Badgers in heat - Epping Forest Summer rides

Get a free app with the forest tracks on like view ranger then set up buddy mode so you can see where each other be.

Super late to post this now but thanks to @BareNecessities and everyone who was there on Saturday for such a great day. That was my first forum ride and everyone was really friendly - thanks for putting up with my lack of gears/slowness/crashing/mechanicals.

Any advice on how not to lose people from the group would be appreciated. Dropping someone due to mechanical issues is to be expected, but I've never experienced people disappearing through having followed a different track :-/

I was definitely responsible for splitting the group up a couple of times, I ended up sticking to the back of the pack cause I was struggling with some of the more rooty trails and I think people in front waited up for me which caused a sort of concertina effect where they slowed down to wait for me but lost the people in front of them.

Me and @7Üp ended up taking a different track cause I bottled going down a drop and was looking for a different route down and he waited up for me. By the time we came to the fork in the route you guys must have taken you would have been a fair distance ahead of us and we were unlucky and picked the wrong route.

So yeah, really lack of experience/confidence on my part, first time on the trails and all, but I learned a lot on Saturday and I'll be better prepared for next time.

Patrick - Black All City Nature Boy