Industrial Fell Biking

It was all fluffy as we rode down to Piethorne.
But the air was electric with the smell of testosterone as a couple of riders came speeding down.

They didn't even hold the gate open!
But the hill up the other side proved a bit much, and once at the top we didn't see them again.

Soon we were on the Pennine (Bridle)Way. Its a top track over to the mast.

It's a different story coming down. The first section is good fun but it's motocross paradise up here, and the results are a bit depressing. All ruts and mud along the bridleway - horrendous in parts. I don't think we'll be back until the weather picks up.

But the first section looks like this:

We rode along the Pennine Bridleway after that.
It's been completely sanitised you know - really crap riding:

More sanitisation here:

I'm lying actually - it's completely un-sanitised except for some wooden planks across a drainage ditch. Not only that, but it's home to one of the very few switchbacks in the area!

Shaman's like the Stig, no-one really knows who he is. But he's not quite going fast enough to keep his face hidden in this shot.

He's a good man for following through puddles too, as this shot demonstrates.
It's called the 'Moses Technique', and I would like to see him using it on a larger body of water!