5 hours riding my new jumpy bike. I can now ride stuff I couldn't this morning.
Unfortunately I now ache so much I am no good for anything other than a beer and a sauna
The sauna is warming and my wife has bought me a dozen London Pride.
I love my life.
that is ace.. I love you loving your life..
My day.. not so good..
No riding planned.. 🙁 but instead I was going to meet some folk and pick up a very rare and very cool family heirloom.. sink a few beers.. get some gossip and learn some family history.. 😀
The car broke down on the motorway on the way there though.. RAC couldn't fix it either..
ho hum
Up @ 6am to watch the GP then off to Hound Tor to meet the Dartmoor posse for a great ride, caught the sun a bit, watching WSB on the video as I type, off out for a curry & beers later as I've got Monday off 😆
Even Shinythings made some new friends!
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princetown loop with zee mrs, very nice indeed.
Spent most of the day going to the dump and back.
being a grown-up sucks
Loop in the sun and very nearly dusty trails. Beer and bullshit with mates afterwards.
Might put my wife on the for sale/wanted section. 😕
Spent most of the day on the sofa with a dodgy back, I did manage a trip to Argos for a toaster. Utter shite. I think I have got cabin fever. Aaaahhhhhhh. 👿
On the bright side I have just been for a spin round the block on my new build and the old back held up quite nice. I'm not in work till Thursday and I can feel a mid week trip to the chase coming on. 😀
I've had a terrible day, so won't spoil this thread with it 🙁
Glad you're having a good one though, I'm sure it's been well earned.
Second cow from the left is saying 'you has got wyder bars than me, extreeme doods'!
🙂
watched the GP
Been out round Gisburn with the wife , had a beer in the pub .
mrs trout now making lamb hotpot while I fill in the census and drink another beer .
pretty nice day
Classic Ladybower loop, with a couple of mates just getting into proper hills. No unavoidable puddles or mud, how long since that's happened in the peaks?
Shite - I'm halfway through an OU assignment which I [b]will[/b] finish today one way or another.
Riding in the sun tomorrow to make up for it though. Somewhere here 🙂
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Up at dawn for chilly 2.5hrs training on the road bike, back early to let Mrs take our girl to see The Lion King while I took the boys to see Scotland v Brazil at the Emirates. Brasil can play a bit and their fans are bloody lovely.
short ride with my kids doing a track stand eldest pushes me over thinking it would be funny [clipped in]trap thigh between frame and bars so no proper ride today
Spend the morning trying to figure out what to do today, and the rest of the day either cooking, cleaning, cleaning my bike or trying to relax and watch some tv.
Still knackered after last week's riding so trying to catch some rest before next week.
In Sweden visiting friends who also ride so borrowedhis giant anthem x race bike and went for a 2 hour ride, fantastic loved it!
The only problem now is his bike is full xtr Olympic rims on dt Swiss Sid teams and weighs just a little more than my big toe, and wow what difference sprintedthe last climb. Now need to shave some weight on my cotic!
Been fettling my funduro today, freed up a stuck throttle spindle and it cost nowt, although i had to more or less take the bike apart to get at the carb. still, a good result.
continuing the awesome wife bit, Mrs Cheeze fettled a lovely sunday roast and daughter of cheeze fettled a lovely victoria sponge.
no wonder i cant drag my fat ass up those exmoor hills!
Put the 120mm Rebas on the Anthem X last night and did a cracking 5 hour ride from the front door this morning. Stonkingly good route with the added delight of meeting the gorgeous Mrs Gtth at about the halfway point, who'd done the shopping in Buxton and brought me a belgian bun. Got home for a late lunch and now totally crashed out and ready for bed. A good day.
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Cumberland Brook (for those that don't recognise it - and I was going down it, not up as it might appear!)
Spent most of the day going to the dump and back.
Get a van it'll change your life.
Bought some new plants and potted them for my new deck 😉
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Volunteering on a Sustrans Trade stand at a cycle show, met some lovely people and fellow bike riders , and some just starting to ride, got a free cake and cup of tea.
Then got home and the neighbour had left me a 16 portion black forest gateux, and a lovely thankyou card, for making her a portable ramp so she could get her husband up and down the step outside in his wheelchair.
Piece of Gateux anyone, or will i forced to eat it all.
just come back from 2 hours snowboarding, on my new board and bindings!
Would have been mtbing but had a busy night dancing last night and felt it this morning.
It's a bit of a secret but mtbing is so much more physical than boarding.
Felt ace!
WCA - great stuff but I take it the long-suffering Mrs WCA didn't watch? 😉
Terrific solo ride in one of my favourite areas - Watership Down. 8) Chilly to begin with but eventually the sun came out. Spotted some bluebells too! Reached 58 kph on a descent. 😯
Quiet day just pottering around at home 'doing stuff' with Mrs SM and SM junior.
Had a cracking day yesterday though; 4 hour loop around the Surrey Hills followed by beer/wine/whisky and loads of thai food over at a friend's house. Very late night and proper knackered today.
up and out on the trails at 0730 with a couple of mates, 2 hours of dusty fun around cann woods then back home...lovely walk around the woods behind the house with dog/kids followed by dinner (cooked by the mrs as it should be) and 2 bottles wine on the decking with relatives, feeling sunburnt and slightly pi$$ed.
top day.
Brilliant road ride from nottingham to sheffield. The sun even came out at the end 🙂
Got up, watched the GP (about 3hrs after real time I hasten to add!). After that headed off to Woburn for a very successful afternoon of heading down bits of singletrack I'd spotted recently but hadn't investigated - found a couple of new-to-me trails that were very nice, happy days 🙂
we did the eastleigh 10k road run. me and my gf first road race. but boy was it manic at Flemming park getting parked, getting to the toilets and getting our free t-shirts.
Enjoyed more than i expected though and will be doing some more runs but hopefully off road.
cant wait to get back on the bike though, roll on light evenings!
Woke up late as was tired after my neighbour decided to have a fight with some youths. Went and did a 40mile ride on and around the south downs and didn't feel knackered as much as normal. Came back to a clean house and a roast and about to crack open a Doombar!
25 miles round the hard-pack trails of Leith and Holmbury in the sun
felt like summer
my gears weren't working, my knees hurt and I've got a cold but I didn't care because it felt awesome to be out in t-shirt and shorts on dusty trails
finished off with a lager-top by the Thames
😀
Busy being the brilliant husband. Entertaining the kids ( horse riding, park, ice cream shop, grandparents) while mrs B slept off a nasty cold that appears to have struck her the morning after a night out drinking with old school friends. Funny that. I can't even cash it in with a ride any time soon due to injury.
Superb 4 hour bimble around Hit the North country.
Ran into Harry and Derek, but let them go on as didn't want to humiliate them with my rad skillz and 'ting.
First time properly off road for Ms Spanner since her shoulder mashing crash in June last year - all healed for summer, wahay!
Just got back from walking in the lakes with the wife,son and dog.On the way home we called into Lancaster for a kfc. Nom nom.
3 and a half hours in Surrey Hills this morning replicating the ride I did yesterday, my arse hurts!
BBQ this avo and a little cap nap now watching Back to the future.
Painfully slow and cold 46 mile road ride up the A6 to Matlock and back, rushed through the door, into the shower, shepherded MrsSwadey, 2 kids and the outlaws out the door to just make our reservation at a pub for Sunday lunch, outlaws took the kids out and MrsSwadey dropped me off at home so I could wrestle a half rotten willow stump out the garden, just finished that when they all arrived home so I could take Junior to swimming club, ate a hot cross bun for tea trying to ignore Mr Bean's Holiday on the box, put the pets to bed and got the kids beds/baths organised before filling in the census form, now awaiting a call from my mother so she can thrill me with the minutiae (sp?) of my parents sad existence for half an hour
*goes off to see what beers are in the cupboard.......*
Well yesterday's ride resulted in a catalogue of destruction: destroyed rear mech, bent hanger, pringled wheel, twisted chain, frayed shifter cable. All down to a branch.
So repairs were undertaken this morning: new med shadow XT mech, new hanger, wheel trued, new cable, replaced a section of chain.
And then a short ride in Rowberrow Woods where the trails were in fine condition.
was planning on going out today (onto the ridgeway/marlbrough downs) overslept though.just watching tv/on internet practising guitar.am going to make up for it tomorrow though 🙂
two good things today. Went for a local, short, ride. I also resolved a family dispute by agreeing to see rango with daughter re wife and daughter could see eagle of the ninth. Rango was great
oh, and I saw a big bull with massive nadgers - think today was his lucky day - though the constant trail of mountain bikers going past might have been putting him off his stroke 😀
Loving mine today.
Spent this morning tinkering in the garage, trip into the LBS at lunchtime to dribble over frames that cost more than my car and buy a £4.99 bit that's not 100% what I needed and didnt quite fit, and was only £1.25 online, but it was sunny and I wanted to get the bike built and ridden!
So gentle SS pootle to shop
2 hour road blast, took longer than expected after getting the worst cramps I've ever had, but still felt good with the sun on my back and the late afternoon sunshine gradually lengthening my shadow. There's something oddly hypnotic about watching your own shadow out in front of you, legs pistoning away.
Roast dinner to finish 🙂
Did a skills session today with Richard from All Biked Up in the sunshine on Holmbury Hill.
Great fun riding and I learned loads. Top day.
Nice deck Flip!
I've been getting loose on some berm's and popping off a 8 foot drop in the woods, getting torpedoed around and having a right laugh all fuelled by wine gums and good banter.
Yeah i built it in a couple of weeks on and off. Its level acces for my wife and has blue and white led lights 8)
Watched my daughter gain her next gymnastics grades ...with distinction! Very proud of her we all are.
Got home mid afternoon and managed to get out in the sunshine on the bike. Trails were, once again, super-gorgeous.
Pizza & beer for dinner, and now settling down with a glass of red wine.
Life is good.
Did the 100k at the LVIS audax, awesome event.
I want a decking now 🙁
I had a brilliant wife once....
...she wasn't mine though! 😮
I'm here all week folks; special discount to pensioners on the Wednesday.
Liverpool half marathon this morning. Lunch in Liverpool with family, then pootling around with work stuff this afternoon.
Not a bad day all in all.
A lovely ride in the autumn sunshine on the Sunday best mountainbike. Explored some potential new trails.
Then coming home to the wife baking biscuits. Om nom nom.
off road 10k run this morning, which was suprisingly enjoyable. Afternoon spent in the mendips for the first time, didn't get lost and found some brilliant trails, and the sun came out! Just had Fish and Chips and a pint in the local, now sitting down watching the Total Wipeout final with a rolo yoghurt [i]that was half price[/i]! Even better than the half price pot of chocolate is that mrsbunk was with me the whole time! And she got dinner! [s]I'll see your brilliant wife and raise you one day![/s] 😳 Maybe not...
Quick ride first thing then spent the day fitting out my new shed. I'm in shed heaven 😀
fitted my new cranks, went for a spin round the block then put it in the shed
decided kimbers junior is old enough for the buggy so removed the pram atatchment put the seat in and went for a stroll round syon park house and gardens and in the cafe we saw.............
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she wasnt dressied as queenie though 🙁
Road ride and shopping with our lass yesterday, donnington for the world superbike round today. Top weekend in all!
watching the Total Wipeout final with a rolo yoghurt that was half price!
I really don't think that can be bettered! 😆
Result.
Great day starting with waking up to stunning blue skies.
Kids were at a Beaver Scouts sleepover so a leisurely start followed by a 25km local xc ride with a mate. Got back and took our wives for a very tasty Sunday dinner at the village pub.
Collected kids and took them to my parents as my brother and his fiance were up visiting from the Midlands. A lovely chilled day with great weather - just what weekends are about.
21 mile ride yesterday and a 20 mile ride this afternoon,Had a play on some jumps and drops,rode home,missus was just serving out Cottage pie,brilliant,had a few beers,now off to bed.
Up to watch the GP and then out for 25 mile local ride, got back and did the hoovering.
Prepped the food for roast tea and then went for a walk in the sunny afternoon with missus and kids then back for roast tea and joined by family.
Had taken the kids for a 4 mile pootle yesterday - need to get the them back up to 6 and 7 milers, but thought I had better start slowly, as they haven't ridden much during the colder months.
Woke up with a stonking headache and no ID in a corridor on an RAF base, and had to sneak out without alerting anyone to my presence, then over to MIL's for Sunday lunch, afternoon nap on the settee, prawn curry when I woke up, then home for junk food and a nice cup of tea.
I shall be beasting myself on the road bike this coming week as penance for the shennanigans.
Brilliant ride in Edale area, with brilliant ladies from Shecycles.net
Can't afford the petrol to drive anywhere good to ride so it was just local road riding for me as usual. Before that I went out for lunch with my parents. Not much else happened this weekend!
Have found out about some local singletrack that's apparently alright so I'll give that a go next weekend! And may start digging at a potentially good dirt jump spot just a few mins drive from home 🙂
Nice ride at swinley.
Till I fell, knocked myself unconscious, needed an ambulance and a brain scan. Now the right hand side of my face looks awful.
Hey ho... 😉
Best part of five hours' ride on the Quantocks with some mates yesterday.
Local XC enduro run by my excellent club today.
Rode home afterwards through the forest into a perfect, hazy spring sunset. Bliss.
VERY tired legs now 🙂
Up at 06.30 yesterday and me and the brother in law went over to the peak district for the first time and done the ladybower classic loop plus a few miles extra as we took a wrong turn 🙄
Had an amazing day the weather was superb and can't wait to go back to the area again and explore some more. Seven hours on the bike and totally knackered when we got home!
Happy Days 8)
40+ mile ride on the trusty single speed road bike - up around Forest of Bowland.
Absolutely b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l day in the sun!
Now my legs hurt.
mrsconsequence and I met up with torm and explored tunnel hill, stopped after 1.5 ish hours for a drink and icecream at the pub then went out for another lap/bit of exploring. excellent weather and dusty trails 😀
came home to discover mrsconsequence had the urge to clean her bike properly (always have to do it for her so this made my heart sing with joy), spent time chilling in the garden.
then i cooked a big ol' fish pie with bumper portions of veg mixed in and a salted periperi, paprika and crispy cheese topping. ate it in front of the F1 with a friendly visitor then watched "plains trains and automobiles" before bed.
lovely!
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And I wasn't even being brave. Poo.