So, went for a pleasant mountain bike ride with Steve and Trevor today. Weather alternated between bright sunshine and heavy haily showers but was on the most part good. Started from Steve's in Marple bridge and proceeded for a short distance before stopping for some saddle fettling. This would turn out to be the theme for the first part of the ride, as Steve and I hadnt ridden our bikes for some time resulting in lots of annoying failures. At one point my rear wheel fell off, i must have not tightened it after bleeding the brakes ages ago.. woops! Luckily i was going up hill at the time so no damaged occurred to bike or alun.
So after a rocky start (fnar) we made it to the track leading up to the shooting cabin, which was tricky as always, then a nice descent down into hayfield for a cup of tea and cake. This is a feature of cycling with other people that i like, i never feel like stopping on my own. So cake consumed we headed off into a hailstorm, which made me quite cold but soon cycling up to lantern pike warming me up, then the sun came out and it was fine for the rest of the ride.
At one point we passed the mysterious robin hoods picking rods, which steve had warned me not to get too excited about as it was just a couple of stones. Which it was, but at least i saw them and could marvel about their origin. Soon we were back at the car and ready to come home and clean my bike. A fine day completed!
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