Sounds good Rootes.... No idea what to expect, but i'll give it a shot and let ya know. Seen some youtube vids.... Looks awsome fun, will be a nice change from the flatty south east! Some 2min + runs!!

Roo, its easy for me to get a road bike, as i have no idea about them, it wont matter what i buy! Whereas a mtn bike i'll be well fussy, even tho i dont know anything past DH these days really. But, its too easy for me to say what i want, i need the money, and 1st on the list is the 09 Supreme Dh

Guess this forum malaki really does help, just assumed it was full of kids with too many biased opinions!

Cheers boys.....

Kent (gravesend)....

So Cwmcarn is about 3hrs away??? See how money goes and i might have to make it a more regular thing!

sometimes the right music on certain dh's actually forces you to go faster (does me anyway). Im considering getting a moto trainer aswell because my speed aint exactly fast either.

ha only just realised your Greg, thought the pic looked like you
Riding chainless down cwmcarn is good last time i went i was pretty bored as its quite easy but then 3rd run down i snapped my chain and the rest of the day was way more fun, stops bad habits like hanging on the brakes means you only use them once hard just before the bend instead of dragging for 20ft because your scared.

yeah its pretty sweet, really enjoying it the jumps are f'ing huge, you get like 2-3 seconds air time on most of them! blew up engine on Sunday though so gotta fix that this week £240 worth of damage
  Yeah porc is pretty f**ked atm, I am building a new track there in the next couple of weeks, its Mike's design but it'll be something new. meant to be 30 seconds long and flat out (easy) the whole way with a couple of big jumps. apparently thats the old course from the Kent DH Champs, back in the day which Steve Peat won, and he was quoted saying the track was "30 seconds and totally mental" so Mike wants to rebuild it for some big revival next year.

what i sometimes use is when im out on my xc rides(which is quite a fair bit) i listen to good riding music (UNKLE, etc etc or pretty much any biking DVD soundtrack) then when im riding DH runs i dont listen to my music but i sing the tunes i listen to in my head (or out loud when i ride past ppl just to get dodgy looks) this helps me loosen up quite abit as i tend to find myself tightening up which then causes me to ride s**t. it has made me faster when i do this but each to their own i guess!

matt

yeah haha, she said about that, yeah he is mental the start of the track comes over the pond on that big log!! its gonna be so f'ing hard to ride.

I think i will have to purchase a XC bike. I dont mind riding that in the evenings around the lanes..... Better than nothing! But, its fooking money! I gotta get me DH bike sorted first! Just about everything on it is bent, and now no mech as of today!