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

Sounds good. @⑦up?

@dancing james is occasionally let out of the house, too.

I get a free pass occasionally.

I think we are planing a Swinley jaunt on Thursday, will have our two dogs with us as well.

I could do Thursday, you free Howrad?

Nope soz

Looks like we will be at Swinley tomorrow.

Time? Was planning on doing early: 10:30

not certain yet, will check with Annie. this is subject to Sidney being able to come with us - he has damaged a claw and it is very sensitive. we do have rubber booties we can put on it if he can bear weight on the foot - they are like heavy duty foot condoms

I find the regular duty foot condoms are prone to failing, good choice.

what a wuss! Doh snapped his whole nail off, and didn't even stop running. He didn't like having TCP put on it when we got home though.

Oops. Just agreed to buy a Genesis IO frame. Another in a long and undistinguished line of bikes I'll cobble together from boxes of spares...

Sidney saw the vet earlier, as his paw was swollen and he could not bear weight and was flinching/yelping if it was touched.

No surprise that it is infected, and he is now on anti inflammatory drugs and antibiotics.

@Howard I may be able to come out via train to Swinley, but would be on fat bike and probably a bit slow for you.

We'll wait for you on the hills.

and on the descents, and the flat

@howard @umop3pisdn so what time are people heading there?

http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/RMD/MAO/tomorrow/0915/dep

11am or 11.30 start sound good?

We had 10.30 pencilled in, but I'm flexible.

11 am start is fine by me

11am @ Martins Heron or Swinley?

Was thinking 10.47 arrival at Martins Heron for 11am at Swinley.

Sounds good to me

Yep sounds good. See you there / on train.

Yay!

I finally got a MTB frame..

On-one Inbred, just need to sort it out with some bits so I can ride, if anyone is having a clear out then let me know.. (forks, stem, handlebars, brakes, wheels)

Good Swinley ride today, quite tired. Hope the hands ok Howard. Few photos:

Bikes in niche order

Smiley DJ

Focussed Howard

DJ getting rad sessioning a gnarly rooty drop in

much fun, so session

lovely to spend time with two much stronger, faster riders than me. hope you did not mind me slowing the pace. was good to do the blue and red routes and then go back and look at some of "old Swinley" including the drop session section and corkscrew

hoping Howard's hand recovers swiftly for the upcoming tour. was great to see that our motley collection of bikes were more than capable of riding around, that none of us needed AM 650b bikes or whatever the latest and greatest trend is.

am rather tired, typically strava has included my train journey as part of my distance for the day, so ignore that. i did about 25 miles including my ride to richmond station

http://www.strava.com/athletes/188811