Has details of 2 uni events in the south west in June . They are
June 13th A muni ride at Haldon Forest. Meet at 2pm, lots of hills and mud.
-June 20th A social ride along the Exe riverside cycle path, passing the skate park and stopping to eat ice creams when ever possible. Very easy terrain (unless you try out the skate park) from 1.5 miles upwards depending on how far you want to go. For this one the meeting point is St Davids Station, Exeter. At 9.45am with the ride heading off at 10am. The timing is try and pass the skate park before it is heaving with skaters and there no room left! There are a number of pubs along the river for lunch after or during the ride.
Both these events are free to take part in. You are responsible for your own saftey during these events, if you can’t do massive drops don’t try them here:-) . Please come along and enjoy a ride in the company of other unicyclists.
Both these events are part of bike week , They are organised by Sarah Miller for South West uni meets.
Just one week till the Haldon Forest Muni ride , Just two weeks till the Ice Cream eating social ride.
For thoise who can’t decide which to do or want to know more about the terraiin read on.
Muni ride- meet at 2pm at Bullers Hill Car park Haldon Forest.
The routes both start with some down hill riding( on fire road for Route B), followed by some swoopy single track that is mainly down hill. Then there is a bit of a climb on fire road. Route A dives into tress for some up and downy single track and a down hill. Route B Takes a single track down hill to the meeting point of both routes. This is at a play spot with steps & logs and a stream to fall into. From here Route A goes and does some more gentle down hill followed by a challenging ride back to the car park. Route b will amble back up the single track and then climb on fire road to the car park.
Ice Cream Eating Social Ride.- Meet at 9.45am outside St Davids Station (Exeter).
This ride starts with a Very short section of road ride ( you could walk if you prefer) to get us away fromthe station and over the river. Then its a gentle ride on cycle path to the skatepark/Millers crossing chill zone. There are some slopes down from the path to the river and various large concrete steps and a mill stone. There is also a skate park, ride in there at your own risk, its not part of the ride but we’ll stop next door! After the skate park we will continue to exe Bridges ( more ramps and BIG steps alongside the path) and regroup to ride over cricklepit bridge and the other mill leat bridge to the Quay for Ice creams.
If you knackered by the Quay you could stop there, there are craft shops and pubs and the like and its only about a mile back to the station ( by the fastest route).
OR you could continue down the river for another 2 miles to the Double Locks Pub for lunch. They do BBQ at the weekends and the beer is rather fine with a canal side garden ( and kids play ground). Thats where I plan on having lunch:-)
Sarah
Hope to see lots of you join us for one or other of these rides, or both.
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Well i thought it was this weekend but phew i did not miss it! Treepotato you will be fine.Muni is amazing might need to lower your tyre presure.Went out on the Muni 2night just down to the bus stop nothing crazy forgot how damn fast it was!
Ben
On the Muni ride-
I’d recomend route B for those who havn’t done much muni before. It misses out some of the more technicial step stuff but does all the best swoopy bits( is a tad shorter too).
Sarah
This morning I poped up to Haldon for a quick ride.
I did the B route ( with one slight change at the end that made it harder), was riding for 1 hour and 5 min did 4.88 miles. So I recon that with a group it wil take at least 2 hours and 8 minutes!
The good news is that the boggy bits have nearly all dried up and some of the fire roads that were rutted have been bulldozed flat again. It was sooo hot today that riding in the woods was a GOOD thing, just wish the fire road up-hils had been shadier. On the whole ride I saw only two other people, both foresty workers. I aslso saw some really small blue butterflys and a little lizard of some kind, I heard lots of birds and I think I heard dear but I couldn’t see them. The dear at Haldon are very dark coloured and really hard to spot amoung the trees. The foxgloves are in full flower too and they look fantastic in the clearcut sections.
There was nothiong left even remotly appproching the boggyness of the boggy boggy bit that ate your shoes. The stream still had water in, so you could still get wet if you tried.
Expensive - parking at the station car park
Free- parking just over the river in exwick at a small car park at the start of the riverside path/park. ride about 0.25 mile to station.
Also free- parking near the Double Locks pub on or off the end of grace road. then ride up the river path about 3 miles to the station.
Small charge- park at Cathedral and quay multistory car park ( sign posted as parking for catherdral and quay!) about 1 mile to station by shortest route. This one is VERY handy for the quay if you only want to ride that far. Not bad as a in the middle car park for those who want to go a bit further.
On street parking in central exeter is scarce, the trafic warrdens DO work sundays.
Hope to see you there keg. There should be a least 5 of us around.
yes please! havn’t done any long distance on my 29r yet and really want to go on the camel trail but my parents won’t take me and i can’t go myself it would be great idea… who’s organising it then?
Treepotato you will be fine.Muni is amazing might need to lower your tyre presure.Went out on the Muni 2night just down to the bus stop nothing crazy forgot how damn fast it was!