How I hate thee, let me count the ways

[MG1]

It was F***ing horrible. The Brandy pad was terrible for a bike. Bad route choice by myself!!

On a plus side the bike bivvy was cool. It was a rough night but we still had a bit of crack once we got the vino open.

We came across some of the downhill sections in Tollymore. They still had some markers about from last weeks down hill round. They looked scary i would not like to blast down them. Back to training round the lakes and Clare Glen for me, it'll be a long while before i'm in the mournes with a bike!!!

[RedLeader]

Don't think it was necessarily a bad route choice, more a learning experience We saw scramblers doing the Brandy Pad so I'd have assumed it was suitable.

[silverback]

I hate the walk up the Saddle!! Depresses me everytime!

[Spud]

only thing i hate about the hills is not bein able to get up em!

[Spud]

and comin down back to the real world when its time to go home!!

[MG1]

I can't work out how to get the pics up here's a link to flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56563822@N05/sets/72157626769386512/

[MikeD]

Diggin the tarp setup!!

My work is doing the cycle to work scheme, so i can get a decent mountain bike v soon, but may have to get from halford...

[MG1]

I got my bike in halfords. They have the new voodoo range in they look pretty tasty.

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SearchCmd?catalogId=10151&storeId=10001&categoryId=165499&langId=-1&action=listrefine&constraints=teq||Brand||VooDoo||sor||Price||1

[MikeD]

Look like decent bikes, though i know nowt about them!

[666_pack]

[Scribble]

What type of bike you guys using , I used to have a kona many moons ago .

[666_pack]

i used a claude butler yoke (borrowed for the day) not sure about mg1.

[MG1]

Mines a x rated jump bike from Halfords nothing fancy. But it does the job. I had a claude butler for years only retired it last year. I've also a Giant boulder thats almost finished.

[Scribble]

Mine only seen the top of Donard once and it retired me , could not cope with it as I busted my ankle about 7 months before and I thought I could handle it , I had tears rolling down my cheeks in pain . From then on I stuck to parks (wuss) hats off for the route yous guys done , your either hardcore or mental I think the latter 

[666_pack]