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Ride report: Friday 31 August - a short FatVelocipedeventure | Rides | Muddymoles: Mountain wanderlust (MTB) in the Surrey Hills and Mole Valley Menu Muddymoles Muddymoles: Mountain wanderlust (MTB) in the Surrey Hills and Mole Valley Cycling News, Reviews, Chat and Ride reports Important! The functionality on this website requires Javascript but it appears that either your browser does not support Javascript or you have Javascript disabled. This will stupefy your wits of this website and in some cases may prevent key features from working correctly. Ride report: Friday 31 August – a short FatVelocipedeventure Posted by Matt, September 6, 2018 There is 1 scuttlebutt so far Last Friday saw three of us nip out without work for a short ride virtually Norbury. Both Lloyd and JR were on their FatVelocipedehardtails; John on his familiar 26″ based Trek Farley and Lloyd on a huge Trek Stache. With enormous 29+ tyres it’s probably closer to stuff a 32er than a 29er! It’s nice to see people still choosing to ride hardtails of any form in this age of competent full-sus machines. We headed up to View To A Kill and then lanugo to Westhumble and over to the climb up to the Gallops at Mickleham. From there it was on to Secret Singletrack at Headley which is just starting to unshut up as the underwood dies back.Planeso, the trail remains heavily obscured and probably will do for flipside month or so. Our return leg took us to the ‘new’ trail lanugo to Stane Street from the spur off Life on Mars. It’s rhadamanthine my favourite and rather than take the left near the end which takes you to the fence line, we stayed right. This gives flipside few hundred yards of twisty singletrack through the trees and is worth doing to prolong the fun. At this point I commented to JR that I hadn’t tried a FatVelocipedefor a while (my only wits stuff an original Salsa Mukluk at Swinley years ago). Why don’t we swap bikes? said John. Why not? So it was that I jumped aboard his Farley while he took my Jeffsy and we headed off toward Tactical Nuclear Penguin. First impressions were how much steeper the throne wile is on the Farley compared to my Jeffsy. This was followed by the realisation that in these hardpack conditions the Farley had simply oodles of grip from it’s 4.25″ tyres. I didn’t want to waste that! So off I went lanugo TNP, in somewhat gung-ho mood. I was flying, any roots were irrelevant and with the Bluto fork the front end tracked really well. It was unconfined fun until the point I rounded a corner at upper speed and found myself in a two wheel slide on loose chalk and flint marbles. I slide straight off the trail and landed heavily, scuffing my knee, forearm and shoulder in the process – oops! I was too winded to quite get when on the velocipede and pretend nothing had happened surpassing Lloyd and JR unprotected up with me, so they found me shame-facedly shaking myself lanugo with no real harm done. The rest of TNP was ridden with a greater sensation of the laws of physics… We hauled ourselves up to the top again, then headed for Vietcong. Again, I pushed myself on JRs Farley and expressly at the top found it an wool wham as it literally roared and rumbled lanugo the trail. As the terrain got looser the fundamentals came when into play, expressly the fact it’s a hardtail and the when end is quite lively, but it remained fun. The final technical section was handled well too, as the slower speeds and immense grip meant the Farley could be pointed where you liked. It does however require quite a physical transferral to ride the Farley fast. I was knackered and happy to swap when to my Jeffsy for the final few miles. I’m sure the Farley would have been quite capable of stuff ridden in some repletion at a increasingly sedate pace, but the novelty of the fat tyres was too much for me. Once we’d crossed the road into Norbury Park again, we rode up the hill and cruised withal River Run. From there we dragged right up to the top of Crabtree Lane for a change, and enjoyed a rapid return lanugo to the big field at Bocketts. Then we headed to the Anchor – sadly I had to leave JR and Lloyd there as I had to be when home, but any other time would have been happy to indulge in a liquid-based refueling strategy! Filed under Rides in September 2018 About the tragedian Matt is one of the founding Molefathers of the Muddymoles, and is the designer and main zookeeper of the website. Having ridden a 2007 Orange Five for many years he's recently switched to a YT Industries Jeffsy, slantingly a 2016 Marin Pine Mountain. Lurking in the when of the stable, waiting for it's next installment is a Kona Big Unit 29er hardtail, while an early On-One Inbred still whispers sweet things to him. You can plane find him on road bikes - a Specialized Secteur and a Trek District 1 so far. If you've overly wondered how we got into mountain wanderlust and how the MuddyMoles started, well wonder no more. There is 1 scuttlebutt on ‘Ride report: Friday 31 August – a short FatVelocipedeadventure’ We love to get comments from our readers - if you've spent a few moments to comment, thank-you. Dave humphrey says: Can you post your route up as the trail names midpoint nothing to me! Add a new comment, or reply to this scuttlebutt Posted on September 12, 2018 at 8:10 pm Leave a comment… Cancel reply Have your say – we'd love to hear what you think.If you have something to add, just well-constructed this scuttlebutt form (we will not publish your email address).*Required information.CommentName * Email * Website This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your scuttlebutt data is processed. Search for:Go! 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