[Closed] Dirty Santa ride

Assuming this is the trail break ride? It's more like a wiggle/Evans ride. Unfortunately you ride straight passed a few good trails on the route. Still, sometimes a like to get a few miles covered and fancy this sort of ride. I'll be doing it this year as well.

Yes that’s the one. Not sure if I’ll go for it although good miles as you say - thanks

Yes, it's all on public RoW etc. Using 'purpose built' trails like the ones in the Surrey Hills could be a problem with our liability insurance, so we don't use those. We do try and include some of the nicer RoW tracks in our routes out there though, but Dirty Santa is mostly about the craic and doing the Santa thing. If you do fancy it book fast, it's almost full now.

is it an Evans / wiggle style bridleway bash?

And if you'll permit me a moment's pedantry, we predate either of those by quite a way and they both copied our event format directly, so they're kind of our style of event 😉

Then I sUspect it was your events I used to do when I was a thirty-something nipper 20 odd years ago!

There's a good chance it was! Them were the days, when we were running three events a month - Navigator races, Trail Rides, Weekend Breaks, White Diamond Festival, and Alpine Holidays and the Trans Andean in the summer. God, I feel old!

I did the first White Diamond challenge. Dragged my dad along to race as a team. Camped in the field and it chucked it down! Numerous tents under water! An event I and I suspect my dad will never forget! That must have been mid 90s?

1996. I was there too (riding, not working in those days). Hell of a weekend! We pitched our tent on a very slight rise which luckily the water didn't reach, but tents all around us got flooded out! The mud sliding in the marquee was fun though!

Trailbreak Navigators ... loved 'em. Burbage in the pouring rain .. lost on Dunkery Beacon .. freezing me nads off in Wantage .. proper memories there!

I fortuitously missed the submarined Wight Diamond. Made a fair few after that. Still got my golf ball 😀

brassneck - pretty sure some of them happened in nice weather too. Not many maybe, but some...

Bez - still can't believe that mountain biking and crazy golf never took off as a combo sport. It could have been like that cross country skiing and shooting thing they do in the winter Olympics!

I have just had a look and I still have some result sheets and maps from the Navigator races in 1998.  Amazed that was 20 years ago, that went quick!

Looking forward to the Dirty Santa ride, just doing the short route and dragging my son around.

It could have been like that cross country skiing and shooting thing they do in the winter Olympics!

And the bonus of the Wight Biathlon is that there’s very little risk of people getting shot with sniper rifles after a few pub stops en route 😀