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yip, China Pig is great and probably one of the only trails that has kept it's pre-Strava name.

I have no issue with trail names, it's much easier than saying "do you remember that trail that starts next to the large tree, you know the one that is just past the bush where Jonesy fell off"

It's all on trail forks. I'd be lost without that app

I'm the complete opposite. I live in Epsom and have been riding those trails since the early noughties, pre-Strava.

So I know my way around very well but I rarely study Strava to see what the trails were called that I've been riding since before they were given names or often new names from the names we referred to them.

well, seeing as I married a half-French woman and so that makes my two sons quarter-French then I do too.

my father-in-law was French. He always pronounced crisps like this

depends where you are in SE. Somewhere near Croydon and its a straightforward train from West Croydon to Dorking or perhaps head out towards Farthing Downs/Chaldon way

sounds like a great ride. Is Red, White & Rose also known as Flinty Badman? brings you out onto the A24, under the railway bridge and turn left for Box Hill.

My aunty Marge has been in hospital for ages.

I can't believe she's not better.

Moved to the gravel thread

Chuckles...I'm not a fan of it but it really was too hot to wear my baggy Fox shorts which also require something with a pad underneath and my baggy Fox top which I love but has no pockets.

Having said that I was downhilling in Morzine in 2015 when it was 40 degrees all week. Body armour and elbow and knee/shin protectors plus full face lid meant that we were melting. Took me weeks afterwards to rehydrate properly

This would be my usual MTB getup

my riding buddy's new wheels

abso-bloomin'-lutely boiling on yesterday's midday xc ride around Reigate and I was fully lycra'd up so that I could travel light but it was da awsumz (I'm the one in grey)

A nice symmetry in the colourway of my Canyon and Cyclefit Holborn shop window

cheers, will post there.

Breakfast of champions, Meridian smooth along with a Colombian coffee from my Bosch Tassimo and milk from my Lavazza milk frother.
Apologies for the marmalade.

A quick rake over and it looks like the path was never there.
The wife is pleased as she now has loads more space to plant more perennials

Anyone for pizza?

But they were too heavy to lift into the barrow without doing myself an injury so I used a trolley to move them off the lawn

Lifting the slabs up was relatively straightforward

Further up the garden, broken slabs

Inspired by a socially distanced visit to our best friends garden which is so nice they actually open it for garden societies to visit we decided to increase the size of our main border via the simple expedient of removing the circa 30 year old path.
Man those 610 x 610 old school slabs with the mortar still stuck to the bottom are heavy. Probably shouldn't have chosen the hottest week of the year to do this.
Does anyone near Epsom want some hardcore?
Can't upload multiple pics from this phone so here it is in many posts.
The original path

for all the MTB'ers here

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Here's my vid of the first time I went to see Tony at UK bike skills with a bunch of mates. It's a good illustration of how the repetition of similar jumps and drops gives you a chance to fine tune your technique (these are all separate shots, no re-use of the same video) and the progression that is possible during the day e.g. I saw the wall ride at the start of the day and thought no way José but by the end of the day it just felt natural to ride it

Technologic

Here's my vid of the first time I went to see Tony at UK bike skills with a bunch of mates. It's a good illustration of the repetition of similar jumps and drops gives you a chance to fine tune your technique (these are all separate shots, no re-use of the same video) and the progression that is possible during the day e.g. I saw the wall ride at the start of the day and thought no way José but by the end of the day it just felt natural to ride it

Technologic

I went to Morzine for a week's MTB action a few years ago. One of the guys was super-excited about being in the alps for the first time and within 30 minutes of us arriving went on a buying spree in the LBS purchasing two new tyres which were on offer at a great discounted price as well as some other bits.

We headed back to the chalet and he and another one of the guys spent about 90 minutes trying to get them onto the rim unsuccessfully until a third person pointed out that they were trying to mount 26" tyres on 650B wheels.

The LBS owner happily refunded him for the tyres but charged him full RRP for the correct 650B replacement set...

go and see Tony Doyle at UK Bike skills, he will sort you out, no problem.