FNRttC FNRttC 7th August to Felpham near Bognor Regis 2009

[dellzeqq]

no progress on the Gurkha front.

I rode down, turning right at Pickety Cottages, and took the byways to West Chitlington, Nutbourne, went south on the A283, skirted Parham House and took the back way in to Amberley - passing one of my favourite houses. Pretty, but slow.

There is an alternative and moves are being made....

 

[dellzeqq]

Less Gurkhas means more skylarks, which is good. It does also mean more crows though which is not so good for the corvid phobic

More Gurkhas means four stiles and riding over grass which isn't great, but there's always the chance that the suspension bridges will be a real crack. I'm inclined toward skylarks, though.

Here is our friend, the chalk path

 

[Andrij]

NSTN, look away now!

More Gurkhas means four stiles and riding over grass which isn't great, but there's always the chance that the suspension bridges will be a real crack. I'm inclined toward skylarks, though.

Here is our friend, the chalk path

 

[Jasper the Surrea]

no progress on the Gurkha front.

I rode down, turning right at Pickety Cottages, and took the byways to West Chitlington, Nutbourne, went south on the A283, skirted Parham House and took the back way in to Amberley - passing one of my favourite houses. Pretty, but slow.

There is an alternative and moves are being made....

My route of choice when coming down from Horsham way. You can also carry on around and over the A29. But there is always going to be a hill coming your way at some stage.

 

[TimO]

My route of choice when coming down from Horsham way. You can also carry on around and over the A29. But there is always going to be a hill coming your way at some stage.

NSTN look away now ... again.

Do I spot a theme?

 

[dellzeqq]

My route of choice when coming down from Horsham way. You can also carry on around and over the A29. But there is always going to be a hill coming your way at some stage.

Not if the Gurkhas do their stuff and we, or some of us, decide to go via the suspension bridges. But, then again, NSTN isn't on this ride...

 

[StuAff]

That chalk path looks like nothing to be afraid of, for even riders of ££££ exotica. I met up with a load of bods from the BikeRadar forum commuting section in Richmond today- laps of the park followed by pub- and some of us did a lap of the off-road bit. Self on Jetstream (which though not exactly an MTB, certainly not with a 14 spoke front wheel, could do that kind of terrain all day). My compadres' bikes included a couple of fixies, a Focus Cayo & a Viner Maxima (both on 23mm), all of which got round with no bother, save a moment on the trickiest rutted section. Nothing like that on this path here.....

 

[iLB]

room for one more simon?

 

[dellzeqq]

room for one more simon?

eh? Aren't you in Spain?

 

[Wigsie]

eh? Aren't you in Spain?

+1, noticed you posted on a thread I started last night.

 

[iLB]

sadly not, didnt even make the pyrenees - the saxo broke down and was going to cost more than 1000 euros to repair (car worth 400 quid), and all being 18 we couldn't hire a car- so had no choice but to come back to cold, wet england boo hoo

next tour will involve panniers and no car, not making that mistake again...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

sadly not, didnt even make the pyrenees - the saxo broke down and was going to cost more than 1000 euros to repair (car worth 400 quid), and all being 18 we couldn't hire a car- so had no choice but to come back to cold, wet england boo hoo

next tour will involve panniers and no car, not making that mistake again...

use a trailer, much much easier and you can keep your lovely road bikes

bad luck but well done you guys for even trying.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

That chalk path looks like nothing to be afraid of, for even riders of ££££ exotica. I met up with a load of bods from the BikeRadar forum commuting section in Richmond today- laps of the park followed by pub- and some of us did a lap of the off-road bit. Self on Jetstream (which though not exactly an MTB, certainly not with a 14 spoke front wheel, could do that kind of terrain all day). My compadres' bikes included a couple of fixies, a Focus Cayo & a Viner Maxima (both on 23mm), all of which got round with no bother, save a moment on the trickiest rutted section. Nothing like that on this path here.....

Hmmm. Given a similar and relatively local path avec flints caused a blow out on my 2.1 inch MTB rear tyre yesterday - personally I blame overinflation; frankly I forgot to drop the psi from 65, for the 11 mile station to trail section, to 45 psi for the full on off roading that followed - I'd recommend people take it steady.

One of my roadie mate had his tyre blow out on the Downs Link last week and a more benign track you could not find off road. Dem flints is crazy fings I tell ya.

 

[Wigsie]

sadly not, didnt even make the pyrenees - the saxo broke down and was going to cost more than 1000 euros to repair (car worth 400 quid), and all being 18 we couldn't hire a car- so had no choice but to come back to cold, wet england boo hoo

next tour will involve panniers and no car, not making that mistake again...

Thats a pain in the A hole.... Well done and better luck next time! still at least you guys tried and its a hell of a lot more adventurous than many 18 year olds have ever done!

 

[dellzeqq]

I went over the chalk path on Friday with a young Italian chap on a sit up and beg bike which, if it didn't have a basket, deserved one. I think his tyres were about 32mm. He was 100 metres ahead of me after 400 metres.