London Calling

thel33ter

Friday, Saturday and Sunday are good for me + cooldad

cooldad

Body is still feeling a bit battered after last weekend, but should be ok by this weekend

Helter

Saturday at 9 sounds good then.

Meet at the Walking Bottom car park? I've only been there once so would have to follow. Anyone got any other suggestions?

popstar

Going to Redlands-Leith hills this Sunday (start 16.00) with Plaisir. Anyone interested joining give a shout.

thel33ter

popstar wrote:

Going to Redlands-Leith hills this Sunday (start 16.00) with Plaisir. Anyone interested joining give a shout.

Yay, a non early one I'll be there unless cooldad hits some more small grass and does his superman impression again.

cooldad

@Helter - can do - anyone else 9am Saturday. Someone with a sense of direction would be useful - DK??
@Popstar - Sunday as well.

Might not be 100% but as I'll be at the back as usual shouldn't make much difference.

popstar

But some -Rad style descents only Cooldad and me could ride, the rest chickened out. This time I am sure , Cooldad would just pawn all other ol-ladyz.

Helter

Hate to do it but am going to have to pull out of the Saturday ride, just been given tickets for Lovebox. 4pm start on Sunday sounds good though as will give enough time to recover.

popstar wrote:

Going to Redlands-Leith hills this Sunday (start 16.00) with Plaisir. Anyone interested joining give a shout.

Is this the same place we went last time with the lovers on the bonnet?

Anonymous

Sunday 4pm is good for me.

Helter wrote:

Is this the same place we went last time with the lovers on the bonnet?

Could be the local dogging spot.

Helter

deadkenny wrote:

Could be the local dogging spot.

Should have waited around a bit longer then

popstar

-Well, those sweethearts were desperate.

DKenny,Popstar,Plaisir,Cooldad & Co, Helter meet up at Old spot in Coldharbour (aka bonking spot) 16.00 then. Usually after 15.00 forest and trails are dead empty so most probably will have everytihing to our own. Hopefully will not see that kind of embarassment again.

thel33ter

thel33ter wrote:

What Bungalistic posted is probably more useful.



Slightly improved now

Is it this bit near Coldharbour?

the_smudge

Hi can anyone join you guys on the trails? Im new to Guildford and do not know the area and am hoping I could tag along at some point to get some local knowledge. cheers Tom.

cooldad

the_smudge wrote:

Hi can anyone join you guys on the trails? Im new to Guildford and do not know the area and am hoping I could tag along at some point to get some local knowledge. cheers Tom.

Welcome Tom

The more the merrier.....

Just look for the huge cross on the road in the pic above. Suggest you keep checking in to make sure of the place.

@Popstar - is the33lter's map the place you mean - where we met for Redlands last time?

Anybody up for something on Saturday - Holmbury/ Leith maybe or a bit of Swinley?

@DK maybe Tunnel Hill?

popstar

Yep, thel33ter is spot on.

Atz

Not back until Sunday so no riding for me this weekend. Just got back from 4 days in the Pyrenees (walking not riding) and looking forward to returning with the bike. The ski-station has just opened a load of MTB trails (about 1000 vertical descending metres) with lift passes 15e a day and there's a load of marked trails that are a little wilder from all the other mountains in the area that looked fun too.

bungalistic

I'm going to check out some riding spots more local to me this weekend, but i'm up for Wales trip next sat/sun if that is still the plan

Anonymous

the_smudge wrote:

Hi can anyone join you guys on the trails? Im new to Guildford and do not know the area and am hoping I could tag along at some point to get some local knowledge. cheers Tom.

Not sure if the Sunday plan is something a bit more challenging, but welcome to tag along. I'm not so knowledgeable on the Leith / Redlands areas.

We're all just a bunch of weekend warriors really, and just post here see who's around and tag along.

Saturday - Could somewhere else. Swinley is an easier place to start out, though has its challenges anyway. Atz showed us a few different routes last time so could swing round those ways if I remember them. Or the usual Pitch/Holmbury on Surrey Hills.

But yeah, there's Tunnel Hill to be explored (and linking up to Porridgepot which I know nothing about yet). Bit of an odd place. Not much on the surface other than fire roads, but hidden away (well hidden!) is a bunch of singletrack, and some tricky natural descents, bomb holes, jump areas and stuff. Not to mention the British Army hiding in the bushes

thel33ter

deadkenny wrote:

the_smudge wrote:

Hi can anyone join you guys on the trails? Im new to Guildford and do not know the area and am hoping I could tag along at some point to get some local knowledge. cheers Tom.

Not sure if the Sunday plan is something a bit more challenging, but welcome to tag along. I'm not so knowledgeable on the Leith / Redlands areas.

We're all just a bunch of weekend warriors really, and just post here see who's around and tag along.

Saturday - Could somewhere else. Swinley is an easier place to start out, though has its challenges anyway. Atz showed us a few different routes last time so could swing round those ways if I remember them. Or the usual Pitch/Holmbury on Surrey Hills.

But yeah, there's Tunnel Hill to be explored (and linking up to Porridgepot which I know nothing about yet). Bit of an odd place. Not much on the surface other than fire roads, but hidden away (well hidden!) is a bunch of singletrack, and some tricky natural descents, bomb holes, jump areas and stuff. Not to mention the British Army hiding in the bushes

That tunnel hill bit sounds nice, and I don't mind a bit of slow meandering looking for bits. Where do you start from?

Anonymous

I go from the car park by the Basingstoke Canal, just off Mytchett Place Road (turn into Mytchett Heath road and left turn into the big car park).

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 8&t=h&z=18

It's all to the right of there. The good stuff I know (when I can remember where it is!) is in a triangle between Mytchett Place Road, Old Guildford Road (which is a dirt track lane really), and Gapmouth Road. But there could be much more. North of Gapmouth is apparently Porridgepot which has some stuff too.

I'm not sure if there's anything to the south, but it's a red flag firing range area so can't always get in there anyway.

cooldad

DK That will make a change anyway. Fancy meeting there tomorrow morning, not too early - 9ish/10ish?
We can check out the bits you know and explore a bit.

Anonymous

Yeah, can do that. Whichever suits really. 10?

thel33ter

Yea, 10 sounds good, seems easy enough to find.

Anyone else free?

Anonymous

Okay, will be there for 10 if anyone's interested.

Anonymous

Nice little morning ride. Managed to find the stuff I was after on Tunnel Hill and managed to do the see saw this time. thel33ter managed a gap jump by mistake .

Then explored porridgepot, once we found how to get across the railway and canal. More lovely stuff over there, and the area is bigger than I thought considering it looks small on the map. And yeah, that run was called 'Pants Way Down': http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=15437658


Next up, 4pm Surrey Hills tomorrow.

thel33ter

deadkenny wrote:

Nice little morning ride. Managed to find the stuff I was after on Tunnel Hill and managed to do the see saw this time. thel33ter managed a gap jump by mistake .

Then explored porridgepot, once we found how to get across the railway and canal. More lovely stuff over there, and the area is bigger than I thought considering it looks small on the map. And yeah, that run was called 'Pants Way Down': http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=15437658


Next up, 4pm Surrey Hills tomorrow.

A big scary 6-7 foot gap jump with nails and barbed wire and rottweilers in the gap :shock:

Ok, Only the 6-7 foot part is real

Rest of the ride was great, found some tiny north shore bridges and a fun little seesaw thing, and some other random trails all over the place.

thel33ter

Good one, leg working again. Good. Ribs not so good and got wrenched a few times today, so once again owowowowow.

Tomorrow should be interesting.

cooldad

thel33ter wrote:

Good one, leg working again. Good. Ribs not so good and got wrenched a few times today, so once again owowowowow.

Tomorrow should be interesting.

What I said here. He left it signed in again.

cooldad

DP

Jedi

i used to ride tunnel hill back in the day when zack and jcl etc built all the old north shore. was awesome