April 2007 Video

Here's some helmetcam footage from our trip to the Lakes in April 2007.


Ad and Stu on the Loughrigg Terrace descent, Lakes from Hedd Roberts on Vimeo.


Stu on the Walna Scar Road Descent, Lakes from Hedd Roberts on Vimeo.


Ad descending from Iron Keld, Lakes from Hedd Roberts on Vimeo.

Malvern nights

Ed and Hedd headed to the Malverns on 5 December 2008 to give night riding a try. Ed had bought some pukka night lights, whereas Hedd went for the cheaper (but more powerfull!) option.

http://www.mtbbritain.co.uk/mountain_bike_lights_review_led.html

We headed down from Warwick in the car and despite the rain bouncing off the windscreen, we were both enjoying the excitment you only get when you're a bit scared!

We set off from the Tank Quarry car park and were soon enjoying some impressive views of Great Malvern by night.

Ed on the first climb on North Hill with Great malvern in lights below

We soon found ourselves descending for the first time, and it was great fun with plenty of light to descend at daylight speeds.

The fun was soon over and we started the biggest climb of the night up to Worcestershire Beacon. This turned out to be a bit of a slog due to the really high winds, but eventually we reached the top.

Ed close to the top of Worcestershire Beacon

A triumphant Ed at the Worcestershire Beacon summit

Hedd at the Worcestershire Beacon summit

From the top of Worcestershire Beacon we headed down the longest and best descent of the night. A growing confidence in our lights, not worrying too much about the things we couldn't see or meeting walkers coming the other way led to a pretty fast descent.

From the botttom, we contoured around and headed down a switchback descent to the car park. We both struggled a bit to pick the right line into the switchbacks, but this will come soon enough.

We got back to the car just as the rain started to fall - a perfect introduction to night riding.