a good reason to ride singlespeed ?

it takes no time to clean

i hate cleaning my other bike when its this dirty !

Matt calls it my chocolate bike

american singlespeeds

remember the joe stingray ? well its on my favorite all time tv show at the moment its called "the wonder years" its about growing up in the 60's and 70's in the usa. its on ITV3 at the moment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonder_Years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CZRudxD-NQ&feature=related

Downs Link

Some interest has been expressed in the Downs Link.

It's 59km each way but the first bit from St Martha's Hill to Bramley is usually very churned up by horses, so it might be worth setting out from Bramley to avoid a 5km bike carry. I think the rest of it's probably in pretty good shape even at this time of year.

This would takes us to 110km for the day.

I'm up for this any time soon. The only issue is daylight hours and I think we've all got big lights and GPSs so that shouldn't be a problem.

This is going to be a pretty flat ride and the only single track is of the railway variety.

Take a look at the link (above) and then lets decide on who wants to do it and set a date.

Club photo

Epic SS Rides

So far we've had;

• South Downs Way
• The Ridgeway (extended Directors Cut)
• Bucks classic 70km (or the big kahuna 100km?)
• Afan Skyline!
• The (route of the ) Test Valley Tour
• The Downs Link (Guildford to the coast on a disused railway line (pretty flat))
• Dorking killer loop (got the tee shirt)

Any more?

Coherence

The WDMBC SS faction seem to have been lacking any coherence recently. People keep turning up for rides on geared bikes and even on full suspension geared bikes. I'm not sure what's causing this decent in the ranks but now we've got a bit more daylight I think it's time we started thinking about some more epic SS adventures.

Last year the RidgeWay was a classic.

I think the Dorking killer loop, although feasible, might be a bit too hilly for a fun day out.

Can anyone think of any other all day SS classics we can do as a whole group together?

Afan day out

4 WDMBC singlespeeders went Afan on saturday, albeit on their bouncers. cracking weather, fantastic trails (especially liked the hidden valley) and great company. The only singlespeeder missing was pedro. There was 15 riders in total, Chris being in the quick group, Matt and Theo in the medium paced group and myself in the lesiurley paced one and as always last up the hills and first down (except dead sheep gulley where gill went flying past me!) many thanks to matt and gill for driving and putting up with me !

its Cwmcarn tomorrow !

Fixed or Free

I know we all ride free (some of us even have suspension forks!) but some real men ride fixed in the forest.

I wonder who will be the first of us to go down that path?

Hey Pete there must be room for one more bike in your bikecollection...

http://www.63xc.com/gonterian/crux.htm