London Calling

Anonymous

7am!! :shock:

Does such a time even exist?

popstar

Mehh, didn't like boggy Swinley at all. Had to bloody wash bike proper after all sand. Think SF is for HT singlespeeders or in Cooldads case rigid.

Anyone interested to join in BigBikeBash ? Thought it was a time to have some fun n beers, at least thats what my wife says.

Anonymous

Meh. It was muddy and bike needs a good wash (it'll probably stay muddy in the car for a week though ), but it's still fairly dry compared to how bad Swinley can get.

Atz

Sorry for not posting sooner. Had an impromptu night out last night, car was 20 miles from home and had to get 2 buses to get it back so by the time I got back this morning it was basically lunchtime. Given the rain here and the reports from above, glad I didn't do what I was planning, which was to ride to my car at 7am and then head up to meet you

thel33ter

popstar wrote:

Anyone interested to join in BigBikeBash ? Thought it was a time to have some fun n beers, at least thats what my wife says.

Sounds like fun but definately can't make it

Really enjoyed the ride today, didn't find any bogs and had plenty of grip for once, and the mud hosed straight off

Also rode a £6.5k bike :shock: :shock: :shock:

http://www.slanecycles.com/scott-spark- ... rrency=GBP

Also worked out it would take me 25 years to save up for one at my current income :roll:

Shmikuk

Good ride today, thanks guys( and Jo)
Good to meet you all. I think considering the forecast and the rain on the way home, we did well to avoid most of it!

cooldad

@Popstar. Boggy? You big girls blouse. Popstar's problem is he thinks he's made of carbon fibre and will dissolve if he gets wet. Someone should tell him he's really made of blancmange.

I kind of enjoy the mud, makes for a soft landing, as I found out today.

Also fun riding through the middle of all the big puddles.

Anyway better get used to it again, or put the bike away until next 'summer'. It's all downhill from here.

Good ride, even if our gentle few hours turned into a mini epic.

BBB sounds like fun, but thel33ter can only escape for a bit on Saturday, and he'd probably be a tad peeved if I went without him, so we'll probably join Richard's epic in SH.

Anyway, I can't decide what price I should pay!

Child: 12 - 14 Years £20.00
Child: 15 - 17 Years £20.00
Adult: 18 - 34 Years £40.00
Adult: 35+ Years £40.00

Someone had a few too many when they thought of that pricing structure.

cooldad

thel33ter wrote:

popstar wrote:

Anyone interested to join in BigBikeBash ? Thought it was a time to have some fun n beers, at least thats what my wife says.

Sounds like fun but definitely can't make it

Really enjoyed the ride today, didn't find any bogs and had plenty of grip for once, and the mud hosed straight off

Also rode a £6.5k bike :shock: :shock: :shock:

http://www.slanecycles.com/scott-spark- ... rrency=GBP

Also worked out it would take me 25 years to save up for one at my current income :roll:

Well I've been working for well over 25 years, and still can't afford one, so if you are to have any hope, don't have kids - vvv expensive.
Not a bad bike though.

Anonymous

Think you'd have to be careful with it as one breeze and it would just fly away in the wind!

popstar

Cooldad , entrance for Thel33ter is £20. I am not planning to race therefore would qualify as visitor £10. It seems from T&C you need to get a racing participant ( Thel33ter )* and that racer will have a largish family to support him, aka us! I am happy to contribute £10 towards the entry of racer. Correct me if I am wrong. I just can't see Cooldad dressed up in lycras at the start line. Dis wrong!

Richards ride is tempting affair too, need to build up some fitness for that.

thel33ter

Hmm, I'll need to do some major convincing, the word race might help, if it OK with Cooldad, and if the races I would do are on the Saturday.

cooldad

Or we could all pretend to be under 12, only 1p each.
Problem is not the money, thel33ter is with his mom for the rest of the month, and can only get out for a while on Saturday. Not long enough for a camping trip unfortunately.

thel33ter

Can only do the Saturday, and preferably not the whole day at that.

Richard2118

I have had an awesome weeks riding !!!!

Thursday at Afan was superb, good weather and good trails.
We did Whites which is without a doubt the best trail there.
We also did the Skyline July trail, which if you have not done is great and has my favorite bit of singletrack in wales which are the last 3 sections, these rock and go on and on . For me they are better than anything on whites. Plus the black run on each up.

only bad thing was my insanely fit mate Roger who decided to show me up big time on the ups , he ended up waiting for me after the main ascent for 2 mins both times!!!
Not that bad but then you realise he was riding his 7 inch trek scratch !!!! about 35Lb's worth of bike.....he then proceeded to nail all of the downs and leave me spitting dust!
Add that to the fact that he is off to canada for 2 weeks in Sept and he really is a Git !!!!

I then did a whole day ride on friday around the SH which was really good , even if i was a bit leggy.

Plan for 21st is meet at Coldharbour for 09.30 then hit leith holmbury and maybe pitch and then back again.

Whos in ?

thel33ter

Probably me + Cooldad.

Is Coldharbour the bit near Redlands?

cooldad

Yup

supra-man

Richard2118 wrote:

I have had an awesome weeks riding !!!!

Thursday at Afan was superb, good weather and good trails.
We did Whites which is the without doubt the best trail there.
We also did the Skyline July trail, which if you have not done is great and has my favorite bit of singletrack in wales which are the last 3 sections, these rock and go on and on . For me they are better than anything on whites. Plus the black run on each up.

only bad thing was my insanely fit mate Roger who decided to show me up big time on the ups , he ended up waiting for me after the main ascent for 2 mins both times!!!
Not that bad but then you realise he was riding his 7 inch trek scratch !!!! about 35Lb's worth of bike.....he then proceeded to nail all of the downs and leave me spitting dust!
Add that to the fact that he is off to canada for 2 weeks in Sept and he really is a shoot !!!!

I then did a whole day ride on friday around the SH which was really good , even if i was a bit leggy.

Plan for 21st is meet at Coldharbour for 09.30 then hit leith holmbury and maybe pitch and then back again.

Whos in ?

I like your mates style

I ll be in for saturdays ride.
where exactly do we meet in Coldharbour?

popstar

Wow, Rich ... you did well in SWales. Bloody shame i couldn't join you. In revenge, I think will head out this Thursday alone to SWales to ride Whytes.

bungalistic

I'm in (as you already know) for Sat.

9.30am outside the plough inn as there is parking nearby and we can have a pint after the ride?

supra-man

Popstar this is for you at least look at the pics


http://www.endurotribe.com/2010/07/le-l ... -vouilloz/
ashame you cant understand french but in brief. It shows the zestys potentiel.

160mm forks are no worries on it and then you get same geometry as the spicy, but with a lighter bike so faster to pedal accelerate, and if you really want to Hunt DH bikes ( on some tracks). Nico puts special alu spacers in between head tube and fork.
He is says the lighter bike makes it less of a work out easier to pump and jump.
tuned up fox float, talas is usless.
12.5kg with DH tires. You change rocker link and shock size and you can get 160.

you see you dont need a spicy. Only skills and you are the king of the mountain.

translated page of what he said back in 2007: http://translate.google.co.uk/translate ... soft:en-us

popstar

For that info, I take Supra with me to SWales to ride Whytes. Thel33ter, will your mum let you go with me? That could be a blast. You being a poor student, giving you a free prezie as for travels.

popstar

/double post

thel33ter

That would be great, but my mum would never let me go to Wales with some strange men she doesn't know, and has never met, :roll: she doesn't even want me too meet anyone in Swinley, but I can get away with that.

supra-man

guys I d love to go, but thursday... hmm have to pray for miracle to get day off so quick or get a good excuse. may be work part time from afan if i can get network and headset ... lol

weekend would be easy lol.

Richard2118

thel33ter wrote:

Probably me + Cooldad.

Is Coldharbour the bit near Redlands?

Yes down by the pub in the village

Richard2118

supra-man wrote:

Richard2118 wrote:

I have had an awesome weeks riding !!!!

Thursday at Afan was superb, good weather and good trails.
We did Whites which is the without doubt the best trail there.
We also did the Skyline July trail, which if you have not done is great and has my favorite bit of singletrack in wales which are the last 3 sections, these rock and go on and on . For me they are better than anything on whites. Plus the black run on each up.

only bad thing was my insanely fit mate Roger who decided to show me up big time on the ups , he ended up waiting for me after the main ascent for 2 mins both times!!!
Not that bad but then you realise he was riding his 7 inch trek scratch !!!! about 35Lb's worth of bike.....he then proceeded to nail all of the downs and leave me spitting dust!
Add that to the fact that he is off to canada for 2 weeks in Sept and he really is a shoot !!!!

I then did a whole day ride on friday around the SH which was really good , even if i was a bit leggy.

Plan for 21st is meet at Coldharbour for 09.30 then hit leith holmbury and maybe pitch and then back again.

Whos in ?

I like your mates style

I ll be in for saturdays ride.
where exactly do we meet in Coldharbour?

I should have expected it he runs a bike shop and has been training for Canada plus he is a really good rider.

Meet by the pub , that Ok?

Stan Leigh

Me , Me , Me !

I wanna come out & play Saturday !

Can anybody give me a postcode for the meeting place or something i can find on Google Maps ?

Thanks.

thel33ter

Stan Leigh wrote:

Me , Me , Me !

I wanna come out & play Saturday !

Can anybody give me a postcode for the meeting place or something i can find on Google Maps ?

Thanks.

Could possibly be here, http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=coldhar ... =en&tab=wl

Zoom in on satelite mode, you should see the pub a tiny bit up and too the left of the A.

Anonymous

supra-man wrote:

may be work part time from afan if i can get network and headset ... lol

Now there's an idea! . Strangely though I can't do "work from home" as a contractor @ Nokia and yet if I was an employee I could. Odd considering contractors are exactly the sort of people you can just give a piece of work to and they go off and do it, and they shouldn't really care whether you're in the office. Maybe they don't like the idea of paying for hours when I may be going down a hill on the bike instead .

thel33ter wrote:

she doesn't even want me too meet anyone in Swinley, but I can get away with that.

and we're certainly a strange bunch! Cooldad keeps us in check though


Anyway, enough parking round by the pub in Coldharbour? Guess could park nearby or even at the cross road bit and cycle to the pub (mmm, cycling to the pub sounds like a good activity).

cooldad

thel33ter wrote:

Stan Leigh wrote:

Me , Me , Me !

I wanna come out & play Saturday !

Can anybody give me a postcode for the meeting place or something i can find on Google Maps ?

Thanks.

Could possibly be here, http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=coldhar ... =en&tab=wl

Zoom in on satelite mode, you should see the pub a tiny bit up and too the left of the A.

That's the Plough.

Bungalistic suggested the Plough Inn, which is a different pub

We should probably decide.