Post by hodgy on Feb 19, 2016 21:07:38 GMT
Featured in this month's ( March 2016) edition they have a section on Flow Trails and managed to totally cock up the best way to ride two of them ...
As the original author of the Bolts Law route ( I was the first to realise the change of status from path to bridleway )
I put together a route starting at Edmondbyers on the Lead Mining Trail ..and sent it to Tom Hutton which got featured ..I was meant to meet up with him and Steph Duits but couldn't meet them on the day they came up ..but did get a name check in the mag thanking me for the route ...it has featured a few times over the years but they seem to think they know better and have changed it to start in Blanchland ..which means an un-neccessary road section at the end and in the process cutting out completely a great bridleway descent into Blanchland ( I thought these people were supposed to be mountain bikers ..not roadies) ...the original way is best and if anyone is planning on riding this for the first time ..pm me and I will put you wise !
This was also long before it featured in a guide book : Beyond Hamsterley too!
The other one they cocked up was the Rosedale Abbey ride ..which I gave directions for ..for the benefit of Glynn in the forum rides section recently ..it's best started and ended in Lastingham as per the directions in that thread which ensures that you are still fresh for the best singletrack section at the beginning of the ride ...instead of being totally goosed at the end ..
Fucking amateurs!
As the original author of the Bolts Law route ( I was the first to realise the change of status from path to bridleway )
I put together a route starting at Edmondbyers on the Lead Mining Trail ..and sent it to Tom Hutton which got featured ..I was meant to meet up with him and Steph Duits but couldn't meet them on the day they came up ..but did get a name check in the mag thanking me for the route ...it has featured a few times over the years but they seem to think they know better and have changed it to start in Blanchland ..which means an un-neccessary road section at the end and in the process cutting out completely a great bridleway descent into Blanchland ( I thought these people were supposed to be mountain bikers ..not roadies) ...the original way is best and if anyone is planning on riding this for the first time ..pm me and I will put you wise !
This was also long before it featured in a guide book : Beyond Hamsterley too!
The other one they cocked up was the Rosedale Abbey ride ..which I gave directions for ..for the benefit of Glynn in the forum rides section recently ..it's best started and ended in Lastingham as per the directions in that thread which ensures that you are still fresh for the best singletrack section at the beginning of the ride ...instead of being totally goosed at the end ..
Fucking amateurs!
