Let's Get Those Invites Out! Filthcamp 2013

Ready for Filth Camp?

November 4th-8th 2013

It's time to gather up your rain gear, your waterproof boots and your prototype winter products. Come to the UK to experience as much bad weather as we can muster in a week. You're invited to come over and spend a week, or a couple of days doing some real-world product testing (and as such it counts as work, right?). 

We can't guarantee terrible weather, but there's a good chance that the trails will be wet, muddy and abrasive. We can always travel round the UK to find worse conditions... 

What's the point in designing winter boots if you live in California? What's the point of speccing 'weatherproof bearings' if you don't actually get any weather? Here is the chance to spend a few days getting wet and muddy, testing some product. 

Not very muddy. You can still see the chain.

Can still see the jockey wheels.

Early November is a great time to visit the UK. It's dark by 4.30pm (actually, earlier where we live in the valley bottom) and it's dark until nearly 7.30am. Average temperatures are 41-50°F, with 3.1inches of average rainfall in November. 

It's not all bad, though. There's an average of one whole hour of sunshine a day! (That's double December's average!) But it gets better - the pubs open at 10am, the chip shop opens at 9am and there are good, dark beers, fried foods and whiskies always on offer.

Wholesale joy not pictured...

So, fancy it? Of course you do. Just get in touch and we'll work out some fun stuff with you. The vague plan will start appearing on subsequent posts. Just email me in the meantime and we'll get this party started...