philconsequence – slow group (still recovering from bad shoulder, honest guv)
mrsconsequence – slow group
AndyRT – slow group
Thisisnotaspoon – fast group
PaulD – fast group
raymond – fast group
slimjim78 (-1 buddy) – buddy has now put hoe before bro
Elfinsafety (too lazy to copy and paste)
Turboferret – undecided on group (not ridden for a while, and will be SS) attendance 75% likely
DezB – fast group
Singletrackmind – fast group (presumptuous, I know)
kevsterjw + 1 – slow group
Phil56 – slow group
TurnerGuy – slow/medium/fast group
MrBlobby – fast group
dobo – fast group
Tenuous – some kind of [non-pootle] group
Pleurr [aka Mrs Tenuous]- pootle group
sjw77 – slow group
Bullheart – slow/medium/fast group
mk1fan – slow/medium/fast group
Aidan – fast group
Peterpoddy – probably fast group
Mrs Poddy – probably slow group

the slow group is going to be tiny judging by the list!

I’m too lazy to write me name down on a sticker…

nobody is asking you to young man 😉

just an emergency contact number innit

Is there a group for ‘people too lazy to decide what group they’re in’?

Right. My train gets into Martin’s Heron at 11.52. That’s ok, innit?

that’s a fair old sprint to meet us by 12 dude! if this laziness continues we’ll have to set off without you 😛

(i dont want people waiting around too long before starting riding, people get impatient when they’ve been in a carpark for an hour innit)

Phil, according to Google maps, it’s 2 miles almost exactly. If his train is on time he’ll arrive at almost exactly midday if he gets a shufty on 🙂

last min decision to go

🙂 sweet, i’m off to go collect my bike, load up the car and cut up an old top so it allows more air to me nipples for the ride

see you all soon!

well that was BEAUTIFUL

thanks to everyone who came out and made it what is was!

and a super special thanks to PaulD and AndyRT for leading the two groups, what a stunning way to end the summer.

i hope everyone gets home safely 🙂

An excellent ride in the slow group. A lot of new tracks I didn’t know. Will look at GPS later to find out how much of the 85 miles was done today 😀

Thanks Phil for organizing and Andy for leading the slow group much fun.

Phil,

Been there, seen it, done it and got the very wet t-shirt to prove it.

It was excellent….well I thought so from the front!

Seriously, thanks to all the fast(er) group for just doing it in the new UK record October temperature!

Sunny, hot, no wind, no mud or even the odd puddle.

What a day!

Looking forward to the next one.

PaulD

I concur, was great to meet you all and discover some great new sections.
Sorry about the squeaking cranks, and puncture, and another puncture, and the hot flush (full length trousers, seriously?), oh, and coming of in the Devil’s Bowl bit or whatever it was called.

Thanks to Andy for plotting such a great route and to Phil for organising, hope we can do it all again sooner rather than later!

Cheers Phil for organising, had a great time breaking my “meeting people off the internet to ride bikes” virginity. My Garmin had the slow group route at 14.1 miles. If anyone wants a .gpx of it then my email address is in my profile.

Cheers for guiding us Paul, feeling it in my legs now!

^ Mark riding the black Charge Duster

Thanks for organising Phil and thanks Andy for leading the group.

Thanks very much for the guiding Paul, and to Phil for organising, and Pete for the advice on my forks and finally to Dez for not being too angry at my surprise wrong turn 🙂

Bloody brilliant that was. Thanks to lovely Phil for organising and Paul for superfast guiding. Absolutely loved it.
Got a few decent photos so they will be uploaded to my Picassa site and I’ll post the link.
Did I mention I had a good time?

[edit]Tenuous – that’ll teach me for riding too close eh? 🙂

as a side note, I got through a smidge under 4 litres of fluid on the ride, still ended up 1kg lighter when I got home! 😯

sweaty git.

Yes, many thanks Phil for organising the ride and for Paul for the guiding – some new trails to me – if I can drag myself out of bed tomorrow I am going to do the route again early.

What a great route and pace – I have a gpx of the fast route apart from the end where us stragglers got separated and then wandered into the swamp.

It was good to put faces to some of the ‘masters’ of the stw forum 🙂

What a great afternoon in the sun! I did see some air under some of those tyres, and especially enjoyed the”wheeeeeeee” sound effects coming from behind me on a swoopy bit of trail.

Oh, and much kudos for Phil for organising.

I’d love to catch up with the Alton crew to checkbout your local woods…

I could be persuaded to organise a Winchester ride at some point, if any one is interested?

An excellent ride, in excellent company.

Many thanks to Phil for organising and Andy for leading the slow group. And thanks to ‘spoon for providing company when my ‘catch up with the fast group’ plan went a little, er, awry…

as a side note, I got through a smidge under 4 litres of fluid on the ride, still ended up 1kg lighter when I got home!

sweaty git.

I set off with a 750mml and 500ml bottle (drank a couple of pints of water before setting off as well), ran out about an hour in, got back to the car, drank 2 750ml bottles and a can of pepsi, Bullheart bought a round of cokes, and I’ve still not pissed anything less than brown!

And thanks to ‘spoon for providing company when my ‘catch up with the fast group’ plan went a little, er, awry…

Haha, we were the fst blokes on singlespeeds whp are only fast when no ones looking group. Cheers for the coke, I’ll buy a mataphorical one back on your justgiving page.

What a ride . Oh my God . Straight out of the blocks and up to a good fast rolling speed . Usual run out of the cp and out into the miles of super fast singletrack .
Never ridden Swinley when it has been so hot and so dry . Super quick with a light dusting of pine needles to keep you focussed . PaulD was taking no prisoners and I was running at pretty much flat out through alot of the singletrack . Even burped on the stickler which left the back end feeling very wooly .
Big up to Philly for organising , and PaulD for dragging us round in a blur of roots , twists and turns and drops . This is why I ride a mountain bike .
rob ( naked carbon fs)
Could be a childs face s’all

Even burped on the stickler which left the back end feeling very wooly

is that a euphamism?

Thanks to the organisers nice day. Very dehydrated by the end of the day thanks to the guy who pushed my cramp out.

Yay… thanks to Phil for organising and PaulD for leading.

I ride those trails pretty much every week, but it’s nice to ride them with some different people (and put faces to internet personas).

Hang on, extra large doner to get outside of first, then I’ll be back and that.

As you were.

(The little quiet, almost painfully shy one on the tiny red bike…)

Sounds like a good one, hope I can make the next one and that it’s soon.

Well, I tell you what Tom, I won’t be having one of these bad boys again for a while; it’s enough to feed me for a week! 😯

Hey sounds like a great ride, I’m jealous, do any get organised down south, I mean further south and east a bit preferably.

Er one question, why do peeps ride with only one speed (I guess that’s what single sped means) are they poor people, I could probably find some old gear stuff, should we form a charity?

Gears for poor single speed riders that can’t ride good.

are they poor people

I am! 😀

Speshly after forking out for this extra large doner.

Jeeze, I’m struggling. Not sure if I’m going to make it. 😐

Save some for tomorrows breakfast/lunch.

Should’ve listened to the bloke in the shop when he expressed concern for my ability to finish it. 😳

It’s bloody huuuuge. Even Binners would struggle to finish it.

Might heat up the leftovers for Match Of The Day. 😀

are they poor people

nope just better than you :p

That is all.

Aidan speaketh truth. It Is Written.

Who was the tall guy who got up that vicious climb?

The man’s a machine. Proper power. Most folk with gears couldn’t make it to the top! 😯

That was the fastest I’ve ever ridden round Swinley. Sweet Jesus of Nazareth it was quick!!! PaulD isn’t Human, I don’t reckon, but some form of superfit alien, sent down to make us all feel inadequate.

Trails were soooooo dry and fast. Unfortunately, someone had to go and spoil it for others though din’t they mentioning no names but he lives on Hayling Island and rides an old plastic bike and is sponsored by a banana company…. 🙄 He was like bloody Lewis Hamilton, cutting people up and overtaking etc. So rude and inconsiderate.

Oi, Dezinald! Whe’ya pictures dem?

Im keepin dat sticker on my bike
As for uncle Leathal Dizzle…
One of the bestest days ever

Who was the tall guy who got up that vicious climb?

Maybe me? Depends which climb you mean.

I was on the Ti Singular.

Yes was you!

Fair bloody play to yer. Some of those climbs are nasty enough with gears, let alone without any! 😯