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Family OAB local pootle ride - typical Scottish Hogmany - sun, snow, rain and wind all in one ride...Freezing cold, but worth it.
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Quick 20 miles on the road bike, thought i was going to have a heart attack on the first big climb but then started to enjoy it.
Still hate riding in the wind but glad i got out. Now lazing on the sofa feeling A) slightly smug & B) slightly terrified at my resolution to do a 100 mile ride every month this year...
Beautiful day and a lovely ride up into local hills. First sunshine of 2013 and I feel fresh. 😀
Then;
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No spare link in my pack and frustratingly 1 link away from being able to single speed it(had a chain breaker on my mini tool which I did have with me). Had to laugh, first 'event' of the year 🙂
50% of the return trip was coastable/pumpable so not too bad.
Quick lap round Cannock Chase, happy days.
22 miles in the bag for me.
20 miles up and over the Long Mynd a couple of times for me closely followed by 2 cups of tea and a big sticky cake. Thats the 1st resolution broken already!!
9 miles. Local. Just made it in before the inevitable rain.
Thur night!.... darkness bekons....
Quick blast round Swaledale.
Cheeky spin around FTD and a bit of off piste stuff. Nice and muddy out there.
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3 rides already this yr! First coming home at 2.30 this morning. Second was a quick 20 miler on the road bike at 9am which was suprisingly ok (suprised how many roadies out, but it was a lovely morning), and topped off with a ride across town to Newnham playground and a cafe with the family this afternoon.
Tag-alonged my son up boxhill on the SS while my wife complained the whole way. 7.92 miles.
The sun was shining, hurrah! Lovely little pootle. 🙂
I enjoyed a couple of hours on the road bike round the north cotswolds, lovely to see the sun and some blue sky after the incessant rain and wind of the last couple of days.
46 miles via Perth on the road bike. Nice and bright but the back roads were frosty/icy in the shade.
3 hour road ride with friends - a somewhat hungover affair 🙂
Tired legs and not enough sleep, but it was good to be out on the bike. Here's to a great year of riding!
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The sun finally came out, I'd abandoned the truck at my mates after a drunken party last night so decided to go back for it cross country to try and fix the hangover, a lovely day and excellent new year 1st ride.
This view back down the trail toward Saltwood Castle, nicer ridden down than up, but it's part of one of my regular loops.
New Years Day Madison Cross for me, rolled a tub (again) but fortunately the tire on my spare wheel was better.
30 miles on the road - honestly thought I was going to have to stop for an emergency poo as I had baaad bellyache 😳
(nice weather though)
A cheeky 20 odd miles down NCR7 to Balloch and back on the singlespeed today.
Nipping up to Comrie Croft with some mates for a proper bike ride tomorrow.
14 miles on the road bike, got a KOM so a good start to the year!
18 miles in the FoD in the bag. First time riding my own mountain bike in months (have borrowed a demo from work a couple of times, mainly ridden road though) and was great to be back on it.
Trails were of course muddy, but had held up surprisingly well in places I thought. Wet tree roots aplenty though.
Just over 20 miles round some local trails for me.
Surprised I made it that far after almost chundering all last nights drink on the first very small climb.
I think i need to stay off the beer for a while. 😳
anyone worked out the ratio of road to off-road rides in this thread?! A gentle 30 mile road pootle for us (munqe chick recovering from 24hr vomiting bug) on near-deserted back roads. Then back to spend £150 in the Cycle Store sale and £50 in the Evans voucher stampede. Hopefully wont be maintaining this miles/pound for the rest of the year 😯 😯
Rode to the seaside for an ice-cream seeing as it wasn't raining 🙂
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So far, were distances are quoted in each post, the totaliser stands at:
Off Road: 152.1 miles
On Road: 229.42
Ratio 1.508 to On road
(but many of the off roaders don't quote distance travelled, whereas most of the roadies do, so probably closer to 1.2 to 1 in favour of On Road)
Ugh - another (35 mile) road ride here. Was all my fragile head could stomach, but too nice a day to miss out.
Roadies and their miles, ' Dude you rode a bike on the road' who even cares?
"Nice bit of road was it?' Tarmac well groomed?
FFS.
19 miles and the sun shone ,rode some trails we've not done for ages 😀
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Got out this afternoon for 12 miles up into Wykeham forest. Winter bike got through 3 tubes on Sunday so I was riding the backup and trying to avoid anywhere the hedgecutters have been recently.
14 off road. Sunny but moist.
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