Neam bike ride
 

Hi guys does anyone fancy a bike (meet) ride.
I was thinking of organising a Neam bike ride it would be for a Saturday or Sunday no specific date yet. I was thinking of the red route at hamsterley forest and would be around 12 miles and take approx 3.5h with breaks.
The ride consists of single track forest trails, fire roads there's a couple of climbs on fire road and weaving down forest trails
Nothing to strenuous my wife and kids have done it although it's still quite tiring.
It will be at a steady pace not balls out and the plan would be to go as fast as the slowest rider.
A would say any mountain bike hybrid or cyclecross etc would be fine but a road bike would be no good.copy and paste the link below in your browser for a look at the planned route
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/Hamst...eyREDTrail.pdf
Loads of vids on YouTube type hamsterly forest red route
If anyone's interested
Please post here.

Up for that mate, let me know the date and hopefully I can make it! :-)

I only have one bike and our lass says she don't fancy it pmsl:woot:

[QUOTE=Dkfream;910804]I only have one bike and our lass says she don't fancy it pmsl:woot:[/QUOTE

Lol buy one or hire one from hamsterley on the day
The bearn on his 20" Scott voltage doing part of the red route
http://youtu.be/jaHGxmfzDL0

I will be up for it as well dave ;)

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Am in Davo

So far
Davo
Mark
Dexter
Corky
Poss Dak
Nick
Jason
David Pack

I will probably b up for it also. Sounds good

Heres a few videos of what i do when im up at hamsterley just to give you an idea of what to expect if you havent been up there before ;)

Pikes Teeth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x_6TXrWoZY

Route 666 / Oddsox + 2 other little trails

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mc9zCL3Tg

Transmission / Accelerator / Nitrous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiIHLkw_zc8

Section 13 / Bone Shaker / Special K / Brain Freeze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP-7LmPyuPA

Then I normally head back to the car park.....these trails would take around 4hrs to do but well worth it....;)

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That's not you , there's no way a bike could go that fast with you on :woot:

Count me in, sounds like fun lol

Haha.....no mate its not me....but believe it or not, I have all of those runs.....one after another ;)

Cool guys Can I just add Benfield and Teesside. Club members are more than welcome as well

more the merrier dave ;)

Who fancies meeting up for a ride at hamsterley forest this saturday....???

I be up for Saturday red route dex did it last weekend only took 2h was goosed like steady away 2.5 hours

Can't make this Saturday but will try for the next one.

Ye next Saturday will be better for me as we'll

Havent got my new bike yet but will probs be still going up on saturday

sorry to hijack the post but a friend is looking into buying a hybrid bike called a boardman, havnt heard of them myself but wondered if they were any good?

They are quiet good bikes, specs are usually quiet good, unfortunately Halfords have exclusivity to sell them so they are tainted abit as people have bad dealings with halfords,

im guessing your friend is buying second hand? if not by joining the british cycling fed the basic (bronze i think) membership is £18 and entitles you to 10% off anything at halfords, the £18 soon pays for itself.

we've got some sort of salary sacrafice work scheme where they give you the money and you pay it back, he's looking to spend about £400 or so

Yes the decent bikes prob the best that halfords do
Great info Andy cheers is that on anything in halfords for the full year

Ah i see i guess his company do there ride to work thro halfords, as i say nothing at all wrong with Boardman. i actually own one myself, about a year ago i was looking for a low end carbon road bike, generally they start at £1500, boardmans version came in a little cheaper at £1300 the same spec as the £1500 bikes of other brands, with british cycling membership i got another 10% off so i feel i got a bike i wanted at quiet a good price, you can request to have the bike in the box as i did and built it myself so really halfords had nothing to do with it

Yes Davo, some of the staff have actually reminded me that it is available across the store from time to time when just buying bike bits, i don't think they are meant to give it to discounted or on offer stuff but i have always got it as a lot of the workers don't really bother, all i do at check out is mention my membership, flash my card then the member of staff will scan a barcode the have that will deduct 10%.

i have reserverd stuff online but if you do make sure you pay when you collect, web exclusives are another thing i don't think they are meant to discount but if you order for store collect and pay at the counter they will usually scan the barcode if you show your membership card.


sorry for going more off track .........

Careful with bike to work schemes, once you factor in the final purchase price and suchlike, its actually quite easy to beat the price by simply getting last years bike at 20% off....... or offering to pay the shop in cash.

It depends on the scheme as I think the ones I was looking recently we pretty good. On a bike costing £1000 you basically end up paying £680 which is pretty decent as you can still buy last years model even while using your BIke scheme.