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- 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..
Well chaps I have checked the train times and the best ones seem to be 18:55 from Cambridge and passing through Shepreth 19:25 this gets to baldock for 19:25. If this seems a tad early for most of you there is one 29 mins later. Cambridge19:24 and Shepreth 19:35 getting to Baldock for 19:52 which is not too later start me thinks.
What do most of you think? I shall be getting on at Shepreth hopefully with my sat nav (Dunc Dunc).
That was supposed to read first train passes through Shepreth at 19:07
I can't ride tonight - did something horrible to my left knee (tendonitis?) out on my road bike on Sunday and today I can't even manage the 3 miles into work. 
Gutted to miss Jon's epic.
I'll see how it is tomorrow, but I may not be able to lead the Walden or Wankered ride on Thurs...
Paul
Tendonitis is a bugger, Paul. I hope that you get well soon.
PT
19:24 from Cambridge Station and 19:35 from Shepreth it is.
Could be interesting if we get 10 or more bikes on a train
Yes, a great ride having most things to make us grin - decent hills which were climable and high (500-600 feet some of them), fast descents, woodland singletrack, a nice hardpacked tunnel trail that seemed to go for miles and miles...and very few stingers and thorns. 
Thanks Uncle Duncle
PT