Anyone fancy a few hours tomorrow from 12 ish?
I could be tempted I think. Will depend on how soon I can get out of work though. You got a contact method? My e-mail is in profile.
Mine is too mate. I can delay an hour if it helps people.
E-mailed you with my mobile number.
If you'd have said Swinley Saturday morning.... 😀
Got it.
Any more for any more?
Lol afan Sat morning, swinley tomorrow. I can't do swinley sat and then drive to west wales sorry.
Possibly if you're prepared to accommodate a badly unfit man on a SS shakedown ride - which may go wrong and need a degree of fettling. Will there be frequent stops for [s]getting my lungs back inside my chest[/s] chatting?
1pm sounds reasonable to me. Would ride in from the Maultway side, so would also drop off to go back that way before it gets dark.
Damn fine, we can do cake as well as chats if we all bring some.
OK to meet at car park still?
Sky blue whyte and dark Mondeo.
I'll see what i can conjure up cake wise.
Riding in, but car park fine - by Go Ape? Sweaty fat man, Black Pace SS
(my other bike, BTW is an orange Spearfish...... which i have a feeling may have once been yours!)
Yup, perfect.
Orange fish, lol, remember it well
Any more?
had a terrible week eating and drinking plus hospital visits, so could be tempted if I can get last bit of shopping done first. will post here before 10:00am
would like to conquer the drop by corkscrew!!
Sounds ideal THM, i can't find the bloody Corkscrew 🙂
I can't recall the drop, but hell, i'll give it a whirl if we can find it 🙂
Spoke too soon last night - list of jobs from Mrs THM this morning is formidable. No chance of making a 12:00 RDV, sorry. Have fun and another time.
Merry Christmas too.
1pm isn't it?
Yes Jon, 1pm after you guys preferred then 🙂
Just sayin' in case that opens it up for THM
Lets hope so... because he can find the Corkscrew and i've been curious about the entry line he was struggling with as i'm sure it was the one i used to ride in about 2009, but i've not ridden that entry for many years, so wouldn't mind seeing if i've got the balls to take it on 🙂
Can't make it unfortunately. Can do boxing day if anyone is up for that.
I can find the corkscrew - and it's no great shakes (the entry line)
LAst bump for anyone 🙂
Sadly wfh and actually working 🙁
But for balance I can find the corkscrew and mince the dreaded drop off.
Lol you're no use if I'm waiting here for inspiration
Brilliant ride that 🙂
Love Swinley... it's just ace.
THM, we found and did your drop/entry... I admit it was a little "ooooh, hmmm" but then Theotherjonv did it, so i had to.. it was fine 🙂 less scary than you think 🙂
They've built a few jumpy/dropy bits on red 7 (the one after the gate to Crowthorne) which are also a little "oooooh" but again, not too bad.. despite a crap landing i survived 🙂
Top riding and chat though... He can ride that singlespeed that's for sure... very impressed !
Very enjoyable riding and chatting. Was more pleasant to be back on the silly bike than I thought, although both my lower back muscles are protesting heavily now - they always hurt when I'm out of practice, I guess they must be the ones that connect the gurning above to the knee mashing grinding below! And I'd forgotten how much the ginger vibrates up through a rigid rear end!
Shame THM couldn't make it, we'd have sorted the corkscrew entry easily. It really is nothing. Nor really are the new rock drops on Seagull, although I followed Weeksy with exactly the same squirrely landing technique. But as my mate Mick the Pilot says about heavy landings - can you use the bike / plane again tomorrow? In which case it was a good landing!
Right - I think a beer tonight.
Glad you had a good time. I was still doing jobs until about 15:00 🙁
I thought you were joking about not knowing the drop weeksy and that the reference to corkscrew was double meaning laughing that I had consumed a reasonable amount of Rioja last night!!
I am sure it's (the drop - with all the chain marks in the roots on the lip) ok, but glad that you at least had to think about it. I don't feel a total wuss now !!
I was thinking about you as I was driving back with the Turkey as the weather had turned. Must have been q gloomy by deerstalker
Thanks for checking me again and sorry I missed the good ride!
was grey and miserable most of the ride but we avoided any wet stuff. Trails were amazingly dry too.