Tuesdays Nights Spin Report (What a cracker)

Well I won’t normally do spin report for Tuesday night spin but I think it would be rude not to after a spin like that. Personally that was some of the best craic I’ve had on a bike in a long time. I got there to find people everywhere so thinking that there was a few clubs out together I parked up, got my bits and went down to a few of the crowd. We it turned out that everyone there was there for our spin, I think it must have been near all of the new club, a total of around 20 people. Anyway we started off with a loop of Kindletowns which was a bit sloppy but still riding well, there were lights everywhere it looked as if we were charging in to take over the forest. We regrouped in the car park and made our way over to the glen of downs. We headed for the tunnel trail first. Climbing up into it Cummins took to the front like a man possessed. We started into the downhill section and this is where the madness begun. It was dry and the track was covered in pine needles, so it was fast and drifty. Cummins was out front, with me after him and Greg and young Gav behind, we where having great craic lashing down the hill then Cummins get stuck in one of the berms so I had no choice but to plough into the back of him which freed him from the berm and got me stuck. Knowing I was about to get ram raided by Greg and Gav I was in a panic to get my bike of the tree but in the process just ended up hitting Greg with it a few times instead. Anyway I cleared the back log and we drifted our way flying down the hill to the end of the trail where Cummins entertained us by falling out of the forest into a gorse bush. Once we had everyone down we pedalled back up to the top for the fast decent from the octagon ruin thing. I started off at the front for this one again the track was dry and covered in leafs and riding quicker than ever. Flying down the track to where I was caught out by the off camber right hand kink thing that I had warmed everyone about, realising that there was no way I was making it I preceded off into the under growth, where I was over taken by Greg and Cummins who had been behind me. I managed to get back in behind them and play catch up. The track was riding so well the speeds were flat out, it was some buzz. The tight left hander at the bottom took us by surprise and near took us out but we showed it in the end. We regrouped again at the bottom and after some whammies on the way up continued up to the half way junction and took a right. We had a bit of a 4X race down the main trail and in to the steep section where all the lines were for the taking. Looking back up from the bottom there were lights zigzagging all over the place and some just coming straight down, it was mad. With everyone down safe we continued down to the main car park again but before we set off Al had warned me there where some trees down so I was keeping the eyes peeled. We came across the first one which you could ride under and found that the next few where the same, well for most. I stopped at the bottom where there was some giggling about someone nearly getting flattened by a tree, thinking this was the usual spin talk I didn’t think much of it until Bren came down looking slightly pale. It turns out that the talk was actually true, Bren was coming under one of the big trees when the tree decided it didn’t like him and start to slowly drop onto him. Getting out from under it the tree preceded to fall slowly onto his bars, which he managed to get out, then down onto his front wheel jamming it into the ground. With the help of 3 people Bren got his wedged bike out from under it unhurt. Injury by slowly falling tree would have been a new one for us so thankfully all he ended up with was a good story to tell his kids. We cycled on through the car park where Cummins had his best fun of the night by finding a few couples cohorting in their cars, the poor fella was very excited after that, never mind what the couples thought of the whole experience. Well we pedalled back up the top where on the way a small group of lads got excited by the tail wind they had and started sprinted up to the top but unfortunately the tail wind didn’t last until the top so it killed a few of us in the process. Back down the fast decent and right into the forest and back towards the car but not before ‘Pop apart Paul’ popped his knee out and back in again while trying to go too fast. All in all a deadly spin with a great group out. 

See ya next time 

(God I’m sick of typing)