Mr Mojo Risin'

Date: 29th October
Riders: XC Tom, Mark G, Rich
Location: Leith Hill

OK so I think we've established that I'm a bit of a fair weather sort when it comes to MTB'ing. After a couple of muddy rides over the past week the drier weather of the past few days and a clear evening had me all excited about last night's ride. Luckily Mark had the magic van so the trip up to Coldharbour was painless and Tom was already there. By 6.50 we were on Regurgitator, climbing into Waggledance before hitting the top section of Summer Lightning followed by the downhill jump bit. We then took the climb which Ben Tudor had shown us last week to the "Ghurka Trail" and bombed down the rocky and rooty blast to the Snake's Hill bridleway. We crossed this and took another new route Ben had shown us up towards the start of Windy Willow and past Donnie Darko, eventually climbing to the Tower. From here we turned back and headed towards the Quarry, taking in the play area, Dunnie's Agony Tree jump (Bish and Mark, at night, on hardtails? - tick) the "down and up the other side" bombhole and a couple of other technical features. After re-enacting Tom's wheelie incident at the quarry we rode Wonderwoman (ooh that sounds a bit rude) and sessioned the jump between the trees before heading back to the Tower via a couple of interesting little trails. We collected a couple of lost riders at the Agony Tree who needed guiding back to the Tower and chatted with them for a while. Our route back to Coldharbour took in Personal Hygene, No Cycling, the Cricket Pitch bombholes, Waggeldance and Crooked Furrow. At last I felt like I was beginning to find my flow again, popping off roots and little kickers, it must be the dry trails!
In the pub all the talk was of new bikes, a hardcore hardtail for Mark and a Five for Tom.
As they say "The Future's All Mountain, The Future's an Orange Five (with flat pedals)"