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Mountain Biking in the Peak District 2013-2016 Video

Jeff — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 12:33:02 +0000

A recap video of our riding in the Peak District over the last 4 years. More info on the bridleways ridden in the video can found on the Tracks page.

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Bike Garage – Peak District Mountain Biking video

Jeff — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 20:23:47 +0000

As some may know, the founder and CEO of Monkeyspoon.com; James Irwin now runs Bike Garage, a small bike shop located in Bamford, in the Peak District. Since he started out over 5 years ago we’ve been working towards a video and here it is:

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Derwent Edge Bridleway Maintenance

James Irwin — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:44:41 +0000

As some of you may be aware myself, Jeff and Shane are members of Ride the Peak. ‘What is Ride the Peak?’ I hear you say.

“Ride the Peak is a group open to all with like-minded interests in maintaining and enhancing mountain biking in the Peak District”

A couple of weeks ago now we went to carry out some basic maintenance to the Derwent Edge bridleway. There was only a small group of the four of us. With Martin Sharp, who works for the Peak Park, keeping us in line we were able to achieve what we set out to do. Which was to unblock the ‘bomb holes’ so that they could start to dry out.

Anyone who has ever ridden there before will know that in the winter it get extremely muddy. Which leads to users (not just cyclists) trying to find alternative routes around the worst bits. But even in the summer some of the deeper bomb holes just don’t dry out. So we were trying to drain some of the largest puddles/pools of water. Although we did leave a couple as there were full of tadpoles.

09-04-21 Derwent Edge Maintenance, 5 Pictures by Jeff

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