Muddy madness

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cliffyboy1962
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Muddy madness

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Mrs 1962 and myself, decided it would be cool to try out this place this morning.

http://www.dearsleap.co.uk

It's about 20 miles from where we live and after months of road biking, we thought it might be fun to mix it up a bit.

2 hours of mud, guts and glory cost us £24.00 for two TREK hardtail mountain bikes and helmets and 240 acres of mud !!


Clothing was a mess but we took a change of clothes. Washing machine has had a real job on this afternoon.

Great laugh, would recommend to any roadies who might have forgotten how mad off-roading can be.

These were the bikes, after 2 gruelling hours of puddles, mud and ridiculous uphill traction loss. They actually looked a lot worse than this but we hit the MTB skills section before returning the bikes, during which a lot of the mud fell off.
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cliffyboy1962 wrote:Mrs 1962 and myself, decided it would be cool to try out this place this morning.

http://www.dearsleap.co.uk

It's about 20 miles from where we live and after months of road biking, we thought it might be fun to mix it up a bit.

2 hours of mud, guts and glory cost us £24.00 for two TREK hardtail mountain bikes and helmets and 240 acres of mud !!


Clothing was a mess but we took a change of clothes. Washing machine has had a real job on this afternoon.

Great laugh, would recommend to any roadies who might have forgotten how mad off-roading can be.

These were the bikes, after 2 gruelling hours of puddles, mud and ridiculous uphill traction loss. They actually looked a lot worse than this but we hit the MTB skills section before returning the bikes, during which a lot of the mud fell off.


Sounds like a right laugh. So did you also get out on trails or were you restricted to a field or something? Given the wear and tear, and how much cleaning those bikes are gonna need, £24 seems pretty good.
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Re: Muddy madness

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The whole place was open, including all the trails. Would love to go back there now, to see what it's like with a little less mud !
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