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Going over Danbury fro about 9:00am on Saturday will be leaving about 11:40 ish so i can be home by 12

Got a couple of people from Southend way coming along, one guy is bringing his youngster to teach him more about jumping as they're off to morzine in the near future so a little prep work to be done

i also want to spend sometime concentrating on how my bike fly's and getting it dialled in with a few tweaks here and there to the suspension.

All welcome obviously.

Would love to have a blast fella but looking at trying porc out this sunday and can only get one ride In

Will no doubt be going over one eve next week, or another early the weekend after...

I'm doing tough mudder this wknd so I'm out ! But 1 night in week is doable

Think I may head up there Sat although doubt I'll be that early.

Actually not that many jumps in Morzine, well lots of tabletops..guess if you can do the sketchy Danbury one your good for others . Things to learn for Alps are speed control, braking, hand placement and berms.

Warley is a good place for learning jumps too

Andy

His lad is only 10, but he's quick and confident, its just to practice technique etc

Wish i started that young, well i prob did but got distracted for a few decades and returned to riding later....like many on here !

Andy

Im going to pop over danbury tomorrow will be my first time there . Both my boys want to come with me as well so wont be zooming around lol my boys are 7 and 10 and never riden anything other than roads and sea wall. Time to see if there going to like it or hate it either way i will win cheaper bikes if they dont and more father son time if they do .

I was think of heading here with my son too . We tried out the mtb course at Redbridge last week end and had a great time

We would probably get there for sometime between 12:00 and 1:00... anyone likely to be around then ??

Yeah will be there over an hour drive for me so will be there a while

Ok whitty... we'll keep an eye open for you I've got a black Hardrock 29er and my son a black Ridgeback.

We won't be going fast either, at least not intentionally .....

No worries ill be riding my cove my boys are on a 20" ridgeback 24" carrera

Well that didn't last long for me... got there at 9, did about 4 runs, just getting comfortable on the bike then my rear brake went from crap to nothing, managed to roll down from the top to the car park with it pulled full on and it didn't slow me at all !!

so was on my way home by 10:25 which was lucky for Andy DD as i saw him riding there from woodham ? and gave him an uplift LOL

put a brand new rotor and new sintered pads on and still barely nothing, odd.

Yep..cheers for that.....from South Woodham Ferrers...although done the ride from Chelmsford before which is about the same and you can visit the pump track on the way...if you can dind the bugger

Was enjoyable day, really smooth and dry and felt myself progress it terms of speed, being able to pump better in/out of bombholes and get higher air.

I had a period of crappy brakes previously, they wernt gripping, and just got glazed all the time, tried various things, sandpaper down pads (but really only buying new ones was best result), putting on some carborundum grit was quite helpful but best result was to use different bleed method - using syringe method instead of squeeze n drip was what really made a difference, hav'nt done anything since new bike rebuild in October time and been to Chicksands, Danvury, UKbikepark, Warley and been fine all this time

Maybe you should try softer pads ?. The organic one or maybe superstars kevlar ones ? The metal/sintered ones need real hard burning in IMO and Ive found in UK with cold/wet and short stop/start runs they just dont get the good/long burn in they need, I've only used them in Alps where normal pads sometimes only last a day or so but you really can burn in metal/sintered ones well and of course they last longer.

Andy

I used the OEM pads first and its those i gave up on, just taken them out and put some sintered ones in as they work amazingly well on my old bike. Tried bleeding again 5mins ago, with the spacer in the lever locks up solid, put the pads back in and its crap !