Mountain Biking in West Sussex – Powered by Quest Adventure
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you want to know how long a route is in distance, have a guide time and know the distance to the nearest cake shop, then go to a Trail Centre. If you want more of an adventure then go and ride more remote stuff. I’m only talking the Lakes here, but after a couple [...]
09-03-10 leith hill ride Originally uploaded by www.sussex-mtb.com Tuesday night’s ride route from Leith Hill. We’ve had a pretty tough time with the weather in the last few months. It’s amazing that a couple of weeks of dry have turned some trails into near summer like conditions in places! Leith Hill’s ‘Summer lightning’ trail is [...]
Everyone else seems to be in their stride posting best of lists and the like so I thought I’d look back at the last ten years, what I’ve been riding and how things have changed….. Most notably I suppose at the start of the last decade I was still fairly heavily obsessed with XC racing [...]
As I sit here, sore as hell, bloodied, bruised and scraped and cut, I reflect on my chalky adventure down south on SMTB’s home patch. It was Hoop’s idea. He posted a very appealing looking ride at Whiteways early Sunday morning. I haven’t in this area since doing old school xc racing back in the [...]
It had been a while since we’d done anything out of the ordinary and Hoops’ suggestion for a bonfire party seemed too good to miss. So everyone turned up with various food, drink and fireworks, not to mention various axes and firelighting equipment! So we set off on a short ride, first of all trying [...]
Well, it’s holiday time again, and this time I was determined to get some riding in. We had never been to the Rockies before, so this time Durango in Colorado was our first destination. Durango is know as a mecca for cross country mountain bike trails, and it had been recommended by a friend who [...]
While on holiday with the family on the shores of Lake Garda in Italy, I got the chance to sneak off for an afternoon of MTBing… so with much excitement I jumped into the hire car and sped off to the northern part of the lake, where the Alps meet the shores, and mountains tower [...]
