classic33
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The Retirement Thread
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So be good for your own sake 🎶 or it'll be
🎶 Johnny get up, get up 🎶
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Nope. Nothing on this evening that I fancied.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Well, I have been planning a new way to torture myself on the bike!
I am hoping to complete 4 more 100 km rides before the winter arrives and fancy tackling something a bit different... My plan for one of those rides is to do the clockwise 'Cragg Vale loop' 3 times in succession. The basic loop is roughly 1/3 of the required distance so that would work, but I would get bored doing exactly the same loop 3 times so I have planned variations to add interest. They also add elevation gain, and since I will be using my singlespeed bike that will make it a hard ride. There are climbs which I can only just get up on that bike so I have put the worst ones in the first loop (640 m of ascent), slightly easier ones on the second loop (500 m of ascent), and made the final loop as easy as I can (380 m of ascent). 1,500-odd m (nearly 5,000 ft) of ascent in 100 km (62 miles) is about 75% of the usual hilliness round here, but climbing is way harder than usual on that bike so overall it will probably feel VERY hard...
I'll have to pick a day when there won't be a strong wind trying to blow me back down the hill to Cragg Vale!
classic33
Leg End Member
Up the A58 out of Littleborough?Well, I have been planning a new way to torture myself on the bike!
I am hoping to complete 4 more 100 km rides before the winter arrives and fancy tackling something a bit different... My plan for one of those rides is to do the clockwise 'Cragg Vale loop' 3 times in succession. The basic loop is roughly 1/3 of the required distance so that would work, but I would get bored doing exactly the same loop 3 times so I have planned variations to add interest. They also add elevation gain, and since I will be using my singlespeed bike that will make it a hard ride. There are climbs which I can only just get up on that bike so I have put the worst ones in the first loop (640 m of ascent), slightly easier ones on the second loop (500 m of ascent), and made the final loop as easy as I can (380 m of ascent). 1,500-odd m (nearly 5,000 ft) of ascent in 100 km (62 miles) is about 75% of the usual hilliness round here, but climbing is way harder than usual on that bike so overall it will probably feel VERY hard...
I'll have to pick a day when there won't be a strong wind trying to blow me back down the hill to Cragg Vale!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
No way, not on the singlespeed (too long and steep)! (That is the anti-clockwise loop.)
The advantage of doing it that way though would be that there is usually a cross/tailwind going up the top half of the climb. That wind is usually a cross/headwind when climbing from Cragg Vale, hence my comment about choosing the right day. Slogging up there once overgeared into a wind would be bad enough, but doing it three times would be a bit much!
If I were using my multi-geared bike I would do the loop anti-clockwise. In fact, if the first time doesn't put me off completely, I might do it again anticlockwise a couple of weeks later on the other bike. That would have to be before the roads get gritted though because the best bike is put into hibernation after that.
classic33
Leg End Member
Doing the two mile descent should be easy enough. Your brakes working?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Indeed! I have been caught out by that in the past...
Comparison of the 2 climbs - long and steady vs shorter and steeper!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
For anybody interested, this is the view looking down the A58 from Blackstone Edge towards Littleborough. The water below is Hollingworth Lake.
classic33
Leg End Member
Try the off-road route, that follows the wall up on the left from, the bottom.Indeed! I have been caught out by that in the past...
Comparison of the 2 climbs - long and steady vs shorter and steeper!
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Get the right-hand corner done and the bottom left-hander is easy.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Which reminds me... I really MUST get my CX bike and MTB sorted out - both are out of action and have been for some time. I can do the MTB myself, but the CX bike needs a fork replacement - a safety recall after serious/fatal crashes involving fork failures!
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Hurry up Drago. I don’t want to be first!
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I have risen!
Was in the studio with the band last night and we retired to the club in the villlage afterwards for a jar or 6 each, so I feel a little jaded. A quiet morning doing the ironing is actually quite welcome.
Was in the studio with the band last night and we retired to the club in the villlage afterwards for a jar or 6 each, so I feel a little jaded. A quiet morning doing the ironing is actually quite welcome.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Hello people. Slept through till 6.30!! Dry, grey 12⁰ which is very warm for mid November.
It's Tuesday so small person is coming. I'll get everything ready for her shortly. That is about it, nothing much else happening. Catch you later.
It's Tuesday so small person is coming. I'll get everything ready for her shortly. That is about it, nothing much else happening. Catch you later.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
At least you've got one.........
My phones an ornament too
