London Calling

shaunlfc1

Would love to but off down to Afan for the weekend with the team. Hopefully in weeks to come we're be able to join you.

:-)

Richard2118

Hopefully out Sunday afternoon , other wise my riding will be in the week for th next 4 weeks.

Anyone around Monday , Tues or wendesday next week?

Sunday Pm?

thel33ter

Atz wrote:

Jesus, you're keen. Give me a chance to get the wet gear out of the car before thinking about next week please.

I was bored, and I want to test out my new toy.

popstar

Here you shall test it out

Anonymous

Is that where the K in knarl comes from?

Jedi

the g in gnarl

cooldad

The M in mommy.

Atz

thel33ter wrote:

I was bored, and I want to test out my new toy.

I tried to get cooldad to keep them until Christmas

pieman71

Hopefully about sunday, when and where - walking bottom 10ish?

supra-man

thel33ter wrote:

Atz wrote:

Jesus, you're keen. Give me a chance to get the wet gear out of the car before thinking about next week please.

I was bored, and I want to test out my new toy.

test ride in aston hill, to see the power of german engineering.

pieman71

Will assume 10 on Sunday at walking bottom car park.
Not near a computer for rest of the week.
Cooldad, you've got my mobile drop me a txt if anything changes.
Cheers
Pieman

Stan Leigh

pieman71 wrote:

Will assume 10 on Sunday at walking bottom car park.
Not near a computer for rest of the week.
Cooldad, you've got my mobile drop me a txt if anything changes.
Cheers
Pieman

+Me !

Atz

Might be out Sunday. Got some fettling to do before I can ride though. Also need to clean my bike to stop it rotting/rusting :P

cooldad

Atz wrote:

Might be out Sunday. Got some fettling to do before I can ride though. Also need to clean my bike to stop it rotting/rusting :P

Another blingy bike that's scared of a bit of mud.

French_Aristo

Here is the route of my ride in Swinley Forest last night.
Anyone knows anywhere else nice I could had without adding more than 10km to it?

http://connect.garmin.com:80/activity/embed/57173596

benobo

Hello everyone......last week I drove to Wales on business (no bike THIS time). Every time I've been this year (4 or so) it has been sunny (and warmish). How bad can it get....is it ridable in the winter?

Buckaroo

benobo wrote:

is it ridable in the winter?

The crew at my LBS reliably inform me that trails at Cwmcarn and Afan are built to withstand all but the most horrendous weather and drain pretty well even during our winters...

Atz

All depends if you can be bothered to drive all that way to get rained on. If I'm going to do that, I'd rather get rained on locally.

cooldad

French_Aristo wrote:

Here is the route of my ride in Swinley Forest last night.
Anyone knows anywhere else nice I could had without adding more than 10km to it?

http://connect.garmin.com:80/activity/embed/57173596

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That's what I got.

cooldad

Atz wrote:

All depends if you can be bothered to drive all that way to get rained on. If I'm going to do that, I'd rather get rained on locally.

Which will happen every ride for the next few months.

benobo

Atz wrote:

All depends if you can be bothered to drive all that way to get rained on. If I'm going to do that, I'd rather get rained on locally.

HA! I like your logic.

supra-man

depends after our session in north wales... I d say a wet ride over ther is better than here. so much rocks hard ground that drains very well.
you do not end up carrying tonnes of mud. There for you can still carry silly speeds.

drive to surrey hills is 1hour, cwm carn is 2 from west london, and with DK driving skills , cut the times by 4 at least. 8)
I d say worth it if its dry or light rain.

my problem waking up early....

Anonymous

French_Aristo wrote:

Here is the route of my ride in Swinley Forest last night.
Anyone knows anywhere else nice I could had without adding more than 10km to it?

http://connect.garmin.com:80/activity/embed/57173596

can't view that page. However feel free to browse my tracks: http://bit.ly/db7Cp8. A number of Swinley tracks amongst there.

You've seen the Swinley Map thread? http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12684311

This map especially is pretty good: http://www.calcot.plus.com/swinleysingletrack2.jpg

supra-man wrote:

depends after our session in north wales... I d say a wet ride over ther is better than here. so much rocks hard ground that drains very well.
you do not end up carrying tonnes of mud. There for you can still carry silly speeds.

It was practically dry by comparison. Or at least you only have to deal with slippery rocks. Little mud. If it's been dry for a day or two I bet it's pretty dry.

That's the trail centres though which seem to be fairly rocky in Wales.

Penmachno wasn't so great though. Still mainly rocks on the actual bits of singletrack, though a lot of puddles, but the vast majority of the trail is mindnumbing fireroads and bleak moorland kind of trails that would suck in high winds & rain/snow.

drive to surrey hills is 1hour, cwm carn is 2 from west london, and with DK driving skills , cut the times by 4 at least. 8)

Somewhat costly when I put my foot down though, but can mean I don't need to get up so early

French_Aristo

deadkenny wrote:

French_Aristo wrote:

Here is the route of my ride in Swinley Forest last night.
Anyone knows anywhere else nice I could had without adding more than 10km to it?

http://connect.garmin.com:80/activity/embed/57173596

can't view that page.

My bad
Privacy setting now corrected

French_Aristo

cooldad wrote:

French_Aristo wrote:

Here is the route of my ride in Swinley Forest last night.
Anyone knows anywhere else nice I could had without adding more than 10km to it?

http://connect.garmin.com:80/activity/embed/57173596

Error
Sorry, but it appears that an error occurred.

That's what I got.

Corerected. Privacy setting were on.

Atz

How was Swinley yesterday? Draining at all? I'd like to have somewhere I can try out the bike without struggling through a foot of quagmire as that's really not going to help sort the suspension out.

French_Aristo

deadkenny wrote:

This map especially is pretty good: http://www.calcot.plus.com/swinleysingletrack2.jpg

By the look of this the part I am missing is the whole area were the cockcrow is.
I think I will look for it on Sunday as I am don't think investigating and looking for the entrance of those single track is the smartest thing I could do in the dark
This said is anyone riding in Swinley on Sunday?

French_Aristo

Atz wrote:

How was Swinley yesterday? Draining at all? I'd like to have somewhere I can try out the bike without struggling through a foot of quagmire as that's really not going to help sort the suspension out.

I would suggest that you ride the MOD part as it is mostly mud free.
The deer stalker is fine
The gulley is messy as hell (not that really do big jump on my xc bike and barely mended broken leg)
Seagull was just fine to ride, yet again I was riding on a dying front light set on low so I wasn't really breaking any land speed record (not that ever do ;-) )

dubcat

Are you guys up at Surrey Hills on Saturday or Sunday this week?

cooldad

SH Sunday Walking Bottom 10am.
That's the plan anyway.