MTB Derbyshire: West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester Big Ride!

Ventured out from Derbyshire to take on a big ride from West Yorkshire into Greater Manchester all in Christians (‪@ElectricMountainBiker‬) back yard.

Personally, I've never ridden in West Yorkshire, so this was always going to be something different. Christian lives this way, so he planned out a route and shared the GPX. Originally it came in at 28 miles and over 3,600 feet of climbing.

This was always going to be a tough nut. Now one thing I've noticed when riding in the north Yorkshire area is that distance is deceptive. This is because it's either very steep up, flat, or very steep down. there aren't many steady climbs or places to chill Marc (‪@HallMarc_Trails‬ ) had an extra challenge.....he had only been on the turbo trainer a few sessions after hurting his wrist 6 weeks previously and was still recovering. Hats off mate you did really well. No sun attge end we were all ready. in fact we ended up cutting two more climbs and subsequent DHs.

A sign of the nature of this ride was the fact we set off about 9.30 am and I got back to the car about 5 pm. It is a group ride of course and we had plenty of stops, for laughs, faffs and cake. Time is never wasted.

There was nothing major technical on this ride, though here were a few sections of hike a bike, but the views at times were epic and well worth all the effort. There were also some sections where the exposure in the left was definitely knee trembling.

I for once wasn't the "crash bandicoot" of the group...I left those honours to Marc and Christian. Marc played out a very graceful pirouette before my eyes on an incredibly greasy and steep grassy descent. Christian however took a much more covert but potentially more damaging fall out of our sight (but thankfully not Marc's camera 🤣) Luckily the soft mud broke his fall.

I really hope this film captures the fun and laughs we had, after all that's what it's all about right?

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Marc's version of events:
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