Yer Tiz

Over the last couple of years, the Forestry Commission, Bristol council and the SW Cycling Project have been negotiating, designing & building a series of mountain bike trails in Ashton Court and Leigh Woods. The Ashton Court trail was opened last June, Leigh Woods last month.

They are fun! One aspect of offroad cycling in winter that I've not liked is the gloopy sticky mud with we get around here, which means that old biffers like myself slide around and have trouble staying upright. Plus it's hard to keep up a reasonable pace in the muddy woodland trails, which become cut up and full of water.

These packed gravel routes are relatively fast & swoopy, knackering on the old single-speed and FUN. I've been out most weekends the last month or so, and have returned filthy and happy and exhausted.

With luck I'll persuade myself into some early morning rides once the day length increases a little more as at present sunrise is a little late for a decent ride before nice.

:o)