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Assuming the Hill hasn't been officially re-opened by this time can we ride there on our own bikes?

BTW i dont want anyone replying to this who doesn't actually know the answer to my question OR someone linking me to the Aston Hill website saying 'look here for all information about the hill' as it doesn't answer my question.
Cheers
Nick

Im sorry if i am a hipocrit to what you have said about not replying if you don't know, but this question has been bounced about a lot, and no one knows.

Think about it, if the hill has been closed all this time, and is closed when the demo day is on, it aint just gonna be the odd 1 or 2 riders riding there is it?

I should think the answer to your question is no, and they will be looking out for stuff like this, but try your luck and get in contact with the demo day organisers. They will be far the wiser than me, and as it is their demo day, they will be the ones controlling who goes where.

May be worth a shot contacting andywas@astonhill i think his name is?

Cheers.

try demodays@futurenet.co.uk if the FC cant help (you have tried calling them right?)

cheers andy.tried calling them but no answer

All,

You will be allowed to ride on the Demo day (6th April), it will cost you £5 with no exceptions to this. Parking will be in the field accross the road (the one used for races), if you are being dropped off by a parent or someone else, they will have to go into the field to do so (and this is where you will pay), strictly no pulling up in front of the gate or at the side of the road. We will be using a system on the day to make sure everyone riding has paid, and all money taken will be put back into the club to cover the cost of hiring the field and some other costs associated with the day, anything left over will be put directly towards future projects on the hill.

So, please come along either for the demo day, or just to ride, everyone is welcome, and remember the more money we raise, the more we can put into future projects on Astonhill.

Thanks

THANK YOU:D:D

So are we expecting the hill to be open as of then or is it just a one off thing untill it does open?

wait, if we're not parking we still require to pay £5 right (seems perfectly acceptable but i'm a tad confused)

and it would be £5 per rider yeah? i think its probably easy to understand but its been one of those days  :-\

Yes, the £5 is to ride not to park, and it's £5 per person.

Rootes

what the opening hours??? im there... dont care if i have to ride the 20odd miles to get there:P:P:P

WOOOH ive missed it so much

cheers
paul

OHHH YEEEAAAHHHHH!! Welcome back aston hill!!! Canne wait!

i cant wait to get back there, i havent been in ages and £5 is sooo acceptable for a day of nuts riding. It has to be one of my fave places to ride in SE England. i love it!!

Bloody typical that I cant ride then! Oh well I guess if I had to be somewhere else missing it, cwmcarn is a good place to be ;)

Damn straight james! We'll just have to have a mint time at cwmcarnto make up for ti!!!

Harry il ride the iron horse for u then!.
that u booked for test.

will be nice to get a ride a aston, havent been there in so long.


Have astonhill/ FC done anywork, or been maintaining  aston while its been shut? does anyone know?

Jamie, it's booked for andy now, you should've asked earlier  :D

oo .i got my otherbikes booked anyway.

I really, really want to ride at aston hill, it's been such a while, annoyingly i'm away for the demo day! anyone know how to cancel a booking ride on the demo site?

what have u booked will? I'll be interested in borrowing ure slot as long as it's a beast ure testing :)

Will, email them on cancel@bikedemodays.com with your booking details, and ask them to transfer it to Andy (if you want  :D). You'll need andy's details though.

booked an ironhorse sunday team in medium, ill get back to you regarding what time it is

I can't believe it i was so looking forward to riding there it has been so long since i was last there but guess what the demo day is on the day i get back from skiing and im pretty sure we get back late in the day 
Ohwell i just hope it opens for defiinate soon.

Hunter                             ;)

cheers will, i'm gonna be there all day from about 9 onwards i reckon so whenever it's booked for is fine with me, just copy me in in the cancel email (pm'd) and then i can forward them my necessarry details!  ;D

Ok just to be clear...
I just want to turn up and ride my own bike, I have £5.
Do I need to email or just turn up and ride?

im pretty sure you can just turn up and ride your own aswell dave... i am and most of my mates are....... none of us are booking out bikes as we just going to use our own

what time are you up there??? haven't seen you in well...... think its over a year now lol

do you remember what bike i had last time you seen me??

cheers
paul

I'm usually a lasy *choose your expletative here* but I reckon i'll get down their early for once as it's one time only. What time does it open?

I reckon you were on your dads kona and you're mate was on the trailstar. I guess you could work out when that was from your impressive bike chronological timeline hehe.

Haven't riden since Cwmcarn in september so I wanna get back on it. Hope the weather is nice and i'm over my cold which i've woken up with this mourning but i'm sure i'll be there either way. Will be good to see you and the boys again mate. :)

Ill be up there early as possible. Mite see you up there dave, think so of the other lads are coming up aswell ... if they get released from revision haha.

Ooo turns out my GF wants to come down to watch n possibly have a go. Can you book out a decentish DH bike for the day? Or is it only for a period of time or too late to etc? Cheers.

Hey dave see you there it should be an awesome day. Will still only be my second ride since cwn carn with you. i rode the other week and realiused i had forgotten how to ride.

Its gonna be pretty packed.

James

Haha it never leaves you James...it's like riding a bike  ;)

lol i got rid of the trailstar at one point but then ended back with it.......hate dads kona lol i got the nicolai now so you wont miss me and a green TLD lid.

MY list of bikes isnt that bad compared to ezzy he is FLYING ahead now lool

but yea its going to be packed i hope to be there for 9-9.30ish :)

see you soon dude

cheers
paul

Looks like I'm going to have to make a rare appearence then :p

anyone know what time the gates open on sunday?

says on the new news thing it'll be open 10am till 5  :)

anyone see the BBC News Weather report,this bloody country ::)

I think it might have been harry who said this but you go faster in the wet.  :P
If not wheres the problem in a lil drifting  ;D

I'm well excited!

Nah,thats sam hill wannabe talk right there

Also it said snow

Hahaha it was me nick, I apologise!  :D

ahhhhhahahahahahah itll be fun to slide around

I probably won't go if it snows. Last time I rode in the snow I fell over twice from just putting on the breaks.

aston hill in the wet... gotta love them roots!  ;D

Anyone know the answer please??

Look on the website dave (theres a link on the 1st page) and i think you can only book a bike for a set amount of time, not the whole day.

don't like riding aston in the wet! :'( I have had a bad  ::)

Smanderson

Ahh that brings back memories. I take it you are refering to the time when we rode in the frost lol? Frost/roots/clay type mud don't mix, they turn the tracks into ice rinks.

cant wait  for tomorrow.
guna be a good day riding:)


and the demo bikes, are for a 30minute session.

I thought you could pay the £5 and ride there all day? 30 min session is gonna be 1-2 runs, i havn't booked one all the decent ones went so fast. Ill just ride my bike...  :-\

yes.
you pay the fiver to ride all day, on your own bike.


but if uve booked a demo bike, when its your time (according to ur booking), you get the half an hour on the bike, then go back to your own bike after.

Botheration i forgot to get all of my bookings off my mate whos in Paris. He had all the good ones booked  :( If i just went up to the demo blokes, if i quoted his name would i get his bookings? Cheers.

Not unless you had some more details about him.

1st time i rode aston it was after 1 week of rain :D

problem is i dont have any proper tyres lol 4x for me then :D haha and top of DH3 n so on

see you all there :)

cheers
paul

Just thought I'd warn you guys, theres alot of snow at my house and I live 10 mins away.

yeah should make for a good time i just feel for all the guys over at Cwm Carn if this is what the weathers like over there lol

From Demo day website

Ha, look at all the snow.
Everyone still venturing up ... ?

I'm off now, cya there guys.  :)

could'nt get lifts :(

if anyone wants my bookings i'll email you, they start at 1.30
they incude bikes such as:

iron horse 6 point 6 17"
diamondback Sabbath medium
Lapierre Pro Race 400 Medium / 46cm
Yeti 575 small

message me quick for details

Just got back from the demo day. Crashed the bike 3 times and smashed the brake lever! Fortunately the people at the Iron Horse tent easily fixed it and I wasnt charged. Despite the weather being crap id like to go again (and not do the xc coarse)

Crashed 4 times on the piss easy xc course (200m of it) did we ben? lol. Tried to 1 foot that last jump on the 4x...so nearly came off and i bottomed the forks, just cus i saw a guy no foot it and wanted to try  :(

Is it just me or is every1 so drained after that? Pushing back up was hell.. slipping like a tw*t, walking back up took the best part of 20 mins!

I swear some1 spiked my drink i almost collapsed from energy loss, even though i took plenty of doddy's free red bull.  ::)

Great day,love the changes to DH4 and black,mud made things intresting,hope its dryer next weekend mind

Had a quick ride round the car park on one of those gearbox bikes,wow,it was completly effortless pedalling,i so want one now.

Hope that BBQ people are up next weekend too,those cheesburgers were soooo nice

Aww nice ride today.


Noice and muddy.

pretty cold day but was well worth it:)


demo bikes were abit battered after all the mud they gathered!

A good days riding even if it was a bit muddy.
Does anybody know if there was any photographers up there, would love to see some photos.
cheers

yeah there were photographers up, im sure their details will appear at some point...

mint day, got sh!t covered in mud and stacked a few times but other than that it was great  :)

absolutely great days riding although covered in mud

 there were loads of photographers as some of the event martials were taking them as for were they are i have no idea
 
 im glad redbull was free as i forgot my drinks lol

  
 anyone else find there bikes slowly getting worse due to the mud throughout the day?

It was just the fact that my bike got so heavy with every run, from the mud. Everything else behaved :D

 i guess this is kinda the same as me, started to feel the chain running harsher and harsher and the rear mech just cloggin up after every run

 pushing in the xc route was a nightmare as the mud was so thick and horrible it got everywhere

 lol  all in a days riding

Was snowing this morning mate, but somehow the track was still dusty+drifty as feck! No mud at all, the minions had a chance to shine  :D

Should be up at aston on tuesday, can't wait to rip it.

I'm scared of the prospect of cleaning my bike. Dh4 seemed easier than last time, mainly because i didn't fall off out of the 3 or 4 times i did it. I can never carry the red run to the end, i dunno why but i always think if i go left ill end up on the xc course, so i hit dh4 at full whack expecting it was the red run by accident  ::)

Bit of a shame that not everyone who said they would turned up, but i suppose only men ride the mud! ;)

The new bits on the tracks make it so much faster and more fun, well done John, Rich and everybody else.

Not everyone could come, around aston the snow there was nothing compared to some of the blizzards i heard some people saying they had who were driving from a while away...

That would be me - got to the Medway towns in Kent - from Canterbury - couldn't see anything through the snow so turned round and came home.

Shame - was really looking forward to it,

ahhhhhhh man i'm so bummed i missed it  :(

i will organise lifts to aston far more in advance in the future!