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supra-man

popstar wrote:

This Thursday setting off to SWales again, will ride -The Wall- this time. It's less climbing than -Whites level- so should be easy mode on legs. Any opinions of people who's been there or better route/trails plz share your knowledge.

Dkenny, show us photos ...

Ah I saw you guys yesterday, 2 fat MTBs hovering over the trafic of M40 around green ford at 6 pm.....

are you going with plaisir to wales?? have a good ride...

Anonymous

popstar wrote:

This Thursday setting off to SWales again, will ride -The Wall- this time. It's less climbing than -Whites level- so should be easy mode on legs. Any opinions of people who's been there or better route/trails plz share your knowledge.

Dkenny, show us photos ...

Would love to join you, but work gets in the way unfortunately.

P.S. I see Whites is supposed to take between 1.5 and 3 hours. We spent the whole day on it!

Right, photos. Much posing and very little action. Hmm, they come out a bit darker on my monitor at work. Different calibration to my monitor at home.






















More here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadkenny/ ... 012984249/

popstar

Wow, I like plaisir's photo! Looks reall business ... just about to launch off, even though he didn't ... still nice emotion down there. Plaisir is a real ABBA Man, oozing with style, wow!

popstar

Art of photo ...
It's embarassing what you lot do, instead of riding -aka stylish gang-

Plaisir

popstar wrote:

Wow, I like plaisir's photo! Looks reall business ... just about to launch off, even though he didn't ... still nice emotion down there. Plaisir is a real ABBA Man, oozing with style, wow!

What you talking about! I jumped like 10 feet off there with a superman!


and LOL @ ABBA man - never heard that one before, my mates will love that!

bungalistic

So have we decided on the weekend plans, are we doing Redlands in the morning?

And is anyone up for a ride on monday somewhere, maybe esher or one of these smaller dh venues, like porc or aston hill.

popstar

I would be ready for Redlands/Leith hill ride if it's Sunday! Think it's a better day to do a group+film ride for many, I guess.

bungalistic

Yeah I was thinking the usual crew on sunday for redlands/leith.

Monday is just an extra day to go out if folk are free.

nickswansea

popstar, the wall was my local ride for a bit! cool trail but you should be able to get it done in 2-3 hours. used to be able to return to the car park and ride penhydd but i think that has just closed due to forestry work. but you'll enjoy the wall especially that final descent! just make sure you got plenty of meat in your brakes before you start it!!

are you just going there tommorrow or are you going to be there for the weekend? im heading home to swansea on fri via cwmcarn and hitting afan on sunday if your about?

Helter

Hi all,

Everything is soon to be sorted so will be back in the saddle next weekend. Any plans as yet? Room for a hardtail to join you?

bungalistic

Hardtails are always welcome, real riders ride hardtails :P

smallred

Hey all

(been hiding from distractions because of exams)

I know it's late - but I'm heading to Surrey Hills in the morning - starting from Holmbury St Mary probably. JUST in case anyone's skiving off from work

I've got my last exam on June 8th and was thinking of going to Aston Hill (or somewhere/anywhere!) next day - Weds 9th. Company welcome!

popstar

nickswansea wrote:

popstar, the wall was my local ride for a bit! cool trail but you should be able to get it done in 2-3 hours. used to be able to return to the car park and ride penhydd but i think that has just closed due to forestry work. but you'll enjoy the wall especially that final descent! just make sure you got plenty of meat in your brakes before you start it!!

are you just going there tommorrow or are you going to be there for the weekend? im heading home to swansea on fri via cwmcarn and hitting afan on sunday if your about?

We only head there for 1 day with Plaisir, shame would want to ride some trails in Afan and Black graded -Raven trail- in Brechfa too.

It's nice to hear things from Stranger (aka Helter), you ought to be the one who's organising all rides and be present here long time ago!

bungalistic wrote:

Hardtails are always welcome, real riders ride hardtails :P

And real men ride Full-Suss, yea, cause they don't fall apart on extreme stuff! 8) Thats the way baby!

popstar

smallred wrote:

Hey all

(been hiding from distractions because of exams)

I know it's late - but I'm heading to Surrey Hills in the morning - starting from Holmbury St Mary probably. JUST in case anyone's skiving off from work

I've got my last exam on June 8th and was thinking of going to Aston Hill (or somewhere/anywhere!) next day - Weds 9th. Company welcome!

Smallred, it's about time you joined us on Sunday weekend warrior mission! Hope next week to organise some bigger trips too.

cooldad

We're on for Sunday, just let me know the time and carpark.
Might be on for Monday as well. If I can still move.

nickswansea

popstar wrote:

nickswansea wrote:

popstar, the wall was my local ride for a bit! cool trail but you should be able to get it done in 2-3 hours. used to be able to return to the car park and ride penhydd but i think that has just closed due to forestry work. but you'll enjoy the wall especially that final descent! just make sure you got plenty of meat in your brakes before you start it!!

are you just going there tommorrow or are you going to be there for the weekend? im heading home to swansea on fri via cwmcarn and hitting afan on sunday if your about?

We only head there for 1 day with Plaisir, shame would want to ride some trails in Afan and Black graded -Raven trail- in Brechfa too.

It's nice to hear things from Stranger (aka Helter), you ought to be the one who's organising all rides and be present here long time ago!

bungalistic wrote:

Hardtails are always welcome, real riders ride hardtails :P

And real men ride Full-Suss, yea, cause they don't fall apart on extreme stuff! 8) Thats the way baby!

never ridden in brechfa but i have heard that the black trail there is supposed to be insane!! guaranteed to come off at least once! def worth the extra hour or so drive i think

supra-man

deadkenny wrote:

popstar wrote:

This Thursday setting off to SWales again, will ride -The Wall- this time. It's less climbing than -Whites level- so should be easy mode on legs. Any opinions of people who's been there or better route/trails plz share your knowledge.

Dkenny, show us photos ...

Would love to join you, but work gets in the way unfortunately.

P.S. I see Whites is supposed to take between 1.5 and 3 hours. We spent the whole day on it!

Right, photos. Much posing and very little action. Hmm, they come out a bit darker on my monitor at work. Different calibration to my monitor at home.






















More here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadkenny/ ... 012984249/

Wow Fantastic Pics great job deadKeanny the colors are impressive. :shock:

Oh I get like 5cm of air.... we should have done those table tops a few times..

I bring up lycra man just for cool dad...

Anonymous

supra-man wrote:

Wow Fantastic Pics great job deadKeanny the colors are impressive. :shock:

Oh I get like 5cm of air.... we should have done those table tops a few times..

I bring up lycra man just for cool dad...

I generally tend to bump contrast as the raw files out of the camera tend to be a bit flat, and went a bit excessive on the sky but looks great. The originals aren't far off. It's mostly down to the polariser for those wonderful skies. Light conditions were perfect for it. It's much harder on a grey day, though with the polariser I can get some funky effects on clouds.

Should be concentrating on the riders more than the scenery though and manage to catch people in the air . A little annoyed I didn't get a single photo of any of the northshore, and there was plenty of it! Or the downhill. Next time then.


Anyway, Sunday and/or Monday is good for me for SH / Leith / Whatever.

Interested in going back to Wales again. Have to try and get enough of a group to fill the cars. Did cost quite a bit in the end! If I get a bike rack I'll have more space in mine too.

Cwmcarn - How much of a downhill place is it, and is an XC bike really up for it?

bungalistic

Cwmcarn has a downhill track yes but it also has a nice xc loop with a superb descent at the end, it's an awesome place.

How about we meet at 9.00am on sunday here: The Pub
We could park further up here too if folk wanted save us the road climb, at this mini cross roads: nearer the trail

Atz

I think the pub works. We can even do a quick bash over to summer lightening if we want up Wolvern lane and then push up that bloody hill to the jumps.

Anonymous

I've only parked right by the pub before and from what I remember there are only a few parking spaces. Where's good to park nearby?

metalmonkey

Well if any of you are heading for rides over the w/end I'm free Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday at the moment. However Saturday looks a bit pants weather wise...

Might free free Friday afternoon, but traffic would be brutal it being a bank hoilday I may be too tried I wouldn't advise working a 15 hour day!

bungalistic

If parking near pub is busy keep driving past it and up the hill to that second link I posted, there's a layby that can fit a few cars in it, it has a white gate we ride past to get to our location.

metalmonkey we are all riding surrey hills on sunday so come join, location & directions are above

fatfreddyscat

Dkenny - I'm around Monday if you're up for a ride then. Can't make sunday unfortunately as I'll be in Manchester

cooldad

bungalistic wrote:

Cwmcarn has a downhill track yes but it also has a nice xc loop with a superb descent at the end, it's an awesome place.

How about we meet at 9.00am on sunday here: The Pub
We could park further up here too if folk wanted save us the road climb, at this mini cross roads: nearer the trail

Lovely maps - but all I can see is trees. Can find the pub in Coldharbour, but what crossroads do you mean?

thel33ter

Cool, looks like a big ride on Sunday.

@cooldad - if you go onto streetview you can see what bungalistic means. They are in the middle of the map, shaped like this +

cooldad

thel33ter wrote:

Cool, looks like a big ride on Sunday.

@cooldad - if you go onto streetview you can see what bungalistic means. They are in the middle of the map, shped like this +

Smartarse

See you all on Sunday.

Plaisir

Just got back from Cwmcarn with popstar. Did the red XC loop twice and the black DH. Great day, couple of nice crashes! Perfect weather again.. Not around this weekend but hope to see u all on a big group ride soon, have fun on sunday

popstar

Hope to recover quick for Sunday rides after some crashes. Elbow-Knee's hurt , even pads didn't help that much ... but yea, Cwmcarn XC trail (Twrch) is really good in my opinion is more balanced than Whites lvl in Afan, there was maybe only 100yards of fireroad to climb on, otherwise it's all pretty technical up/down Singletrack head on. Those blackruns there are actually something, had to learn to get airbourne in no time. Enjoyed it all big time. Learned the harder way not to ride too close to rider in front, lol Plaisir felt so bad about it, he crashed just for me ... flew over the bars on some section, and lied down in the bushes like a lazy bxxx. God bless our stupidity. 2 crashes to me, 1 to Plaisir.

cooldad

popstar wrote:

Hope to recover quick for Sunday rides after some crashes. Elbow-Knee's hurt , even pads didn't help that much ... but yea, Cwmcarn XC trail (Twrch) is really good in my opinion is more balanced than Whites lvl in Afan, there was maybe only 100yards of fireroad to climb on, otherwise it's all pretty technical up/down Singletrack head on. Those blackruns there are actually something, had to learn to get airbourne in no time. Enjoyed it all big time. Learned the harder way not to ride too close to rider in front, lol Plaisir felt so bad about it, he crashed just for me ... flew over the bars on some section, and lied down in the bushes like a lazy bxxx. Good bless our stupidity. 2 crashes to me, 1 to Plaisir.

Hope you got it on film for the rest of us.