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

I do have a trace but not sure how to load it.

Yes it's well worth doing and yes I had a lot of fun.

Howard, I just did that route today too, was lovely, apart from a few thorny punctures. And we missed the rain by about 10 minutes!

http://app.strava.com/activities/6152166

Ace - I'm itching to get back there! Good rain dodging too :)

1894mk2 - plug your garmin into your computer then go to connect.garmin.com and set up an account. You should be able to publish traces from there. Otherwise try strava?

I'm itching to get back there! Good dogging too :)

The dogging can't be called good if you're itching

Rumbled.

Anyone riding Builth Wells this weekend?

From dorking:

http://app.strava.com/rides/6140020

Just to test my new chainrings, cables and cassette were working properly.

We saw snow, sleet, rain and hail, we also felt the 50mph gusts.
'Twas tough out there today.

Bikes working a treat again.

I'd be up for a little weekend jaunt in the woods. I've never ridden with anyone from the forum so it'd be good to meet some people and i'm getting desperate to go mountain biking again. It's been a while.
however in anticipation of recapturing my MTB yoof, around christmas, I built up a 98' Kona Kilauea (631) front suspension little beauty. and have only used it once so far this year!

From dorking:

I love this - looks like it will just roll over anything. Want.

I'm thinking of heading out on Saturday if anyone wants to come with - most likely Swinley for a couple of hours.

sweet harvester

I would love to go on Saturday, unfortunately i'd be in serious shit with my special lady friend.
how often do you go there. and I'm assuming I need a permit, is that right?
The other question is how hard do you ride? (I only ask as I haven't been riding as much as I used to/haven't been on a mountain bike in years).

I try to get out every couple of weeks or so. For Swinley you buy a permit on the day or purchase a yearly pass. It's not expensive.

We don't ride very hard - I'm still enjoying learning the ropes and finding the limits of my ability and parts-bin bike.

sounds perfect. i'll join you for the next one if that's ok.

Yeah I'll post here. Looking at week 14/15th or 27th/28th too.

Heading over to Swinley for 10am at the Lookout this Saturday 7th April.

Meeting DJ on the train - feel free to meet us at the lookout.

I'm going to be riding at Swinely on Saturday morning. Would be good to meet some more mtb folk. OK if I tag on? I'll be on a red Spez pitch and will have a overkill helmet on probably.

Yep all good.

What kind of wheels / tyres are they, they look massive!

I'm after a 30.9 Thomson seatpost - 400mm if possible. Does anyone have one they would like to move on/sell? Cheers in advance

What kind of wheels / tyres are they, they look massive!

It's a fat bike, originally for snow/sand, i got it for beach riding, but have been using it one trails for a while, it's wicked, rolls over everything, takes the edge off bumps, etc. I got a few punctures though, so much surface area for bastard hawthorns to stab your tyres!

I'm after a 30.9 Thomson seatpost - 400mm if possible. Does anyone have one they would like to move on/sell? Cheers in advance

I have exactly what you want here

I'm going camping near chichester in may, anyone know of any maps of off road trails near there want to do some day long treks on my rigid ss.

Some bargains to be had at on one.
http://www.on-one.co.uk/news/products/q/date/2012/04/13/friday-the-13th-slasher-sale-classic-frames-must-go

Some bargains to be had at on one.
http://www.on-one.co.uk/news/products/q/date/2012/04/13/friday-the-13th-slasher-sale-classic-frames-must-go

Carbon 456 looks tasty.