Swinley Forest (UK) Sunday 27 Jan

Do you have a link to a map for 'Swinley forrest', Mike? I did try live
maps but it did not find it. It all depends on how far it is for me and
maybe one other, and if there is a nearby train station.

It would be awesome to start actually travelling a bit to go for good
muni rides.

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I tell u wat they would have to be a very commited pedo to learn to ride
a unicycle in order to mingle with us, steel one of us and rape us in a
bush.

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I might be up for this.

Don't know whether to bring the 24 or the 29er though. If that
legendary long singletrack that we did last time is
on the cards, probably the 24.

I haven't ridden much over christmas and haven't tackled singletrack
since last October, so I don't know if I'm courageous enough...

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'it's the car park just east of here' (http://tinyurl.com/2dkz9l). Trust
Google maps to get it not-quite-right... the ride area is the large
green bit to the south. For more information have a look at the link
GKMac posted, it's good fun! weather forecast isn't too bad either.
I'll be riding my 24 most likely and hopefully we'll find that
singletrack again - if not there's a plethora to choose from!
Gavin, go for the 24, you've been on singletrack much more recently
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Ok - I'd like to come but I can't really.

Single far is £15, so return is £15 + and I don'treally have any money
saved up, and the train journey is 3:25, earliest train arriving and
just after 11 🙁

Plus the train from stratford to waterloo doesn't have a cycle policy I
don't think, so I suppose that means I cannot take my uni on it.

Meh, when I'm old enough to drive...

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I tell u wat they would have to be a very commited pedo to learn to ride
a unicycle in order to mingle with us, steel one of us and rape us in a
bush.

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mikepenton said:

'it's the car park just east of here' (http://tinyurl.com/2dkz9l) I'll
be riding my 24 most likely and hopefully we'll find that singletrack
again - if not there's a plethora to choose from!

That is currently very easy, head south until you see the blue water
pipes - you won't miss them unless they've been buried in the last few
days. Turn right and follow pipes. Singletrack is on the left, getting
wider due to use. If you reach the covered reservoir you have missed
it, probably hidden behind blue pipes!

As you say there is plenty of single track if you don't find this
particular one, even more in the mountain bike area.

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Just giving this a bump for our Saturday audience.

Me and my 24" muni are definitely going to be there, despite it being a
rather fiddly drive from where I live now. And I'll bring the GPS so we
can find that epic singletrack again.

Is it just going to be me and Mike?

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gkmac said:

Is it just going to be me and Mike?

Nope, I'm coming too🙂 Almost certainly on my 29er because it's
already covered in mud and the 24" is clean!

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Damn just stumbled on this thread, but I'm off to chicksands tomorrow,
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Have a good time, dont forget to bring back some footage 🙂

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domesticated ape said:

Nope, I'm coming too🙂 Almost certainly on my 29er because it's already
covered in mud and the 24" is clean!

Oh brilliant.🙁 I daren't take my 29er 'cos it's actually a Schlumpf
and wouldn't stand up to singletrack abuse, and even a standard 29er I
couldn't manipulate over tight singletrack and roots and things.

So it looks like your fast 29er will leave me and my 24" trailling
behind on the fireroad then...

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don't worry, we'll try to stick to the stuff that'll suit us more than
him ;-)

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gkmac said:

And I'll bring the GPS so we can find that epic singletrack again.
/QUOTE]

I think you'll find the single track starts at the 1.7km marker in the
attached image.

24727

Have a good ride, don't follow the rest of the ride it was cut short by
a certain very young rider wanting the toilet!

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mikepenton said:

don't worry, we'll try to stick to the stuff that'll suit us more than
him ;-)

I'm looking forward to the challenge🙂 I've only ridden the 29er once
before, on Gavin's local trails that are a lot less tricky than
Swinley, and it was still quite difficult so tomorrow might be quite
hard work!

And Gavin even if I can stay on I'm not going to just ride off without
you am I, would be a bit pointless going on a group ride and doing
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I wanna go, I wanna go! I love riding in Swinley Forest with you guys.

Oh wait, I'm back in Seattle, stuck in the rain. 🙁 I hope you have
a great ride today! Hopefully my work will give me another chance to
get to Reading in the coming year, and I can nose in on another ride.

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domesticated ape said:

And Gavin even if I can stay on I'm not going to just ride off without
you am I, would be a bit pointless going on a group ride and doing
that!

...says he who caned it all the way to the top of the big starting
Llandegla climb, leaving me and at least two other people behind.

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For the second time sudden illness prevented me from coming to a
ride.😠 Woke up at 4am with agonising cramp in the right calf
muscle, moving it in various directions for an hour failed to relieve
the pain, so I turned the alarm clock off and "decided" to forget about
the whole thing.

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It was a real blast, sorry you missed it & hope you're better now -
don't worry, we only waited a few minutes for you before ringing to see
where you were!
So I don't annoy anyone in the north of the UK, Seattle or most of
Europe I won't mention the unseasonally warm weather, just the
difficulty in parking and the excessive number of walkers, runners and
bikes. Lots of breaks, lots of fun and no really nasty falls - it was
good to have a biker fall spectacularly on a line that Liam had just
cleared.
On the way back from the designated cycling area we twice found
discreet trails off through the trees - tight twisting and very long
routes that could only have been created by a lost drunk unsure of
which bar to head to next. A soft bed of pine cones and so narrow at
times a bike would've had problems. 🙂
Back on the fire roads all the gawping small kids in t-shirts were told
what to tell their parents to buy them for their next birthday.
As well as the glorious weather, I won't mention that it was Petra's
(3_unispin) first proper MUni ride or that Liam was far too fit. At
least we kept him waiting frequently!

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Mike on the singletrack:

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Those trails through the trees were great, if anyone else wants to find
them I think the first one started at the start of the car-park side of
the first big 'valley' on the singletrack, and headed back towards the
car-park.

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was it at all muddy? gong to be going there this saturday i think

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