Night Ride with the Captain Tues Dec 12th
Attention passengers!Your captain on tonights night ride will be Mr Patrick O'Brien.
Departure time will be 7:15pm GMT from the southern uphill runway at Taylors Pub.
Alternately, meet at Ticknock airfield at 7:30pm.
Please keep your helmets on until your bike has come to the fully stopped position.
Please stow all hand tools securely in your saddle-bag (you too captain!!)
Do not unclip your SPDs until we have acheived cruising altitude of approx 1495ft above sea level (that's the aerials elevation you know!).
Bring your own refreshments as there will not be any short-skirted flight attendants on this trip (sorry captain!).
Thank you for travelling with MAD spinways!
Labels: spins
posted by Fergal @ 12:15 p.m.
9 Comments:
At 1:03 p.m.,
Paddy said…
fergal,
You're truely making an impact at this club that we never ever expected!!
(and where did you get that photo from!)
Paddy
At 3:29 p.m.,
Fergal said…
Oh, I think it was from the Nationals, (note the shades).
All cool captains wear shades, now if you had had a pair of aviator sunglasses on you that day, well that REALLY would have made the pic!!
impacts are fun, except between MTBers and rocks/trees/bikes/other MTBers...
At 8:18 a.m.,
Fergal said…
just Cap'n Pat and myself out tonight, pity, it was a great night for a spin, no rain, mild, and a breeze that blew you uphill-nice!
route went from the aerials to the club course then transitioned across then down the bad-ass boneshaker, 'cappy' encountered a bit of turbulence (fallen tree) on the way down, and 'hurted' his throttle hand a bit, but like a true fearless aviator, he threw himself back into the cockpit and hammered on down the 'shaker.
The captain descended to 200ft and dropped me off at Taylors airfield but I still had a bit of energy to dispose off so headed back up to the aerials again and lashed down the full length of the bonerattler -it was so much fun, deep gulleys and oddly placed large rocks, coupled with slippy muddy sections at a speed approaching MACH 3 = good times
hope your hand is ok Captain, you'll need it for slapping cheeky stewardesses on their bottom on your next flight....
At 9:15 a.m.,
Anonymous said…
lmao :-)
At 10:09 a.m.,
Paddy said…
yeah thankfully it turned out the hand was mostly undamaged. A big splinter from the tree had gone through the glove and into my knuckle so once that was removed twas all back to painless operation once more.
i also appear to have a poxy cold again :-(
can't beleive you went back up .. far more energy than i had
At 5:00 p.m.,
Mark C said…
what are you drinkin Fergal lad, massive dose of GoFaster Brew, fair play i'm waitin till hibernation has ended before those kind of antics.....if ever
At 10:06 a.m.,
Fergal said…
ha ha - hibernation, you make yourself sound like a grizzly bear who pokes his nose outside the warm cave every now and again and sniffs about a bit and thinks, "nah, not spring time yet!".
We'll be down your way some time over Christmas and will haul you up the mountain for a spin or two, start barricading that cave now Mark - we're comin for ya!
Oh, you too sexy Tom, now that your exams are over, you'll be getting the dreaded "bump bump" sound of 2.0 Maxxis Ignitor tyres knocking on your front door, left-tenant Lynch will back me up here, no-one is safe....(sinister background laughter)....no-one!
At 9:04 a.m.,
Fergal said…
nice one man Tom, good to see you back!
At 1:10 p.m.,
Sean said…
Get yourself wrapped up in bed with a hot water bottle and that blonde girl to look after you.....those chest infections are fierce hard to get rid of, mine took 4 weeks and it was miserable.
~Healing vibes~
Sean
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