Grant, Phil, Jamie and Ct met up at Ings for a nice evenings ride, nice and easy was the request so we headed up Dubbs for a steady warm up. Phil was finding it tricky to get used to his non-fat semi-fat almost thin 3" tyres but probably better in the mud! There'll be no mud tonight... Garburn calls, wot I hear you say the big ride, not over the top Garburn, let's see if they have finished the bottom section of stone sets. So up Dubbs and left for the downhill, set dropper post and enjoy...Grants chain kept coming off from ring, these thick/thin tensioned single ring jobbies are over rated;) And yes they have finished the stone track, very nice we were able to clean it down easily, not sure about climbing back up, maybe we'll see later;) Now we headed up Kirkstone road, past Lime Fitt and we stopped at the intersection of the road and bridleway, not sure on the option we tossed a coin, Phil called heads we head up the lane into Troutbeck and heads it was, so on for a lap of Wain and Mirk, down Wain it was ace! The climb back up was a muddy start and a walk in places, but steady away, Grant had chain issues again. We eased back into Troutbeck and headed down by the church, sweat single-track, but not we were back at the bottom of Garburn so we may as well try out the climb. It is rideable, just keep going, keep peddling and head on up, managed to clean from bottom right up to Dubbs lane, here we turned right, had some more of JBs cake:) Then enjoyed the fast descent down! and back to the pub for a beer. About 24km.
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