Black Canon Collective

Category: Quarterly Trail Center Trips

  • 2010 BCC Calendar

     

    Now I might have left this a bit too late, but… I hope to put together a 2010 Black Canon Collective Calendar which will be ready in time for Christmas! The calendar will be sold for a reasonable sum to raise funds for some of the projects which we are working on (skills area and Groovy Blue trail). Now we are dealing with a very short time scale and I need pictures FAST! I want the calendar to show all the different aspects of bike riding (XC, DH, Velodrome, cobble wobble) digging, racing or general ride related faffing that BCC members get themselves into. The only rule is that the photo must be of a BCC member and it must be of sufficient quality to be printed on A5, but the rest is up to you. To have any hope of this project working, I need YOU to get all your best photos and upload them onto the Black Canon Collective Flickr account before Sunday 15th November.

    http://www.flickr.com/groups/blackcanoncollective/pool/

    A select panel of judges will then select the finest 12 photos for the Calendar.

    If you have any questions please e mail me on simon.truelove@blackcanoncollective.co.uk

    Ta

    Simon

  • Hitting the Wall

    coast homeYesterday was stupendously hot.

    The penhydd trail was fun, some great downs and bearable ups.

    God it was hot though.

    Dead Sheep Gully and Genesis were ride makers, fast and ridiculously fun.

    Lunch was nice too, but the midgies kept it brief.

    Have I mentioned that it was hot?

    Y Wall tested our fire road tolerance but what a pay off; Zig Zag leaving everyone grinning from ear to ear and and suffering from ‘death grip’ cramp.

    The 5 mile drag to the Glyncorrwg visitors centre was a spirit breaker though, and Jim suffered more than most. 20 minutes of “…its just round the next corner mate, keep going there’s a cold one with your name on it…” was all we could do to egg him on.

    But the food, the food and beer and cakes…. moving from the DropOff cafe took some real will power. After such an awesome day riding, in the blistering heat, cold beer and good food were like magnets keeping us seated and in total denial of the ride back to the cars.

    Within 30 minutes of a surprisingly easy scoot we were showered and changed and heading home…

    Little did we know that we had a session of Dr Hotfanny’s psychoanalysis awaiting us in the car. Apparently ….. actually no, best not, it was embarrassing enough the first time!

    (Whatever you do don’t let her measure your fingers!)