Monthly Archives: February 2009

Ride report: Sunday 15 February – Bookham to Leith Hill

The Moles head en masse to Leith Hill to put Colin’s new Dialled Bikes Alpine through it’s paces, amongst other things…

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Ride report: Wednesday 11 Feb – Norbury loop

A short night ride round the ranmore and Norbury area in wet, muddy conditions.

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Reigate Hill tea room

A review of the Reigate Hill tea room which sells a limited range of food and drink for walkers, mountain bikers and road riders.

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Ride report: Sunday 8 February – Bookham to Reigate Hill

With 13 inches of snow earlier in the week, only the committed were out for a Sunday ride from Bookham to Reigate Hill.

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Scream if you want to go faster

What is a decent average speed for a MTB ride? And how much effort is it to average over 10mph?

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In the pipeline

A round up of new bikes that the Moles have acquired in the past few weeks.

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Is this the end of On-one?

On-one and Brant Richards part company in a surprise move to all those who thought (and still think) they are one and the same. Is there anyone who can fill his On-one chief designer sized shoes?

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Ride report: Norbury Park and Box Hill in the snow

It was a blast down the hill with the snow begining to freeze and back down into Fetcham/Bookham. Distance wise it hadn’t been a long ride, exertion wise it had but riding in the snow had been a great experience for us who see it so infrequently. Amazingly we’d had no big offs and the laughs per mile had been very high. It was kids playing in the snow all over again.

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Ride report: Sunday 1 February – Ranmore and Leith Hill loop

The start of February sees us heading to Leith Hill from Bookham for a great days riding in the woods. But managing four punctures over a collective 240 miles was a bit of a shame!

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