The nature trail was fairly easy going in the snow as was the canal foot path only slowing us down a few mph, the roads were still pretty bad riding through slush and ice but we had put our new continetal spike claw tyres on which worked excellent in the ice. I new from previous years that getting up the front of holcombe hill in snow is impossible until it has been stamped down by thousands of walkers. Sure enough there was a bit of pushing to be done up it but i managed to ride most of it and i was glad to see the top.
From the tower we took the top road across the moors to robin hoods well, this proved to be very hard with it being 1st gear all the way and pushing hard on the pedals all the time with the odd bit of walking, we made it to robin hoods well with snow clogging up all of my rear cassette.
The decent down robin hoods well was ace, wheels were drifting round every slight bend and it seemed longer than usual in the snow probably cause we were going alot slower, we headed down to irwell vale and back along the old train tracks to stubbins where shaun went home and i made the 8 mile journey on the road back to mine. 25 miles in just under 3 hours it usually takes me just under 2.
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