CC MTB Weekender - North Wales - 6-7th April 2019

[fossyant]

So..........

I fell off
I got blisters from holding the bars too tightly because I was worried I was going to die
I was the slowest Strava descended on the Marin trail today
I drank 5 sambuca shots on Saturday night

It was great

Thanks so much to @fossyant for being such a welcoming host and thanks to @I like Skol for basically lending me everything required for a MTB weekend. And thanks to all the other attendees for making it such a fabulous weekend and for waiting for me at the bottom of each descent

And thanks for being a good laugh !!! So glad we didn't kill you, especially on 'Dragons Back' - now that was 'different'.

 

[dan_bo]

So..........

I fell off
I got blisters from holding the bars too tightly because I was worried I was going to die
I was the slowest Strava descended on the Marin trail today
I drank 5 sambuca shots on Saturday night

It was great

Thanks so much to @fossyant for being such a welcoming host and thanks to @I like Skol for basically lending me everything required for a MTB weekend. And thanks to all the other attendees for making it such a fabulous weekend and for waiting for me at the bottom of each descent

You did bloody well bud.

 

[I like Skol]

What can I say? Simply the best cycling weekend ever!

Perfect weather, perfect company and awesome banter....
I really didn't want those Sambucas, but you were right, they were just what I needed

 

[I like Skol]

Oh, and losing the front brake halfway round the Marin Trail red run certainly made me focus a lot more on the second half!!!!!

 

[fossyant]

Pizza, red wine and Grand Tour for me. Had to come home and clean the kitchen, hover the house, and get my own tea as my wife isn't well.

Let's do it again in late summer !!

 

[fossyant]

I really enjoyed Dragons Back and the swoops through the 'gloomy forest'. Gwydir was hard but fab - the views, outstanding.

 

[dan_bo]

Bloody amazing. And a right belly laugh. Loved it. Even the attrition.

 

[screenman]

Pizza, red wine and Grand Tour for me. Had to come home and clean the kitchen, hover the house, and get my own tea as my wife isn't well.

Let's do it again in late summer !!

Levitation amazing.

 

[I like Skol]

Happy ending, everyone survived....

 

[roadrash]

whos who, just to put faces to names

 

[dan_bo]

L-R
Foss, me, nick, Boyd, Mythste, Hac.

 

[I like Skol]

whos who, just to put faces to names

Skolly's the good looking one behind the camera

 

[dan_bo]

 

[I like Skol]

Two big shouts out in recognition of their sterling efforts this weekend.

1st for Boyd who just isn't as fit as the rest of us for one reason or another, but never gave up or complained and smiled nearly the full two days, even when we could tell he was suffering.

2nd to @nickyboy who is completely new to mountain biking and got thrown in right at the deep end! It was hardcore, extreme stuff in some places and not the best way to learn your MTB skills, but he only had one wobble after a fall on a particularly nasty, rocky technical descent and soon recovered his composure to finish the ride in good spirits.

Hats off to both of them, who's efforts far exceeded those of us more seasoned MTB riders that have done it all before.

 

[dan_bo]

Two big shouts out in recognition of their sterling efforts this weekend.

1st for Boyd who just isn't as fit as the rest of us for one reason or another, but never gave up or complained and smiled nearly the full two days, even when we could tell he was suffering.

2nd to @nickyboy who is completely new to mountain biking and got thrown in right at the deep end! It was hardcore, extreme stuff in some places and not the best way to learn your MTB skills, but he only had one wobble after a fall on a particularly nasty, rocky technical descent and soon recovered his composure to finish the ride in good spirits.

Hats off to both of them, who's efforts far exceeded those of us more seasoned MTB riders that have done it all before.

Damn straight. Boyd-dogged and loving it Nick- what an engine.