Fifty Shades of Badger ( aka - The Epping Forest 50 )

I'll keep an eye on the local @Ramsaye weather forecast :-)

I’m on 40c Nano’s, so weather will be a deciding factor. Or is that not supple enough regardless? 😬

They should be ok :-)

New tyres ordered - will they arrive in time?

Yes

Maybe

Did you order them from Tredz...

Ground was rock hard at the weekend. Boggiest bogs were damp but other than that it was like corrugated concrete. Weekend weather looks mild but I’ll update with the view from my garden later in the week.

Also I’m 87.43% doing this ride.

It looks like normal service will have resumed by the weekend

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I'll have to stock up on these then.

Still making some tweaks to the route

Howard may live to regret joining me for the recce Totally going there on my own on Wednesday

Howard may live to regret joining me for the recce

If he lives.......

Who's Howard?

Guyz pls

May you rest in piece.

It's taken 3 hours of riding to get halfway around the route.

I might have to adjust things for Saturday's ride :|

Adjust nothing, caffeine and EPO will see us through

Going to have to cut this recce short, as my ribs are killing me from a fall I had earlier.

Ibuprofen time....

Bike wash at the hire place by golf is open!

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Well it looked nice...

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Is that new?

2016 - This was not the ride for it :/

Way too muddy and wet.

Bah, even the Garmin failed today :-/

https://www.strava.com/activities/1531027280

Way too muddy and wet.

Yeah, sorry about the bogs..

And the 100% uphill route