Helmet Camera Competition for charity

[bonj2]

well, if we can tempt you into donating another £50!

Why Notts, BTW?

(We just pray now that Bonj hasn’t used superglue, otherwise the winner gets a helmet as well!)

family live in notts and new job is in notts, so 3 possibilities to choose from...

and no i haven't used superglue. Although my particular helmet isn't really ideal for it, as the slats are such that no matter how I do it it always seems to angle down too much.
On mangatom's picture on the charity page he's got it in the 3-o'clock position, this is probably the ideal place to have it - but I can't have it in that position as the slat there on my helmet is too big, but if you look at my video of blacka moor then that is with it in about the 2-o'clock position, and with it pointing as straight-ahead (rather than down) as it can be, yet it's still got far too much ground and not enough ahead. I think the handlebar mount is better.
(My helmet's only a cheap 'MET' one from halfords btw so a better one has probably got more vents and thinner slats so might work better)

 

[gambatte]

Blackamoor? This an on road or off road vid? If its off road, I’ll definitely be giving it a scan!

 

[bonj2]

Blackamoor? This an on road or off road vid? If its off road, I’ll definitely be giving it a scan!

it's off road. i've made a thread about it...http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=4370

 

[Arch]

Archie? not Arch in disguise?

Not me. I already have a camera. I probably ought to have made a donation anyway, but I need to watch the pennies at the moment...

 

[bonj2]

Not me. I already have a camera. I probably ought to have made a donation anyway, but I need to watch the pennies at the moment...

don't worry, we all know you're a stude

 

[gambatte]

it's off road. i've made a thread about it..

Gonna give it a scan Bonj. Only done it once, so far, in the middle of last winter. It started by cycling thro' 20yard sections of water, up past the hubs.....

We then missed the left exit off the main bridleway, before going on the thin path round the hill.

'Cos we'd missed it we went about 200yd past where we should. This area was a 4x4 mudbath. One of the 'ruts' you could have hidden a Landrover defender in!

Be interesting to see what its normally like!

 

[bonj2]

Gonna give it a scan Bonj. Only done it once, so far, in the middle of last winter. It started by cycling thro' 20yard sections of water, up past the hubs.....

We then missed the left exit off the main bridleway, before going on the thin path round the hill.

'Cos we'd missed it we went about 200yd past where we should. This area was a 4x4 mudbath. One of the 'ruts' you could have hidden a Landrover defender in!

Be interesting to see what its normally like!

you don't mean this trail (between the blue lines i've drawn)? cos 4x4s do go up there, god knows why though.
the bit in the red triangle is lady canning's plantation, that's got some good trails. if you go up from the top end of the blue lines (you basically turn left up a steep bit at a cross roads) along the left side of the triangle towards ringinglow road, with the plantation on your right, you pass two stiles leading through the plantation, take the second one. It's a fast double track for a bit, but then a really nice little technical bit goes off to the left... although during the recent floods it had basically turned into a river. and there has also been trees fell/pulled down there.

 

[bonj2]

this is another bit of blacka moor that is SCARY... i don't ride all the way along that for fear of grim death (i always go right to left)

 

[gambatte]

No Bonj, but your map'll be good for reference. Its basically the route from the 'dark peak' book.

Parked up of Owler Bar Rd car park and headed south.
Near the junction of Stoney Ridge Road, you'll see that track heading off east? all the way along that, that was the bit with the 20 yard baths . The bit you've marked as 'blue shape', that the 4x4 mud bath.

Hopefully added something to the map, beyond this point.
Hope this works
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?f=...d=110548190352886851339.00043c4eee8e07f26472f

 

[gambatte]

this is another bit of blacka moor that is SCARY... i don't ride all the way along that for fear of grim death (i always go right to left)

That gets the grey matter going a bit better (got the book out as well)

http://picasaweb.google.com/garryneedham/Bike/photo#5120507431643576050

The blues the ride in, the red is the 4x4 mud bath, the yellow is the bit I find unnerving. Thin path with a biggish drop to the right.

 

[bonj2]

That gets the grey matter going a bit better (got the book out as well)

http://picasaweb.google.com/garryneedham/Bike/photo#5120507431643576050

The blues the ride in, the red is the 4x4 mud bath, the yellow is the bit I find unnerving. Thin path with a biggish drop to the right.

that's the one! Yes sorry i thought it was the bit I've drawn a red box round but it's not, it's the bit you've done in yellow. you're not alone i find it unnerving too.
If you then go up a bit to the little gaggle of trees, then turn right through a gate, there's a really nice rocky descent, and after a bit there's a clearing and a bench. Off to your right is a path which I think leads to strawberry lee lane, I know 'cos I once saw a van halfway down there that had got stuck and I asked them where they'd come from and they said strawberry lee lane.
But don't take that right turn, instead carry on past the clearing but be careful there is a gate about halfway down and i've only just managed to stop in time for it before... this descent is really nice, the wooden step things sticking up make it a bit annoying though but it's still a nice descent. Ends in a really fast section with a couple of small dropoffs to a river splash, and comes out at shorts lane which is the same path as at the end of the vid I posted in the helmet cams forum.

 

[bonj2]

i wonder if this one's any good/(possible)?

oh by the way if you want to post a link to what you've drawn on google maps then you have to right click 'link to this page' in the top right, rather than copying what's in the address bar.

 

[gambatte]

Loved that descent with the wooden boards creating the steps! (Believe it or not I actually flew off the bike and over the bars at one point, still don't know what actually happenned...lack of concentration, nervous about using SPDs for the first time?)

When we crossed the stream we had a choice, left or right. As the book said left could be muddy and we'd already encountered major mud, we went right.

Broadbands been playing up this evening so I've not checked the vid yet.

It's one of those routes I need to get out and do again!

 

[bonj2]

Loved that descent with the wooden boards creating the steps! (Believe it or not I actually flew off the bike and over the bars at one point, still don't know what actually happenned...lack of concentration, nervous about using SPDs for the first time?)

shoot - did you?! hope you didn't fly too far off to the left - it's about a 20ft drop into the river! the ones i don't like are the ones that are just sticking up, I don't mind the ones that you just go down they're great. But i can't bunny hop to save my life...

When we crossed the stream we had a choice, left or right. As the book said left could be muddy and we'd already encountered major mud, we went right.

if you go left after the stream it starts ascending soon after, and then just goes up, and up, and up, and up, and up.....
along here
and when it gets to the bit where i've drawn an arrow, it gets steeper and very rocky, like BIG rocks, more like boulders. The top bit, i.e. above the arrow, is unrideable certainly by me, either direction, the bit below the arrow is quite fun (and very fast) down, bit boring though and not at all technical, not sure it's worth the climb up.

If instead you turn right after the stream, you basically get to shorts lane, (and the car park that is the subject of this thread on bikeradar)
go to the end of shorts lane and you can either turn left up whitelow lane which leads back to hathersage road (eccy road), or turn right and it just leads into dore.

 

[gambatte]

Don’t know, about that section from your last post. I’ve got the OS map somewhere. I’ll try and find it.


Our route took us to Shorts lane, left onto Whitelow lane, upto a right onto the A625.
Left onto Sheephill lane and then the track on the left, which on Google maps is under the ‘The Peak District’ text. Left at the Xroads and onto Fox House