Swinley

Not been for a fortnight but it tends to hold up well on the man-made trails (which is a lot of the new trails), off piste is (or was) boggy so a mud tyre up front would be advisable. I run panaracer cinders front and back at this time of the year (conti mountain kings in drier weather), they're spot on for most of the trails in Swinley in the wet.
We're meeting at 8.30am on Saturday (2 of us), if you want to tag along or just want a pointer on where to start etc, just shout.

Cheers

EDIT - ..... and to answer your question (sorry!) - most of the new trails are compacted sandstone but they drain fairly well, the soil around the DH area / labyrinth is sandy and that also tends to drain well. Some of the singletrack off-piste / through the tree's can get boggy as there's no specific surface or stone put down.

Freezing by the sounds of it, but the cafe sells coffee and hot chocolate - have a good ride!

Ladies? as in plural? ooo lol shame im in Afan haha

cooldad wrote:

Unfortunately quite a few trails taped off while the place gets rebuilt - so behave yourselves and stay off them.

Thanks mate, out of interest which bits are taped off? Our normal route is out through the play area to the top of the main fire road, through twisty tree's, onto new england switchbacks (??) and out by the concrete ring above the jump gully. We normally mess about on the hill opposite before making our way over to the downhill area (usually do a couple of trails through the tree's on the left before we get there), and do the downhill runs and Labyrinth. From there, we pick up singletrack and make our way to the bottom of the hill by the reservoir, follow the fireroad to tank traps and head over to stickler. Once we've done that, we pick up Seagull and then corkscrew before making our way back to the carpark.
Is there much disruption on these trails?? I'm guessing the answers yes....

PS - invites open to anyone who fancies joining us on Saturday at 8:30

Most other Radar forum-ites are riding Sunday but i'm being unsociable and riding with others on Sat morn at 9:30am so will probably see you around. Remember to bring change, they now charge you to park at the Lookout incase you were unaware.