Lodders seriously if you ever wanted to review the Surrey Hills and see what's new, there's a small group of us who love to ride the more challenging stuff who would be happy to show you around.
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Secret squirrel? I really enjoyed it, and you're right about when it was wet, off camber with loads of roots, cracker!
if only there were more trails like that in the surrey hills eh?? LOL.
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Exactament Horatio
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Yes but that is the only one let's keep it like that
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secret squirrel - in the wet sorts the men out from the boys
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It's a definate tongue out stay loose kind of trail for sure, quite a few chicken lines developing I've noticed. Without a dab in the wet is a decent basic standard I'd say.
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yes the "straight liners" seem to have had a go at it! Its actually easier and way more fun to drop into the rooty swoopy bits and trust in your tyres.
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I would rather have the Lake District than Surrey
I am a litle the other way round, I love the greenness of Surrey and the little roads sculpted through the sand south of the A25.
Lake District is a bit samey to me and depressingly grey when wet!
Been going up there a couple of times a year for over 10 years now, staying in the mountainers/ramblers hut near Ambleside/Little Langdale.
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I love it all, just wish there wasn't all that driving and mileage between the lot
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And I also love the heathland - Walton Heath is my favourite golf course and the one I decided to give up golf on and buy a mountain bike
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Ah but then what tyres for swoopy rooty bits eh eh eh??? Me I like Verticals but they are too cheap and I must admit to a sense of shame at the Peaslake Shop when everyone else is on expensive rubber and my tyres cost less than a packet of johnnies.
There's a lot of money at that tea shop of a Sunday.
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oh err can't stand Verticals...
Minions 2.35 Front and Front for me
your right about the bikes though! My secondhand PA frame that i ride round here was 120 quid 4 years ago! and its seems to be faster than
alot of frames it meets on the trails....although have just bought a Kobe Ti which will shortly be built..that was 300 quid
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Nah I love em 40psi and bobs your uncle. I'm not shelling out 60 quid for tyres sod that..
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you would be amazed as to to how much better a minion is and at 30psi..so grippy compared (especially in the wet) I found the verticals such hard rubber tht sits on top of the trail not in it.
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Yeah but I don't have any issue with them seem grippy enough to me. Might try something new come the summer..
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just googled Kobe ti, got this page:
found my problem:
"Lightness requires very different riding technique... You skim and bounce, hop and dance, and when it goes wrong you're not just going to get away with it with a bit of momentum, it all happens very quickly!"
explains why I keep falling off, my FS is only 25lbs
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My FS is just over 20lbs, and is just peachy on the Surrey Hills! Rocket Ron/Furious Fred combo FTW, 2", 25psi. Fast as anything!
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Thats the Kobe - hopefully it should be a Helium filled ride after my PA which must weigh 30ish with coil pikes etc.
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just looked at a furious fred tyre - they look bald!!! surely useless in the winter?
from CRC
"But be aware: It is not an all rounder. Grip is limited and risk of puncturing is high." Posted 1 year ago # -
Yeah totally useless in winter! I was joking, although they are awesome in summer.
Tend to just use whatever's on the bike in winter, Mud Xs, Ralphs, Rons or Nics, then Rons, then Freds when it's really dry.
A Fred on the back at least would be fine in conditions as it is now.
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Why is that rooty off camber one called secret squirrel?
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Nick & co, when I return from Brussels in September (if I return) it would be great to see some of the good stuff you must know around Ranmore - I know some of it but always get the sense there's more...
nb Alps dates this year are Chamonix June 11 - 16 and July 16-31, and Verbier September 3-10 with the possibility of additional time tacked on at the end depending on employment situation.
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No probs, happy to show you some of the ranmore stuff - its my back yard.
Chamonix should be good earlier this year as its been a dire winter for snow, so should melt out quicker. Off down there tomorrow for a week of ski touring in the Vanoise
Going to be hot hot hot...
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All sounds very exciting, roots, loamy trails not many rocks - sounds like another version of Cheshire
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