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Quick rip with the dog the other day.

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Went out today, looking southwest over Stoke Down, West Sussex, UK.

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Chased these critters down the trail, they were everywhere.

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It was mucky as hell after the recent rain, my Assegai was completely packed and effectively a slick! Bye-bye front and rear Assegai next week.

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Good job I didn't have to brake doing this silly bit!

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One of the few big trees left near Vancouver, Canada. CBC Trail, Mt Seymour. The woodwork was a little slippery with the mud that was tracked onto it making for an interesting decent into the woods today.

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Seen a few places in UK where they have short sections of that wooden bits they cover it with Chicken wire as we call it . No stopping if you started sliding on that.
 
Ref my previous post #10760 about the 13-year old lad getting his scramble bike and himself stuck in the mud.
This was it on the day (the hottest day of the year).
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This was it yesterday, taken from right angles and to the left. It followed one of the wettest weeks for a while.
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That's at least another 4' of water! (1.2m)
 
Seen a few places in UK where they have short sections of that wooden bits they cover it with Chicken wire as we call it . No stopping if you started sliding on that.
The trail builders have used chicken wire on some of the steeper skinnies we have around here but tend to avoid it as much as possible, Crashing on it is like crashing on a cheese grater on your legs and arms!
 
The trail builders have used chicken wire on some of the steeper skinnies we have around here but tend to avoid it as much as possible, Crashing on it is like crashing on a cheese grater on your legs and arms!
Your going too fast haha . You get decent weather so probably shorts and t shirt.
 
Your going too fast haha . You get decent weather so probably shorts and t shirt.
Yeah…our nice weather let’s us wear our E-Speedos more often while riding.😉

I don’t like the chicken wire on small bridges. Aluminum expanded metal can be helpful but it’s very expensive. A cross-hatch pattern on a flat bridge surface is almost as good as raw-split-cedar.

Either way …slipping off a bridge sucks. A taco rotor or a face-plant is not a nice result. 🥲
 
It’s like a taco wheel …only smaller. You’ll need a rock-hammer, or a T-25, to straighten out the rotor just to get home. For gawd’s sake don’t try to eat it.😆
👍 😂 Completely different understanding on this side of the Atlantic. I thought more about body injuries than material damages.

Face plant:

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