Saturday 16th November - Staveley for skills session by TrailHum - Kendal Mountain Festival weekend

As part of the Kendal Mountain Festival TrailHum were offering some free skills coaching and a few of us booked in. Neil, Joel and CT, we met up at Staveley Mill Yard and there were 12 folk in all including some family groups, we split into 2 groups taken by John and Ewen, the three of us went with Ewen and headed up 3 rivers. Ewen asked us what skills we wanted to look at and covered balance, weight distribution, braking and cornering, we were going to try for manual for Neil, but ran out of time, due to punctures....Lesson#1 when changing from tubeless set-up due to a split tyre CHECK the old tyre for thorns ('cause with sealant thorns are sealed) BUT when adding a new inner tube the thorn makes a new hole!!! I am not saying who this happened to in the group...Cornering was the main lesson for me, so just have to practice and practice, so watch out the next ride we are out.
See a few photos of our experience and also of the bike night at Kendal mountain festival, a good night hosted by Ed Oxley (see his web site for video link) and also here for the Not Bad trailer. Some of the films have mad skills, so potential for Thursday evenings!

Ed Oxley and Steve Peat at Kendal Mountain Festival

CT down the bottom of 3 rivers

JP nailing the rock drop!