My ride yesterday was more akin to cross country gloop skiing than mountain biking.

Trails round here now have a layer of mud over a layer of leaves over a layer of mud over a layer of root-ridden chalk. For some sections I could have dismissed with the services of a front wheel in favour of some sort of snowmobile type ski arrangement. At one point I came to a dead stop, both feet on the pedals and dead upright in the middle of a 2ft deep flooded rut

Character building stuff….. do you think it’s possible to get trench foot on a bike?

Yeah, great isn’t it 🙂

Certainly keeps you on your toes… well what’s left of them.

yep, the Cotswolds are pretty filthy now…

tri bars on a mtb??? 😯

I’m guessing TD

Ooooo. avert my eyes……bad bike equipment clash

is that a bike rack on yer handlebars ? …and your fork appears to have lost a leg.

And i thought bar ends on risers were bad…

ho ho I’ve never heard that lot before. It’s *functional*, ok? 🙄 Long distance/fast touring setup.

Do you wear an aero helmet and skinsuit when riding?

Fast touring in that mud?

btw, Flatfish got it right

td?

http://tourdivide.org/

dont worry if the metoffice forecast out to xmas is right well all be frozen up so bikes will remain nice and clean:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_weather.html

mmmmmm…………..head down into the frozen wind – aero helment certainly needed now, but you could put something extra on it to make it more functional like a wooly hat?

Makes sense for the td then.

Oh how pleased I am that I don’t live in the clart infested South. This is all I had to wash off after a 24 mile ride in Swaledale yesterday….