“You’ve got the wrong bikes" shouted the first mountain biker of the group we met as we descended past them on the rocky and steep route from down from Long Causeway on Stanage. Then one of his mountain bike riding mates promptly fell off in a heap.
I’ve got nothing against mountain bikers at all, friendly types all of them we met, but some of them might not have realised that one of our party, Dave Howgate , had probably been descending rock strewn gullies on a normal touring bike long before they, or their mountain bikes had been born. This was a fact he seemed to pleased to tell them all at the Woodbine café in Hope. It seems there isn’t a pass or route in England Scotland or
I thought our assortment of different bike types descended pretty well from Stanage. Dave on the old Holdsworth tourer was never more than 10 seconds behind us despite walking the most severe sections, Rob was away on a suspension MTB, Simon was riding that tank of a bike he uses to pull beers kegs on trailers, and I was on the cycle cross bike which coped well with all but the worst sections.
We also found out then when Dave asks you if you know anything about (insert Peak District landmark name here), you will know an awful lot more about that landmark 5 minutes later.
More to follow…..
3 comments:
Oi! That's an original Evans MTB with 531 tubing lovingly rebuilt by Dr Bike with parts from a crappy old Townshead I'll have you know! Cost £500 when new.
Anyway my son had left his swanky MTB locked up and taken away the key to uni so I had to use it.
do you mean it cost 500 pounds or weighs 500 pounds!
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