Favourite pictures from last year

Alice's first high shore(Sleepy Hollow Puddletown)

Ben at Oke

Alice's surprise birthday cake

Ben at Oke(this is my favourite picture of that day)

Exploring Exmoor

Last week Tom K, Ewart, Ryan and I headed up to Exmoor in search of a few DH runs that were worth shuttling.

I had my bro's Commencal complete with dodgy front brake, wheel nicked from my bike and dodgy shock. Tom K had his dependable Yeti, Ewart his Stinky and Ryan was christening a brand new Bullit.






To say the roads were a bit icy was an understatement, thank gods for 4x4!

I navigated with pin point accuracy to where I thought we were meeting Tom and Ryan. Unfortunatley Ewart had actually wanted to be on the road on the other side of the hill. I fully admit it was my fault.






We started up at Dunkery Beacon and proceeded to rag it down a small rocky track.

Ryan was on it, right up to a rather rocky open corner. A slight dab of the brakes, next thing ewart and I pass him eating snow.

Did I mention that most of the trail was covered in snow and what wasn't was slick icy rock!

He soon caught up again though.





After the initial all out open blast, we crossed the road and dived into a beautiful undulating track that criss crossed the river all the way to the car park. This section would have been better on an XC bike and during the summer it would heve been more fun to blast through the water crossings rather than over the bridges.

The next trail took us up a road so steep it would put many Alpine ascents to shame.

This track was an all out blast from to to bottom by the coast. Gotta love Ryan's manuals, reckon he spent at least half the day with only the rear wheel on the ground.



Home time was another adventure with closed roads, diversions and thoroughly wet passengers.

Oh and I absolutely loved he Commencal pedalled like a small bike, shot downhill like a big bike.

Later