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As we're both about to be another year older early next week, it's time to celebrate.
Both of us have had plans for the weekend already cancelled, so I'm planning on salvaging something from it and organising a ride in the Wyre Forest.
Plans are loose, but if you fancy coming along (and all welcome), then meet at the Duke William Pub Carpark (Postcode: DY14 9XH) at 12 midday and be ready to ride your bike for a couple of hours or so.
Anyone welcome, only prerequisites are that you can ride a bike (and preferably that you bring one to ride!) and you have a smile on your face and are ready to ride some quality trails...
I hope you have cleared it with the pub that you have no one turning up in droves on Sunday 😀
What speed standard is required i don't want to evoke a long thread about you having to wait for people coz you're faster than them
😉
Speed will be reverse whippet
RD, you'll be fine
Swede, you seen how empty that pub carpark is recently? If only the 2 of us turn up and buy one drink after, we'll probably double their day's takings! They'll be fine with us...
Anyway guys and gals, weather is set to be sunny all day tomorrow (for once!) so come join us all...
Take some water wings. I'm just back from the forest and it's biblically wet. I've never seen it so bad (bottom end of secret/magic garden was underwater this morning). Slippy, slidey fun.
Beware on the Camber trail - the little wodden bridge has gone. I don't know how long it's been missing, but it's not there any more. I suspect taken down by the 'authorities', judging by the red&white hazard tape strung in the trees.
There was also some mention on here about barbed wire booby traps on the Garlic trail.
How bad is it down there? Much grip or is it far too slidy?
It'll be fine mate
There's one or two sections that will be slippy, but even in the depths of winter it's still all perfectly rideable.
I'll keep to the firmer trails as much as possible.
It's perfectly ok, just very wet. I daresay it'll have dropped by tomorrow. I just need a dose of MTFU 😀
I was walking in there today ( bike out of action, waiting for fork). In 12 years of riding and walking in there, I've only seen it that bad down near Dowles, the year poosticks bridge washed away. Stay high as you can, it's full on mud in the valley, new steel footbridge below spiral has had its 4" x 4" wooden handrails wrecked, snapped like twigs as the flood water has gone clean over it. The left turn ( if you've dropped in down spiral staircase) just before the bridge, is really muddy and soft and the little stream you then ride through is about 3 feet deep. There are two trees down there too.
I walked in from the VC today. I got about 300 metres from the car park and stopped. All I could hear was running water and that's at the top of the hill.
Expect a mud fest and easily trashed muddy trails. It should be drier up toward Button Oak and Button Bridge.
And...Happy birthdays !
I'm sadly going to bail on this. Really not into muddy slide-fest. Have fun though.
B
Last minute bump for anyone else who fancies it.
it's looking lovely out, enjoy!
(I have wall paper stripping duties...)
Yes it was wet, but aside from the bridge having lost its hand rails, I've seen it worse in there. Still had plenty of fun anyway, though purposefully stayed higher than normal and didn't ride the Secret Garden for instance as that would have been pointless.
Drying out nicely though wherever the sun is shining through at least.
Happy Birthday should have done the weekender it was brill!
Pleased you had a good ride :-). I hope my new fork shows up this week so I can get back up there, on tyres rather than boots.
Happy Birthday should have done the weekender it was brill!
I expect it was Rich.
Not in a position to afford the 120+ quid it would have cost me to get there, enter, feed myself, any spares, and get home from the weekend though sadly. If I could have lift shared that might have helped, but times is very hard right now and today's ride cost me about £5 in fuel, so was many many times cheaper sadly!