 dick hudsons at 7:30 it is then  try not to get too wet on the moor
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 see you there...currently not raining so should just be the water (and mud!!) coming upwards to worry about 
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omg...the tropical monsoon has started here in Bradford!!!!!!!!!!! enthusiasm for riding is slowly fading...if it's still this heavy later i'm wimping out 
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tell you what it looks like no one else is coming out so call me at about 6:30 if your still riding my number is 077270353sixsix
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Ride is taking place, Dick hudsons high eldwick. 7:30 , be there or be dry
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 dry sounds good to me  has anybody seen my mojo? I seem to have lost it
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 Good ride last night, cheers for leading Ice King! Was good to ride with some borrowed Ay'ups, just need to get my own on order now.
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Cheers for leading last night Rob ...some lovely nice deep (where the hell did my front wheel go deep!!!!) mud in places...and i managed to only fall off once too!!!! Can really feel it in my arms and shoulders this morning from trying to keep the bike pointing the right way
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Cheers Rob for the Magic Mystery tour last night it felt like more than 9 miles but it certainly made the Black Sheep taste good.
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pretty much the same...but pitch black too!!!!!!
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Aye, it was good fun, Pitty i missed that right turn but hey we now know you can turn at the boardwalk and have a cracking decent (or climb in our case!). The mud was good mud though as it was well watered so didn't clog things too much.
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How is it I manage to miss every single Ilkley Moor ride?! I smell a conspiracy, although it might be the keema peas vindaloo I had last night...
Fancy repeating your ride in a week or two IceKing?
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i think when it freezes next we can do the ride, its going to trash the moor a bit too much if we ride it in the wet again. So bring on the ice
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 talking of mud, there were suggestions that it's time for a Sun Inn ride - so tomorrow I suggest... the Sun Inn Norwood 7:30 Planning to add a small new-to-some (all weather) loop, and also avoid the worst bike eating bogs - maybe miss the open moor and that gloopy Timble Ings track. And if we do the 'gateway of gloop' downwards, we'll only get slightly stuck. As has been mentioned, the mud should be reasonably well diluted anyway so should be reet.
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Well I can't make tomorrow either! Suppose I can leave you to recce the route Surely if you miss out all the boggy bits from the Sun Inn you'll have no trails left to ride 
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Indeed. The only way you'd avoid 'soft going' would be to stick to the flat gravel tracks round the lakes. Ok, but a bit boring. the mud's part of the fun anyway, only gets annoying if there's pushing (paddling?) involved, that's why I'm trying to do the worst bits downwards, even if it means missing a few favourite bogs - desperate measures after the recent weather ; ) I think there'll still be enough gloop for mud-fiends tho'...
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 That'll be me! Hoping to be there.
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 Working in manchester today but hope to get there in time, thanks for the street map
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 I'll be out too.
Rick/Rob - what cogs do you run on your singlespeed steeds, 16/32?
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