[Closed] Swinley

Have you joined purely to promote your vid on a trail that everybody knows?

I stopped watching when i saw the dual crown forks, who rides a DH bike at Swinley?!....lol

People who only have one bike?

Welcome to SingleTrackWorld where having fun on a bike is a crime 🙂

Looks like a fun trail, well ridden.

Good vid. I'm not sure I've ridden that !

deviant - Member
I stopped watching when i saw the dual crown forks, who rides a DH bike at Swinley?!....lol

Loads do, pushing their bikes all the way to the "DH" zone with full face and PJs, then leave litter all over the place.

Anyway, Camel is just a short fun descending trail with some jumps. Tonnes of that stuff in Surrey Hills, much steeper, more technical, bigger jumps and gaps, and they're just considered regular trails and most ride them on regular trail bikes, or even hard tails (yet still whipping gaps). Though could be because pushing a DH rig around in SHills is a lot of effort 😉

Are you hitting the drops on Thick and Creamy then deadkenny?

deviant - Member
I stopped watching when i saw the dual crown forks, who rides a DH bike at Swinley?!....lol

Haha I've been waiting to see a thread pop up about me riding my DH bike around the blue at Gisburn on Sunday. As it was the gf has suddenly took an interest in mountain biking that I'm trying to actively encourage. And as I'm missing a front wheel on my Sight I had to resort to the DH bike (which I only got Friday so wanted any excuse to ride anyway).

All good fitness being stood out of the seat for an hour and a half!

As Lifer said, some people only have one bike. So long as they're out riding it and having fun whats the issue? Apart from litter obviously.

As Lifer said, some people only have one bike. So long as they're out riding it and having fun whats the issue? Apart from litter obviously.

What's the link between number of bikes/enjoyment thereof and litter?

So long as they're out riding it and having fun whats the issue? Apart from AIDS obviously.

curiousyellow - Member

Are you hitting the drops on Thick and Creamy then deadkenny?

I approach them... and then the chicken line 😀

That's nothing to do with bike choice though 😉

njee20 - Member

As Lifer said, some people only have one bike. So long as they're out riding it and having fun whats the issue? Apart from litter obviously.

What's the link between number of bikes/enjoyment thereof and litter?

So long as they're out riding it and having fun whats the issue? Apart from AIDS obviously.

Sorry, didn't make it very clear, I was referring to DeadKenny's comment regarding leaving litter everywhere. By all means enjoy yourself out riding but take home what you took out.

Aah, that makes sense!

OP - did you film this on Friday? If so glad to see you learned from "my lack of speed and not scoping for new jumps in the trail" mistake and cleared everything with ease. My shoulder is nicely cut, bruised and painful from that little incident. Nice video by the way 🙂

Nice enough video, mostly of interest to the OP I would imagine. Quite a lot of effort to cut it all together.

How are the conditions? I'm looking for somewhere to go for a training blast on Sunday, that isn't the slop that is Epping and will ride fairly fast.

Also, I notice now that the blue joins the red, so is the blue start and end part of or additional to the 8m red loop so if I go blue start, include the red back to blue end is that 14 miles?

- Conditions are very good. I went on Sunday. It holds up very well, but there are some detours on the Blue at the moment.
- The Red starts half-way-ish through the Blue. You have the option of riding it (it's a loop back to the Blue), or carrying on with the Blue. You would ride it as a Blue-Red-Blue (also called a Purple Lap).
- Yup, about 22km sounds about right.

Have you joined purely to promote your vid on a trail that everybody knows?

And your point is...?

Hi whippersnapper,

Just posted that vid so all the XC riders would no about a great unmarked trail! Wasn't ready for that abuse!

I have 5 bikes including XC and road. So thanks for being so positive to such an upstanding role model for biking!
I need to practice on a Downhill bike somewhere before I head out to Morzine each year!!!!!

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http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/8841840/

There's a pic of me riding Air Voltage in France!

Thanks for sharing. I've always ridden this as a climb, thinking it was an unfinished bit of the "Freeride" area they keep threatening! Nice riding as well by the way.

I think yzwilson whipped his member out to compare. 😮

To be fair though, if you're at that level, makes it even worse riding up swinners on a DH bike, nothing is fast or big enough to remotely test the bike/rider. I've always got beginners riding easier stuff on DH bikes though, it's learning.

Me and all my mates ride DH and have DH bikes, given the choice, we all would really rather not ride swinners on a DH bike, waste of a riding opportunity especially (assuming you're local to swinners) when you have rogate, hindhead, aston hill, tidworth all within 1-1.5 hours, even pitch hill in peaslake is going to give far more. Plus a DH bike robs any opportunity to have fun there, just isn't right.

But it's all riding bike though. If you enjpy it, that's all that matters.

Must have seen you around, snooping at your PB profile and vids. M3, swinley, porc, tunnel hill, good to see you dabble in dirt jumps too.

Just posted that vid so all the XC riders would no about a great unmarked trail!

Welcome to STW :-p , you'll need thicker skin.