Not another weather thread but with the constant rain and saturated trails what are those who have locked away the mountain bikes doing instead?

Bored as bored can be at the minute.

About to sign up for a gym.

Some road riding, bit of indoor climbing in the evenings, wedding planning admin, and spending a bit too much time on here and the i’net in general thinking about and buying bits for a new build.

It’s going to be like Christmas at my desk over the next few days!

Naked paragliding. Well I say naked. Not strictly true. I mean apart from the bow tie and flippers

Badminton – mixed doubles, daily turbo sesh. Still head out to the woods/hills on foot in the rain.

w**king and w**king mostly.

BMF. Still get wet, but not for as long.

still riding but obviously not as much. Did a 14mile loop on Saturday, took 1hr20min, usually this time of year I’d do it in about 1hr5min. State of the trails and the ground is just appalling to say the least, I had to miss one section as i just knew riding it would be waste of time and make the ground even worse. Nothing is inspiring me to go for a 40mile ride whatsoever.

So… more swimming and more yoga.

Bring on winter, hopefully it’ll freeze up and we get nice hard frosty ground to ride on.

I did attempt to go riding on Sunday as the sun was out. Arrived at my local spot and the relentless gloop that stuck to my feet before I’d even turned a peddle immediately put me off.

Just not worth it.

sold my mtbs after 15 years,and zero inspiration to ride this last 8 months….just bought my first road bike and some new weights for the garage home gym thingy

Gym for weights and cardio and, on alternating days at least, running. That’s assuming I’m not at work or hoping the grass dries for long enough for me to mow the lawn.

I’m planning on getting some swimming in the week too at some point. If I must be faced with a wet summer, I’d prefer to use it wisely, hence learning how to do front crawl the triathlon way and getting ready for my BCU 3* Whitewater ticket

Working – lots and lots of dull IT work, weekends, evenings the lot.

Really really looking forward to project end at the end of the month – a coupe of weeks patching up some of that work and then some time sat in a beer garden talking about bikes. No one here actually rides a bike do they? Don’t we all just talk about it?

At the moment I am dreaming about riding, I don’t care what the weather is like.

For me riding isn’t about the fitness so I don’t see the need to go to the gym or even get a turbo. I ride firstly for fun and secondly because I like being outside, fitness is a handy bi-product.

Having said that I’m going to start swimming in a few weeks, just to get out the house because I’m going a bit loopy at the moment.

Swimming, road riding, running, weights, gym classes, yoga.

Stop being such a big gayer and get on your bike, ya big Jessie!!!

Its only a bit of water. You’re not going to dissolve, you know? Its not like its cold or owt, is it? Go out and get muddy! You’ll enjoy it! Riding in the rain when its warm is ace anyway! 😀

20 miles off road commute home for me in a bit. I have no doubt it’ll be absolutely bucketing down! As per usual. So

Went out in the canoes, 😀 you still get wet, but at least you don’t get covered in shite and have to spend an hour washing the bikes….

ride too and from work and a load of necessary DIY on our house

I am toying with the idea of entering my first SDA dh race in 6 years on my 20″ on one 456 at dunkeld

Went for a run today as I can’t be arsed to clean my road bikes drivetrain again. Actually starting to enjoy it now and getting chased by a small herd of cows helped me keep going and pick my pace up a bit 🙂

Other than that I’m either playing guitar or writing/recording music, listening to music or watching tv/films.

scoffing pizza drinking coffee then oiling the motorbike chain before heading off towards either Mallaig or Broadford on Skye. Not sure which yet.

Digging.

Good luck Trailrat! I hope you mock a few big bouncers on the way!

methamphetamines.

have to spend an hour washing the bikes….

Does not compute?????

BINNERS stop being so homophobic… why do you I have to be ‘a gayer’ to not want to get my (Cove) Stiffee all mucky?

The bikes live in the house….If you go out round here in this weather they have more clay on them than a clayey thing from somewhere with loads of clay…
I have a mrs..dried clay all over the house + mrs does not compute either…
I hate clay.. 😥

Comfort eating

Looking at the weather forecast…

Well if they live in the house I suppose I can let you off. I just stick mine in the shed after a ride, I might hose them off if I’m in the mood.

I’m from Manchester, leaving the bikes in a shed does not compute either..well not if you want to keep em,
I live in Billericay now which is nice, but old habits die hard…

Working
Climbing
Walking
Camping
Drinking
Dancing
Buying things
Causing trouble
Mrs Peterfile

If you’re not MTBing, what are you doing?

If I’m not what?

Comfort eating

this…

Feild Archery on a bike 😉

Mountain Bike Field Archer by SGMTB, on Flickr

I got some road tyres for the HT 😐 quite liking doing some road work TBH, even with nobbly tyres

This week?

Wakeboarding
Sailing
Snorkelling
Drinking rum
Smoking cigars
Eating fish
Horizontal jogging
A little more rum

🙂

Last week? Well, riding bikes in North Wales, of course. 😉

Spending money that I don’t have, on bike bits I don’t really need, from ebay, to continue the line of Frankenbikes I have started to build in the garage, just to keep out of the house and out of the rain.
So far:
Kona – rideable
Corratec – still polishing the frame
Orbea – 3/4 complete
Rock Lobster – just acquired

Then there’s MrsCat’s bike, and bikes for Junior Cats 1 & 2 – unfortunately they want gears, which is a faff! 😀

Just done a road bike ride, the weather was pi55ing me off that much all day that I just got on with it and said “Balls to you weather!!!”

Did just over 1.5 hrs quite hard, enjoyed ever minute of it when I was out there although I was sat in moaning and graoaning before hand.

Had a shower and felt smug, big two fingers upto the weather, will do the same tomorrow.

unfortunately they want gears, which is a faff!

Hey, at least they’re “normal”!

😉

This week so far and to come

Climbing indoors (one day bouldering, one session lead climbing)
BMX at as many skateparks as I can get to.
Pop down to the Craufurd arms (local pub) for a beer and watch a band or two
Wait till saturday for the new Northampton skatepark to open and get over there with the lad..cross fingers for nice weather.
Might watch the England Olympic footy team play Brazil on Friday?