Tues 29th Sep Night Ride - “The Magnificent Six”
Tuesday evening again, 6 of us turned up at the usual Sandridge meet point.
I met up with Mark at his car and we cycled around the corner to meet up with Rich IV and Mark S, after a brief chat, Mackie came rumbling down the road in his Australian V8 Car. Intrigued the 4 of us gathered around to see how he’d managed to squeeze his bike into it.
As Rich has just bought a new car, a convertible, the carrying of bikes was discussed in detail, Mackie assembling his bike from the many component parts required to fit into his car.
Anyway as we were now just out of site of the meet point, James thought he’d missed us!
The usual start through Rifle Butt Woods and then Symonshyde, up John Bunyan Gully. A slight detour uncovered some single track through the woods by the pub which we’d not done before. Then down towards Wheathampsted, with both Marks managing to go straight on at the bottom towards the tractor ploughing the fields! Must have been hypnotised by his lights!
Into Nomansland and some more single track that we’d not ridden before, and a brief explore in a jump spot which seems very recent.
Up Mudd Lane and down towards the Rugby Club, then across to Batchwood Woods and yet more singletrack, we even managed to do the “shore”.
Time was getting late, so we made our way back across the golf course, and then Beech Dyke single track which is always a grin.
A great ride at a good pace.
Simon
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October 3rd, 2009 at 07:28 pm
Really enjoyed this ride apart from my ‘field excursion’. I especially enjoyed the latter part as I’d not ridden all of it before. Good pace and great fun. Thanks for leading it
October 3rd, 2009 at 08:57 pm
Looks good - can we try new bits again when I next nite ride?
October 4th, 2009 at 06:56 am
Batchwood is making a very nice change at the moment. Was good to find that trail that we noted from the Friday ride. Just need to sort out finding the first bit (in the dark) from the Shore section (I think) and we’ll have!
October 4th, 2009 at 05:33 pm
did anyone GARMIN it - sounds like a great new evening trek, plus I need to test the new lites somewhere!
October 5th, 2009 at 08:13 am
I did:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/14774339
It had a bit of a flid near Batchwood though.
October 5th, 2009 at 02:37 pm
Yes I “GARMINED” it and most of the map above is from said route, however due to some FFS (fat finger syndrome), while converting it to something so that I could post managed to delete half of it, so the bit through Batchwood is a guess…….
October 5th, 2009 at 08:53 pm
Someone else posted this:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/14772256
Crazy elevation spikes though.