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Shame I cant make this my local trails. Will have to tie up with you in the lookout sometime cinamon girl.
Andy
Not coming now. HackneyRider does not in any way want me soiling his new motor, and does not in any way love me any more... 😥
dalepoint - oh bad luck. There's bound to be another Swinley ride sometime ...
RudeBoy - the idea of you being behind the dog guard was to stop you from bringing your London habits to the Shires. You won't be able to wind the window down and shout at the locals, also no lobbing of coke cans/fag ends etc etc 😉
Do you want to borrow my singlespeed and I can pick you up from a station? Send me an e-mail.
I'm too upset. I'm going to stay at home and cry into my pillow. 😥
will I be the only ss ,, o dear ,, my poor legs will be a blur
doh! singletracksurfer@hotmail.co.uk thanks.
singletracksurfer - gpx sent.
RudeBoy - Auntie C_G will look after you. You must come! Send me an e-mail.
ade - no, RudeBoy will be on an ss 🙂
I'd have been [i]in[/i] the SS, according to a mate of mine. Not a very nice thing to say.
CG; I don't even know where the nearest station is, and I'd surely have to leave home around 6am, to be in the Chilterns for 10.30...
RudeBoy - Henley, Wokingham, Twyford I believe has a good London service.
I woon't even think about chancing that. Would I not have to change at Reading or somewhere?
No, you'll have to pick me up from home. I'm too scared to travel on my own.
Dep Paddington 08.43, arr Twyford 09.33 and no change of train
Well, would Bracknell not be easier?
Actually, Getting to Waterloo is a lot quicker for me than Paddington, and simpler.
09.09 arr. 10.11?
😥
Have to give it a miss now. What a bummer.
Shagged brakes and possible hangover (but it's the brakes that are stopping me, not the h/o).
Arse. Arse. Arse.
No, DD, I'm making the effort, and so must you.
You won't need brakes, anyway. It's a gentle pootle, not Rad and Gnarly, Dude...
Bad luck darcy 🙁
Ok, then if RB is making the effort, then so am I. Hopefully, the brakes will stop squealing once th've got a bit of crap on 'em. I'm sure there will be many skilful fettlers there to help out. They'll be volunteering once I've had a few pulls on the fronters anyway.
Go go deadlydarcy 8)
RUDEBOY'S ATTENDANCE CONFIRMED!
Thanks to the Lovely Cinnamon Girl! 😀
HackneyRider's new car is rubbish, and can only take one bike at a time. 🙁
DD; don't worry; once we've had a beer or two, we won't be worried about the bloody brakes!
I'm SOOOO excited!
I'd better go to bed very soon, as I had to be up 3 hours ago, to catch the train...
Hey - there's gonna be a few STW forum legends riding tomorrow 8)
Get to bed RudeBoy cos if you're not at the station I'm going without you 😀
I'm already in bed!
(I'm not really, but don't tell her...)
Scoffing pizza & wine here, perfect preparation. Then off to finish cleaning the bike. Sad, yes, but I think I'm developing a bike-related OCD condition...
All packed and raring to go 8)
see you all in the morning 'oh yeh baby'
CG what time do you think the ride will finish? We need to be back in London for a concert that starts at 7. Would like to do this as the Swinley ride was such a blast. Plus I have finally purchased my new bike.
Two more late entries. We're both local and will be riding to the start. Looking forwards to it.
curtis - impossible to say really but if you need to cut it short, there's enough folk with local knowledge that can point out the quickest way back. I reckon you should be OK for time. Glad you enjoyed Swinley 🙂 So what's the new bike then?
AlieN - can't believe how many local riders there are!
This is sounding better, just gonna check the timings and will decide in the morning. Managed to get one of the last Spesh Pitch's. Can't wait to give it a outing.
curtis - there will be options of missing out one or two loops if that helps. There's some great tracks in the Chilterns 🙂
Great day out everyone! Pics & vid I took are here:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/9draytoncourt/ChilternsJune2009?feat=directlink
Sorry I didn't get everyone, shot to shot time is too slow!
Smudge - I'll drop you a mail otherwise I'll forget your user ID on here
For those who showed interest in the car, more info on my website:
www.mymojo.co.uk
😉
Cheers!
Neil
Well, what a day! Great to meet so many new people and glad that the first-time visitors to the Chilterns were suitably impressed with the quality of the trails 🙂
Sorry for lecturing before we started riding but feel extremely strongly that other trail users should not have an opportunity to moan about mountain bikers. Smiley faces rule but confess to being so disappointed at the number of walkers on the Warnscombe Lane descent - that needs to be ridden f a s t 8)
I see that the pub are serving London Pride again and what a test of willpower! Always nice to finish up there and natter about the day's riding.
Thanks again to the Chiltern locals who helped - nickc and r6ymy - and also those who volunteered.
Good pics Neil, that's another top-notch Chilterns descent!
Neil I love your motor, I was at the wheels event too, I took my 1953 Morris Oxford MO along.
Its always a great evening there with so many different and varied vehicles to look at.
Great to meet you all, and thanks for the organisation...and the inner tubes. Can't remember the last time I flatted twice in a ride. It was good to not have the silliest car for a change :-). Witney chaps...got your card, thanks. Kids allowing, would be great to tag along sometime. Pete...have a great time in the Alps! Cheers.
Thanks everyone for a great day 🙂 We will definately be re-visiting the Chilterns in the near future.
Yes, keep in touch Neil, you're more than welcome to join up with us.
oh yes, thanks for the jaffa cakes and flapjack 😉
And special thanks to CG for organising the ride
did nickc touch anyone in inappropriate places?
he does that 🙁
pedalhead = Mark 😉
Big grin on the face of Neil (me) and John today. Thanks to everyone that organised and doled out the flapjack.
I think the conjestion on the Warnscombe Lane descent might have been my fault. Last time I rode that, I shredded a rear tire. I may be jinked.
Hope to see some of you again sometime on another STW Forum ride.
😳
I managed to keep my hands to myself thank you....
PePPeR - funny that you were at the wheels event last week! So which of today's gang were you, struggling to work it out...!
thanks for a good ride and showing me some great trails ,,
the two other singlespeeds were great on the ups,,showed us all the way,,
ok i did walk on a few parts of some hills,on my single speed preston
Nice to ride with a big group even if we did get split up later. Was good to ride with new faces even if I can't remember half of your names! 😳 Be good to do another ride soon. I was the one on the blue inbred.
yeah thanks for organising that cinnamon girl. Great day.
My legs are tingling for more... or is that the stingers & brambles!
an idea so the group doesn't have to split could be to do an extended loop for the faster riders while the others have lunch/drink/break
I mentioned it to a few riders, but for anyone who didn't hear/see leaflets there is a British Heart Foundation charity ride in the Chilterns with lots of nice singletrack.
see http://www.bhf.org.uk/get_involved/take_part_in_our_events/event_finder/view_event.aspx?ps=1000437
& thanks for the lift home boobs - I only got a small telling off (as people were already here so she couldn't go mental).
Thanks to everyone who proposed and organised yesterdays ride. It was a great turnout! A pleasant surprise to see some familiar faces from way back (and some unusual bikes, fellow one-gear-wonders! Props to Ade for piloting such an oddity...)
Looking forward to the next one.
Would anyone be able to send me a copy of the route please? Tracklogs if possible. Cheers!
Pedalhead YGM
Super thanks!
Thanks all for a good day out. Think a started to regret the choice of riding the round trip from Oxford to Watlington on about mile 5 of my journey home. Does anyone have a rough idea of how far we went (given that the group ended up on about three differing rides by the end of it :D)