Cliosport Mountain-biking weekend - Scottish Borders!

[Ally]

Yeah not your average Cliosport meet, but a few of us headed down (or up) to Dumfriesshire for a bit of mountain-biking action over the weekend. After more than a few beers on the Friday night we headed over to Newton Stewart to the MTB centre at Kirroughtree. More beers and random chat followed, then on Sunday we all headed to Mabie forest to ride the trails there. Some people had to head home on the Sunday but a hardcore select had a few more beers and a couple of slices of pizza and headed home this morning. Cheers to everyone for making it a great weekend

Those present from Cliosport: Alan, rory182, rufstuf, Geddes, Dave3141, Rebecca, clio_rob, Ally. Plus there were a load of non-CSers there too - sorry I didn't get all the names.

Here's the carnage :evil::

rory182 at Mabie:

Joanne (Mrs Ally) at Mabie:

Dave3141 at Mabie:

(left-to-right) Ally, Ally's mate Ally, Dave3141, rory182:

Ally's mate Ally on the Dark Side Trail at Mabie:

Ride that? Aye right!

You don't say!

Ally copping some airtime:

Arty pic in Mabie forest:

Pizza? (l-r Ally (black tee), Ally's mate Ally, Rebecca, Dave3141, rory182, clio_rob)

Where the f**k's the clios?

"So, what sonus pad did you use on your bike?"

Insert your own random comment to this pic of Alan LOL:

Nice bikes:

Ah there's a clio...

Ally

 

[muz]

cool cool man still gutted I could not make it - did stirling castle the wallace monument and the safari park though on the saturday (we had ozzie friends staying) then my 10k on the sunday - which I did a pathetic 45min

you up for peebles a week on saturday?

 

[Ally]

Aye it would've been good to have you there - next time though!

Just posted in the other thread but probably won't manage Peebles - working at a festival in Falkirk on 5th or 6th or possibly both. Jo's off though so we'll both come along if we can.

 

[rory182]

no chance of pics of me sleeping this time seeing as I disappeared to drink instead lol

 

[bendee]

id like to do something like that but my bike with a gear ratio of 16 14 and no seat would mean itd take a age to get anywhere. allways miss my loverly specialized it loved things like this.

 

[R20 CWH]

nice passat :rasp:

what the damage for a stint round the courses?

 

[rory182]

damage?

£2 for the carpark if thats what u mean

 

[R20 CWH]

bargain tastic!

i thought you may have to pay for some of the forestry courses - due to the cost of upkeep -

 

[rory182]

nah, it's euro funded and forrestry commission etc they have shops and cafes on site often and its a big big money maker for the local area economies.

 

[Rufstuf]

Nice pics matey. Kirroughtree was the highlight for me, I was grinning ear to ear after that. Mabie and Ae were pretty good too.
Rory is a bad influence though, getting me wrecked with the Jack Daniels. Hillclimbs are no fun with a hangover lol

Made another wee vid with Mark and Gaz jumpin' at Ae...

 

[rory182]

haha I had no hangover by the way

the vids not loading up for me.

 

[R20 CWH]

gash music mark

 

[clio_rob]

ha ha i looked wasted when i was munching away on my second pizza there lol but i didnt have no alcohol th whole weekend :S

a grand weekend away whens the next????

 

[Jonaldinho]

Some nice media there chaps!

Did anyone tackle that big drop?

 

[new_world_disorder]

aaah the 7staines. rode um all last summer. awesome tracks u kids should doo some dh . u all look very timid.

 

[clio_rob]

aaah the 7staines. rode um all last summer. awesome tracks u kids should doo some dh . u all look very timid.

i would if i could aford a decent bike

 

[Rage]

i spot some pink 888's?

 

[Rufstuf]

gash music mark

I'll change it to Village People for you Chic

 

[muz]

aaah the 7staines. rode um all last summer. awesome tracks u kids should doo some dh . u all look very timid.

oh yeah and what happens when you make a slight error ....

and someone showing off ...

this better? Me and mates at peebles (mind you I went off the wee drop)

 

[Ali]

PMSL! Al's so cute.

 

[cropcrop]

looks good guys, wheres all the black routes?

 

[rctempire]

That looks so wrong guys. Sorry, Ruff as much as your a great person, the car looks so abused with bikes ontop of it.


Ohh well, back to my 1.2l ripper.

 

[R20 CWH]

gash music mark

I'll change it to Village People for you Chic

your too kind

:lolup:

 

[Ally]

looks good guys, wheres all the black routes?

I did 'em on the Saturday

Kirroughtree black, there wasn't a single bit I didn't ride - although that was the first time I cleared everything. I'm more into XC than DH anyway and the Kirroughtree black is a bloody great route with a lot of brilliant descents and tricky drops.

 

[new_world_disorder]

haha. yeh i had some pink 888 for a few months .. looked like this :

new bike :

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[_Kenny_]

Good pics Ally boy.

And good luck with this job interview

 

[rory182]

^ if I had a downhill beast like that there's probably not a lot I wouldn't ride! Mines got 4" of travel but when I've ridden something with 6" of travel (an Enduro expert with Fox R36's) it was night and day on the downhill stuff so a DH bike would be better still I imagine.

But fook that I like the technical climbs too and can't afford anymore bikes lol

 

[Rage]

fresh! always wanted to ride DH but not fit enough..

ill stick to my lazy, ghetto , park, street and skatepark riding....

its all about the style and trickery, not how fast you are

 

[rory182]

try telling Ally the race whippet that lol

 

[Ally]

Hey I'm not that fast

 

[new_world_disorder]

i wish my * beast * cost less to run. haha i need new forks ( well... want ) im after some of the sexy 2007 888 airs. but the £800 tag is hefty. and my cars dying too im gna have to come ride some of the scotish stuff soon. ive only ever riden fort william and dunkeld DH tracks.

 

[rory182]

innerleithen and brora are meant to be good DH tracks and you'd probably enjoy the black at laggan on that sorta bike.