1st Essex Festival of Filth
Saturday
6am: get up
7am: drive to Essex
8am: arrive Essex, Epping Forest to be exact. Everyone else is there. Time to get dirty.
Haven't been back to Essex in a couple of years so it was nice to be not far from one of my childhood stomping grounds, this time with the mountain bike in the muddy depths of Epping Forest. The mud was so thick my brakes failed multiple times and changing gear, if it happened, was a complete sod.
So... just a couple of pics to show you the filth we had in Essex... there's a piece of engineering underneath that mud somewhere...
6am: get up
7am: drive to Essex
8am: arrive Essex, Epping Forest to be exact. Everyone else is there. Time to get dirty.
Haven't been back to Essex in a couple of years so it was nice to be not far from one of my childhood stomping grounds, this time with the mountain bike in the muddy depths of Epping Forest. The mud was so thick my brakes failed multiple times and changing gear, if it happened, was a complete sod.
So... just a couple of pics to show you the filth we had in Essex... there's a piece of engineering underneath that mud somewhere...
Blue Skies thinking @ 1/23/2006 10:39:00 AM
12 Comments:
At Mon Jan 23, 08:04:00 PM,
BeckyBumbleFuck said…
Aw, I was really hoping to see a Lever-encrusted picture. ;) :D
*develops own image* Hmmm...I'm thinking that a romp in the mud sounds like a good idea. ;)
At Mon Jan 23, 09:25:00 PM,
Lever said…
My BBFK: LOL Well you *know* how dirty I get, so no muddy knee-to-ankle shots here dear, wouldn't wanna scare anybody would we? ;)
You're welcome to come and get filthy biking any time, you just gotta haul that butt o' yours over here a bit more regular... ;)
At Tue Jan 24, 03:38:00 PM,
rebekah said…
eeeeeeeeek. the obsessive compulsive in me wants to run and hide under a (clean germ and dust free) couch. :: swoon :: mud ... ick.
hehe. becky likes lever dirty. tee hee.
At Tue Jan 24, 04:08:00 PM,
Lever said…
Rebekah: LOL The thing is that it's now Tuesday and I haven't cleaned my bike yet (BAD, BAD, BAD)
And as for me and the bathwater afterwards... well I think half of Essex got flushed into Hampshire ;)
LOL
At Tue Jan 24, 05:20:00 PM,
Jay said…
I happen to like when things get dirty.
At Tue Jan 24, 05:47:00 PM,
BeckyBumbleFuck said…
*grin*
Sorry to gross ya out there, Bekah. ;)
SO, how's that ring around your tub, Lever? ;) *smooch*
At Tue Jan 24, 06:03:00 PM,
Lever said…
Jay: In that case you're coming out biking when you're over here, I mean, you have to go east to old Europe to escape the extremist hordes now! =)
My BBFK: What, you mean this ? ;) :p
At Wed Jan 25, 09:32:00 PM,
Brom said…
Hey, I hope you've left some for me. I'm turning into an Essex boy for a day or two! Nothing so energetic for me tho' However I might manage a stroll between the sups!
At Wed Jan 25, 09:51:00 PM,
Lever said…
Brom: Erm, I'm not sure Brom, rather a lot of dirt came back with me, and no, not any Essex girls ;) Damn, I passed through the old town on the way back too and didn't stop for a pint - I didn't have my Good Beer Guide with me either *sigh* Ho hum, next time aye? :)
At Sat Jan 28, 01:13:00 AM,
restless angel said…
The dirtier it is, the more fun it was. That seems to be the rule, anyway LOL
At Sat Jan 28, 12:52:00 PM,
Scrawl said…
Dude! I honour you with my first ever contribution to the blogosphere. (Dash it! Gave myself away as Brit already!)
If anyone out there wants any of that mud, I still have a pile of it in my garden where I washed down my bike.
And it wasn't even my own bike!
At Sat Jan 28, 06:15:00 PM,
Lever said…
Restless Angel: It was dirty, fun but very tiring LOL Seriously - I weighed myself and bike avec mud et sans mud and there was between 2 and 4 pounds of dirt on the bike :o
Scrawl: Hey Scrawl, I am honoured indeed, welcome :) Where's your blog? Where'd ya go and get muddy? Where's your bike? Or rather where's someone else's bike? LOL
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