Waterworld.....

bails87

Near enough.... the local 'trails' (definitely not footpaths.. :roll: ) looked like this yesterday:





Praise jebus for Seaskinz socks!

road_donut

You sure they are trails and not streams ? lol

...... my local trails are still iced up to fook

D-Cyph3r

I haven't been to my local trails for well over a month, but considering the state they were in back then i'd imagine they are all but unusable right now. I honestly cant see myself doing ANY off-road riding till march unfortunately, I just cannot be arsed with the mud and cleaning.

I have heard that it's possible to sneak onto the in-construction Olympic course at certain times of certain days, might have to check that out though.

bails87

road_donut wrote:

You sure they are trails and not streams ? lol

You can tell from the grass in the last one that the water isn't still, it's actually flowing, so I suppose yeah, they are streams!

Raymondavalon

Where is that Mark? That must have been punishing to ride through

jay12

wow :shock:

fortunatly for me the trails are pretty good, slightly wet and slippy but pretty much how they were in spring last year

bails87

Raymondavalon
Stuff in Solihull. It's only a few hundred metres of singletrack. In between Brueton Park and the M42 (idyllic eh! :lol) if any locals are interested.

It actually wasn't too bad. The ground underneath was really firm, whereas a week ago it was an unrideable bog. And a week before that it was covered in snow :roll: My feet only got wet right at the very end where I have to cross what is usually a ditch, but now it made the water 2 feet deeper! Got most of the way over then hit a log underwater and had to put my foot down. Got a bit of water in the sealskinz, but they kept it in, wetsuit style, so my feet weren't cold. I'd rather have that than the mud!