Mountain Biking in West Sussex – Powered by Quest Adventure
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 [...]
This weekend is the August Quest Ride, I’m tying it in with the Brighton Big Dog race. The plan is to meet at Stanmer Park to do the ride as usual, meet at 09:45, ride at 10:00. Do a bit of a shortened ride and get back to the park for the race start at [...]
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 [...]
It’s less than a month away and despite the event selling out in double quick time, they haven’t been taking it easy. From fine-tuning the already popular course to getting the youth racing (Little Dog) off the ground, here’s a round up of what’s been going on over in the Big Dog kennel. Little Dog [...]
It’s come round again, this Saturday (July 10th) is the next Quest ride, all are welcome and don’t forget your cake money for Parklife afterwards So get yourselves down to Quest Adventure in Broadwater on saturday at around 09:45 to roll out at 10:00 (or when my capuccino cup is empty, whichever happens first!). Thread [...]
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 [...]
After what seemed like an eternal wait (it wasn’t actually that long, I’m just rubbish at waiting), I had in my possession a brand new Ellsworth Truth Mk 6 frame, in gorgeous green and complete with a ‘save the rainforest’ tree frog (Do I now count as tree hugger?). I’ve had a good few weeks [...]
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 [...]
