I’m in the lakes. Whiteless Pike and Rigg Beck loop today. Exhausting, terrifying and climb. after climb after climb.

The rain stayed off so it was all good.
Where you off?

Im off, I need a shower.

I will be changing the CXer’s tyres back to Griffos, or Baby Limus, from the Almanzos that have been on it for about 8 weeks now.. then I plan to head to QECP and ride until I puke.

That’s a cracking ride Jekyll, love those fells.

Me and the GF are in Sedona – added this to our US bike trip after seeing Hannah’s pics of her Liv demo a little while back.

So far we’ve hit Grand Junction, Moab and Sedona with Durango, Colorado Springs and Denver still to go 🙂

^^^ Not in the least bit jealous vince 😀

My head has been filled with so much light and space.

Cheeky bit of SW coast path action with a nice view of Verity

I cycled round the road to Ennerdale from Buttermere & then up n over almost to Honister & turned down Warnscale. Out of my depth.

Grizedale was pretty sweet yesterday afternoon. Three day weekend for me.

Is that bit above on the north face bimble? Looks good!

It’s probably one of the enduro tracks, though not one that I’ve raced and there were a load of trees down across it.

Not far off the North Face loop though.

You have to go off the North Face to get those views over Coniston, too. How wet was it over there today?

Going out tomorrow with the kids to beecraigs

First outing on her since the ardrock and fell in love again ,Shoulder up Robs Rocks and got lost for a 4 hours ..loved it

Well it looks good. Not done Grizedale yet but it’s on the list 🙂

Local to me there Stevedoc.

I only managed 30 odd km on the road bike around Saddleworth this morning. I wasn’t feeling it at all.

Kielder Forest ..natural stuff where I fell in love with a new girl who came whimpering up to us about two miles into the ride ..probably not used to as much affection that me and Jaco smothered her with until we found out where she lived and had to say goodbye..I liked her so much I shared my lunch ..didnt even find out her name ..but a lovely friendly dog..

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First ride loaded up and Bivi on the Slate cannot fault it left home at 10pm couple of pints then ride out to Bivi on Mickledon then Brekkie at Elterwater followed by lots of gravel sections on the way home just in time to watch my daughter play footie.
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Local one for me on the Tripster in CX mode, BW, FP and Canals a plenty 😀

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Nothing, I cannot locate a creak on my bike that is driving me batshit crazy. It;s a **** hardtail, how many things can it be?

Mech hanger.

Another 30km on the road round Saddleworth. Felt a bit better than yesterday.

Just local woods for me today. They’ve already got their winter coat on in a lot of places. Good job I have a bottle of Rhino Goo…

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Mech hanger.

Thanks but it is not Mech hanger/mech interface, seatpost/clamp/saddle rails, cassette/freehub interface, crank/chainring bolts all of which were stripped, cleaned, re-greased and re-torqued and the BB was swapped out for another. Oh and a full gear cable inner/outer were done as well as messing about with the Thru-axle.

I just can’t ride the thing when i’m not 100% happy with it, a creak means something isn’t right.

Nice and loamy in the woods this morning, despite all the rain we’ve had.

I’ll pop back with the pics.

Rode twighlight enduro at fod yesterday. Although I failed to take any photos! Ate shit on stage 2, could barely pedal the rest of the 2 hours it was open! Went otb on the last stage and smashed my shoulder. Sore today!

Here you go, I’ll even throw you in a selfie…

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Nothing, I cannot locate a creak on my bike that is driving me batshit crazy. It;s a **** hardtail, how many things can it be?

Seat clamp?

Seat clamp?

This was the offender on my road bike.

Outran this shower, just about!

Thanks but not the seat clamp. As I indicated in my previous post the dropper post was removed from the frame, cleaned and re-greased..and the saddle and the clamp.

Also the wheels were tensioned and trued by Willy Bain not 2weeks ago. I’m all out of ideas, may take it back to willy and plead for help..I’m sure it’s the rear hub/wheel.

Did you try greasing the rear axle?

Had that one last year.

Yeah, not that and I was experimenting with various axle tightness. Don’t have a spare axel like a maxxle stealth or I’d have tried that instead of the Stanton one.

Led a Fat Lad at the Back social road ride for 28 miles round south Derbyshire at a leisurely 12.4mph average. Managed to keep 13 riders of diverse ability satisfied.

There was cake

And one of the riders discreetly dropped of the back of the group to deal with a recently deceased pheasant, and has posted up a great pic of it coming out of his oven this evening.

Swinduro today – good course and great vibe. Was only 12 seconds off my first ever podium in vets too which I’m very pleased with. Reckon I could have pushed harder and found 1.2 seconds per stage if I’d known!
To be fair it’s more of a multi stage XC race but was a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

My creak today was the stem faceplate.

My elbow is still tender over anything bumpy, after crashing a few weeks ago, so I’m limited to the road

Some awesome pics the Jekyll! Got to go there sometime!

Bit of trail maintenance (reopening an old trail that had fallen out of use), then a usual Sunday pootle round the (Autumnal) local woods.

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It were a bit nippy up the top…

Bit warmer…

Cracking long weekend riding in Davos at Enduro2, some of the toughest transfers I’ve ever done, 2 hours hiking through the snow wasn’t a highlight at the time 😀