Cranked Up Really High

Travis_Bickle

New Orange 4....

[media]https://vimeo.com/153746694[/media]

She won't mind one more......

Old_Man

Been to the Orange factory, Guy who set it all up was sound, not so sure about son who will inherit the business.

Travis_Bickle

Old Man wroteBeen to the Orange factory, Guy who set it all up was sound, not so sure about son who will inherit the business.

New guy at the helm since October. From Barstow's Sheet Metal..
https://www.orangebikes.co.uk/news/view/ashley_ball_at_the_helm_for_orange_bikes

Picked my Clockwork up from the Orange factory at Holywell Green almost 10 years ago. They were sound. I like owning a bike that was built a few miles from where I live and where I ride it. Handbuilt in Halifax innit....

CharlieG

How did your back stand up, TB?

Travis_Bickle

Going okay so far. I reckon the MTB is better than the road as I'm moving about far more. Wasn't the longest ride but was a cracker. Rode up out of Tod (fucking steep), the 'Robinwood Slog'. I was out at least once every week before the accident. Only a handful of rides from June to Xmas after it so I'm still feeling the climbs. Thick mist at the top...

Worth it though. Delf Lane slabs and then all the way down to the golf club. End up with the Rodwell Drop back to the road. One of my favourite routes. Typical Calderdale 'winch and plummet'.
We pushed back up from the picnic carpark and rode the Zig-Zags. Cracking day out.

Travis_Bickle

Dropper post fitted....basically you press that button with RockShox on it and the seat drops down. Press it again and it pops back up. Means you can get the seat out of the way when you're descending and it gets a bit techy.

Could have paid less online but I got it through Blazing Saddles in Hebden Bridge and they fitted it for nowt. They need the brass more than Chain Reaction or Wiggle. Great service and a decent bunch.

Can't wait to get out again on Saturday. Decent ride planned. Loving riding the MTB at the moment.

CharlieG

Travis Bickle wroteDropper post fitted....basically you press that button with RockShox on it and the seat drops down. Press it again and it pops back up. Means you can get the seat out of the way when you're descending and it gets a bit techy.

Could have paid less online but I got it through Blazing Saddles in Hebden Bridge and they fitted it for nowt. They need the brass more than Chain Reaction or Wiggle. Great service and a decent bunch.

Can't wait to get out again on Saturday. Decent ride planned. Loving riding the MTB at the moment.

The lad can't imagine not having a dropper, now. One's on his Nukeproof that's coming at the end of the month - 160mm travel lump of lunacy that it is.....

Travis_Bickle

Mega? I liked the old ones more than the 'curvy' new ones.

CharlieG

Mega 275 - he rode one at the launch back in September...........with Sam Hill and Nigel Page.
Was so impressed, he ordered one.

Travis_Bickle

No Wage Page! Remember watching him in the Sprung videos. I've convinced myself I want a BTR Ranger. Just need to find the brass......

Smutty_Lips

It was nearly time to leave work tonight, blowing a gale out front but we are on hill top over looking the sea so it often seems worse here. I nipped out front to see what the rainfall was like, a drop but not too bad. I decided to go for it and cycle home even though I could have left the bike nice and secure. It was the worst decision of my life that hasn't involved a woman.

Cycling down the hill into a howling wind, I had to put physical effort get down a hill where I'm usually touching the brakes every now and then to slow me. After 0.75miles, i stop, think about getting blown back up the hill and getting the bus. Then i think ah fuck it, and carry on. Douglas sea front is about 2.25 miles long, perfectly flat, I had to work to quite hard to hit 7mph, it's the windiest spot on the ride so I knew after the 2.25 miles it would be a lot easier, but then it started raining, really raining.

I won't go into great detail, just a couple of low points. The points where a salty stream of water was running into my eyes making it very difficult to see and it was stinging like mad, i deduced it was coming from the padding inside my helmet which i haven't washed. Cycling up or down hills where my part of the road was a stream of running water. Go outside the stream and you risk hitting some shit or an invisible hole, go inside and you are fucking off traffic which cannot pass. The other low point was the realisation that sporadically pissing myself wouldn't matter and that it would give me a nice warm sensation for a few seconds.

Bielsa’s_Bucket

Smutty Lips wroteIt was nearly time to leave work tonight, blowing a gale out front but we are on hill top over looking the sea so it often seems worse here. I nipped out front to see what the rainfall was like, a drop but not too bad. I decided to go for it and cycle home even though I could have left the bike nice and secure. It was the worst decision of my life that hasn't involved a woman.

Cycling down the hill into a howling wind, I had to put physical effort get down a hill where I'm usually touching the brakes every now and then to slow me. After 0.75miles, i stop, think about getting blown back up the hill and getting the bus. Then i think ah fuck it, and carry on. Douglas sea front is about 2.25 miles long, perfectly flat, I had to work to quite hard to hit 7mph, it's the windiest spot on the ride so I knew after the 2.25 miles it would be a lot easier, but then it started raining, really raining.

I won't go into great detail, just a couple of low points. The points where a salty stream of water was running into my eyes making it very difficult to see and it was stinging like mad, i deduced it was coming from the padding inside my helmet which i haven't washed. Cycling up or down hills where my part of the road was a stream of running water. Go outside the stream and you risk hitting some shit or an invisible hole, go inside and you are fucking off traffic which cannot pass. The other low point was the realisation that sporadically pissing myself wouldn't matter and that it would give me a nice warm sensation for a few seconds.

Those rides are the best. :)

Raposa

Fucking hell..you're not selling this cycling mullarkey very well chaps.

Roll on the golfing season eh SL?

Harvest

Just to be clear Smutty, as you were entering Douglas you were getting blown back and then a salty stream of water ran into your eyes from a dirty helmet.

Takes all sorts I suppose.

Smutty_Lips

Excellent Harvest :D

OY, now I'm back in the real world and working again Golf has lost some of its shine. I suspect this might be my last year just based on the time required, now time is at a premium

Travis_Bickle

They're the rides that make you stronger. Off out now. It's pissing it down. But I'll feel mint when I get back.

Travis_Bickle

Well that was interesting.
Found the Mmmbop trail. Very technical. Very wet. Very slippy. Fell off. A lot. Including an over the bars on the first section. Have just cleaned the bike and sat down. Now realising just how hard I fell off as my left knee, shoulder and elbow are f***ing killing me.
Worth it though. The trail through the woods to Jack Bridge is brilliant. And beautiful. Like riding in The Lord of the Rings. Abandoned moss-covered stone cottages and mills in the woods, stone slab packhorse trails and roots, rocks and boulders. Had to cut the ride short as the rear brake caliper fell of my mate's Evil.
Calderfornia dreamin'......

Travis_Bickle

CharlieG

Looks ace, TB.

Travis_Bickle

Right on the limit for me in places. The age-old mistake of grabbing on the brake when just letting it flow is the answer. Always learning though. I reckon riding it when it's p***ing it down and muddy will make it easier in the dry. Or something like that. The bloke I was out with is a really good rider, he's done Whistler etc. I try and follow his lines etc.
Still sore down one side.

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