tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17701487588933209612012-02-16T18:04:18.362Z- Ride Mountain Bikes? Then come ride with us.... - Ride the North Downs in Surrey- some of the best singletrack in South East EnglandNirvana Cycleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12154038850235045996noreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770148758893320961.post-42447699499578434582011-09-23T08:32:00.002+01:002011-09-23T08:35:26.712+01:00

Sheltering in the barn at The Abinger Hatch & getting a welcome cup of tea during a particularly wet & muddy Sunday ride

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This was a day we got in some of Surrey Hills finest trails. The weather has been very kind to us over the last few weeks and today was no exception, we headed over to Ranmore unsure of what Simon had in store for us. This hill has some seriously steep and tech trails that leave your heart in your mouth, but a mouth that is grinning from ear to ear by the end. Today was just one of those great

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... But not far!As many of you who have been in the shop recently have noticed we have acquired the shop 2 doors down and will be moving into a bigger space in June!Yes after 14 years in No.3 we have finally outgrown her and it's getting a bit of a squeeze fitting all these luscious bikes and bits in here as well as hosting all you regular customers in the workshop!We're very excited about the

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Claire after just reading your last Blog, it surely looks like your in Biking Paradise but you know what, were not doing to bad in Surrey Hills, we've had some great rides recently and today was no exception. Many of us headed out today, i will not attempt to name everybody cause i will get it terribly wrong and forget somebody. But one thing is for sure, we were missing a certain french man

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So where did I leave you- Oh yes I was in Utah, Colorado, USA!Well I've been here in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada for 3 weeks now and you haven't heard much from me because I've just been riding sooo much stuff!I picked up my Banshee Scythe downhill bike and spent most of the first week riding up the chairlifts and downhill all day in the sunshine on dusty dry trails with tabletops and

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A new Riding type was brought to our attention today Albeit a little tongue in cheek, a mix of XC and freeride, hence the "Free-country-ride" title.But for me, thats just a Nirvana Ride, and thats what we love about it.What a fantastic day for a few reasons. Firstly the weather was amazing, the world is a better place when the sun is shining thats for sure, new skills had been learnt, new

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Checkout the MBR boys riding the local North Downs trails. Comments here please to name the trails- I'm pretty sure I can name them all but can you?

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Now where did I leave you... oh yes... I was enjoying dry trails in Moab and gloating! But then you guys went and got some Un-British Summer in May and now the North Downs sound drier than Utah!Since my last blog I've been on a group camping/biking tour on the North rim of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to see it so what better way then on my trusty old Lapierre Zesty. What fun hurtling

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Q What a fantastic day. Ten of us headed out from the shop today not a surprise considering the superb weather. Ranmore seams a current ride favorite at the moment what with such dry conditions, and it would be a shame not to enjoy the exhilaration of Abba zabba, blind terror, and numbskull while we can. Some riders were caught out by the low hanging trees on the way down, but Simon, Jo,

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Today's forecast is mainly sunny, dry trails at all times, plenty of singletrack, in fact more than your legs can cope with. Am I in the North Downs? Sorry guys no way- I'm in the arid desert terrain of Fruita Colorado and Moab, Utah. I've had 4 days riding so far and if you want to hear it in detail then better check out my blog as there is really to much grin factor and verbosity to clutter up

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With Simon away it was my turn to lead the Sunny ride today (albeit from the back)- much shouting was heard from there to redirect Gilles who was inadvertently leading from the front! 9 riders started out and I was determined to lose a few and beat Simon's record!  Up to Ranmore we headed along the North Downs Way at a good early speed then played on the big log ride before making everyone ride

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Great ride today in the best sunshine to date (have I said that before?)- but honestly today was a lovely day!We shot up to Countdown to Ecstasy that has really taken shape thanks to Jonathan's hard work and vision on Friday, we added a post jump trail clear up too. Then we took Sweet sweet bulbs which has bedded in so well and is really flowing now. Up to F&M and the tough bits at the start were

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Take a look at Nat from the shop playing on the DH tracks around Leith Hill.

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Started out with some trail maintenance on Countdown to Ecstasy- this has promise and more will come on this in future posts no doubt. Some of the guys had a go at riding the gap on it, so first efforts can be seen on the video. Much to do still though.Then we headed over to Summer Lightning DH and went over to walk up and find the trailhead to trails coming off Moonlight in Vermont that we had

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Jackie may not forgive me for the title of this blog entry (we're not old!) but that's nothing compared to what she'll say about the video!I've been riding with the old blokes ride on Wednesdays for a while now, so today was time for us old birds to get out. Jackie and I headed up to Ranmore amongst fantastic views over the Downs in all their glorious colours in the brightest Sunshine we've had

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Spanish for “The Handsome One”, The El Guapo is a 6” all mountain steed from Titus Bikes. Having spent many a Saturday gawping at it, it was time to take the bike out on demo.Sitting in the same category as the Lapierre Spicy, the El Guapo has tough competition, but with trips to the Alps, Wales and the Lakes becoming increasingly common, a 6inch travel “do-it-all” bike is topping many peoples

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As quick as the mud came it disappeared. Wow the last few days have been glorious sunshine and today was the best of the lot. So sorry to all you guys stuck in the office!9 of us started and finished today. Although after the 1st climb we lost Gary to 2 punctures. While he returned to the shop for first aid we rode Grievous Angel. Scott from Oz had come down from Essex to ride and was in at the

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Wow! After such a quiet Wednesday ride we had a huge turn out today- 15! And we were not the only ones- Peaslake stores were packed with hungry bikers out to enjoy the sunshine and warm weather even though the trails still had a few splashes of mud hanging around. (Especially at the bottom of big bomb hole drop ins!)We climbed up around Leith taking in some time to practice drops off at"Jab it

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Officially the quietest ride I've ever known! Simon had to man the shop, so Claire led the ride but only John Chef turned up from our "regulars" and a newbie- Tim who was on holiday in Dorking for the 3rd year running!As a local and regular I never think of Dorking/North Downs as a holiday destination but when Tim got us talking about it, it makes a lot of sense. They hired a cottage in Broadmoor

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Ah well we have had a pretty good stretch of dry trails and after all we probably needed some April showers but isn't it amazing how mother nature knows that it's a British bank holiday!  After 2 days of solid rain and clearly quite a few mountain bikers who desperate to ride had ridden anyway- the trails today were back to a layer of mud in most areas and plenty of evidence of mountain bike

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7.5 riders today heading out from the shop. The half was Gilles who returning from his knee injury (read down a few blog entries) managed to ride half of the first half and half of the 2nd half of the ride!We rode something a little different today as from the shop we turned right along the road turning left into Unum and climbing up to Ranmore on a very steep climb. Descending down through

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Now today's Wednesday ride just happened to fall on April fool's day- setting out we all wondered which one of us would be playing the fool. Just 6 of us set out from a very busy shop- sprinting up Ranmore to ride over the tree roll and down into Abba Zabba, Blind Terror and Numb Skull.Simon hit an energy crisis at Abba Zabba already and was refueled by some Power Gel and water both loaned out. (

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So Andy Watermand from MBR definitely shares our views of the Lapierre Zesty - what a great ride!Here's a video of the Zesty in action as part of Andy's testing-But to really see it in action you can ride with some great Lapierre riders on our group rides - or even take one out on a demo ride yourself- we have a medium 514 demo bike in store.

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OK the title is a bit dramatic but... whether it was the change in clocks last night (and the need to stay in bed) or the Boat Race or the Australian Grand Prix, or the fact we broke a rider or 2 recently- there was a surprisingly low turn out for the ride today and not only for us - the trails were dead quiet and even Leith Tower had no queue for its fantastic cake and tea stop!Well Simon, Simon

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Many have heard of Abba Zabba, some may call it by other names and have ridden it, others ask where and what is it. So today we headed up the North Downs Way near Ranmore and White Down car park to ride a linked up fun piece of Singletrack from Abba Zabba into Blind Terror and down to Numb skull and show the fun to be had here- especially as the conditions are so great up on Ranmore right

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We had a big crowd for Wednesday's ride despite the fact clouds were gathering and rain threatening- but there is some fear that the trails won't be dry for much longer.Heading up to Sweet sweet bulbs for some trail maintenance we shot a couple of jump videos- Nick showing us how we should be styling it up over the jumps. Then over to Heads Roll where inspiration spread and Gilles was in form and

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Weather was still holding out today but when the wind blew it was arctic, forecast is a return to wintry conditions next week so we rode lots of dry trails from Ranmore to Newlands and around to make the most of it.Watch the video of us riding Abba Zabba- I missed Steve's crash and breakage of trees. Fortunately he was bruised but not broken.The rest of the ride we just rode and rode at a mellow

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Once again the sunshine brought a good turn out, 8 of us went up to session heads roll.Some (like me) stuck to the existing jumps where skills still need to be honed while Florian created something new and the brave amongst us rode it in a varied range of styles, slow fast, sketchy, smooth.... Matt had a close encounter with his top tube which raised his voice a few notches for a while. Gilles

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The sun is shining on Surrey so there was a great turnout on Wednesday to ride some dry dry trails.We headed up to Sweet sweet bulbs for some trail maintenance and after testing out the good work done by all there we rode via Heads Roll on up to Leith Tower, over to the quarry jumps for a few sessions and then back on Worth the Mither into Windy Willows finishing down the Rookery which has a new

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So I disappeared off to Spain to ride in the sunshine (more on that later) and did not join this ride so I've no idea what went on but luckily Christine subbed for me on the videos and pictures so here they are.Photos click here

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No I'm not going to get all political and talk about the "new values" of society today. Rather- this is the sequel to the blog video below from Wednesday 25th Feb (scroll down) about "Will she, Won't she ride the New Values drop off?"A group of 9 of us headed out from the shop at 11 and today was really about getting some good mileage and playing on singletrack taking in some challenges along the

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Today's freeride group ride had surprises for each and everyone of us. Everyone surprised themselves with how far and high they jumped but some were also surprised by that thing called gravity and how quick the ground can rise up to meet you sometimes! There was definitely some helmet product testing going on.We set out with 8 and decided given our skills levels we should do a gradual warm-up and

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Whether you ride with the shop group or just ride the North Downs/Surrey Hills.....If you have bought a bike, frame, forks or component from our shop and want to tell us all about it.... We want our customers and local riders to tell us what they think of the routes, share ideas, techniques or antics.We want you to share your feedback on the equipment you ride with- how does it ride? What's it

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Not a big turn out for today's ride, probably because of a forecast of slight rain, although that failed to emerge. Just 5 of us, Chris back for more after his baptism last week, Ken, Gilles, Simon and Claire the regulars.So as I'm just one of the boys when it comes to riding, Simon decided I needed to become a "Proper Beau" master. So we sprinted on up to Peaslake and up Pitch and turned onto

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I'm gonna start right off the bat and apologise for my lack of camera battery management skills, so today's photos come from my iPhone and clearly I'm just learning the timing for action pics on that! I came home and found the charged battery sitting on the side- oops!Luckily I was bailed out by newcomer Christine from San Francisco who took loads of pics and even got me on video doing intrepid

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Many of you may have read our Rowan's review of the Zesty way back in January 2008,  it seems the bike mags have caught wind of this wonder of a bike and are loving it as a longtermer test bike.Here's the latest review from MBR's Andy Waterman: -Want to test ride one yourself?We have a Zesty 514 medium demo bike available for test rides from the shop- just give us a call.But if you've already

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You may have noticed in the bike mags this month quite a lot of reverance for the Lapierre Spicy that MBR and MBUK have both had on test.Check out the reviews here and if you don't believe them or you want to try them out for yourselves we have a Lapierre Spicy 316 medium available for demo rides at the shop. Why not take one out and write your review or comments on this blog. (and if you already

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OK so we all come for the marvellous mountain biking but inspired by the fact that 2 new riders joined us today because they found us on the blog I thought the theme for today would be what brought you to ride with Nirvana Cycles?Today Chris joined us as he's on leave from the RAF having just got back from Afghanistan and being a northerner down south he doesn't know how to find the great local

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It's valentines weekend and clearly those of us whose first love is really our mountain bike were out for a ride- 8 of us started out. The Sunday rides from Nirvana Cycles are advertised as free but this one truly became a FreeRide, unintentionally we ended up not piling on the miles this week but instead finding anything that we could rollover that might trip us up or we could launch off to get

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Team Lapierre ZestyWednesday's ride saw a rivalry between the Turner riders and the Lapierres, with a Cove Stiffee and a less than Zesty Orange thrown in.Claire, Matt and John were riding for the Lapierre Zesty team with his and hers blue 514's and Matt's bling top of the range 914 in black. We slightly outnumbered the Turner 5 spots for a change who were down to 2- Gilles and Richard but just

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Sunday's ride was a real melee of experiences. 12 riders rocked up at the shop ready to roll at spot on 11am,  despite the forecast of freezing rain and snow due this afternoon. As usual some old regulars and some new faces, some new bikes and some old trusty rides! Calvin having broken a Titus was riding his newly built Mojo SL and I was riding my new Lapierre Zesty 514 which has already won my

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Simon and Jackie's son Joe (aged 9) had a great idea- riders need to lube their bikes before and after a ride so....here is the new free lube station on the shop front door. For all you regular riders, so come snow, ice, rain and sun- make sure you lube well- help yourself!

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It cannot have escaped anyone's notice that its been snowing lately! So the Wednesday's Old Blokes Ride from the shop was going to be a fun one. For those who haven't made it out to the North Downs while its been white here is a taste of what its like...5 of us turned up, Simon, John, Ken, Brian and Claire and headed on up Rookery on some crunchy ice to start with - which (if you know the stepped

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Having heard the forecast on Friday for heavy snow on Sunday/Monday, I,like an excited kid on Christmas eve, kept looking out of the window on Sunday night watching the white stuff falling and settling- "oooh tomorrow I need to ride!"Monday morning and it was still snowing and we had about 20cm on the ground already in the North Downs- bike gear on and I was off skidding up the bridleways to

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A good turn out of 11 people on Sunday considering it was around 1 degrees and the forecast promises heavy snow this afternoon/evenings. 11 riders turned up, some old faces, some ones that had not been around for ages and some totally new riders. Gilles led the ride with Richard sweeping up the back of the group.Trails were reasonably firm as it was cold so the mud was a little more frozen. From

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I came across some piccies I took in the summer of the Saturday freeride ride & felt, as it was the only day that the sun was shining last summer, I should put them on the blog to remind us of things to come..... we hope!

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In December Nirvana got itself a Demo Lapierre Zesty 514 and since then I've been waiting for a dry weekend to go and shred some trails. Finally last weekend, the sun was out, the sky was blue, the wind was blowing in the right direction and my riding buddy Sam didn't have a hang over. I took a little time setting the fork and rear shock up which is made very easy on the Lapierre as they have a

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When Giant brought out an addition to the maestro range in the shape of the Trance X, the hole in their range was filled. Previously there was a Trance with 4.2" of travel & the Reign with 6" of travel, but nothing in between. So as the extremely happy owner of a Trance, when the Trance x came along I couldn't wait to get my hands on one. Not quite sure why really as the only time I felt maybe I

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A guest review by Adrian Nash  Bike Wars – Episode 1 – Arise the Dark LordAfter my trusty steed gave in after a couple of years freeriding in Northern Italy it was straight on the phone for the new Reign X1.Unfortunately due to demand the bike wasn’t available (huge demand) whilst I was in Italy and had to wait a few more weeks, and the magic phone call came on Friday that the dark sith lord had

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