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| He'll stop smilling soon enough |
Black Combe is, I'm sure, the most southerly of the Lakeland fells above 2000ft and one of the very few at that height that have a bridleway that runs over the top of it. It also juts right out towards the sea and so most ways up start pretty much at sea level. The ride over the summit is 7 ½ miles, 4 of those being fairly flat, the other 3 are either up or down. So that’s 2000 ft in 1.5 miles, a hard climb to say the least, but a great downhill if you can stomach the climb!
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| Told you! |
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| They didn't care that the sun was out! |
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| Sun setting behind the Isle of Man |
On the way home I noticed something that must happen every year but I've always missed it, the sun setting behind the Isle of Man.
Anyway - why we really went was to get some video footage for our latest attempt at a mountain biking movie. Doug also took some footage but its still on his camera so I'll try and splice that in sometime. In the mean time here it is.
That's Kelly (Dougs wife) and Lance (their dog who's named after some little known American cyclist) at the bottom waiting for us.
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