{"id":284,"date":"2013-04-28T13:08:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T13:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torquesense.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2014-02-08T22:11:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T22:11:19","slug":"no-excuses-thursday-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torquesense.com\/blog\/no-excuses-thursday-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"No Excuses Thursday Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is here and No Excuses Thursday is back baby! I had to miss the 6.30pm meet on the 11th of April (children to bath, stories to read) and instead met the guys and girl at the Sportsman pub for 8pm. This meant I didn&#8217;t have to try and keep up with Julia Hobson going up hill. Keeping up with Julia was hard before she won <a title=\"Julia Hobson Single Track Weekender\" href=\"http:\/\/singletrackworld.com\/2012\/07\/what-a-weekender\/\">Single Track Weekender<\/a>, won <a title=\"World's largest 24hr Endurance Race\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wigglemountainmayhem.com\/\">Mountain Mayhem<\/a>, cycled from John O&#8217;Groats to Lands End off road, \u00a0left blighty to compete in <a title=\"Mage Avalanche Website\" href=\"http:\/\/megavalanche.co.uk\/\">Mega Avalanche<\/a>, worked as a mountain bike guide in portugal over last summer and then competed in the <a title=\"The Untamed African MTB Race\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cape-epic.com\/\">Cape Epic<\/a> in South Africa. Mmmm, I&#8217;ll meet you in the pub Julia after I leisurely grind up the road to it, in the granny ring and in my own time.<\/p>\n<p>Two pints of liquid courage and then lots of down flowy and technical downhill into Hillsborough left us all grinning. The only notable event was my head light going out half way down one of the technical descents, not for the last time. That&#8217;s a Thursday night that is.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/48355379\/embed\/d34076374e993d58bba2bdcae4e5edc175225f02\" height=\"405\" width=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAppetite for night riding reinvigorated the next Thursday saw the introduction to No Excuses of Martin, who has just opened Sheffield&#8217;s latest bike shop, <a title=\"Over-Ride Website\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.over-ride.co.uk\/\">Over Ride Cycleworks<\/a>, and has therefore not been out on his bike for quite some time. We showed him the Flow House, he liked it, we went for beer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/49477354\/embed\/91252173a2453f8495d29ee38de9f47ac01a4536\" height=\"405\" width=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During the third NET on the trot we rode up the Rivelin Valley, met Jim at the top of the Wyoming Brook downhill and had two pints of Landlord and some rather nice jalapeno pretzels. Resisting the urge to save myself 10km of riding by pootling straight downhill on the road to my side of town with Jim, I opted to descend into Hillsborough with Lambo and Chadders and take in some steep, technical descents through the woods on the way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/50701255\/embed\/ca4e3fa9fff7b0dd32bbde45a89058b2dcea62d7\" height=\"405\" width=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chadders has just bought himself a new 26&#8243; Cube with 100mm up front, it&#8217;s a very nice looking bike, quite racey for some of the stuff we throw ourselves down, but he&#8217;s done the right this going for a high end <a title=\"Hardtail Wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hard-tail\">hardtail<\/a>, you wouldn&#8217;t get much of a full suspension bike for \u00a31000. The other aspect of opting for a hardtail rather than full suspension bike is that full suspension can make it too easy to get down technical descents, which on a hardtail is more difficult and this means that the hardtail rider either improves his or her technique or falls off a lot.<\/p>\n<p>So No Excuses Thursday is back with a vengeance and the main players all seem suitably enthused by the fun we&#8217;ve had on the last three rides to maintain the trend. The momentum required to drag yourself away from the telly on a Thursday night is not always easily mustered but having a couple of mates to drag you out always helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is here and No Excuses Thursday is back baby! I had to miss the 6.30pm meet on the 11th of April (children to bath, stories to read) and instead met the guys and girl at the Sportsman pub for 8pm. 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