Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

worth it IMO compared to cunts in nissan qashqais close passing you

Really not long

Late December I took a diversion on a bridleway from the italian job route because of an HS2 site, ended up heading along a field with that real sticky icky mud. really hard work to go nowhere. dried hard.

November to January for me, starting to get sick of it by now.

You need to know your routes though, some trails/footpaths are not worth it until springtime

Think it depends if you have a pressure washer or not. But in the end riding through thick gloopy mud isn't worth it to me. It's not interesting, it's slow and it fucks your drive train in the end, you can jam massive knobbly tyres on to cope with it, ride even slower, go an even shorter distance, hampered even further by the lack of available light, then get home and clean the bike in the dark. But I would prefer not to.

Normally I do one or two thick gloopy rides in december/january and then decide I don't want to do them anymore. Would rather fit mudguards and ride an NCN.

Might get a pressure washer next year though.

I did my time - a year of riding through horrendous mud - when first starting off riding off road. For me, it was learning which routes were bad in different conditions & then avoiding the proper slopfests when it was bad.

I used to live in a flat when doing this with no outdoor tap. That poor CdF went through a lot.