London Calling

mtb crazy

im up for meeting up sometime, havent ridden swinley yet but cant wait to.

cooldad

We're there a lot so just keep an eye on this thread (or the Swinley one but mainly post here).
It's a great place to play around, lot's of stuff in a relatively small area, from flowy singletrack to fairly technical stuff, some easy 'downhill' bits, and some evil gnarly stuff for the heroic types, of which I'm not one.

Anonymous

cooldad wrote:

Met up with DK at Swinley today, he's looking normal again, scars gone but still ugly.

Normal as can be. Cleared up well really in the first week. Scars ramaining are tiny and nothing like some of you've got.

Having seen the drop (assume this was it)...



it triggers a bit of memory where I do recall stopping here to have a look at them. Don't remember trying them or doing this, but I recognise it.

From the top of this one I can actually see why I might have thought to give it a go. It was lunacy as all I'm capable of doing is a drop the size of a kerb. It doesn't look so much from the top, but clearly I went for it with far too much confidence, probably utterly failed to get the balance right and just thought I could sail over without having to do anything. Then likely just sank straight into the ground head first. Madness considering I'd not even attempted stuff half the size of this ever before.

Result something like this...




Except less comical, and blood involved. More like I went head first really.

popstar

You do look like sacrificed Deadkenny (Jezus style).

Hopefully by this Friday, I will purchase new helmet for MTB and be ready to smoke some 4ss. At least will put a lot of heat on Apprentice in swinley xc style. Finally fixed breaks on Hardrock so HT all the way!

mtb crazy

sounds good for a newbie. i like some downhilly bits but nothing too huge yet. getting used to riding coombes lane which has some good practise bits. is it a big group that meet? is there any women? i am female so would be nice to have another girl around!

thel33ter

Nice pic

That's definitely the right drop, it's a nice one to build confidence on, but wayy to big to practice on without the risk of doing exactly what you did. Kudos for attempting it though.

sandy hill

mtb crazy wrote:

is there any women? i am female so would be nice to have another girl around!

Cue an enormous input of testosterone, leading to showing off, and more Frimley Park air miles.

Cue sarcastics comments about peoples riding style.

Cue etc etc.

Now the obvious is out of the way I'm sure you will all behave in a gentlemanly fashion.

Atz

mtb crazy wrote:

sounds good for a newbie. i like some downhilly bits but nothing too huge yet. getting used to riding coombes lane which has some good practise bits. is it a big group that meet? is there any women? i am female so would be nice to have another girl around!

Group size depends on the week, where people want to ride, who's got to do their nails etc. Generally thought it's not a big group, prob no more than half a dozen most of the time, mostly a little smaller, occasionally bigger. No women but it's a relaxed bunch so being the only one's not likely to be a bad experience.

sandy hill

Good to see you back on your feet Tim.

cooldad

We should have taken a bottle of tomato sauce for realism.

@mtb crazy group can be anything from two to a dozen or so. No girls normally but some of us ride like big girls blouses and we think popstar is secretly gay so you should be all right.

cooldad

@sandy hill I typed before I read your post. Spot on well done.

Comparing notes with DK though, Frimley is much better than St Peters. He got all the head and neck restraints, X Rays etc. I got "how much does it hurt, don't think you have a brain haemorrhage, goodbye." Next time I know where I'm going.

ThePriory1978

cooldad wrote:

No girls normally but some of us ride like big girls blouses and we think popstar is secretly gay so you should be all right.

I can confirm i will be riding like a big girls blouse for some time to come.

@DK Looks like a fun ride on Sunday. Nice to see you back on your feet.

cooldad

The irony is that there is a very gentle chute on the left of the pic.
Chicken runs rule.

bungalistic

That was the drop but you were found much further down in a kind of kneeling prayer position.

cooldad

Too late for praying, the Rapture was on Saturday.
Apparently.

Anonymous

Think we were left behind. Though the world didn't end. Big volcano gone off though.

Maybe I got enough speed then and went flying off in a spectacular dive. Or maybe I just went straight over and just slid down. Think I'd had a slide on my face for a bit and twisted the head.

Something like the dude in the photo on this page...

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/neck-injur ... -2010.html

Blind Danny Johnson

deadkenny wrote:

Think we were left behind. Though the world didn't end. Big volcano gone off though.

Maybe I got enough speed then and went flying off in a spectacular dive. Or maybe I just went straight over and just slid down. Think I'd had a slide on my face for a bit and twisted the head.

Something like the dude in the photo on this page...

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/neck-injur ... -2010.html

That looks nasty!

mtb crazy

ouch! the priory, lol why will you be riding like a bg girls blouse for some time?! did it go ok at swinley sat?

cooldad

I think the red bits added to his face are a clue.
Splat.

ThePriory1978

cooldad wrote:

I think the red bits added to his face are a clue.
Splat.

+faceplant.

mtb crazy

ouch, hope youre ok.

popstar

cooldad wrote:

... and we think popstar is secretly gay so you should be all right.

You are such a flirt, no need to hide behind -we- .

ThePriory1978

@ mtb crazy
Nothing nine stitches wont heal. Will be back on it like a car bonnet this weekend.

mtb crazy

cool, i hope to come up to meet you guys soon for a ride, gonna get train up when i come so hopefully they will run ok.

popstar

Mtb crazy, Deadkenny Cooldad and Buckaroo live near you, hopefully for big trips away could arrange something. Sooner or later will see you around in Swinley, but don't think I could match Cooldad's sense of fashion or style.

mtb crazy

ok cool, yeah ill hopefully be up there soon. haha he has good fashion sense does he?

cooldad

I am a style icon.

thel33ter

cooldad wrote:

I am a style icon.

Init.

cooldad

You are dead.

cooldad

Not sure what's more horrible, the bike or the frog in the background.