North Downs Ride 14th Jan 07

[scant]

Tell us about the route! Be good to sort it for the March Meet if it's a good trail/ride etc.
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dude, if you've ever ridden leith/holmbury/pitch area you'd know what a total nitemare navigation is! I've never ridden such twisting tight s.track. I guess it helps being so close to london that theres also new additions popping up all the time ... the new stuff above telegraph trail was pretty cool

anyone on the ride want to briefly explain where we went?! hahaha

 

[cchris2lou]

Thanks Scant for a very good ride . My legs are still hurting .

We could not find you after the ride , so we went straight home . We followed Yo grant thinking he was going to the pub , but obviously he wasnt .

Graet place to ride , but lack of car park , and hundred of trails starting evrywhere might be an issue . I am going to discuss it with Hilts for march .

 

[scant]

Thanks Scant for a very good ride . My legs are still hurting .

We could not find you after the ride , so we went straight home . We followed Yo grant thinking he was going to the pub , but obviously he wasnt .

Graet place to ride , but lack of car park , and hundred of trails starting evrywhere might be an issue . I am going to discuss it with Hilts for march .

you could park close to leith hill tower. harder to navigate, more parking & closer to the trails. I lived in leatherhead for 2yrs & rode that area a lot (worked in dorking). I'd done about 30% of that ride before & knew where I was about 75% of the time! fairly easy to get dissorientated!

glad u liked the ride.. see you in wales

 

[cchris2lou]

Even with my improved fitness , i still dont think that I am able to follow you guys every week-end .


Or we could park in Peaslake , car park at the end , but there is this nasty road climb to go to the tower .

 

[sylvain]

Yes thanks all for a good day's ride, cheers Chris for the lift.

We popped in a couple pubs to try find you, the one on the right of the road exiting Westcott looked nice and comfy with a log fire!

For the record we did 36km/22 miles, which took 2h25 of riding. I don't know how we managed but we were stopped for almost as long as that

 

[scant]

Even with my improved fitness , i still dont think that I am able to follow you guys every week-end .
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the more u ride the fitter u get

 

[scant]

For the record we did 36km/22 miles, which took 2h25 of riding. I don't know how we managed but we were stopped for almost as long as that

its why I wheelie all the time, or ride back down the climb & ride back up again.. just to keep moving, the stop-start of more socialable rides (which as u mentioned yesterday definately was!) is probabily more tiring than if we kept riding with no stops

surprisingly few if any crashes or mechanicals yesterday, which is nice
apparently the shorter ride group ended up getting partly lost & doing more miles than intended

 

[cchris2lou]

I know but it is not fair on the faster guys .

Still I felt better and faster than for the cannock meeting last year .

 

[scant]

I know but it is not fair on the faster guys .

Still I felt better and faster than for the cannock meeting last year .

you were deffo noticeably stronger

 

[cchris2lou]

thanks ,

otherwise I would have been dead and burried after the first climb .

and I enjoyed it a lot more , especially odonhills as a lot more conscious to play with jumps etc...