The ride started at Sadgill, hopelessy cute hamlet
Started very unassumingly, easy gravel ride in lovely weather.
Withinminutes the clouds gathered and the track became seriously steep and loose
Its quite a tourist attraction for offroaders as its a public road, you need a permit for once amonth usage.
This guy was superfit on a manual, but couldnt ride most of the uphill sections
It was first geat turbo all the way with the front end deciding your path
Not too bad, but very tiring, its much steeper than it looks.
It was trying to rain but held off.
This is where we joined the bridleway to basically climb over that mountain in the distance
Everyone told us it was impassable with a bike
It slowly got steeper and steeper and more unridable
Youd have to be a horse stunt rider to make this.
I had become completely exhausted, a passing group told us it was twice as steep and rocky to the top, i was like..its a bridleway, could the horses fly back in the day?
We reluctantly retreated and rode the pass back in the rain, thank god we did.
The slippery rocks made it twice as hard.
Maximum concentration on the descent, once a tyre slid it skipped over two foot.
These guys were chatting about riding a bike over the pass so loud they didnt hear us approach
Rain cleared on the final run out, we stopped talking we were so tired
The road up to Sadgill is like a disneyland ride of beautiful english mountain homes.
Im just mowing the lawn dea...splash.
The roads is 6 inches, '152,400,000 nanometres' wider than the van either side
how could you ever be sad living in this up here.
I think they bought that Landrover just to park it outside the house.
Strangely enough I came back with five bars and brian only two, this is unexplainable, I was in turbo all day.
Either my electronics have gone haywire or Brians battery is failing.
