Badgers Reloaded

Just fit a slightly lower gear

Skinny tyres do cut through the bog better

he's fine...

I'd like to point your attention to post #133 of this thread.. Although I should be bike-worthy again in 4w, so might even have a hint of fitness for this one!

Less fitness chat please. There's been no athletes attend a badger ride since @youramericanlover left us

But he rides in... MUD!

The horror!

I now have a real mountain bike, with suspension and everything.

Wat.

Back in my day it was either fully rigid 29ers or cross bikes that were the options! No reasonably-priced bread pudding for you!

Back in my day it was either fully rigid 29ers

Back in my day 29ers didn't even exist. Even now I think my 26:29 ratio is >4:1.

Mmmmmm, reasonably priced

Are there any e-mtb hiring places in this foresty forest?

You can hire an e-cargo bike from Hackney https://www.cargobikeshare.cc/

Limit capacity to 80kg of laod though, not sure that's enough beer for you to make it to Epping Forest..

I'm expecting the organiser to provide a comprehensive list of resupply points (pubs)

I've seen @Ruserius shred trails on his sweet fixeh with 25s. No excuse!

Bring a lifestraw, we'll be drinking straight out of Blackweir pond

organiser

Steady on now. I don't actually organise anything

Tell me again about what I can expect at the feed stations and what's in the goodie bag?

Mostly acorns and beechnuts

fixie overlord.

beechnuts

I've had those before. Not pleasant. I wear boardshorts nowadays.

1-BN
2-PhilDAS
3-Howard
4-Tvh
5-platypus
6-Whatok
7-Dogs
8-CH
9-CC
10-hippy
11-Gio ( in tip top shape! )
12-vilms5000
13-Thrasher
14-returnofthestaff
15-spotter
16-Ramsaye?
17-Maj
18-Booga?
19-jdp??
20-hippy has friends?
21-RS?
22-fax_yourself
23-Backstop
24-OliB
25-e47
26-Guerito
27-se1derful
28-pit?
29-amey?
30-Dick?
31-boomboom
32-user58572
33-oheyitsd

That's a big gruop to haul around the forest.. How many do you expect to lose along the way?

don’t worry, @amey won’t make it beyond the Gail’s in Loughton

Standard dropout rate ( before the ride ) on lfgss can be around 50% so shouldn't be too huge a group :-)

Dropout during the ride isn't unknown, but is very rare, and even the noobiest of noobs have made it round with nothing worse to show for it than a craving for a new bike

How is @dicki not on this list?

He doesn't do lists

Standard dropout rate ( before the ride ) on lfgss can be around 50%

Looks like I will be part of those dropping out after all. The broken collarbone has had a snowball effect on my summer holidays plans and as it currently stands, I will be riding trails in Italy that weekend.

In the remote chance this pushes back by a week, I'll be back in the mix!