London Calling

ThePriory1978

Weathers gunna be a mixture of sunshine N' scattered showers, 18 degrees, so i heard. If it rains all night, like its hammerimng it down in Reading at the moment grounds gunna be goey but i think its gunna subside. Probably get caught in the odd shower but nowt serious like.

thel33ter

TH on Sunday could be fun.

cooldad

Fine with me but preferably with someone who knows the place better.

thel33ter

Maj is going, as is Ken.

cooldad

Aaah been on the funny forum again.
OK.

Anonymous

Don't think it's going to rain today anyway. Tomorrow has the higher chance now.

Still on for today @ Swinley.

Levi_501

Is there a ride on Sunday morning ?

thel33ter

Missed your post, else I'd have replied earlier, there was one in Tunnel Hill, but the weather around here has been and still is awful, so you've not missed out on much.

cooldad

Don't know about the rest but DK, Maj and I all wimped out.

cooldad

Hate Mondays so planning the weekend already.
Sat afternoon maybe Swinley.
Sunday SH.

Sorted.

ThePriory1978

I have coerced a couple of mates who live in Bracknell yet have never ridden Swinley to get out there death trap mountain bikes and join me for a ride. I wont join any BR folk as its going to be painful but i'll be knocking around the non-serious bits of Swinley from 11am.
Just for the craic I may imply Jump Gulley is 'not that bad' as long as you ride it 'fast'.
Might make bikers out of them yet.

mtb crazy

whats going to be painful about it? must have been quite painful riding with me on sat lol :P

cooldad

Saturday Swinley 1ish 2ish.
Sunday SH?

Any takers, suggestions etc.

cooldad

Also in LC on Facebook. SH now on for Sunday

arigold

Accepting newbies? I've been following the thread for a while and just made a request to join FB group.

I would like to join for SH on sunday

Regards

cooldad

@Arigold, welcome. Just keep an eye out for final arrangements.

Mr_B1989

Finally have some time off work this sunday, guessing peaslake at 10am?

Anonymous

Default would be Peaslake but suggestion has been to try something different. Maybe from Dorking end.

cooldad

How about Dorking at 10 and see if anyone can remember any of Richards bits?

cooldad

Sorted Westcott over from Nirvana Cycles, 10am.

Mr_B1989

will be there

Anonymous

Me also.

Not sure on remembering the routes though other than know roughly the direction of Ranmore and Leith.

Anonymous

Good ride today. We were after some of the bits we've done on some of Richard's rides and in honour of that we ended up making it an epic Westcott->Ranmore->Peaslake(food)->Pitch->Holmbury->Leith->Westcott.

Only 23 miles. We've done more.

Nice spectacular jump from thel33ter and subsequent crash.

cooldad

Good one, slightly tired now though.
Shopping for a new helmet for thel33ter. As usual his spectacular stuff costs.

thel33ter

You gotta pay for good entertainment.

Haven't gotten into the computer, will choose a colour tomorrow.

cooldad

OK I've found a shop that has all colours at reasonable prices, but have put a bid on the Red/Black one so if I win, your colour is chosen.

timothius

Hi All! Sorry, been away for ages. Kinda got into riding motorbikes instead of mtb's, for a bit.

Anyway, anything planned for next Saturday? I need to get back into cycling again as I've become a blob.

Thanks,

T

ThePriory1978

Thel33ter crashed. I dont believe it.

robst3

How does SH compare to Swinley?

cooldad

robst3 wrote:

How does SH compare to Swinley?

About a million times bigger. More riding needed (longer distances between bits, hills much bigger etc) but some amazing and varied trails.
Everything from fast singletrack, quite technical stuff, some seriouisly scary bits.

Rather good actually. Swinley is fun, SH is more real.