sunday. He phoned me back 10 mins later to say they have put aside a 2012 Trek Lush for me for the day! That’s £40 a day hire bike!
Can’t wait to try it out. And that’s covered my 2012 membership!!
Only down side is that i may like it too much!
Sam
