[Closed] New Forest Ride - Sunday 17th May

I could lead a ride around CG. I know a lot of the trails out there and could do a nice little 20 miler. I would be bringing Daniel on a tag-a-long so would certainly be sedate 🙂

Excellent Rich, thank you!

I would imagine i'll make an appearance what with it being just down the road. Plenty of nice pubs to choose from, just watch out for the pony pooh.

oo, that could be my return the riding weekend.....

i feel the local DH trails are gonna get some mincing down

sounds like a must do ride .count me in .

Pringles guaranteed :o)

I would but i am already leading a ride in the forest with a group from work.

Ten furty? Means I'll have to be up at like, 5 o'clock or something daft. Why so bloody early? It's not like it gets dark quick.

Make it noon or sumfink. Then at least I can have a poo before I set off.

Bloody ten furty. What are you lot like? 😯

would be - but clashes with a stag weekend i've organised, another time

dagnabbit - out razzling on Sat night, next time

Rudeboy you can crash at mine on the Sat night if you like, I could even pick you up from the station.

Oh no! Another bash that I'm going to be away for!

About time I came out to play...

Anyone need a lift from the Woking neck of the woods?

P

Cheers Rich, but I'll be coming down with HackneyMincer, and he'll be driving. S'what, a 2-hour journey all in, from That London.

Just push the start time back a bit, so's we can all lie in a bit longer.

Bloody ten furty. 🙄

is that the bank hol weekend?, i might be up (or down actually) for it

Wow, looks as though there going to be quite a posse 😀

rOcKeTdOg - no, it's not the BH weekend.

sharki - it will be a nice gentle re-introduction to the trails for you, might need to put you on a lead though!

RudeBoy - just stay away from the keyboard the night before otherwise Ollie will come without you 😉

owen - the groups could amalgamate?

Another fun STW Forum ride 🙂

Possible though we are meeting at 8 in the morning due to other commitments.

owen - no clubbing for you Saturday night then 😉

Nope. Twirly for us. I'm not getting up at 7am or whatever ridiculously ungodly hour. It's 2 hours or more drive, and we'll be stopping for brekkie, so we'd have to be leaving just after 8. That's just silly.

We'll probbly go Surrey Hills or something instead.

2 small children put paid to that a few years ago 😀 if they sleep past 7 its a good lie in.

don't be silly RB, it's a 2.5-3 hour journey for me (unless i can borrow the outlaws caravan)

Fred - get a grip and just MTFU! You moaned about missing out on the Westbury ride and now you're moaning again 😯

I'm interested CG, any more info as to where?

S'not me driving though, is it? S'down to Ollie. If he does not in any way want such an early start, then it means we'll go somewhere closer. And if we either of us have commitments on Sat night, then it means we won't be getting a great deal of sleep. Best, we go later, at a time that's more suited to us.

Hi genghis. It will start from near Burley, approx midway between Ringwood and Christchurch.

Hope you can make it.

Not for me this one sadly - will need to stay local that weekend so will head up into the Chilterns for the day. Sorry!

Bah !

will be at a [s]car keys in the bowl[/s] conference that weekend 😳 🙁

[i]Hi genghis. It will start from near Burley[/i]

Whys that C_G? Only good riding there is at Avon Tyrell really.

Hi,

Could be tempted as it's only 15 mins down the road from me.

I assume that it will be mostly/entirely fireroad?

[i]I assume that it will be mostly/entirely fireroad? [/i]

Avon Tyrell has some nice twisty singletrack that you wouldnt really want to do on anything other than a mountain bike.

I assume that it will be mostly/entirely fireroad?

At best vague interest, now thoroughly dissolved.

Ohh! Ohh! Pick me! Pick me!

Can I come to, pretty please?
Mrs PP too!

Lots of great cheeky trails around there. Sadly I'm in Exmoor with [url= http://www.newforce.org.uk/ ]Newforce[/url] that weekend or I could show you some, although they too have a club ride in the Forest - starting on the East side though.

Let me know if you want a few pointers

You definitely trailerbiking Rich? If so, I may well do the same.

Lemme know!

cheers,
Dez

[i]You definitely trailerbiking Rich?[/i]

Definatly; need to get a gear shifter for the Scandal by then though.

Avon Tyrell has some nice twisty singletrack that you wouldnt really want to do on anything other than a mountain bike.

Avon Tyrell has some nice twisty singletrack that you wouldnt really want to do on anything other than a mountain bike.....

That's a shame as was thinking of bringing my ride on tractor mower 🙂

[i]That's a shame as was thinking of bringing my ride on tractor mower [/i]

Only Aleigh is allowed to ride tractors

Hey - going to be a good turnout 😀

Keep checking back for more details but tractors are welcome as long as they have a smiley face person riding them!

Or a gurny face?

Sounds like a good way to spend a sunday, only just down the road so i'm interested in getting along, might bring a couple of mates who live in 'the forest'

Lummox

its the Southern XC that day at crow hill just down the road from Burley, but i'll keep an eye out for you lot!

HHmmm CLIC24 or Merida for me unfortunatly. Enjoy the ride and be sure to take some piccies.

STM

I am the queen of tractor riding and face pulling - you have to be able to do both at the same time if you want to ride one in the New Forest 😆

Shall I post [b]the[/b] pic? 😀

Ummmmmmmmm - no thank you! 😆

Is it too late for me to join the merry gang?

It sounds like we are going near a place I know well!

Of course you can join us WCA 😀

WCA is wearing a thong???

Do you need photos?

no i'm not bulimic

I'm local too (Romsey) would be great to . . . alas already booked Crow Hill xc.

. . . . damn

I love cinnamon too . .

WCA - please leave the thong at home cos you might frighten the ponies 😀

I will be riding without a thong on then

Final details will be posted up within the next couple of days.

But ... confirmation from the man himself ... WCA will NOT be wearing a thong. However, he may be riding a shonky bike without a helmet 😀

I have a 20 mile route that I can send to anyone once I work out how to get it out of the Rides.gdb file. It starts at the second car park on the right once you leave the A31 for Burley.

You leave the A31 and head towards Burley. There is an obvious car park that is normally full on the right. About 300 yards further along the road is another larger car park entrance. I suggest we meet there as it is bigger.

Is there a final decision on meeting place/time etc for Sunday?

Oh, it's this weekend coming? Silly me; I thought it was last weekend just gone, you were on about!

I've not been very well.

Poor rudeboy.. All confused.

What's the plan?

you do now soton is only 70 miles from london rd dont you 😉
so it's only going to be a one hour journey one and half top 😉

Don't talk shit, Juan. Even with Ollie's driving, ittul take over two hours. You're forgetting; we don't live on the very tip of South West London, we live in the East. This involves A2-M25-M3. A total of around 120 miles. Add in a brekkie/fuel stop at Clackett Lane, you're talking 2.5 hrs, roughly. It's a 2 litre VW, not a 6-litre V12 Mercedes, ffs.

Then, there's another 20 mins or so, when I get a bit confuddled, and mis-read the directions.

Add in another 30 mins for me to get ready, and we might as well just come 3 weeks before, just so's we can be on time.

And it's next weekend, so there's not enough time.

One hour journey. 🙄

Someone have a word with him, please...

I shall be posting up final details tomorrow once my pretty little head has decided what they are 🙄

RudeBoy - as your ex-fiancee, I know you are just being damn lazy cos you normally love these rides 😀

Shall I have a word with Ollie?

No, have a word with Juan. He seems to think ittul take us only an hour or so, to get from East London to the New Forest. Crazy man.

I don't think Ollie will be up for it. We went out on Saturday, to the South Downs.

How was the South Downs? How's the injury now?

Juan - stop causing trouble! Ollie doesn't drive like WCA!

South Downs was nice. There was cahs and everything. Ollie tried to stroke a cah, but it ran off. Some bugger had been graffiti-ing the sheep!

We saw some nice pylons, and some burnt out microwaves. I fell off, going down a chalky slope. Done me leg in. Think I've ruptured a stomach muscle, too, although it may be a hernia.

All that chalk, right, it's trillions and quadrillions of fossilised bodies of tiny little sea creatures. Mad.

OK but have you actually de-stressed? Get well soon and don't forget we have a Chilterns ride on 21st June. Auntie C_G will look after you 😀

De-stressed a bit, yes. Just hope the off-licence downstairs does not in any way get robbed again.

£160, they got. £160 quid. And they could face 7 years inside, for armed robbery.

For £160...

London? You can keep it! Not that it's any better in the Shires these days.

Well ollie neeeds to improve his driving...
Door to door from mine to the very center of london (little France) it's a 55 min journey.
Plus you dont need to stop for fuel or food, are you a sissy or what 😀
However next time ask you ex to give us a bit more of a warning 😉 I'll try to make the trip

The problem is that the local sherrif in London Village is a bit backwards, and seems to think it's not safe to have the pig farmers and hop gatherers drive at over 30mph. So even though it's only a little place it takes AGES to get out of, and they all stare at you as you leave, muttering "There be dragons! Leave it be!" and when you try to return "Begone! Outzider!"
And of course the roads are so bad that even the town blacksmith can't keep all the carts working properly for long, and is so busy he's been skimping on fixing the little bridge over the stream, you know, the one that lifts up to let rowing boats out.....

ROFLMFAO at peter...

Wander to clean the screen from coffee

Weather forcast looks a bit nasty right now....

🙁

Peter come over here it's very sunny and I want to ride with someone for a change 😉

The NF is quite sandy so drains well. A little rain between now and Sunday will just dampen the dust.

It's the deluge on the day that concerns me. I can't be bothered with rain this year.
It could well change before then, though. 🙄

Well ollie neeeds to improve his driving...
Door to door from mine to the very center of london (little France) it's a 55 min journey.

What, from Southampton? What a load of bollocks. Southampton to the centre of London, is 69 miles, in a [u]straight line[/u]. Not by road or anything, in a straight line. As the crow flies. So, you're talking about a journey of say, 80-90 miles or whatever, in 55 minutes? Yeah, right. What were you driving, a Bugatti Veyron?

You've not thought this through, have you, Juan? 🙄

Peter, we have big metal worms that go under the ground, here!

erm when you enter the M3 london is 70 miles away there is a straight line between the two cities, the M3 ;-). Add a couple of miles for southampton [i]intramuros[/i] and aonther couple of miles for london intra-muros.

I have done it couple of times and the 55/65 minutes tag is spot on.

I know that it takes about an hour to get to heathrow but when i have gone to putney it has take 1 and a half hours to get there as its so slow once you are in london.

RudeBoy - Just hitch a lift with the black helicopters that fly low along the Thames, you will be here in no time. The offer of bed and board on Saturday for you and Ollie is still open.

I have managed Southampton to Canterbury in under 2 hours and that is further east than you are. That was in a 1.8 jap crap car not the Merc. I actually commuted there each day for a week.