First Ride

[kingroon]

Just come back from my first ride on the new steed.. Lovely day down here [even better if you're wearing persimmon lenses], no wind, crisp air and broken clouds..

Nice quick loop, nothing too stenuous

Ratton singletrack from the foot of the East Dean Road round to Butts Brow, then back across the top to Paradise and down to the seafront.. Love the bike, I realise I was made for hardtails..

 

[Augustus]

Lovely day down here

By down here, do you mean Australia? Because having never been there I was quite surprised by how much like En-Ger-Land your pic looked.

 

[Hilts]

it must be the glasses but you look like 'action man' in biking gear....

 

[kingroon]

it must be the glasses but you look like 'action man' in biking gear....

HAHAHAHA I do a bit eh

Wu-Tangled, I'm down in Eastbourne on the Souf Coast of the UK, back for two weeks..

 

[Augustus]

Wu-Tangled, I'm down in Eastbourne on the Souf Coast of the UK, back for two weeks..

That's so weird - I was going to say it looked like a Sussex seaside suburban house!





:shock:

 

[john]

Secret training for Saturday Matt

 

[kingroon]

Secret training for Saturday Matt

I've just come out of my Oxygen Tent

 

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Secret training for Saturday Matt

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