its all upt nurth!
or am i wrong...
Yes
You're having a laff, right?
There's LOADS!
There's Cinnamon Girl Downs/Swinley area rides, Oldfart and Knotties Quantocks bimbles, IHN's Cotswold Massiv, Rich Penny and his mates Purbeck rides at least, off the top of my head!
And the Big Bike Bash is a direct result of WCA throwing an open house in 2008.....
I've done a couple in my area, but they're usually invite only for various reasons
Oh, London pootles as well!
there's one in Shoreham Easter Saturday. can't get much further South...
yeah isn't there a quantocks special in this issue?
(we've got hills up north though too)
there is a south downs ride on sat 3rd i believe.
STW Purbeck ride - 24th April 2010 - Roll up, roll up......! - 🙂
Winchester" area ride - Saturday 8th May. May/may not include bluebells!
[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/stw-purbeck-ride-24th-april-2010-roll-up-roll-up ]Purbecks[/url]
[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/old-farts-easter-exmoor-parade-official-details ]Exmoor[/url]
[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/winchester-area-ride-saturday-8th-may-maymay-not-include-bluebells ]Winchester[/url]
Rusty, are you going to be at the Exmoor ride?
I shall be on the Purbecks ride if the weather is kind, but I'll be on holiday for the Wincheter one.
So in answer to your question, nope -no southern rides 😉
DrP
I think it's mainly because Southerners are generally miserable and unfriendly, and prefer to ride by themselves, moaning about stuff, whereas Northerners are all much more friendly and cheerful, and like to get together a lot! 😀
Mulletus - Nah, busy that weekend
Dr P - Chinese tonight?
Talkemada - I thought it was because its not dark, cold and scary down here, so we're not afraid to go out on our own 🙂
organise one yourself then
No mountains in the south! 😉
And no twisty singletrack in the North**. 😉
**Disclaimer - I can say that with impunity because I am a Midlander. 😛
Beware though! We're OLD ...
Beware though! We're OLD ...
Isn't that just because life expectancy is much shorter, the further north you go?
Isn't that just because life expectancy is much shorter, the further north you go?
Yes, they die early due to their flat caps falling over their eyes and they ride off the edge of a mountain
We used to have plenty of STW meets in Woburn going right back to the first days of the mag.
Totally off topic, but: I used to live on a farm in Northumberland. Two girls came to stay with us from Glasgow. We noticed they had each brought a pair of flip flops and a torch. When we asked them why they said that they thought we might not have electricity or carpets (because we lived in the country)! True.
What, you actually didn't have carpets or electricity?
[url= http://www.bigbikebash.co.uk ]Umm there is at least one event I can think of where there are loads of STWers plus music plus beer plus a lake jump...[/url]
We have loads but we don't advertise them all because we don't want you all coming down here and getting sunburnt, and showing us up with your presumably better skills, fitness and looks. 
I remember the Woburn rides of yore to which oldgit refers; there was many a fine get together in the Forest of Dean too 'back in the day'.
Where you based odannyboy?
my first stw rides were at woburn 🙂
See. told you you were wrong
well maybe i should havebeen more specific.im in east anglia.
exmoor is not my area! but i should have said that really, but what about the north downs and london area etc etc...
May I refer the honourable gentleman to the 'Woburn 30th' post
Whereabouts in the flatlands as a local to me ride would be good. I'm Suffolk based and there are hills just not very steep or big ones!