Tonights ride will be starting from the Horse & Groom, East woodlands at 19:00.
See you there!
Month: December 2008
-
You better watch out…
This weeks Night Rider saw another new face.
He was pretty sluggish (we reckon he’s over 20stone) but made for the perfect ride leader with his crazy bright light suit / beard / head…(must be over 5000 lumins all in)
Not sure he can make it next week though as he’s gonna be busy the following day.
Check the website to see where the ride will start next Tuesday.
-
Every Cloud…
Friday nights rainfall caused problems for a lot of people.
The allotment got its fair share resulting in some pretty impressive ruts, mini lakes and silty swamps.
But if it wasn’t for the water leaving a trail on its way down the hill we’d never have known where to dig drainage, every cloud……
We worked all day to weather proof 143; we dug drainage, built a water bar, rebuilt ‘flip flop’ from scratch, re-routed the very bottom section and gave everything else a good rake and shape.
We all stopped for lunch, ate sausages and drank tea.
By the end of the day it looked like new, better even, it was just begging to be ridden.
Chris, Jack and co worked hard to make the most of the soft conditions and dug all day at the jump spot. It’s gonna be ace by spring time.
Sunday saw some new faces, some old and some who looked like they should have drunk less the night before.
We rode all day, crashed a bit but made the most of our new old trail.
I must admit to wanting it to rain, in the same way that you do when you have a new coat, I wanted to test out our newly weather proof trail.
It didn’t though, it stayed dry and fast and we kept on going until we couldn’t see where the hell we were going.
This is what the weekend is for.
P.S. Kudos to Rob for doing the mini step!
-
BCC Tuesday Night Ride
We’re pretty confident with the format now so here it is: The BCC Tuesday Night Ride.
Tuesday 16/12/2008
Meet at The Horse & Groom (East Woodlands) for 7:00pm start (theres’ limited parking available so please share transport).
90-120 mins of riding followed by a couple of drinks at the pub.
90% XC off-road however some road does mean that a rear light is needed.
Decent front Lights are mandatory.
The ride is open to anyone, not just BCC members, so wrap up warm, bring a fiver for the pub and we’ll see you there!
Oh and do check the website for details each week as the start point will change from time to time
(Got no lights? Join up as a full member and get 10% discount at either AVC or Live2ride!)
-
Where's Will?
Where indeed did Will get to before our ride? Well I can tell you where…… everywhere but where he should have been! You see Will managed to take a country lane tour of the villages between Frome and Warminster before ever finding his way to the Horse and Groom. By the time we’d found him he’d probably done enough riding for most people but as we’ve come to realise with Will- he’s always happy to be on a bike. He just smiled and got on with it, up at the front of the group mashing his way up those hills. Quality.
The ride was good, just over an hour and a half, with only a slight alteration planned for next time; bypassing the soul destroying quagmire that is Sheppards Woods, in favour of the faster rolling trails around shearwater.
We had no mechanicals and everyone came back in one piece. I say that but Rich from Live2ride managed to aggravate a shoulder injury meaning that when sat in the pub he moved a little like Herman Munster. Oh and his light ran out of battery with 20 mins to go (my fault as I’d lent them to him)!
Was great to see new riders coming along, with even more coming next week it looks like the BCC Tuesday night ride is here to stay!
Oh and the fire in the pub was nice….
-
Whoops!
It seems that I managed to screw up the embedded links on the membership page while updating it with the SALE prices a few weeks ago…
It meant that if you tried to sign up you were presented with the club rules pdf rather than the membership application form; which obviously made joining a little difficult.
I’ve fixed it now so please have another go!
P.s. Thanks to Robert Bunce and Sam Wells for telling me.
-
Mud Mud Crash Mud Crash Mud Beer
Last night was our third weekly night ride.
It seems that the promise of seeing Chris go over the bars was enough to entice a further 6 people to attend!
We started at the Bath Arms in Crockerton, all 8 of us raring to go after waiting for my forgotten battery to arrive (courtesy of Chris Snell).
We only had a 200 yard wait before Will managed to go over the bars on the very first off-road section. Good stuff.
The route was claggy and slow going, but Will kept us entertained with short bouts of speed before suffering a mechanical, falling off or flipping into a puddle.
We finished after just over an hour and a half, wet through but pretty happy.
Great beer, lush crisps and some very muddy kit!
