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New London Off Road Routes

Well I've had a couple of fun weekends with Stumpy, trying to find reasonable off road routes to go mountain biking in London.
I've added a few GPS routes to the main site:

1. Mountain biking in Richmond Park and Wimbledon Common.

2. Long trek: Richmond, Hampton Court, Chessington and Epsom

Here is a MotionBased viewport of the long trek to the North Downs. You can folow the links to see more details of the route.

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Stumpy FSR - Girls Bike

Can you believe it? It seems that I am so short, that I have to buy a girls bike!

I went in to the bike shop to pick up a men's Specialized Stumpjumper FSR comp, but even the small is too big for me. The women's frame is only just ok, but I have to make do with the puffy colours.

I'm not really complaining, its a beautiful bike. I ended up getting the Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Expert, which is just a tad above my current skill level, but it was the only one in stock. What can a girl do?

I pick it up tomorrow, after they have removed most of the seat post length. Can't wait to have some fun this weekend. Got to get my skill level up quickly, you can't have a bike like that and then start behaving like a wuss on the trails.

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New Challenge Events

Here is just a collection of endurance style events, I need to pick one to aim for:
The 2-Day Polaris Challenge - I've fancied this since I was a kid and saw photos of grimey women crawling knee deep in mud with their bikes.
MTB Orienteering or Trailquests