Jon and I headed down into Wildboarclough tonight for a different sort of Thursday night ride - which started very unusually with a 30 minute push up Cumberland Brook.
Aboard full sussers with armour and full face we had every intention of flat out reinstatement and I'm pleased to say both of us were certainly feeling 'on it' - what an awesome ride!
The top half is wideopen, loose, mixed surface dropping into a more technical slab ridden shoot, where line choice is harder than you think picking routes across loose shale and leaning the bike into the edges of the track for the last ounce of speed.
Second half starts slow, with a bed of loose pebbles making progress hard work and sketchy, then your dropped into a tight bridleway - rocky as hell with some pinch points but just roll fast through here... the loose surface dissappears and things speed up, wicked quick - before a slight climb. Then all hell lets loose as you drop again taking a rock strewn line or my option the rooty banked left line - nailing it down here buzzing like hell pedalling between little root sections and then it opens up and it's a flat out pedal down to the lower gate.
Through this and the small ford and it's all over - far too quick.
Jon and I found ourselves wondering if France will be like this? But longer! Let's hope so!
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| Cumberland Brook 17/9/09 |
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