Mike's Space

Went to Cannock Chase with Paddy, Chris and Ben last weekend. Managed to get two bikes in the boot, the other two hanging off the rack on the back and all four of us quite comfortably in my car.

I hadn't been to Cannock since we used to go with the Warwick Mountain Bike Club and that was way before they had the 7.5 mile purpose built "Follow the Dog" MTB trail there. I was quite impressed - ok, it's not as challenging as Coed y Brenin (where I was again a few weeks ago), but for a local trail that you can get to, bomb round, and be home again by lunchtime (ish) it's pretty good. The trails and terrain is a bit similar all the way round - mostly quite sandy soil single-track trails winding their way through tightly packed trees - but fortunately this is my favourite type of trail so I was happy :)

Annoyingly I somehow managed to rip my back tyre (how is that possible with Kevlar bead tyres?) Luckily it didn't puncture - I only noticed it when I saw the inner tube poking through the hole while washing the bike afterwards!