northern tt - early tomorrow morning, anyone up for it?

northern tt - early tomorrow morning, anyone up for it?

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kennyboy

Original Poster:

639 posts

246 months

Saturday 24th March 2007
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Weather looks good tomorrow and the missus is away so I think I'll get up very early and have a blast around the northern TT.

Anyone fancy it?

You on Al? I'll email you if not.

StuB

6,695 posts

246 months

Sunday 25th March 2007
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Might be out on the bike this afty.

Full report please guys

burriana

16,556 posts

261 months

Sunday 25th March 2007
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Bloody hell Kenny ... TEXT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would have been well up for it!

kennyboy

Original Poster:

639 posts

246 months

Monday 26th March 2007
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sh*t sorry Al again mate! I could see you were on when I posted and thought you'd see my posting.

pm me your phone number matey.

OMG it was superb, 7:30 when the rest of the world still hadn't put their clocks forward....completely empty.
Probably the most enjoyable drive I've had ever - that bottom stretch before you turn left and go up to whitby.....so fast, fantastic road visibility ahead of you. Then it tightens up on the b road back to Hemsley...but still fast for a b-road.

Absolutely loved it. Let's get a hoon sorted eh Stub? I'll volunteer if you like....though of course you are the master at this

Only thing I need is to find somewhere on the 'ring I can stop for breakfast...

burriana

16,556 posts

261 months

Monday 26th March 2007
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Kenny, I'll mail you.

snotrag

14,930 posts

218 months

Monday 26th March 2007
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Sounds like you had fun Kenny, I too was up at the crack of dawn on Sunday, stashed the bike in the car and took an extremely scenic route to Dalby forest.

Went to thornton-le-dale, A169, Fylingdales, in a big loop up to Robinhoods bays then back along the coast to the top end of the Forest drive, absolutely no-one about, granted I might not have been going as fast as you but it was still good fun!

burriana

16,556 posts

261 months

Monday 26th March 2007
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A mate of mine called Pete was telling me on saturday how he was taking the bike up to Dalby on Sunday morning with some mates. I'm assuming you weren't one of them but you never know?

snotrag

14,930 posts

218 months

Monday 26th March 2007
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Nope, I dont know of a Pete. But, its unsuprising. Without being a biker you wouldn't realise that Dalby is a bit of a bikers mecca, very popular! It was heaving yesterday thanks to the weather - had an excellent day. If you've never tried a bit of 'proper' mountainbiking its an excellent place to start, got a good fleet of hire bikes. Also a nice place to go just for a wander round, or a bbq etc.

They have this new attraction called 'go ape', a set of ladder bridges, wire ropes slides and massive valley traverses, all suspended waaay up in the trees. One part is easily 100ft up in the air

kennyboy

Original Poster:

639 posts

246 months

Monday 26th March 2007
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snotrag said:
Sounds like you had fun Kenny, I too was up at the crack of dawn on Sunday, stashed the bike in the car and took an extremely scenic route to Dalby forest.

Went to thornton-le-dale, A169, Fylingdales, in a big loop up to Robinhoods bays then back along the coast to the top end of the Forest drive, absolutely no-one about, granted I might not have been going as fast as you but it was still good fun!



Nice one Simon - it was lovely early morning wasn't it? a bit misty high up and that was it.

burriana

16,556 posts

261 months

Monday 26th March 2007
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snotrag said:
If you've never tried a bit of 'proper' mountainbiking its an excellent place to start, got a good fleet of hire bikes.


Used to go all over, mainly up into the Dales and over towards Cumbria. I have two Scott alluminiums in the shed somewhere, one fully suspended and one full rigid (which I prefer by a mile!) ... only thing is, I haven't ridden them for about 10 years!!!


Edited by burriana on Monday 26th March 15:23

jagdpanther

19,633 posts

226 months

Monday 26th March 2007
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burriana said:
[quote=snotrag]If you've never tried a bit of 'proper' mountainbiking its an excellent place to start, got a good fleet of hire bikes. [/quote

Used to go all over, mainly up into the Dales and over towards Cumbria. I have two Scott alluminiums in the shed somewhere, one fully suspended and one full rigid (which I prefer by a mile!) ... only thing is, I haven't ridden them for about 10 years!!!


I was never heavily into MB'ing like you guys by the sounds of things, but I could never get used to a full suspension setup on mine, always prefered a rigid frame with front shocks only