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DISCLAIMER. MOUNTAIN BIKING CAN BE DANGEROUS. YOU JOIN US AT YOUR OWN RISK.
SAFETY BRIEFING.
- Wear a helmet. Despite recent advances in medical science, brains still cannot be mended nor replaced.
- Wear gloves or mitts. Hands often hit the ground first. Cuts and grazes invite infection and a hospital visit.
- Wear eye protection, it only takes a twig or thorn to lose an eye. Crud catchers are a good idea in mucky weather.
- When downhilling, for your own protection, allow plenty of space behind the rider in front.
- Bring a bare minimum emergency tool kit and a spare inner tube.
- Breakdowns are a bore. Plan not to have any by ensuring your bike is in perfect working order.
- Punctures are also tedious. You can minimise them by fitting latex tubes, slime tubes or running tubeless tyres.
Photo: CAMMTB Winter 2022-23 rides have been posted up - please click on the Runs List link..
Okay, apparently, rather than make suggestions to form any kind of group decision I NEED to organise this!
So,
Baldock & Back it is.
18.55 train from Cambridge ( or could catch from Shelford/Foxton) arriving in Baldock for 19.26
Ride back (don't worry Pastey we won't be going anywhere near the pea fields or alleged mud of Morden Grange Plantation) 25 miles back to Shepreth or 27 to The Royal Oak in Barrington.
If you want an assisted ride home trains from Shepreth station to Cambridge run at 21.48 (Pffff), 22.14, 22.48, 23.14 & 23.48 or if you want to ride back to Brookside the mileage will be around the 34/36 type thing assuming you go via Cantelupe Farm.
We've done this twice before & I (although slightly slimmer then) and others enjoyed it. Pace will be the usual longee (slower than a usual Tuesday thrash) more a bimble type thing
Would really prefer NOT TO CATCH the 19.25 from Cambridge as this all makes things a bit of a rush 
I think I'm going to ride to and from Shepreth as that's easiest from mine.
Any takers?
Would be nice to know nowish to see if it's a goer or not so that I can have time to organize a baby sitter.
got back! found some down hill! and a train.
sounds like im tipsy but im not. i think thats a in joke for the night.
tommora i might retrace just because i can find my breath again.
sounds like im tipsy but im not. i think thats a in joke for the night.
tommora i might retrace just because i can find my breath again.
CERN, thanks very much for posting that you got back OK. Am sure the fitness will come!
While I'm at it, thanks to Duncan for a top hole route. Which got us in to the Barrington Oak for 22:00 precisely . Long may these seasonal excursions continue.