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Steve X16XE
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12th May 08 at 23:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Anyone been.

I'm off there tomorrow morning for the 2nd time. This time me and my mate are doing the black run 2 times.

I'm going to be using an Orange 5 this time. The guy who's bike it is, he's at work. So i've told him that it needs a good ride coz he's no good

I'll be posting some pics and vids when we get back. Then listing all my brocken bones. Oh and i NEVER wear a helmet.

[Edited on 13-05-2008 by Steve X16XE]
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve X16XE
Oh and i NEVER wear a helmet.


Hope your flamesuit is donned Steve.

Not very clever though is it? I'd wear one when downhill riding.
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NEVER EVER EVER!

Last time i went round the red and black route, before we left the car park this random guy said that i've forgot my helmet, i just that i never wear one. He said you'll need one round here..... Well i didn't.

When ever you come off, it's always your ass that you land on anyways.
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Here's a quick vid of me on a mates bike. We'd just stopped for a little break but i didn't want to stop....... http://youtube.com/watch?v=HLHctt6e-jU

Everyone else wears helmets, pads, back packs.
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Steve you are special and I suspect a knock to head will do little damage.

You are Homer Simpson!
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I went round Hopton woods which was fun and my first time on a trail like that, we were so unprepared when we saw everyone else wearing more armor then a solider
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Idiot for not wearing a helmet, but that is just my honest opinion.

Never been to the place where you're going, but it sounds alright.

I never thought I'd need a helmet on the dual course at Chicksands, even though I wear one all the time, all I mean is that I've ridden thousands of times. But dad came off on a berm, I was beside him, and his bike hit me on the head, knocking me off my bike. Hurt enough with a full lid on, and made me go really dizzy for a while. I dread to think what would have happened if I wasn't wearing one.
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deano, hopton woods was my first taste of proper biking and showed me how unprepared I was - one thing we noticed was how shit going (read: pushing our bikes) up hill was.
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So what kind of riding is this woods then? Downhill and freeride? Or more XCing, with having to ride up and down?

P.S. I hope you wore a helmet willay.
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it was pretty much downhill apart from the green routes, XC = cross country? Lets just say we were unprepared, I had a downhillish bike and my friend was on my old grisley mountain bike. Everyone else had these proper shit hot full suspension bikes
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XC, yes, cross country.

Sounds like an interesting place.
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I've never done anything like that before and I really enjoyed it, is there any good places like that abit closer though??
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Chicksands matey, near Shefford. Probably 45 minutes for you. Highly recommended, a range of stuff, including 2 XC routes u2u for details, up there every week
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you're there every week?
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yes.
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what days you usually up there? me and my mate will take a stab at anything - we just need to get some helmets
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Sundays, about 8am till 11am.

If you need some helmets, go to Marshall's Cycles in Stevenage, and say I sent you
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how much will an average crash hat cost?
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Crash hat for a 'basic' Specialized one which will do the job, not full face or anything, about £25-£50. Then anything upwards really. For a good full face lid, £70 upwards really.
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face lid sounds abit serious.

Is chicksands quite hilly or flat?
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Hilly.

Flat is useless for any riding tbh
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yeah in hopton we would be on a really ace red route for like 5-8 minutes not going full on cause we're amatures and then we faced a 30-40 minutes walk up a hill I dont mind a hill or six but when its proper difficuilt climb I tend not to enjoy it as much
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The climbs aren't as big in Chicksands tbh. The XC routes are only about 4 miles long or so.

There is more freeriding etc going on, so proper downhilling, but you can ride anywhere in the woods and just explore. Stay the side of the freeride area/bike park and you won't get lost 'cause you'll come across way markers for the XC routes
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Getting lost isnt a massive issue, its running into people who know what they are doing while we're on the bikes going WTF? and generally not know what we should be doing
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Sorry but i think your an idiot.

Even hardcore XC needs a helemt, let alone freeride and DH

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