Mountain Biking in West Sussex – Powered by Quest Adventure
It’s a complex story this, of fork troubles, cracked frames and new beginnings that starts with my family holiday to Brecon, and ends with a new bike, the 3rd this year in the Daddy bike room. So, off we set to Brecon, having once again convinced Mrs Daddy that we should take the bikes on [...]
As some of you know an occasional one of our crowd, Steevo, lives up on the edge of Cannock Chase. While we sadly don’t see him down this way very much, the Hummerlicious family unit often goes up to Cannock to say hi and also to sample the trail lushness that is on offer up [...]
Well it’s always great to ride somewhere a bit different, last Tuesday we went to Leith Hill and rode some new bits over in the Redlands area that we hadn’t ventured onto before. It was an evening of slides, crashes and mishaps! Branches in mouths, suspected wrist breaks and general abrasions. Remember it’s a jungle [...]
Breakfast at 9.00 in Castleton, Derbyshire meant leaving the house at 5.00am and heading off up the M1 to Chesterfield, followed by a bit of cross country shenanigans. After getting mildly lost, I was having a light cyclist breakfast of sausage, bacon, eggs, beans, tomatoes, black pudding, mushrooms, another sausage, fried bread, toast and marmalade [...]
Well despite the bad weather on Saturday, Sunday dawned and it was warm(ish) and dry. We were really looking forward to hitting the Pitch Hill trails again so Tom, Bobster, Deadly, Rich and I met up with Big Daddy in the top car park. We did some of the usual stuff: Judge's seat, double headed [...]
Last Thursday I joined up with the Brighton MTB for one of their now infamous Thursday night rides. With a slight degree of nerves – this was my first night ride in a long time – and a large bucket of excitement I arrived at Sussex University Sports Carpark. I met Simon – who I’ve [...]
Uncle Phil. It was a rather sunny day and there were 7 of us who started at the shop: Hoops, Martin, Tim, Uncle Phil, Jimbo, JCB and me – Tommo. After a quick snack grab from the shop we headed up towards Clapham Woods. Dust aplenty, we blasted through the woods at full tilt loving [...]
The sun was out for almost the whole of the past week, and that can mean one thing – dust. I love the dusty trails as much as the next rider, so was excited to get out for some dusty trail action. And so were 13 others it appeared with a large group this week, [...]
After an Easter choco feast, a Tuesday ride was exactly what the doctor ordered. Fortunately the sun was out all day and it was a very pleasant evening, especially as this was the first ride this year for me which started in daylight! I hate the winter darkness and felt very happy that the light [...]
After last month’s mega turnout I was quietly relieved to have ‘only’ 17 riders along this time. Like last time I had a route planned, but this time I was hoping the puncture fairy wouldn’t strike and we’d actually get a chance to complete the route. As ever I like to make it worthwhile and get people [...]
