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My friend and I made a spontaneous ride from South London to Liphook off-road last weekend. The weather was too nice to be missed. It was the first time I've followed an automated mtb route on komoot. It described as 'expert' but it ended up being almost as direct as the road route I've done a few times before with probably 10% on the road. It was very wet and muddy but the route had a nice mix of terrain, a surprisingly dry north downs way, some sandy heathland and mossy pine forests. I took the mudguards off my Kona and put on my 35mm CX tyres with tubes, got 2 pinch flats on Boxhill hitting some massive bits of flint but the tiny tyres were fine for the rest of the way. Everyone hates cable discs but I'm currently running old TRP spyres with compressionless housing, semi metallic pads and a less than ideal interally routed rear, and even in the wet mud on very steep hills I never felt underbraked...My only gripe is that they're loud when it's raining and one of the adjustable pads winds itself out slowly over time. My friend very admirably rode on a 26" Trek singletrack with cantis, a front basket and gravelking tyres. We were probably underbiking and I'd like to try the same route on my MTB and see the time difference.
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