The Street

Planned to go over to the Cheviots with Jamie and Scottish the other Sunday, Jamie and Scottish both cried off so I went up on my own. The weather wasn’t that good but it wasn’t raining when I left home. Got there about 10:30, there were a couple of guys in the car park getting ready to go out, didn’t take me long to get the bike off the car, ruc-sac on and off before they had even got their bikes off their own cars… SJF. About 3 mile down the road before I turned off on a farm track that ran up the Valley towards Middle Hill farm. This is fairly flat and easy riding but the route runs along side the river and in some parts is only 12 inches wide with a steep bank down to the river 20 feet below. Past the farm and a short run through the edge of Kidland Forest, by this time there was a fine rain falling. At the end of the forest over the bridge a bit of a push but what goes up must come down, only problem was that there were a few walkers on the other side that stopped me from bombing down the hill, what a bastard.

Following the down hill to the river I crossed earlier, over the bridge and a big push to the edge of Kidland Forest but this time straight through the middle. At this point I stopped for something to eat and cracked open the meatballs, the problem was that they were supposed to take 15 minutes to heat but but after 10 the water was still cold so I had them cold, couldn’t be arsed to wait. Anyway, poured most of the water out of the bag and headed off through the forest. After about 10 minutes had to stop because the bag in my pocket was burning my leg. Anyway, it gave me a bit of heat because by this time I was fairly wet. After the forest it was pretty much down hill all the back the Alwinton, really good downhill, in fact about 4 mile of grassy, bouncy downhill (full suspension is a must have). Back at the car when into the loo and got changed into dry cloths and headed home.