London Calling

benpinnick

Assuming I can make it (maybe is the operative word right now) wheres the bridge?

cooldad

Just been woken up. That was thel33ter jacking my account. I'll send you the spot when my brain catches up.

Anonymous

Can do that. Bridge by the canal and 'Potters' ?

Blind Danny Johnson

deadkenny wrote:

cooldad wrote:

Supposed to be ok mid morning to mid afternoon tomorrow, so kind of planning latish morning - 11 or so maybe possibly.

Where to go?

The FOD event seems to have been cancelled now, Swinley as alternative been mentioned.

Would like to get to Surrey Hills. Maybe tomorrow.

I would've still up for FoD but was busy all day yesterday and couldn't contact people re: times etc. I kind of figured this morning, as a couple of the 'going' people on the Facebook group were posting about Swinley, it was off. Sorry DK if you were still up for it, communication breakdown, I would've still gone myself if I knew there were some people still interested. Anyway my plan now is to go to PORC. Don't know if any of you guys have been there but I'll report back later and let you know what it's like.

Anonymous

Was half can't be bothered really and then got up too late. Would be good to go with a group of us, better if someone knows the place, and ideally in nice conditions.

PORC, mainly DH and a 4X it seems. Though moredirt says they're all XC friendly. Guess by that they mean anyone could do it. Interested but wondered if there was enough to justify the trip.

cooldad

deadkenny wrote:

Can do that. Bridge by the canal and 'Potters' ?

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benpinnick

Not sure I'll make it - running late. Keep an eye out for a text from me. PORC is ok, but too short to bother goingall that way for.

cooldad

OK No worries. We'll see what time DK arrives, although I think he's set his watch half an hour ahead these days.

Anonymous

Tricky bit is going to be remembering where things are. Been a long time.

Blind Danny Johnson

benpinnick wrote:

PORC is ok, but too short to bother goingall that way for.

I thought PORC was pretty good but took a little while to settle into it. There are no runs marked out so you chose your own line down the hill which is very weird but i met a couple of other guys who I joined and they showed me a couple of routes they take. They were seriously fast though and at first I couldn't keep up at all! They helped me loads and I ended up doing a massive (to me anyway) gap which I'd never have considered doing if they weren't there! Anyway I don't see at all where the supposed XC stuff is, as far as I could make out it was DH and DJ only. I prefer Aston over it but it's a fun alternative once in a while, lots of big gaps and drops.

I'm quite eager to get to Forest of Dean for a DH session soon, maybe a couple of weekend's time?

Anonymous

I'm definitely due a FoD session.

Going round Tunnel Hill yesterday it was pretty good conditions as was Surrey Hills today until the rain kicked in. Thinking we should have done FoD anyway. Ah well.

cooldad

We just did a short run around the bottom bit of Swinley today, tracing the beginning of the bits we did on Friday. Good fun and left just as it started drizzling.

milko9000

Just back from South Wales. Where it rained a LOT. Managed to do the Wall at Afan which was pretty fun, but got soaked out of doing anything else. Now free tomorrow/Sat/Sun and looking to ride, what's going on with you folks?

Anonymous

Got a Cannock thing from FB going on Sat. Other than that Sunday see how I feel. Tomorrow, shock, working!

milko9000

Cannock eh. Well, if the weather holds up and we can be arsed doing a big drive again, I don't see why not. I'm a probable!

cooldad

Doubtful I'll make Cannock so up for something a bit more local over the weekend.

Dirtrider

could do something tomorrow morning, going to have to be fairly early start however.

cooldad

I'll be out but probably Sunday, and I'm not very good at early. Unless by early you mean 11 ish.

cooldad

Anyone interested in a late morning Swinley pootle tomorrow?

Anonymous

Late morning sounds good.

Edit: Looks like we're going for 12.

Blind Danny Johnson

Hi guys here's a Forest of Dean day I'm trying to get going over on Facebook. There's at least 4 people going so far and hopefully more will join. I've called it a DH day but there's no reason there can't be a bit of XC and DH or just XC for some and we meet up for lunch or whatever. The start/end of the runs are all by the cafe and shop so it won't be hard to find each other and hangout etc. All welcome...

https://www.facebook.com/events/370730022986492/

Ps plenty of DH beginners going by the sounds of it including myself and also from what every says the FoD runs are a brilliant intro to DH as they start really easy and are fairly short.

J0s3e

Hey guys, hope you don't mind two or three brave foreign beginners joining you for the ride.. I've already joined up on FB, hopefully will get my mates to do the same thing so we can communicate over there. Looking forward to that day!

Blind Danny Johnson

J0s3e wrote:

Hey guys, hope you don't mind two or three brave foreign beginners joining you for the ride.. I've already joined up on FB, hopefully will get my mates to do the same thing so we can communicate over there. Looking forward to that day!

No problem at all, everyone's welcome

As you say it's probably best to keep communication to the FB page, easier that way.

Looking forward to it to, should be an awesome day.

cooldad

You children are getting increasingly gnarrrly. I see pain and tears in the future.

Anonymous

Weekend plans?

Sat = light rain, Sun = maybe okay at the moment.

But plenty of rain leading up, on top of what we've had.

Dirtrider

Anyone doing anything sunday? Think I'm doing the cannock downhills saturday, but would be up for anything sunday really.

cooldad

Most probably doing something Sundaywhere depends on how soggy it is, either Surrey Hills or Swinley.

Dirtrider

Ok, Swinley would be perfect, realise I didn't turn up last time, but would be good to be shown round.

Anonymous

Really don't know what's going on with the weather and seems nor do the BBC or Met Office. Looks like Sunday is the better chance of a reasonable day though.

Want to service the big bike so might do that tomorrow. Sunday, don't mind.

cooldad

OK so at this point Swinley, Sunday, not too early. 11 is always good. (Or as it's also known, 10.30 DK time)