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MTBNE Christmas Trip

December 6, 2009 from 10am to 4pm – Glentress Buzzards Nest Car Park

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NoHope, ray and MARK are attending Andy's event

Winter Warmer at Kielder

January 23, 2010 all day

The first of the KTR's 2010 Marathon series. Registration : 8:30am - 9:30am at The Angler's Arms Race Start: 10:00am 3 laps of a 16km circuit, including sections of the newly built Blue trail and forest roads. Enter here

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ray commented on Andy's event 'Winter Warmer'

Bring it on. The season cant start too soon for me. I hate the long spell through the winter when the xc race season ends. Allways look out for the WW as this means the xc season has officialy started. Last years marathon series was a great sucess...

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MTBNE Christmas Trip at Glentress Buzzards Nest Car Park

December 6, 2009 from 10am to 4pm

MTBNE Christmas Trip to Glentress - the mother of all trail centres with something for everyone no matter what your skill level. The green is a great introduction to MTB riding with nice flowing wide singletrack and great view on a clear day with...

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Winter Warmer at Kielder

January 23, 2010 all day

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ray commented on Andy's event 'Kielder 100'

Count me in, bring it on. I am doing the c2c in one day & wiggle 6 solo as part of my training. Looking for a few riders to join me in the c2c one day around july aug time.

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ray is attending Andy's event

Kielder 100 at Kielder

September 4, 2010 all day

It's back for 2010. One lap, 100 miles. Start those training regimes now... (anyone got any tips for training as for reasons unknown I'm thinking of entering. WHY?)

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Andy commented on MARK's blog post 'carbon advice'

Mark, have you seen the 3 month old Santa Cruz Blur LTc frame for sale on fleabay? Was thinking about bidding but haven't got the cash at the mo. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2010-Santacruz-Blur-LTc-Carbon-not-Specialized-or-Trek_W0QQitemZ290373404672QQ...

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Andy replied to john notman's discussion 'kielder 100'

I put together a draft training schedule, showed it to the Mrs and her comment was: you'll be getting divorced around mid july as I'll never see you. Hmm, bit of arm twisting (flowers) and persuasion (chocolates) needed here.

yesterday

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What type of riding do you do?

XC, All Mountain, Freeride

At which of the following locations do you ride?

Hamsterley, Chopwell, Newcastleton, Glentress & Inners, Teesdale / Weardale, Northumberland

When do you ride?

Weekday Evening, Saturday Morning, Saturday Afternoon, Saturday Evening, Sunday Morning, Sunday Afternoon, Sunday Evening

What intensity do you ride at?

All Paces - Depends on the group

What bike/s do you ride?

Specialised FSRxc
'93 Kona Cindercone... still going strong

Tell us a bit about yourself

30 something wannabe biking god with actual biking skills of a toadstool. Enjoys getting covered in mud, sheep sh#t, bitten to shreds and torn to bits by brambles whilst in the pursuit of mtb nirvana.

TIP: if you're into XC riding get to Kirroughtree and do the Black Craigs route - it's the best man made trail I've ridden.

Where do you live?

Newcastle

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MTBNE Christmas Outing

I want to get a trip up to Glentress one weekend before Christmas organised. Anyone else interested and want to tag along and have a laugh at the daddy of trail centres? Red / Black / park/ Inners, not bothered. With the winter setting… Continue

Posted on November 13, 2009 at 10:35am — 11 Comments

FC events in September

To complement Crispys blog just grabbed this of the KTR website. New trails / park opening in the NE - can only be a good thing. :)

FCMTBEventsPosterHR.pdf

Posted on August 29, 2009 at 10:36am — 1 Comment

New Red at Fort Bill

Just grapped this off youtube

That's one hell of a long boardwalk section. Looks fun though. Continue

Posted on July 11, 2009 at 9:08pm — 2 Comments

Dirt School

Went up to Glentress on Friday with the wife so I thought I'd just be having a laugh on the blue route with her then possibly a quick blast on the red on my own. How wrong I was: she'd booked me on to the XC course that Dirt School run as an early birthday present. I can't recommend it highly enough: I learnt more about bike handling in that day than I did in the previous 10 years. The guy taking the class (Andy Barlow) is a national XC champion and has done the black route at Glenners in 1 hour… Continue

Posted on May 2, 2009 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

New Kielder Trails

Lifted straight from the KTR website (posted by Alex Mac)

All,
Seems the updates are not getting through from the project to this website, please find our intended dates for the new trails opening this year.

1, New Red Trail starts at Lewisburn goes past the lonesome tree which you can see on the distant skyline as you walk down to Kielder Castle from the Kielder Car Park.
The trail comes in behind the former Kielder Garage, so you will see the end of the trail as you drive into Kielder.

T… Continue

Posted on April 23, 2009 at 12:32pm — 5 Comments

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At 8:19pm on October 14, 2009, Crispy said…: Yep, I'm hoping to get one going again in Nov - watch this space......

At 12:08pm on October 2, 2009, Dave F said…: Tough climbing mate - but loved the black (especially the 2nd and 3rd sections!) Rich managed to snap his frame too! (cruel place for a hard-tail).
A few of the jumps on the red need some tlc - too many people jamming their anchors on when they land.

At 10:15am on September 30, 2009, Crispy said…: Nightmare, shame as it's a cracking ride. I'll try and get a day pass in the near future and give you a bell as I'm always up for doing that route.

At 11:07pm on September 29, 2009, Crispy said…: Sorry I missed tonight Andy, been looking forward to it, but had to be available to sort out a qtr end deal for work.

How was the Gunnerside ride?

At 2:05pm on September 28, 2009, Dave F said…: Gotch, thanks. Looking forward to it. I might still be up at Choppers tomorrow night, just depends on 'er indoors!

At 1:36pm on September 28, 2009, Dave F said…: We like it bumpy too!

When you talk about the figure of 8 crossover, do you mean that instead of turning left to climb up towarsd Skallys Riggin we'd turn right and go down "into the valley" and then turn left onto the black? I'm looking at the pdf map off the Reivers site...

At 1:17pm on September 28, 2009, Dave F said…: Thanks Andy, much appreciated. Catch you soon!

At 12:52pm on September 28, 2009, Dave F said…: Andy, I'm going to Kielder on Thursday (for the first time) - d'you fancy coming along? What do you reckon is the best route? Lonesome or Deadwater?

At 9:25pm on May 29, 2009, nodrog2 said…: Got the map for the border raid (better late than never). Just got to figure out how to get it onto the PC! I'll let you know when i sort it.

At 9:07pm on March 20, 2009, Crispy said…: Hi Andy, probably 5th April, been a shitty month for me riding wise and I've been struggling to get a full day ride in at all. I'll stick a post in the events section when I get a sec, PC is dead so I'm having to use my fisher price, wind up work laptop which is quite frankly shite.