Ride Date: 17/11/2013
Location: Cannock Chase
Riders : Jake, Deley, Matt, Howard, Dan, Tony & Damian
Just a quick entry this time, we all met in The Birches Valley car park at 09:30, just missing Ryan due to a "session" on the pop the night before, but we had new member of the group Damian, who is a friend of Tony's & also had a brand spanking new bike to try out!
We set off along a small detour at the beginning of follow the dog as "Twist & Shout" was closed for some repairs to bed in, and started the proper riding at "The Stegosaurus" which has caught a few out in the past and this time it's first victim was Howard, who flipped out on the rocks. The second and more spectacular victim came very soon afterwards, with Damian misjudging the wet and slimy northshore and sliding, new bike and all into the swamp below, where it appeared to completely engulf him!
He was pulled out and gathered his bearings to be greeted with the standard "Swamp Monster", "What's That Smell?" & "Oh, So It Was You That Fell In Then?" jibes, which carried on at least a few sections into the Monkey trail, and some of it even from complete strangers!
After that the rest of the ride went fairly uneventful, the trail was in good condition with only a few slightly damp areas & before we knew it, we were back at the cafe for a well deserved bacon butty & a hot cuppa.
One other thing of note, it was Tony's first run out with his brand new GoPro, below is the directorial debut of our very own Spielberg. It loses a bit of quality as I had to downscale it to fit inside the 500mb limit of the free Vimeo account.
Enjoy!
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| Having a minute after "Tom, Dick & harry" |
See the full route here http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/269683995/151189
