Sorry, already off to Tunnel Hill.

Tunnel Hill Tuesday (just sent you a PM)

Just a few frames worth anyway. There's more knocking about on various teasers and the DVD of the last film has a preview with them doing the filming and it's clearer there. Whole sequence with a camera on a high wire and them running through the forest. That's where the two big cranes were set up for a while.

That's one part. There are a couple of other locations they've used in the forest on different dates.


Edit: Tiny bit more at 1.21 in the latest trailer too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su1LOpjvdZ4

I'm in for some of that

What sort of time?

Might be interested but got beers to work out of the system in the morning .

Yes, result - thanks for volunteering to lead too Andy




8.45 for 9.00 am - we cycle to slowest persons pace - no one gets left behind.

You'll be ok Tim. Max gets drunk, gets a few hours sleep and still manages to get a ride in. Mind you he does take on a greenish complexion now and then and disappear off into the bushes for a quiet moment. You'll be ok.

Did anyone go night riding around swinley tonight?. I know kerr was planning to.

Might not go to Karate and do swinley on thursday instead - have to think about that

See you saturday.

Yes we went over to swinley, but early enough to not need lights.
Had flu last week, so intended to ride a slower pace.
Didnt in the end... rode like the clappers.

First time ive been over for a few weeks. Its still like summer!!! Very dry, but not quite dusty.

They have some new berms on deerstalker going in and some new tabletops.

Deerstalker has been patched again and is running VERY fast!

Im up for thursday, but weather is looking on the change. Will do a rain check during day on thursday.

Im up for saturday aswell.

Great to have you back Kerr - see you saturday if not thursday.

Will see. I'm not an early person at the best of times .

Also got my usual Surrey Hills ride planned that weekend but not sure if it will be Sat or Sun yet and depends if it's an exploring session or a 5 hill epic.

Mind if i join you Saturday morning ? I'm fairly regular at Swinley , but still need help to find my way around !

Been out in SH a couple of times with deadkenny & his gang .

Would be nice to get to know a more local mob .

Cheers Stan

any ones welcome

Stan,

You would be most welcome. sign up with a contact no so we know to wait for you.

Kerr and DrBike know Swinley really well and its always a good loop and you might even see deadkenny on saturday too if he not too drunk.

cheers

Maj

Thanks mbElf . Got contact details sorted . See you all soon .

Chaps - Had hoped to join you tommorow but it looks like that ain't gonna happen. Seems like ages since I have ridden with some of you. Have a great ride and have a cuppa at the lookout for me!

work conversation this morning...

me "whose working saturday?"
team.. "you are!"
me " boll..ks!"

Sorry guys.
Have a good ride tomorow.

Ill be out sunday if anyone is about.

Kerr

I also plan to ride on Sunday

Seems like we might have a nice group for the "sabbath" too.

Mine was more:

team "who wants to work saturday?"
me: "boll..ks to that!"


Bike is priority.

Anyway, still a bit unknown about my state Saturday morning. Will see how many beers occur tonight (and there's curry as well). If I do make it I know Swinley pretty well, though I'm sure my routes are different to others. Each time I ride with someone new I end up learning more stuff, not to mention different names for all the classics.

Will be out Sunday in Surrey Hills (around Redlands and Lieth areas probably as there's some event going on around Peaslake).

Im still a bit up the air at the moment but going to try and be there in the morning, don't wait if Im not there

suffering from the old man flu but will ride anyways.... "ride to the slowest rider" ... that's me tomorrow folks, see you in the morning.

Hoping to make it. If I'm not there, don't hang around.

Where do you guys park? Just in the Lookout car park?

I'll be there in the morning . As above , where about do you park ( Go Ape? ) & how will I know any of you?

I've got a tatty old PURPLE Honda civic & a newish white Trek hardtail .

Not going tommorow but just in case nobody responds, the general meeting place is hard left as you enter the MAIN car-park. Everybody generally tends to find each other even if you might just have to ask a group of bikers or two if they are the 'MTB Britain' forum lot....

Yeah its been yonks now and i think gezzza was buying unless he's been spending on more bling.

Gezzza, any chance you could bring your hope led lights (i think it was you who had a set). I just wanted to compare them to my new magicshine set - they look very similar.




Kerr cant make sunday, are we still planning on going to Wales again this year. We had a chat about this before you went to the Alps.



It would be good to see you - we'll wait.




Yes, take the immediate left as you go into the lookout carpark. You should see us or a guy dressed up as a pirate - hes the trail guru. See you in the morning Tim.

I will be there this morning just leaving home

Sorry I missed out on this, guys. I read about it late last night having driven back home from work, which took a couple of hours, and thought I'd consider it in the morning but was so tired that I slept for eleven hours straight. Hope you had a good ride and I'll catch up with you all soon.

Good ride today. Conditions still good despite the recent rain. Nice to meet you all and see new faces (just got to put faces to forum names now ).

Thanks to our guide too. As I often say, Swinley always throws up surprises and even if you've ridden it for years you can find new bits, especially when riding with someone new who knows different routes to the one you'd take. And every time you can mix it up and make it different.

Anyway, phone managed to keep hold of the GPS signal for a change, so route for you...

Sports Tracker - Swinley - 25-09-2010 9:16 am

Nice ride this morning , good to meet you all , I can see that being a regularish one for me.

Dr. Bike , nice tour of the forest , that's the best linked up loop i've been on there.

Cheers , Stan

Oh and thanks have to go to Stan for chef's tips too

light weight I hope the job is going well.







Thanks for leading today, a lot of it looked new to me if we have done it many times before. Really enjoyed it.
Did'nt take long for Gezzza to find his gear and good to see some new faces. Stan i am try your coke tip and see it it works.

cheers

Maj

Good ride today everyone lots of stuff I haven't ridden before

Yep, it's going well. Just need to find a place to live. Doing some viewings tomorrow afternoon, but not holding my hopes up.

Looks like you had a good ride.

Was the jump still at the bomb drop? This threw me in the air gracefully on tuesday last week.

scared the pants off me. By far the biggest air I ever had on a bike.

Kerr

Kerr - Jump was there and a fun addition to the play area. Think Maj liked it!

As for saturday, top ride (Andy, thx again) and good to meet new faces. Till the next one....

happy birthday marcliam

planning a sunday super sprint swinley - the idea being that we do what we normally do as fast as possible. - anyone else interested? earlyish start about 8.30 am.

Working

Me , me , me , i'll give that a go !

As fast as possible?

I might be up for a "pootle" on Sunday for a start around 8:45/9:00

Pootling yes, sprinting...? not on your nellie

Im working, but have done this kinda things a few times.

Heres my flatout training loop...

http://www.nostra-casa.co.uk/bikeroutes/OS...p?f=flatout.gpx

1hr42min is my best time

Only unclipped once. NEVER actually stopped.

Funny thing is when you get back to the carpark, you kinda look at each other and think "is that it? we go home now?"
It can be tempting to go out again and do some more riding.

Im hoping to go to swinley this evening (if rain stops) around 4:30 for a couple of hours.

Kerr

Was that the other week when you had a pedal strike on a tree stump? very unfortunate, but fair play you never stopped

Thing is though, I was two unclips to your none and my Dastardly and Muttley side was thinking of skimming your back wheel to make us even

LOL! I remember that. I really hammered the stump. wasn't so much as an unclip as a wacked out of clip.

No the gps was another no-unclip evening.
My unclip on the flatout ride was because some pesky MTBers had stopped on the top of deerstalker

As I said... 4:30 any takers? No stopping.

Kerr

I'm up for a regular Swinley ride on Sunday at the usual time. The "fast-as-possible" thing isn't really my cup of tea, sorry!

I don't do fast. Just down (unless I have no choice but to go up to get to down) .

Foot bust up though from last ride with the Bike Radar guys. Learnt to my cost the need for sturdy shoes and not cheap trainers. Won't be out this weekend at least.

I'm in for the pootle, I might tear around like an excitable puppy though. It'll give me more time for smoking at the top of the hills.

Pootle placed in the calendar (it'll be 10/10/10), maybe we should start at 10:10

That'll be 42 day.

Ahhh darn, i am in two minds about this, part of me wants a nice relaxing pootle and the other part says screw the pootle, you've got a gorrick race coming up in november and if you want to beat Brian, you better start training

I think i will go for the sprint and try and beat kerrs time. I'll post a ride up just in case anyone else fancies it but i'll probably see you guys at the cafe. Enjoy

Well as you will be back at the lookout first you can get the teas in

went over last night and had to cut short as was suddenly feeling quite unwell.
This morning woke up coughing and sore throat.
Seems I have picked something up ... AGAIN!

Swinley is now pretty dam muddy.
I recommend getting out the crud catchers and winter tyres.
9 yards was foot deep mud in places. North entrance to stickler is a big mud pit. Stickler berms and bombholes are now full of water, as is the gully on tank traps.

Ho hum.. winter is here

Kerr