The bank holiday is here and I have 3 days of riding booked, whether that happens we will have to wait and see but at least the first days riding went a head. Saturday is normally a slow cycle with the wife and today was no different. I decided to visit the local heath, there are numerous trail on the heath and many of them I have not tried so today we were trying a couple of those new trails and get the wife to visit Delph woods for the first time.
The first part of the ride was nothing exciting, we followed a new path which was a wide gravel and found it brought us out onto one of our normal trails. Only interesting parts was we found the local free style jump area, so we be going back to play with that later.
The wife had her obligatory fall of the bike, she learnt that you can’t lean forward going down a steep bank and apply the front brake sharply, when you do it results in a face plant. Fortunately the only damage was superficial and some bruises.
Still a few muddy bits about on the heath
We were soon finished on the heath and heading to Delve woods, which is basically a wooded area which is part of the heath but on the other side of the road. Now I know the first half of the route but I don’t know the end bit so it always a guess the route through the trees after the half way mark. I found the stream this time so like all kids I had to have a play in the water.
Playing in the water
Playing in the water again
Ready for the splash
Once I dragged myself away from the water we found the route to the road and headed back toward the heath (via a different entry point, the part we leave is down a steep hill). The wife decided she had had enough and headed for home I decided that I would also head for home via the heath as I wanted to add a few miles to my riding, I like to get between 15 and 20 miles in on a Saturday. Tried a couple of other new trails on the way back, one was downhill through loose sand, that was fun at speed!! I eventually made it home for a round trip of 16.5 miles.
Tomorrow I am off to a Demo day where I have two test rides booked on full suspension bikes, will let you know how that goes tomorrow, providing rain does stop play.
