Welton Jumble & Wolds Ride Aftermath

[chrisv40]

Thanks to everyone who turned out today, I hope you all enjoyed the ride and some of the best trails my local are has to offer.

Strava link here - http://www.strava.com/activities/91652725

I'll pop my pics up in a bit

 

[chrisv40]

 

[longun]

wow, impressed with how dry it looked!. gutted i couldnt ride owt today, still sore as **** from saturdays tumbles :facepalm:

managed a drive to melton though, some cool stuff at the jumble, got a lovely red turbo for peanuts, well a pint and a bag of nuts . gonna not ride the day before binbrook so i dont jinx myself lol, had 35 mins on the turbo just now and the sweat and open wounds wreck :shock:

 

[Matthews]

Great ride , great weather and great company , tough going but worth it , big thanks to Chris and anyone else involved in organising it , it's really good to see some youngsters getting involved in retrobike with great enthusiasm . Well done to all of you but slow down a bit please and let us oldies keep up , got to admit to feeling my age a bit toward the end of it yesterday after being blown away on the hills by someone 1/2 my age on a Raleigh Activator! , just proves the point that it's not about the bike though.
Looking forward to the next one .
Matthew

 

[chrisv40]

We all had a look at that red turbo saddle too Chris

Shame you couldn't ride but I can assure you it wasn't quite as dry as it looked, quite heavy going in places and the last 3 or 4 miles were very wet and muddy indeed.

Everyone stayed on though despite the slippery conditions (apart from Dans comedy dismount which I may have been a factor in ) and we had no major mechanicals just a couple of punctures.

I missed the first climb on Strava but it looks as if the elevation gain was just over 2200 feet and there were 18 pretty weary legs by the end!

 

[Matthews]

Just so you know Chris , the elevation gain I logged was 2605 ft , more than we did last week on Settle/Malham ride . !!

 

[chrisv40]

Thanks for that info Matthew, my legs definitely agree with those figures this morning!

 

[kingoffootball]

Everyone stayed on though despite the slippery conditions.

Ummm, I have some nice cuts and bruises, though I'm not sure slippiness was the issue.

 

[chrisv40]

Sorry Will forgot you had the biggest off

Are you ok today mate?

 

[kingoffootball]

Yeah, I'm all good thanks, the bruises are already fading away and I have some classic "chainring stripes"

It's a shame Ben didn't get it on camera, it would have made it feel more worthwhile.

Far more importantly, zero damage was done to the Zaskar.