Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

That looks like a great trail! Just my kinda perfect!

Immensely impressive riding too

This was basically @dogs and me at Epping yesterday

Just back from introducing mini-'Roogah to off road with some gentle trails around Joylon Wood. I do not think that I have seen him so excited in quite some time. He had an absolute blast. 12/10 would Kent again.

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Well jel, my kid is shit at bikes.

He didn't even flinch when he lost his front wheel trying to turn when rolling over a large root. Jumped straight up "I'm fine! I'm fine! Let's go."

Was straight into some of the gentle downhill bits and picked some good paths. Very lucky indeed.

Yeah, rub it in why don't you.

lost his front wheel

Shoulda done the bolts up better eh? Pfft

those guys at 2:19..who's that? Whoa shit, world champ dude...

Whooooooshhhh

Brilliant stuff. Fortunately both of my boys loved cycling too.

Keep him encouraged and you will have some great experiences together, I certainly have although the first time I took my eldest to Les Arcs he was 16 and seeing him head down the side of a mountain in front of me on his Big Hit was a massively proud but also intensely scary experience.

Definitely winning.

Doesn't he need baggies though?

Urgh. They were about 3 weeks ago. He's a weed these days. Think he's shot up another 2 inches since lock down. Currently at 4'4". He'll be taller than J by the time he's 9 or 10.

His ride. Pre-ride checks are his responsibility.

Thank you. Looking forward to the next ride immensely.

When’s the trip to Wales planned?

Always happy to have old friends to ride with 😁

I had another great ride today repeating the 60km route from Epsom to Leith Hill and back to show a riding buddy the trails.

Trails are running great at the moment.

EDIT: look at that dust on the stanchions....

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Yeah. That's properly hilly. Might join the next BPW outing. They do green runs for the truly shit riders like me, yeah? I'll bring Jim so you have someone to ride with

They’ll have 20”,24” and 26” hire bikes when they reopen along with the new top to bottom green trail.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAdNtxvobMh/?igshid=q2a0s43wmuyz

Also Jim’s visit is overdue... we’ve got about 4 days wotry of uplift vouchers between us

I love seeing kids get into cycling of any type, whether it’s just riding around the parks, out with their parents on proper road bikes, up at BPW with full facers or at the velodrome.

Alrighty. Is that car motor or e-bike motor? Or both?

Car car car

I was also riding there today, really like this place.

I’m sure that our paths have crossed at some point today as I was trying to connect a number of short trails together -)

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I’m on the hunt for MTB bits in the wanted thread if any of you have been hoarding stuff...

I think I only saw another trio of off road riders while we were there - looked like a family group. Not sure if that was you.

It was a fantastic day for it.

n00b question time; how can I tell if my frame is boost or not?

You'll need the Park BST-1 tool for that