Let's Offroad!

Sunday morning mountain biking around Sutton Park featuring TheStang, BigFootCookie, FatBoyFat and MrNoxious.


We started off with a gentle warm up along the park road before hitting the first trail of the day, pausing briefly to down saddles and retrieve a dropped water bottle. A singletrack climb through some unforgiving gorse bushes, not too challenging but a fine way to attune to the terrain. Meandering around cows, cow shit, dog owners and their suicide-minded dogs intent on sniffing out TheStang, alongside a golf course and finally along a sweeping meadow. Cue first incident of the day, a deceptively shallow ditch decided to claim BigFootCookie's front wheel for it's own leaving the cookster nowhere to go but arse over tit. Luckily his lid took the main force of the impact scooping out a divot of turf. A big smile from the cookster allayed any fear of further injury, just a lesson to us all, and we were on our way.


The rest of the morning saw us traverse a number of different trails, each with their own distinctive aspect of fun, tight forest tracks over raised roots, winding singletrack through the forest, open parkland rising and falling along rough tracks and loose stone downhill runs. All in all a good mixture of fast adrenaline pumping riding interspliced with gentler freewheeling in some beautiful surroundings, all not 10 mins from the centre of Birmingham.

We will return.