417 flyup. With uplift 28th August.

[weeksy]

https://417bikepark.co.uk/

Just booked for 28th aug

[Couchy]

Ok

[weeksy]

Ok

You'll love the swoopy blue

[Beancounter]

I'm doubtful TBH. If I'm not in Scotland that weekend I could be on parenting duties.

[weeksy]

Looking forward to this! See how the big pink thing goes!

[weeksy]

Bit disappointed in today in honesty.

First run down, withing 50m my back brake wasnt right, I'd given it a bleed last night to firm up the lever and it was squidgy. In the next 300m it went from slightly squidgy to none existent and I needed it on a left and it came back to the bar. Which resulted in me hitting the deck. It was sort of an off the side and a tumble over the top and a very ungracious dismount.

I run SRAM guide brakes and they have a bleeding edge port, I'd not tightened it up enough and it was pissing fluid out all over the caliper, wheel and disc, of course the pads too.
Pads went in bin and it was all cleaned up, then new pads and a fresh bleed. All good.

But my riding wasn't. I just wasn't getting on with things like I want, bit wide here, bit dubious on some other bits and I wasn't feeling 417 at all. It was rock hard trails and quite bermy so all the loose stuff is at the bottom of the berm and crossing it made things sketchy.

Overall though I did plenty but didn't really gell with myself.

Great to see the boys though, especially my small one who set an 11th overall on Strava on a tricky trail. That's 11th out of anyone, not youngsters lol. Bonkers.

[Couchy]

Enjoyed that, weeksy needs to thank me for not running him over and then laugh at me for touching my front brake on a very steep drop on one of the red routes and having a lie down. But I think I got 10 runs down by using the ebike, on average it was only a 5 minute ride up so chance for lots of runs compared to the bus which took 10-25 mins depending on waiting time.

[weeksy]

Enjoyed that, weeksy needs to thank me for not running him over and then laugh at me for touching my front brake on a very steep drop on one of the red routes and having a lie down. But I think I got 10 runs down by using the ebike, on average it was only a 5 minute ride up so chance for lots of runs compared to the bus which took 10-25 mins depending on waiting time.

Ebike is deffo the way forward for 417 yup.

[weeksy]

Great to see the boys though, especially my small one who set an 11th overall on Strava on a tricky trail. That's 11th out of anyone, not youngsters lol. Bonkers.

He was the fastest this year!