XC in kent- Any willing volunteers!!!

deadpool2e

not got new bike yet, so stumpy has not been advertised.

Ok i got a meta 5 vip in very bright green.....

Will post some pics once i get her.

pittpony

deadpool2e wrote:

not got new bike yet, so stumpy has not been advertised.

Ok i got a meta 5 vip in very bright green.....

Will post some pics once i get her.

Ha ha i can't wait to see her! Right we need to sort out a Christmas / New Year daytime ride. My free dates are:

29 Dec
31 Dec (probably free)
2 Jan

I don't care where we ride but it'd be good to get a full day in. Any takers??

stevet1992

pittpony wrote:

deadpool2e wrote:

not got new bike yet, so stumpy has not been advertised.

Ok i got a meta 5 vip in very bright green.....

Will post some pics once i get her.

Ha ha i can't wait to see her! Right we need to sort out a Christmas / New Year daytime ride. My free dates are:

29 Dec
31 Dec (probably free)
2 Jan

I don't care where we ride but it'd be good to get a full day in. Any takers??

i should be free most of them days definetly the 29th 8) but would only be able to make it to somewhere in kent unfortunatly and im sure most of you will want to go off to swinley or somewhere like that

breezer

Only the 2nd for me out of that lot which I was able to book off, working the rest of the time

deadpool2e

working all those days ...Arrgghhhh

pittpony

Could also do the 3rd or 4th Jan but i think Andy is working that weekend. Maybe it'll have to be 2 rides!

andyturner28

pittpony wrote:

Could also do the 3rd or 4th Jan but i think Andy is working that weekend. Maybe it'll have to be 2 rides!

Na i'm off that weekend, but working all your other dates, so guess which dates i am routing for I would love to do Swinley or Surry that weekend if anyone else can make it. Feel's kinda mean suggesting that area while Russ can't ride though!

pittpony

Fingers crossed Russ will be back in action by then

Lets organise for that weekend then. Shall we say the 3rd?

stevet1992

andyturner28 wrote:

pittpony wrote:

Could also do the 3rd or 4th Jan but i think Andy is working that weekend. Maybe it'll have to be 2 rides!

Na i'm off that weekend, but working all your other dates, so guess which dates i am routing for I would love to do Swinley or Surry that weekend if anyone else can make it. Feel's kinda mean suggesting that area while Russ can't ride though!

i thought he had 'supped' up his fold up bike

if i can get the money for the train fare i would love to come to swinley/surry ill let you know just after christmas

and dont worry my stamina has increased 100 fold im now easily doing a 30mile ride each week and still managing 6 miles ot school and the 5 miles to work 7 days a week :twisted:

stevet1992

pittpony wrote:

Fingers crossed Russ will be back in action by then

Lets organise for that weekend then. Shall we say the 3rd?

damn beat to the post by 10 seconds if you lot dont mind having me there :roll: i could maybe do the 3rd would have to check with work etc

deadpool2e

Im up for the 4th as i am not sure if i have to work on that saturday, but sunday is good for me at swinley.

andyturner28

pittpony wrote:

Fingers crossed Russ will be back in action by then

Lets organise for that weekend then. Shall we say the 3rd?

The 3rd sounds good to me Hopefully i have got rid of this "boomerang cold" by then. No that's actually what they are calling it, because it always comes back with a vengence....i feel crap again :evil:

stevet1992

andyturner28 wrote:

pittpony wrote:

Fingers crossed Russ will be back in action by then

Lets organise for that weekend then. Shall we say the 3rd?

The 3rd sounds good to me Hopefully i have got rid of this "boomerang cold" by then. No that's actually what they are calling it, because it always comes back with a vengence....i feel crap again :evil:

i usually find that if you just grab a handful of lemsips and just throw them all in ya mouth it soon gets rid of it 8)

ill ask about the 3rd tomorrow at work

and again the usual questions :oops: whats the nearest station to where ever the ride is

andyturner28

deadpool2e wrote:

Im up for the 4th as i am not sure if i have to work on that saturday, but sunday is good for me at swinley.

I'm good for either day at the moment. I will probably have to work one day that weekend but which one will depend on when we are riding.

stevet1992

so has a date been set yet? :roll:

deadpool2e

well i would like the 4th if poss....

anyone else coming??

pittpony

I'm good for the 4th.

Picked up my dirtworker yesterday for a BARGAIN £24.50 ish after the VAT adjustment. Looking forward to trying it out!

andyturner28

This thread should be renamed "the official Dirtworker lover" thread I look forward to trying it too

RussAlf

Hello

I am still alive dont worry! Dont think ill be able to make any ride in the near fufure i have no frame or forks and dont think ill be getting either by at least after the 5th of Jan.

If anybody wants a dirtworker Tonbridge is a 5 min drive.

Bahhh Hummbugg

Legless

Bummer Russ, At least it has been warm and windy, sincerely hope you have been kiting... I haven't...

I'm away on family duties most of Christmas, still gonna ride just not in Kent will be in the game come the new year...

andyturner28

RussAlf wrote:

Hello

I am still alive dont worry! Dont think ill be able to make any ride in the near fufure i have no frame or forks and dont think ill be getting either by at least after the 5th of Jan.

If anybody wants a dirtworker Tonbridge is a 5 min drive.

Bahhh Hummbugg

So they are going to give you a new frame then 8) I thought your silence was due to it all going pear shaped and you'd given up biking

Where's your forks, are you getting them TF Tuned? Been thinking about that myself once i get the new bike.....eventually :roll:

RussAlf

andyturner28 wrote:

RussAlf wrote:

Hello

I am still alive dont worry! Dont think ill be able to make any ride in the near fufure i have no frame or forks and dont think ill be getting either by at least after the 5th of Jan.

If anybody wants a dirtworker Tonbridge is a 5 min drive.

Bahhh Hummbugg

So they are going to give you a new frame then 8) I thought your silence was due to it all going pear shaped and you'd given up biking

Where's your forks, are you getting them TF Tuned? Been thinking about that myself once i get the new bike.....eventually :roll:

I dunno if im getting a new frame yet, i dont know anything. Merlin have been great but Madison the distributors are next to useless. Apparently Commencal are pretty bad when it comes to warrenty claims, they sort you out ok but it takes ages (must be euro times).

Forks are with TF Tuned being PUSHed and serviced, thought i might aswell considering they are leaking from both top caps, i must be to extreme!

If i dont get a new frame they would offer me a cheaper replacement, if that doesnt happen then ill buy a new frame but it wont be a Commencal. Im sure it will be fine though, ive just chosen to send it off at the worst time of year. Id buy a new frame before id give up.

pittpony

Glad to hear you're still with us Russ - sorry to hear they're being so slow with the frame

Had a great ride round BBH today. Wasn't planning on getting out but woke up and just had to get a ride in. It was a bit muddy in a fair few places but i thought it would be worse given the time of year. Anyway to start i felt a little out of shape - the climbs seemed to drag a bit but i reckon its just because i was back on the Trance. Incidentally i'm definitely looking for a longer stem now as it wanders like a pig on the ups compared to the XTC. It also weighs a fair bit more! By the time i got going it wasn't too bad though

I rode about 17-18 miles and had planned to do more but they were hard miles given the clay based mud i was slogging through. I really felt i rode well though - I nailed some of the downhills so much quicker than i have done before, then of course there was my piece de la resistance:



Anyone guess the section, or guess why I'm grinning so much??! I have to admit i didn't make it down ALL of them - the steepest biggest ones right at the end caught me out but i'll get it next time. Was so pleased i ended up going back up 3 or 4 times!

Really feel my riding has come on since I last rode there and I can't wait to get out again 8)

RussAlf

Nice welll done Nick, you really should be wearing a helmet though

pittpony

RussAlf wrote:

Nice welll done Nick, you really should be wearing a helmet though

True - if nothing else to hide that god awful helmet hair

Obviously I was wearing it for the rest of the ride.

Oh yeah - the dirtwrker was good but I ran out of water as it was such sticky clay based mud. Next time i'll fill it to the brim, pack a brush and it'll be perfect

RussAlf

Haha i know Nick, i was pulling your leg about the helmet.

Check out the swinley thread, some guy posted up one of my pics possibly pretending it was his own. Its exaclty the same as one on my photo site, including the named waymarks i made.

stevet1992

sorry to hear about your bike russ, hope its back soon 8)

had a major problem today, went to take the tyre off to fix a puncture and ended up snapping half a dozen spokes :shock: they just snapped all at once so im now rolling on a sun single track with deore hubs (mate had them in garage) and looks like im buying the pair for £50

had a good ride today managed to pluck up the courage to do a few technical bits which should help when tackling the likes of BBH :shock:

nice pic nick would of looked a bit odd to some passers by though

pittpony

Yeah i saw that - lol i suspected when I read "Fat Orange" but the pic even has your name on it! I just assumed he followed the map and posted it to show the route

RussAlf

pittpony wrote:

Yeah i saw that - lol i suspected when I read "Fat Orange" but the pic even has your name on it! I just assumed he followed the map and posted it to show the route

Yeah thats what i thought all good

Shame about your wheel Steve, take the wheel to your LBS and get the correct size spokes and then find a guide on the internet and put them in. I doubt it would be to hard.

pittpony

I heard if one spoke snaps its likely that others will too so it might be a case of replacing all of them or getting a new wheel.