Flat Run

Another short video from house of TMT (Too Much Time). This one of a fast flat jump Rich found on the hill. Last of the nice dry conditions... enjoy.

Mark2

Hitler joins Friends of the Hurtwood

Not my doing but very funny...



Mark2

Comedy Central

Mark G’s Excellent Joke

Seeing Rich Hall next week at the Edinburgh Festival will be a real come-down after this topical piece of well crafted humour…..

Mark 2 - Oliver Stone and Andy Best are pleased now they have a Winehouse... Boom Boom...Too soon....?

Mark D - Explain the 'funny bit' of this - I must be missing it....

Mark 2 - I'll stick to my day job then, shall I.

Mark D - Who's Andy Best? And how does he know Oliver Stone? Are they in Hell or Heaven? Do they have lots of loose bottles of wine in need of organised storage? What the freck is this joke ABOUT????? Dude, you are so lucky you bombed on email and not face to face on this one....

Mark G - I'm really sorry I wasted 5 seconds of you're life on this light humoured joke at a slightly inappropriate time for the Winehouse family. Both Ollie and Andrew would of appreciated it and most importantly got it, God bless their souls.
Thanks for ruining my morning.

Bish (ref trailbuilding) – Dude - are you going to come along to this with me? - time-wise if it's a choice between this and riding I'd rather ride!

Mark G - Nah! I'm sulking all weekend after you and Mark didn't get the simple shit joke I sent you. Mark gave me a right rollicking about it and I think he wants to beat me up he's pissed off about it hahahaha

Bish - can you explain it? Don't sulk, it will only increase your gay rep :-)

Mark G - No, I've seen this trap before, you get me to explain it to you, which just gives you more ammo to rip the piss! F**k, sometimes you wish you never got out of bed in the morning!!

Bish - ok up to you if you won't explain, I guess I'll never know...

Mark 2 - OK, Ollie Stone and Andy Best dead actor and footballer, liked a drink or two, Amy Winehouse also now dead and liked a drink! Irrelevant. All on the other side. Ollie and Andy, a bit dry now happy a WineHouse (a place that serves wine maybe?) has appeared!!
Laters

Bish - OK - you mean Ollie Reed and George Best - no wonder I didn't f***in get it!!!!!

Mark G - Oh yeah, Oliver Stone is the director, and Andy Best is a guy I work with. I'm losing it!

Bish - you see now why it doesn't work?

Mark G - Yup, *hangs head in shame* Mark, sorry for my f**k up. I have no excuse. You can verbally abuse me next time we meet.

Mark D - Mate, this chain of mishap and ineptitude is even funnier than the joke would have been had you got it right first time…. The only person I am aware of to have so utterly stuffed a joke up is my mother…Excellent.

UFO update...

In the words of Kiss "I was made for lovin' you baby, Huuuahhh!"
Here it is weighing in at...errr..lots, slacker than a Kevin Smith movie convention and dripping with more attitude than a teenage gang on the corner of a council estate.

Coming to a downhill trail near you soon...

Forest of Dean Video

Aghhh typical, you wait a month for a new blog post, and then 3 come along all at once!

Well, here is a short video of our Forest of Dean trip, attended by Me, Mark, Richard and some top riders from "Head for the Hills" shop.

As Richard mentioned in his last post, an awesome day, and it certainly pushed my limits to the edge.

Enjoy the video.

Mark

Invasion!

Today, out of the haze, this landed in Richards’s driveway! Should we be worried? It hasn't tried to make contact yet! I will monitor the situation closely and report!

Nocolai UFO-ST

Going Downhill Faster

Yesterday, along with Mark's 1 & 2, we headed west on the hottest day of the year to the Forest of Dean to sample the delights of their FlyUp downhill tracks. We met Rog, Dunc and Sam there and a few other Surrey Hills riders were also along for the day.

The trails are superb: steep, fast, rooty, technical and with plenty of variation. Some bits are like our own trails, some much more like Cwm Carn and the "trail centre" has a really nice vibe, no doubt helped by the superb weather.

Plenty of crashes, plenty of mechanicals, plenty of laughs - I can't wait to go back. I'm sure Mark2 will be posting a YouTube highlights sensation soon enough but here's a couple of photos of Sam's spectacular crash to whet your appetite in the meantime....

Going downhill fast

Last saturday, following an unsociably early start I ventured along the M4 to Cwm Carn with the Head for the Hills posse (well Rog & Dunc). It turned out to be an awesome uplift day, dry conditions (until near the end) and 9 or 10 uplifts. I'd like to think I'm starting to get my lines dialled there but the reality is there's a long way to go...still bring on FOD and the next uplift - this is how to do it!

Oh yes there was a pro photographer there, hence the proliferation of action shots...

Ouch

The lure of the big one proved too much... I was ready, I was confident, I was practised, I crashed!!!!! :(

Can you dig it?

A wet friday night meant this morning would be ideal to do a little trail improvement at Milton Gore, so armed with new spade, bucket and rake I drove up to Coldharbour.

I had in mind a rebuild of an old jump with a sweet landing transition. Unfortunately some trail pixies had rebuilt it be ridden the wrong way. Two hours of hard manual labour later and I may have created something useful - or maybe not!

I also found a natural hip across the road which I just tidied up with the rake but you'll have to ride with me to find where that is!

Rich