Go with the Flow: Leith Hill video

True, but with berms you could go even faster

Yoghurt Pots is undoubtedly the best it's been in recent years, but it used to be more twisty with steeper drops, which was more of a challenge. Agree it got crap a few years ago, probably due to over use particularly in winter. Frankly I'm probably remembering it with rose-tined M-frames, the new berm at the bottom and the fact you've can avoid the wet bits is brilliant.

Agree with Dango on the top bits though, particularly the first RH bend after the split with Doc at the Radar Station could do with being a bit more bermed I think, although the adverse camber keeps you on your toes!

I totally agree it's a great trail, just nothing like it used to be, for better or worse!

Edit: damn my slow typing.

Maybe we'll re-visit the top corners (tight RH and flat three) at some point. So much time has gone into it already, and we've already got to the point where it meets all the objectives; it doesn't fall apart from braking damage and water erosion; it is sufficiently fun that most riders will not want to go a different route; all standards of rider can get something out of it; it is safe without feeling sterile; it looks respectable and is acceptable to the land owners, agents and other users.

Some charming homophobia in this thread.

🙁

It is with great sadness that I read of the commercialisation of the Surrey Hills.

What are you talking about grumm – berm bandits! 😉

Parklife is now complete with a nice whippy bermed exit instead of the horrendous washboard that used to be there (that's "Yoghurt Pots" for the bacterially-infested dessert substance fans among us…).

PS: Did I say "whippy bermed exit"? Oooooh. Matron.

Commercialisation? Yes, how unfortunate that it is a real place where real people live and work.

The work on Parklife (for it is no longer fitting to call it Yogurt Pots, 'cos there ain't no Yogurt!) is not commercial though – it is because Hurtwood Control have recognised that without sensible input and design and control mountain biking has the potential to wreck the Hurtwood.

I do find you southerners funny, getting all worked up over your silly-named trails which are basically riding down a steepish slope for about 30 metres. 🙂

"grumm – Member

I do find you southerners funny, getting all worked up over your silly-named trails which are basically riding down a steepish slope for about 30 metres."

Clearly, you are either a tr*ll (in which case you can **** orf) or have never ridden in the hills hereabouts.

In which case you're just an ignorant git who doesn't know what decent beer tastes like…

PS: … and lives on fat, chips and stewed tea.

Grumm – ignorance is bliss

Basically, the Surrey Hills are now the nearest trail centre to London, and that means they get all the cr@p that goes with trail centres.

Dango: good to meet you and your band of merry men at the weekend – I was on the red M3.

Oooh touchy aren't we! Did you miss the 🙂

Looks pretty fun in places actually – though the video in the OP maybe isn't the greatest advert. 😛

Decent beer? Down south? Ha!

grumm – we even have vineyards as well…oh and dusty trails 🙂

Don't get started on the foamy beer thing! The south definitely has the best beer regardless of the excellent singletrack…

Actually I think you'll find the Midlands has the best beer, just not so much good riding.

Hasn't this all turned into a jolly slanging match? What fun; is it my turn now?

njee20, what sort of username is that? Did you enter your username and password in the wrong fields when you signed up?

Grumm, you'd be surprised how nice some of the trails are down here, and I speak as someone from your neck of the woods (we were in the apartment next to you in Alpe D'Huez). Sure, rocks are missing from the equasion but that doesn't mean that there aren't ones where a lot of people drag their brakes, lower and ride like little girls. As for naming the trails, I used to think it was weird as well but you end up using the names all the time. Anyway, there's a trail near Arnside (from Hazelslack to Beetham) that we always referred to as Blue Underpant Lane, so it's not just a Southern thing.

Real ale is crap, regardless of where it comes from. It's just drank by smug **** who want to tell anyone who will listen how great they are because they like to sup a pint of Flowery Pisswank because it is oh so very hoppy and you can really taste the oak from the barrel and one should really support the small breweries because hey, those guys are struggling and have you tried Shepherd Neame's Goblin's Foreskin? Oh, you just must.

Where is my friend Sonor (or whatever he is called)? He was such fun.

As opposed to the great taste of nitrogen beer that you get in the "North"…

No, as opposed to fizzy lager. It doesn't surprise me that you are a fan of real ale; do you have a beard with bits of food in it?

Oi Pencil Museum season ticket holder, get thee back to thee pint of over-priced fizzy training beer, as like.

"It doesn't surprise me that you are a fan of real ale; do you have a beard with bits of food in it? "

No, but I do have taste buds in my tongue that are wired to my brain unlike you, you clog-dancing halfwit.

:o*

You may as well have taste buds in your brown eye, beacause that's what most real ale tastes like.

Never mind. Just keep sucking the sugar cubes, sonny.

😛

Oh, and I'd rather have clogs than ballet shoes with drips of piss on them

Actually, they're leather stilettos. Kneel, slave…

So the beer you drink determines your age and maturity, does it?

I see you put a laughing emoticon there; I truly hope you were laughing out loud when you typed that, telling your wife about the joke funny you just made on STW.

I would kneel, but I'm afraid that you may try and put your 'sugar cube' in my mouth

Well as you say, there's always hope, eh?

… and Use and Answer and that….

Mine's a Snecklifter, by the way. You lifted any Snecks lately?

Last word freak….

Ta-raaaaaaaaaaa

Shame, I was thinking we could hook up at the bottom of Deliverance

You are a clever one, aren't you? A real master of words. I am now picturing a podgy bloke with a beard with bits of food in it, wearing a dirty old jumper with leather patches on the elbows, nursing a pint of some god awful real ale, sitting in front of his computer saying "Ta-raaaaaaa" out loud and feeling all smug because (a) he hasn't wet himself today, and (b) he feels that he has got the better of some Northern scallywag on an internet forum.

You'll sleep well tonight, I'll wager

Not really. Whatever.

Listening to this:

http://www.housefm.net/update.htm

Can someone put this thread out of it's misery pleassssssssssssssssse

Done.

*strokes beard (bits of food fall out), nod of head (more food loss from beard)*

CF must be quiet tonight……