[Closed] Am i dreaming? Where did you ride today?

Got up, wasn't really in a great mood for riding. Figured I'd feel better once I was out. As I was getting my bike ready it started raining which kind of put the last nail in the coffin. Maybe tomorrow.

Gutted...

Dry, hard and fast running trails up Wyre equals broken collar bone for me 🙁

Now i have to stay in and watch everyone else having fun up there. 🙁

Chilterns. Road ride though. I seem to have developed the first signs of tan lines.

Cannuck.....dusty as an nuns chuff. ****in ace times!

chilterns are rubbish, don't go there.

Over near Dover blue skies and dusty trails

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Mendips. Blue skies and windy, bloody great!

Went out for a quick blast and it was lovely. Looking forward to getting out Monday for a bit longer.
BTW I've just realised what your hashtag on twitter actually was. I read it as AML dreaming. Thought it was a velocake thing. 🙂

22 road bike miles, longest I've done for ages. It was great 🙂

damp and dreich Mugdock. Trails were great though !

Now all that's needed to round things off is a beer garden

gentle 46miles on the mtb in the Cotswolds, pity the blue bells aren't really out, but nice fast dry trails and sunshine!!!

After so many months of crap weather it really makes a huge difference.

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The wyre was packed, introduced my Krampus to the wyre but was with my daughter so couldn't go blasting around.

Went to the wyre this morning only been a few times so not got a clue where to go but with the help of some of the friendly locals managed a good ride on some pretty tricky for me trails allround fab ride

Just got back from Swinley. Did the blue and red a couple times. Knackered now. Super fast and dusty. They've done a good job over there..

Sunday dream just got better 8)
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Hour's tandem ride, then an hour's solo. Perfect

Alpujaras, Sierra Nevada. Getting used to loose surfaces. (I went down).

Went for a local spin on the CX bike and now have arm pump from all the baked hard ruts & horse hoof divots.
Only once I was back did I notice I have the slick tyre wheels fitted!

Porridge pot for the gorrick enduro. I too thought I had tan lines, turns out it's dust stuck to sweaty legs. 4 laps is a stretch for me and my legs are in tatters now. How the fast boys and girls can knock out 7 laps in under an hour a lap is beyond me.

Stanmer Park in Brighton. I was going really fast today. Awesome

Dry fast natural trails in the FoD today , don't think we saw more than a couple of others and the car park and cafe were heaving 🙂

Pennine Bridleway from Clowbridge Reservoir all the way home.

We saw:

TwinklyDave. He didn't say hello 🙁
A poorly, wobbly lamb.
Dust.
A funfair.
Lots of Bluetits.

It was great.

A bimble along the Downs Link from Cranleigh to Slinfold and back. First ride for sprog (5) on his new Beinn 20 and he's now upstairs asleep so job done 🙂

Oh yeah I picked this up this morning as well. Awesome condition. Few minor scratches but I'm not fussed. Probably the best condition frame I've ever owned 😆 unfortunately I won't be able to get it built into a rideable bike for a month or two 🙁

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Dry trails and dust, dust, dust. Awesome.

Jon, where have you moved to? No rain at all in the Newton-le-Willows / St. Helens area.

I haven't today as came down with a migraine last night so it wrote of the early start planned this am, I got out yesterday on the CX bike and it was brilliant. Sun is still shining so contemplating a spin later, I'm just about to jump in the bath after a day of scrubbing the house though so may end up just drinking beer.

Now with added pic.

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Quantocks this morning before kids. Got there at 6.40 back at 9.20. Great. Dry. Sunny. No wind. No mechanicals or punctures!

No riding today, I indulged yesterday. RaceKing tyres on the hard tail and a quick (for me) 20 miles in the evening. Me and the dog did a 6 miles pootle (peace be upon Pook) in the morning too. Dog walking and breakfast on Ipswich dock this morning, which lasted until this afternoon. On-call tomorrow so I'll ride to work for the luggage run and try to do something close to the office after until the clients return.

100k on the roads of Suffolk , excellent bit sunburnt though.

50 road miles for me as a training ride for the London 100. My god it's not until you get on a road bike that you realise what a shite state our roads are in! Bloody potholes and no suspension are a mare. On the up side it was sunny and I didn't get knocked off by a car 🙂

Been up to Rivi with usual riding partner and Greybeard from the forum, 22.9 miles dust ..................I mean DUST on the bike did a quick circuit of Healy Nab as well.

One puncture (me) one OTB (me on San Marino) eek to busy trying to figger out why the front tyre felt the way to it then ROCK! OTB not to bad considering the speed I was going lol
Cracking day though if a little over cast weather wise. 🙂

1st time in a couple of years that the packhorse trail is all but bone dry... Pint at The Riverhead - lovely jubbly 8)
Oh, and, the 'sanitising work' the national trust did there last summer it actually very good - ruddy gurt stone flags across the 2 worst bits of (what would normally be) bog... only concern is more work is planned...

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I went for an early spin around gisburn wet cold and misty, no I am not kidding

Pete

Ride through Dorset's bluebell woods today...
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Wow, check out that roe! 8) There really is something special seeing deer amongst the bluebells.

Nice pics too, dare I ask whereabout please?

Bolton to Preston using a combination of roads and Sustrans, round the Guild Wheel and then back the same way.

Took me 7 hours with a lunch stop at the docks with 4hrs 45 moving, a total of 56 miles - the furthest I've ever been in one ride ever.......

Dry and dusty though - feel absolutely tired out now and the Dog keeps looking at me to go for a walk......

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I'm out with Anna tomorrow BTW, I'll pass on your regards 🙂

Blackcap trails then on to stanmer. Lovely.

Thank you Dave, it looks like deepest Dorset. 🙂

Please say hello to Anna from me. 8)

Great Welsh Desert, or a bit of it anyway. At Maen Bach on the loop around Mynydd Mallaen.

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Dartmoor looking and feeling fast and dry
Destination was Shavercombe waterfall

Cracking ride over Cut Gate:
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33 miles on the singlespeed yesterday, including a sneaky peek at the new IOW MTB circuit at Cheverton Down, and the Wayfarers IOW randonee today. A 100k lap of the Isle of Wight. Beautiful day. Sparkling seas, blue skies, lovely home made cake in various village hall food stops, but just enough of a wind to give me a snottery nose the whole way round.

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A sunburn inducing swift 60 miles round rural north Norfolk on the road bike for me. Fantastic. Warm, beautiful and quiet. Knackered with slight sunstroke this evening.

Early road ride. Drizzly with a bit of a headwind. Nice but nothing amazing. 😐

Tomorrow looks like it might be good though...

Cranham woods were in Great Conditions driest they have been since March to May in 2011.Loads of people around.

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took the back roads and wood land paths to the raemoir for lunch.

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took the causey mounth over the hill towards cove to see sonnyjim

then headed out of town via the riverside path to newton dee

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garmin said it was 23.4 degrees.

After my swinley ride I took a leisurely ride exploring local bits..
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Skills Day with Ed @ Great Rock. Prepping for PPDS

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Raining when we got there, but well worth the six hour round trip. Learned loads, crashed a bit 😉

Cannock again for me today. All off-piste though like back in the day. Great weather, company and riding. No time pressures either!

Where the hell is all this blue sky at? Because it sure as hell wasn't at Walna scar, coniston this morning 👿 in fact if you got above 300ft you could only see 20-30yrds in front of you due to the mist/low cloud.

Double post

Well seeng as I am camping about 3 miles from Llandegla it would be rude not to
So I introduced it to the fat front singlespeed

Such a nice change to feel th back wheel sliding in the dust!

fathomer - Member

Cracking ride over Cut Gate:
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Leadbasher whats the trail like there? im in Camber and i never rode there in Dover is it worth a drive over to Dover ?

Brechfa red and black yesterday then Whites and the wall at Afan today then on the way home did the blue and red at the Forest of Dean.

Did Stanmer - Wild Park - Stanmer - Blackcap and back yesterday. Started in the rain (lethal wet teflon roots vs super grippy tacky dirt), finished in the dry after 26.5 miles and 3000'+ of climbing across the finest local DH runs and singletrack. Almost there with doubling up rollers and gaps, I can feel my brain finally starting to trust me... My singletrack flow at race pace has become nicely three dimensional in the last fortnight! Still aching...

Hamsterley forest with mates.

Trails were good and the muddy climbs were dry.

There was someone trying to push a child in pushchair up a red run though - REALLY found this at the bottom of Brainfreeze - girl with proper rabbint in headlights at horde of fast mountain bikes on final descent of a fast (marked) mountainbike trail. My mates came across another family letting their small kids on scooters play around on a section of clearly marked trailhead that could well have had bikes crossing at speed onto.

Also a group of people partway up a fastish singletrack descent trying to push their bikes back up - no idea what that was about - maybe sessioning but not wise in the middle of a busy day. At least stay off the trail if you're doing this!

Great day at Hamsterley though as always!

Camping near Coed y Brenin for the weekend but managing to stay away.

Pont Scethin yesterday.
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Up Cadair Idris today.
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Frikkin awesome.

I had my first ride on my new Dirty Harry in the Wyre and the conditions were near perfect. Left it until 4pm to start though so had the trails to myself, didn't see another rider in there. Loved it.

I did the Isle Of Wight Randonee yesterday on my MTB. Overtaking roadies is so satisfying! did the 100km route in 4hrs 20 mins 😀

I had a craking ride last night on the North Wales coast. Trails are dry and mentally fast. Only issue was loads of sheep mincing in the way and a lot of wild horses. Still, this weather needs to stay, I like this riding!

Couple of pics.

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