Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

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  • Me and a few friends have done a lot of riding at most of the venues, it’s more tight awkward stuff than rock gardens. Mostly clay and chalk with some nice roots. Guy who organises the races scott lives just down the road from me, great atmosphere and sometimes even get Brendog competing. Would recommend

  • That’s great news- happy you got what you wanted for it so rapidly.

  • Can you ride the tracks in their entirety when it’s not race day, or are there sectors of private land in them that make that tricky?

    I’ve not raced for ages but it is fun, and someone has to come last after all.

  • Most of the QECP enduro stuff is 'hidden'.

  • What if I engaged the services of a native guide?

  • I haven't ridden it, it's on the next down along ('Head Down') as opposed to the main QECP. Not sure if it's private land or not.

  • Head down isn’t private land, you can ride there whenever it’s forestry commission. As long as you know where to look it’s pretty easy to find the tracks. They usually just mix it up before the race cutting in new bits and adding them to the existing trails. Most of the trails finish at the train tracks which run near the A3

  • I’ll take a look at Christmas if we’re not locked down by then as I’ll be staying with my folks in Winchester for a couple of weeks

  • Let me know, I can put you in touch with some locals if needed

  • Interesting, I'll take a look.

    I found a non-waymarked trail near the blue on a night ride recently. It was just about within my skill level, until the drop-offs got quite big (: Need to revisit in daylight.

  • Yeah I was very happy with the easy sale. And the fact that I avoided any of the tyre kickers ebay usually enables. But I'm still absolutely gutted that it's gone.


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  • Is it not feasible to keep it anymore?

  • Not now it's sold. 😉 But no, sadly a change of job meant I've had to make "sensible" financial decisions. Gutted TBH.

    My mate has described it as a reverse mid life crisis. Thinking about what boring and practical family car to replace it with now...

  • Your Skoda awaits

    Fucksticks, I should have bought your van.

  • I reckon he should trump that with a nice Toyota Avensis estate

  • Funnily enough have been looking at Skodas. And Toyotas @furious_tiles

    Not wishing to derail Neil's MTB journey, but Just need something sensible and fuel efficient-ish that doubles as a family run about and convenient bike lugging device. The trouble is everything is a massive compromise after the convenience (and style) of the van.

  • There’s a 30k mile E500 estate on autotrader right now that looks like a fantastic bike hauler-£14,700 IIRC

  • This look like the right height?


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  • I'd somehow imagined it going on the other bike

  • The one with rear suspension to smooth things out?

  • As an extra precaution on your 'race' bike

  • I didn't drop the chain in two weeks at Morgins, I reckon that ones ok.

    You get thrown around a lot more on a hardtail, so I assume the chain also does, was my thinking.

  • Like the rigidity of the hardtail make the chain bounce more?

  • This look like the right height?

    Yeah, you'll soon know if it's too low, but it's definitely not too high.

  • Like the rigidity of the hardtail make the chain bounce more?

    There's nothing absorbing the forces applied by the terrain to the bike other than the tyre, so I would expect the chain would be having a harder time staying in place than it was when there is 135mm of travel between said forces and Mr Chain.

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