Cornwall / First Ride out / new starting club

DH legend

Ok The first meet will be on sunday the 10th of feb at the old school pub in mount hawk. Ride will start at 11am so turn up just before. Please park on road so not to cog up car park thanks.

I know some of you just want to turn up and have a ggod ride , and some of you are intrested in helping out with sorting insurance and ride locations etc.

I got the impression that some stuff about how far from truro we ride and for how long and at what time we start the rides bothered some but everything can be changed and discussed. Dont forget there may be complete new riders or young riders there and over two hours may scare them off also sunday was the most freest day for most.11ish was the best time for most not to late and not to early. The time , date and length of the rides was decided on feed back from people who were intrested in joining.

I cant please every one im doing my best and cant wait for help sorting stuff out.

I hope you all understand that things may take a few weeks to sort untill we tune into the needs of every one and sort any probs out.

I cant wait to meet every one at the first ride. Dont forget the main aim is to have a dam good ride and meet new people.

See you all soon

Lhance

See you on the 10 02
Four years ago a bloke called paul started a club by placing ads in the bike shops. He had a very good turn out at the first ride from Highcross. The group ranged from a ten year old and his dad through to a group of chodskis. Only having one leader soon became a problem due to experience levels. sadly some suffered and dropped.
The experienced riders who pushed the pace never turned up again. The 10 year old and dad turned up for the next 5 rides along with the other newbies and where great fun to ride with!
A couple of maps or route sheets might help please everyone, Racers can then race off

Matteeboy

LHance - should be meeting up with you lot tomorrow morning.
9am, outside M&S?

Three of us. Two girls.

helen coakley

Sadly Iam in london that weekend but look forward to catching up for a ride in feb... I know of two other girls who are also keen to tag along so keep the rides posted...will be great to do some riding with new people....ace..

Lhance

yes see u in the morning
weather sounds fine but expect alot of mud
just me at the moment
ive a few different routes so we'll play it by hear

DH legend

Guys chill out this is the first ride out and some one had to decide on a time and place etc 11 is a good time ,i mean some poor dude i think is heading up from hale.

The club will be almost totaly run by the riders input and we can all have some long and short rides etc and in loads of places it will all work out fine when we all have a vote on starting time and rough ride length etc.

I am aware of all the stuff some of you have been saying,after the ride on sun the 10th we will have a good chat and sort out some things so we can all realy get what we want from the club with out putting some riders off.

Chill out its going to be a good laf!!!

FSR_XC

DH legend wrote:

Guys chill out this is the first ride out and some one had to decide on a time and place etc 11 is a good time ,i mean some poor dude i think is heading up from hale.

The club will be almost totaly run by the riders input and we can all have some long and short rides etc and in loads of places it will all work out fine when we all have a vote on starting time and rough ride length etc.

I am aware of all the stuff some of you have been saying,after the ride on sun the 10th we will have a good chat and sort out some things so we can all realy get what we want from the club with out putting some riders off.

Chill out its going to be a good laf!!!

Not sure if this is in some part a reply to my PM to you???

I'll probably be there on the 10th and am looking forward to meeting a few people for a ride.

Matteeboy

Hey DH, LHance and FSR - three of us are well keen and failed to meet up on Saturday but will try again - any Truro area rides are cool and we are all flexible on meeting times.

Me, my wife and her mate (female...).

FSR_XC

Matteeboy wrote:

Hey DH, LHance and FSR - three of us are well keen and failed to meet up on Saturday but will try again - any Truro area rides are cool and we are all flexible on meeting times.

Me, my wife and her mate (female...).

Matt,
I had a great ride today with Warm18 up at Dunmere. . . . . I think he liked it - muddy smiles all round!

What are you (/anyone) thinking about doing next Sun?
Do you know which are the better Clive Mitchell routes? (most off road)

btw I can't do Sat as I have to pick my bike up and drive a (very fast) sports car, otherwise I would have suggested meeting the Yogi boys in Plymouth.

Matteeboy

What car?
I've driven all sorts from F355 (my inlaws one) to an Evo FQ360.

I think we have budy block of stuff coming up but will check -Sunday might be okay.

FSR_XC

Matteeboy wrote:

What car?
I've driven all sorts from F355 (my inlaws one) to an Evo FQ360.

It's called a Murtaya.

In road trim it came second in the 0-60 challenge at Trax (Silverstone) against various Ferrari's, Lambo's, Porsche's etc.

They debuted the Rally car at Autosport (NEC) earlier this month

And it looks like this:

Matteeboy

I've heard of them - Newquay based I think?
350ish bhp and 60 in about 3.5 seconds?

Do you know the guys making it?
Sounds like a lot of fun to me!

warm18

well had a superb day yesterday. thanks fsr for showing me around dunmere. lots of muddy happiness. plus im feeling pretty good and not aching at all.
nice site. the Murtaya looks sweet as

Matteeboy

Hey FSR - You take some really good pics!

Hard to get car pics right.

My old car that I loved but had to sell (repeated vandalism when we lived in Bristol):



Do you do much other stuff?
I run a PR firm and we often need decent photographers.

FSR_XC

Matteeboy wrote:

I've heard of them - Newquay based I think?
350ish bhp and 60 in about 3.5 seconds?

Do you know the guys making it?
Sounds like a lot of fun to me!

Matt you have PM.

Yep, know the guys. Do a lot of their photography.

The figures you have are a little old. I believe that was the 260-280bhp version. I doubt it will be much more though as there is a lot more than power needed to make big gains 0-60.

warm18 wrote:

well had a superb day yesterday. thanks fsr for showing me around dunmere. lots of muddy happiness. plus im feeling pretty good and not aching at all.
nice site. the Murtaya looks sweet as

Really enjoyed the ride.

Not aching? . . . . must have spent too much time chatting. So we'll have to ride quicker & longer next time.

For anyone thinking of a good XC ride, I challenge you to find somewhere better than Dunmere in Cornwall.
AND let's ride it sometime

muddybum

Should see you at Mt. hawke on th 10th, poss with some buddies.
Great to see the amount of interest in Cornwall and the willingness of riders to establish a central focal point.
cheers.

warm18

i'll hopefully be there ready to ride

Matteeboy

Will try my best to attend too.

Lhance

COME ON EVERYONE IN CORNWALL lets have a few more posts about the club.
its all gone a bit quite
who's going to be at the old school pub 10.02.08 11 o'clock start
come early for a chat
I'll be riding will you be there.

FSR_XC

There are a few 'I'll try to make it' posts, but who's going to commit to going?

I for one, want to get out there and ride as much as I can.

I want to meet different people & ride different places . . . .

So I will be there.

I look forward to meeting many others.

Mark

RIKO

I'll be there so will Rach looking forward to it.

kyle2brown

I will be there unless Junior gives me the lurgy.

muddybum

I'll definitely be there! sun or rain! there's plenty of good riding, coastal or inland. It can be as technical and demanding as necessary or more easygoing depending on the crew that turn up, just need that initial turnout!!!! come on, you know you want to.


only one request! please wear a helmet!!

FSR_XC

So currently looks like it should be a good turn out:

DHLegend
Lhance
FSR_XC (probably x2)
RIKO x2
kyle2brown
muddybum

With possible:

Matteeboy (x2)
Warm18
Helen Coakley

helen coakley

No not around this Sun...great shame will be around the weekend after....will be riding in idless woods this Tuesday after work about 630pm if anyone fancies it...about 1hrs ride..meet outside the volvo garage...
short notice but only just planned to go....

Lhance

Hi Helen
sorry about sunday
Ill meet you by volvo tomorrow at 18.30 for an hour , my lights won't last much longer.
you can tell me what you would like from the new group.
I've a blue bike & helmet
Lee Chance

everyone enter http://www.newnham90.com/ before its full . the best days xc you will ever have

Matteeboy

Any of you cycle through Truro on Saturday morning?
Saw two well kitted up MTBers on decent Spesh bikes.

Sunday could be good - have a load of mates coming over (our house is almost like a hotel - but free! Serves us right for having too many spare rooms I guess :roll: ) but might be able to get out.

iceman23

I am interested in joining up for a ride, I live in Redruth so Mt Hawk is not too far away.

Will it be OK to add one more to the list?

I would like to get to know some more trails around Cornwall.

FSR_XC

The more the merrier . . . . .

the list:
DHLegend
Lhance
FSR_XC (probably x2)
RIKO x2
kyle2brown
muddybum
iceman23


With possible:

Matteeboy (x2)
Warm18

Anyone able to post directions from Chivvy X (&/or postcode)?

kyle2brown

Check out

http://oldschool.nahoo.co.uk/Contact.html

or using the longest weblink ever

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&hl=en ... &z=14&om=0

Lhance

I think the postcode is TR4 8BA .should be close :!: