Badgers in heat - Epping Forest Summer rides

I'm guessing there's a lot of eating and chatting going on then :-)

Yep, I do the eating and @stedlocks does the chatting ;-)

Ok, so I can bang my gums a bit.....I just get easily excited and am like a sponge, absorbing facts.....you love the fact that I bring a bit of anti posh to the mix!

am like a sponge

Mmmm... sponge...

Date now set for the 24th of September.

Probably one on the 1st of October too, if I don't break myself on the first ride.

woo!

So who has a tiny MTB for me to borrow?

How tiny?

I have a 24" dirt jump bike you can ride if nothing else comes up in time but it's FAR from ideal for just riding around the forest.

I'm 5'5" so a 15" MTB or a 50cm cross bike.

Sounds fine to me, I used to ride a brakeless 20" around Epping, Warley, and some places in Kent when I was younger. Tiring but pretty fun.

Ah, I only have a 17" spare. Might work with a really stubby stem

I have a ss cross bike you can borrow. I'm around 5'3/5'4.

Swish! That would be very much appreciated!

Nuts, I have 2 family parties on the 24th/25th weekend and a Stag Do on the 1st/2nd weekend. I'm pulling out already!

I haven't even started a bedwetting list yet!

Which means that I'm officially not a bedwetter!

It's more of a 'next time' list anyway :-)

It's so dry there right now! Shame I have to go back home tomorrow.

Please stay dry please stay dry

It'll be a dustbowl by the end of September..

I'm in, 29er with front squish.
Was out yesterday, and dusty it was.

Cool. Time to bump the megalist then.

1) BN
2) IR
3) Doctor_Cake
4) Howard
5) Ramsaye
6) fasih
7) xkittyx
8) iorekah
9) Aroogah
10) spotter
11) Ricochet
12) jesm
13) yal
14) TomvanHalen
15) YAL
16) ninelives
17) Shoosh
18) 7Üp ?
19) mmccarthy
20) Dom ?
21) pops ?
22) branwen
23) dicki ?
24) stedlocks
25) Farcuss
26) Big_Poe
27) blowfish ?
28) malandro ?
29) HoKe ?
30) motter
31) Bullheart
32) pit
33) MetalMelly - date dependent
34) dangeek
35) psg1ben
36) skinnylegs
37) benp1
38) Hulsroy
39) Raoul
40) plagways

I'm hoping - should the stars align (paligap stock levels and my bank balance) to have a mountain bike for this and to come on it and do the bike riding and whatnot.
If not I may brave the dry trails with 32c gravel Kings...