[Closed] West Sussex/Worthing Riders.... join our gang... pleeeease!!

join our gang

You are the second person in as many days to make me think....

[img] [/img]

I don't wanna be in your gang, your gang, your gang....but may join you for a ride (until I get dropped and limp off home in a sulk 🙂 )

Worthing local here. Usually get out on a tuesday, usually a bit earlier, could do 19:30 though. Where the meeting point ?

We meet at the top of salvington hill/foot of honeysuckle lane.. At the shops there basically..

Will we see you this Tuesday chaps?

DrP

Probably a bit of a stretch for me to get back in time, but principally I'd be up for it. Billingshurst native (but work in London).

Local but new to the area and only just riding again after a long lay off and too many pies.

Of very slightly above average skill, think 'seasoned aspirational mincer'. Climbed Bostal Road last night for the first time since moving here without having to stop, but several years ago was leading rides on my SS.. So there is hope..

DrP should you want, we can offer a ride around the nonexistent Friston Single track if you want a trip to elderly hillbilly country.

Might try and make it over on a Tuesday, what sort of time do you ride out?

IDIOT GALACTIC DICTATOR JUST RE-READ YOUR FIRST POST. If I do turn up I shall be identifiable by my horrendous attire.

Slimjim - From Worthing or Steyning side? It never seems to get any easier from the Steyning side!

Reckon I'll join you again DrP, poss not for a couple of weeks though as my only mountain bike needs some work

2 weeks, there's 17 bits on a bike, what you doing, mining the ore? 😆

Pretty sure I've ridden with you a few times in the past Dave.

Looking forward to seeing you again kind sir. 8)

Steyning side for my sins ! Makes for a bloody good warm up though

It's taken me more than a month to (not yet) inflate the tyres on my cx bike.
Dave, I can sympathise....

DrP

Righto.... It's Tuesday, it's post bank holiday so work today is likely to be horrendous...so..who's up for a ride?

1930, top of Salvington Hill....

DrP

Not tonight Josephine, I'm doing a shorter slower ride with my usual weekly lot because they have decided it will be Tuesday this week

We're pretty good riders (hey, jus' saying)

We ride from Worthing

But really getting from where I live at the home of the bicycle on the old A23 to there is a PITA anytime

Well, as the saying goes "you learn something every day"
I was born and raised in Coventry, so have passed that statue more times than I could estimate, but didn't realise that he was born so close to where I've been living for the past 24 years. (And I've passed his birthplace a shed load of times, too)

Must pay more attention.

Dammit, I would but have committed myself to half a dozen other things this evening. And next Tuesday parts of my bike will be with South Downs Bikes having bearings replaced and other parts with South Coast Suspension ahead of the QECP enduro on the 14th. So I'll join you for a ride on the 17th. Maybe.

Will be fast and dusty (barring the odd puddle) tonight, have fun!

in his spare time mending watches and creating devices such as a mechanism to allow a duck to get through a hole in a fence, closing a door behind it if a rat tried to follow

That's a very specific solution for a very specific problem!

DrP

I would be keen, except the only other time you took me out, I could only just make out your rear light on the next hill 🙁

This week I am also looking for my legs which I think must still be on a Welsh hillside somewhere

I'm not entirely sure dave's Enduro-capable prowess is wholly compatible with my 'mince-core-lite' style of riding.

Do you mean me njee? If so I'm just a typical middle-aged STW nodder who likes to play at enduro racing a couple of times a year with distinctly mid-pack results to show for it. If you're riding with DrP, Hoops et al it's not my pace you need to worry about...............

Goodo! I can hold my own up the hills. Less so down them...

Riding this week? I'm WFH, and Goodwood road races have sold out, so I'm around! I've ridden my MTB once in the last 6 months. I may not be at my peak...

Coolio...
I'm on leave this week, so will be out must definitely...

Prob the ss (just to make sure it doesn't snap in half on the fresh weld..)

Look forward to meeting you 🙂

DrP

Would it be bad form just to turn up for the odd one now and again?

Worthing is a bit of a stretch to do regularly but timing means I might be able to do the odd trip over there summer if I can get my legs back.

I hope that's not poor form, That's my intention, I certainly can't do it regularly sadly.

Is the meeting place obvious? I don't know Worthing at all - Honeysuckle Lane looks quite long?

LOL Retired

AddAd hoc be more regular than our regular riders 😉

Meeting place is obvious; where salvington hill "turns right", and honeysuckle continues on, is a few shops..
I'll be there early anyway.

I've a sexy* ginger beard..

DrP

*open to interpretation..

Cool. I'm wary of approaching anyone and commenting on their sexy ginger beard in the Brighton locale...

It's just how we roll in Worvin'...

DrP

If you can see three tramps on a combined total value bikes of about £70 then it's us and Duncan hasn't turned up yet.

Right, so look for the tramps with the sexy beard.

There is no conceivable way that this can go wrong.

Date night is here...

I've scrapped the SS idea..just washed the gearedbike and she spoke to me..

I'll be on the £11 Pinnacle...

DrP

I've a group ride organised with colleagues on the 27th and am secretly training for that - if it goes well then i'll be in a better place to join you lot going forward.

At the moment I am winching myself up the Downs - it's probably as painful to watch as it is for me to climb.

I noticed my bike appeared to have a totally flat tyre this morning. Pumped it up, will check it later. I've ridden a mountain bike once in the last 6 months. This may not be sufficient for sealant to remain liquid!

It's not the best start.

Just checked on the MTB...

Tyre still inflated 🙂

BB seized 🙁

New BB fitted from stock 🙂

Matching pair of pedals fitted after I snapped one last time out 🙂

Hoping it's not the flinty part of the downs, I've got a Thunder Burt on the back! 😕

Hoping it's not the flinty part of the downs, I've got a Thunder Burt on the back!

Oh well 🙂

**packs tyre boot**

It's a Tuesday night ride, you may be overthinking this...

It could be in jest...

It isn't though.

I overthink lots of things, and I really did fit a new BB and pedals today. And I really haven't ridden my MTB more than once in the last 6 months. I'm a little over excited.

We should do a cultural exchange with the Dorking based group I ride with.

It's going to be a tough sell though. "Hey lads instead of riding our singletrack paradise followed by a pint of world class locally brewed beer, let's drive for an hour to ride up a flinty chalk track then down a flinty chalk track then up a flinty chalk track then ..." 😉

Typical chippy northener

Thinking on, our numbers have gone up a lot recently. Is it your lot defecting?

Are you the Dorking Cocks we hear about?

BURN 😉

Anyways... lovely warm evening ride with a ouple of new chaps..Thanks Njee20 and rubberbuckaneer (hey, don't be fraid of your username!)

Hopefully you had fun..sorry you missed the pub. There were no pork scratchings, but it's not all bad...!

I'm off on me hollibobs (kid out of school...burn the heretic..) so maybe catch up in a few weeks 🙂

DrP

[url= https://www.strava.com/activities/579489471 ]Strava link [/url]

Splendid evening jaunt chaps. Thanks for coming along, check in another time.

Great ride - thank you very much for showing us round gents, will definitely try to get out again!

Really fun ride, thanks for inviting us out 🙂 I'm certainly up for more of that. Couldn't do the pub as it was past my bed time but I will be better prepared next time with an extended evening pass

pictonroad - Member
Typical chippy northener

Was going join you but a mate who doesn't often get out had a pass so went with him instead. Think we might have been at the bottom of the blue run when you came down? Heard someone shouting "I can't make that corner!" at the off camber turn at the bottom. We've all been there!

That was me, that corner is my nemesis!

Thanks for omitting the Anglo Saxon elements from my outburst... 😳

Anglo Saxon elements from my outburst

It's the 99% of MTBers like you that give the rest of us a bad name 🙂

Yeh, that wasn't great either.

I'm a nice bloke really.

I was in a bad place.

Sorry.

He's a horrible person. Don't listen to these internet lies...

And hummerlicious.. Just saw your post!!
Lol indeed..I meant retired the website, not from riding!!!

DrP

That was me, that corner is my nemesis

Brian missed it too (and I nearly did), so you were far from alone!

There was an inordinate amount of shit. Outbursts justified!

Are you the Dorking Cocks we hear about?

I couldn't possibly comment on that. The first rule of Ride Club is ..

Glad you all had a good ride. It's doing cats and dogs up norf here today so you got out at the right time.

Will come down and see you one day. Are you saying there's more to riding darn sarf than SDW and Big Dog?

And hummerlicious.. Just saw your post!!
Lol indeed..I meant retired the website, not from riding!!!

I thought the Tour Divide was going to be the last hurrah, before he sells all the bikes and takes up fishing or golf... 😛

Are you saying there's more to riding darn sarf than SDW and Big Dog?

No, nothing fun here at all! 😉

Didn't comment on the awful profanities for fear of the ban hammer. Potty mouths, tsk.

My mate lost it on that bend and did a 180 backwards into the trees last week. It was almost graceful for a 16st plasterer.

Did I hold the gate open for two of you at Cissbury? One fella was full enduro rocking the goggles and open face look!

nice Strava link - although - only 580 calories burned in 2:17hrs?.. Are you a wisp of a waif?

no I most assuredly am not, I assume Strava calorie data is nonsense.

Did I hold the gate open for two of you at Cissbury? One fella was full enduro rocking the goggles and open face look

Nope, no goggles anyway in our group!

I assume Strava calorie data is nonsense.

I think it has a direct correlation between speed and calorie consumption - so a gentle spin on the road uses more than even the hardest MTB ride. Basically yes, it's bollocks.

You lot out tonight?

Good to see you last night Dave, what a cracking ride, sooooo dry and dusty at the moment.

Now you go away and learn what a Vauxhall Frontera looks like and come back and apologise.

There's a good lad.

I know what they look like, I've seen a photo of yours. And very nice it is too. For a Vauxhall.

Meh..I bet it was terrible, with dog muck and flat tyres and warm rose in the pub....

Jealous, me...no...

DrP

Couldn't see for dust, it was South Coast loam out there I'm telling ya!