Am thinking of heading to Lordswood for a few hours today, just how wet and muddy is it?
Are there any areas in particular to avoid?
Anyone else riding there today?

Hahahahahahah

Aahhh

*ahem*

Ok ok, seriously though. It’ll mostly be a swamp.
I’m sure there’ll be bits that will have held up but they’d take some finding.

It will be awful. I haven’t ridden there since November….but I have ridden most winters so know how it gets.

Sometimes though, after the floods it actually washes a lot of the mud away and you can have a half decent ride along tanners brook.

Personally I would stick to the road or go to a surfaced track like moores valley or swinley. Or even just ride fire roads in the new forest.

If you do go, be prepared for it to be axle deep in places at least it’s a soft landing when you fall off 🙂

Muddy, wet, slippery roots, trees down over trails in places. Lordswood basically. It’s cool, was the driest I’ve ever known it last summer so karma balance & all that says it ought to be as it is. Don’t go expecting to fly along dusty fast trails and it will be fine. No worse than any of the other local options, anyway. It’s uk mountain biking at the end of the day, if a bit (well, a lot) of mud puts you off best go buy a turbo trainer & some sufferfest DVDs & wait out until June. 😉

Was worried that’d be the case,
May have to give it a miss for a few months 😥

It a muddy and I like to moan about it ,but was still a cracking ride up there on Thursday night, it’s only mud after all.
MTFU its mountain bikeing not road riding.

Anyone interested in doing the Gorrick 100 May Bank Holiday?

Gorrick 100? Yeah, I aim to do 2 laps without crashing. That will feel like a victory.

I want to do 7 laps on a single speed.