But I had no hope that day, my time was near, luck was my only saviour............
Mark2
A quick ride through the Surrey Hills with a group of 40 something mtbers who really should know better!
Monday 25 April 2011
The Beast
It was big as a house with teeth the size of cars, I could feel it's roar, like hot breath on the back of neck and could hear the clatter of a thousand claws on the road as it chased me... all I could do was pedal faster in the vain hope of out running it and make a feeble attempt to defend myself...
But I had no hope that day, my time was near, luck was my only saviour............
Mark2
But I had no hope that day, my time was near, luck was my only saviour............
Mark2
Sunday 10 April 2011
Aston Hill - for a change
Date : 10th April 2011
Location : Aston Hill
Riders : Grievous Andy, Simon and his mates!
The weather today was awesome - nice and sunny and dry, meaning the trails were spot on. For a change, I joined Simon and his mates at Aston Hill for a little jaunt and a trek around a new park, which none of the guys had ridden.
We set off from the car park at around 1030, and followed the XC loop which contained some nice flowing single track and a decent downhill section. Hitting the lowest part of the hill meant a big climb to come - and boy was it a climb. Tom would enjoy that one, lots of twists and turns.
Next we decided on a proper downhill track and hit a medium difficulty trail. Challenging it was!! Nice and quick at the top section and about half way down a drop onto a rooty section. I was leading and there was no rolling this drop - this was a drop!! I had no choice but to push the bars out and go for it.... made it..... only to hear a yell and crash behind me. Mick following close was not going fast enough at the drop and the front wheel dropped over (a la me on Grievous Angel!!!), straight over the handle bars and landed on his head. Slightly concussed, he eventually made it to the bottom of the trail.
Next came the Four cross track, rolling into the green DH3 trail, which was a nice flowing downhill. After which a number of the guys bailed and so left around 9 of us. We enjoyed that so much we decided the next route would be the full green DH3. Fun!!
3 more bailed at that point and the remaining 6 hit the red route down. Nice and technical without being too tricky.
A good day out, and a good alternative to try for the over the hill crowd. There are a number of other downhill routes which I think we'd all enjoy. Sufficiently technical and challenging for us - definitely worth a day trip - or at least a good 4 to 5 hours.
Check out the website :- http://www.rideastonhill.co.uk/
Location : Aston Hill
Riders : Grievous Andy, Simon and his mates!
The weather today was awesome - nice and sunny and dry, meaning the trails were spot on. For a change, I joined Simon and his mates at Aston Hill for a little jaunt and a trek around a new park, which none of the guys had ridden.
We set off from the car park at around 1030, and followed the XC loop which contained some nice flowing single track and a decent downhill section. Hitting the lowest part of the hill meant a big climb to come - and boy was it a climb. Tom would enjoy that one, lots of twists and turns.
Next we decided on a proper downhill track and hit a medium difficulty trail. Challenging it was!! Nice and quick at the top section and about half way down a drop onto a rooty section. I was leading and there was no rolling this drop - this was a drop!! I had no choice but to push the bars out and go for it.... made it..... only to hear a yell and crash behind me. Mick following close was not going fast enough at the drop and the front wheel dropped over (a la me on Grievous Angel!!!), straight over the handle bars and landed on his head. Slightly concussed, he eventually made it to the bottom of the trail.
Next came the Four cross track, rolling into the green DH3 trail, which was a nice flowing downhill. After which a number of the guys bailed and so left around 9 of us. We enjoyed that so much we decided the next route would be the full green DH3. Fun!!
3 more bailed at that point and the remaining 6 hit the red route down. Nice and technical without being too tricky.
A good day out, and a good alternative to try for the over the hill crowd. There are a number of other downhill routes which I think we'd all enjoy. Sufficiently technical and challenging for us - definitely worth a day trip - or at least a good 4 to 5 hours.
Check out the website :- http://www.rideastonhill.co.uk/
Monday 4 April 2011
GoPro
I couldn't wait any longer for Andy's video of Dunnie crashing into the tree on Milton Gore to appear on "You've Been Framed". And then for us to be £250 better off. The money I hoped to put towards a helmet cam that we could film more comedy crashes on, but too many are slipping though the net now.
So I bit the bullet and bought a GoPro helmet cam. A bit bulky, looks like a small brick on your head. Everyone gives you that "What a prick!" look as you ride by... (I have proof on video funnily enough!)
Me, I don't really care... I'm use to the "What a prick!" look... I've been getting ever since I took up mountain biking.. what I do care about is the awesome footage I'm getting off this little gem of a brick stuck to my head.
Check it out below!
This is the first video from the GoPro of a new trail (I'll leave it unnamed for now) and snippets from the rest of the days riding.
If you haven't checked out my last video "Kick Gap Drop" where I put my crappy filming skills with the Cannon 550D to test and my crappy jumping skills, go to my YouTube Channel and check it out.
Laters
Mark2
So I bit the bullet and bought a GoPro helmet cam. A bit bulky, looks like a small brick on your head. Everyone gives you that "What a prick!" look as you ride by... (I have proof on video funnily enough!)
Me, I don't really care... I'm use to the "What a prick!" look... I've been getting ever since I took up mountain biking.. what I do care about is the awesome footage I'm getting off this little gem of a brick stuck to my head.
Check it out below!
This is the first video from the GoPro of a new trail (I'll leave it unnamed for now) and snippets from the rest of the days riding.
If you haven't checked out my last video "Kick Gap Drop" where I put my crappy filming skills with the Cannon 550D to test and my crappy jumping skills, go to my YouTube Channel and check it out.
Laters
Mark2
Saturday 2 April 2011
Shocking!
Just thought I'd post a quick pic of my recent Nicolai pimping...It's now fitted with a CCDB (Cane Creek Double Barrel) coil shock, 1 x 10 XTR transmission (including a slightly ridiculous 11-36 cassette), PointOne podium pedals, Race Face SixC 740mm bars and a 50mm stem. It rocks!
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