[Closed] how was your bank holiday?

Rode Saturday. Rode Sunday. Rode Monday.

I'm happy.

Will hopefully ride Tuesday as well 😀

Good. Rode in the Lake District on Saturday, chilled out yesterday & watched the Belgian G.P. on the telly, & did a bloody good ride in Calerdale today.

Met Hora on his new 5-Spot today too !

Rode some awesome techy singletrack on Saturday. Sunday was bike fixing day followed by beer & pizza whilst watching Breaking Bad and Entourage. Today was a quick ride down the valley trail then back home on the highway. Not doing loads of off road riding til I get my end of season lift pass 🙂

Built a bike on Saturday.
Rode it on Sunday.
Went for a country-lane pootle via a pub lunch and had ice-cream on Sidmouth seafront today.
Successful long weekend I say 🙂

Rode, rode and rested. Hopefully riding 2-3 more times this week.
Make hay etc...

slept most of it.
my ticker is getting worse, tired all the time.
🙁

I was at my grannys funeral 😥

Changed tyres over on Saturday, rode on Sunday and then felt shocking for the rest of the day and not so clever today-bloody viruses 🙄
But thanks for asking....

rode kiroughtree like a tool on saturday, rode dalbeattie like a genius (for me) on sunday, despite hangover.

thoughts to those above who didn't have such a happy time

Rode sat @ afan, Sunday @ Wyre, local one today followed by an afternoon @ a local village fate. Excellent weekend all round!

Camped near dolgellau saturday night, rode the beast at coed y brenin for the first time on a hardtail, having only been to cannock before (my those rocks were a shock to the system!).

Then climbed snowdon today, got back and had fish and chips.

Brill.

Family time, not ridden my bike for three days 😐

I got out for short rides yesterday (Ashton Court) and today (Mendip). Until my bod stops hurting I can't ride "fast" or knarly, but it's really good to get out.

Big contrast between the two rides: AC is sprinty, pumpy incredibly grippy corners and synthetic (in a good way), and Mendip slog up and bomb down, slidey, rough and in places wildly overgrown.

I rode the FS for the first time in months and its such a different feel from the HT. Nowhere near as responsive in cornering or unweighting, but picks up and keeps downhill speed insanely.

Bikes eh!

Found a few unmarked tracks at Haldon, saw Dan Atherton eating crisps, finished packing for hols. Nice. Hope you all had fun.

was ok no riding though 🙁
highlight was probably Tea Duels at brentford steam museum, steampunk exhibition?!
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drinking

dancing

grand prix watching with the worst hangover I've had in a long time

drinking

frolicking

oh and a hint of bike riding (to the pub)

Long weekend away with other half and kids in our new caravan a bit rainy but had a great time.

Just got back from great fortnight in France with the caravan. Took kids out for lunch & trip to cheap cinema to see Cars 2. Back to work tomorrow. 🙁

Hoped it would be a good time, but I can't begin to express what a dark place I'm in at the moment 🙁
Not sure how this week is going to end & if I'm honest I don't look forward to the night!

Good, introduced brother in law to mountain biking, did Cwmcarn inc. the freeride bit riding my Areil no crashes and passed a fair few people as well as going uphill at a fair pace (semi pro footballist) 😀

Back up Cwmcarn today with the children for a walk and play area visits and lost my Oakley Jawbones, Arse! can't afford another set for a while either 👿

it was a holiday?
explains why the radio/tv is all fo0ked up

kimbers that steampunk darth vader is too cool. As is the kid in a Ramones t-shirt 😀

cheers he is cool!

Bike-free weekend, was at the Reading Festival. Think I'll need a few more days off to recover Great time.

Not bad. Went to the Velodrome on Saturday to meet some friends and have aq quick look at the new BMX track. Rode Sunday and Monday. Drank and ate far too much. Did plenty of chilling, plenty of napping. Ace.

stripped and rebuilt my DH bike on saturday and replaced a DU bush on the mrs Trance. Rode my Mega at Mabie Sunday and Whinlatter today as all my local stuff is really wet. Nothing on my bike snapped. Discovered that jumping 780mm bars through a 790mm gap concentrates the mind. Awesome weekend.

Great weekend. Tested out the newly-acquired and loaded-up Fargo by cycling from Trowbridge to Honeystreet on the Kennet'n'Avon Canal, then up to West Overton to join the Ridgeway, pootled along to Cholsey just in time to make closing time at The Four Teas (awesomely good cakes'n'coffee - pay it a visit!) and to stay over with rob2, beers were had 😀

Then back again in reverse on Sunday. Spectacularly lazy day today 8)

Friday - work.
Saturday - work.
Sunday - work.
Monday - work. And packing.
Tuesday - off to Switzerland - the alps - for 2 weeks walking and biking with my better half. Couldnt be better!

Started Thursday flew down to Geneva over to Morzine three days back to back riding more All Mountain and a fair bit of the main tracks, packed up and flew back last night. Awesome bank holiday weekend, back to work today.

Daughter is away so we gave her room the full make over.

So then, bedroom clearing, trips to the dump

visit Ikea

paint room

build furniture

stick shelves up, wire up lights

install new hard drive into an old laptop and install windows etc etc

Hard work, satisfied with the result but hardly turned a pedal. 🙁

Mad dash up to the borders. Mabie on Saturday, got caught in biblical rain downpour halfway round, kirroughtree black on Sunday and then Drumlanrig yesterday. The new bike got a decent work out and I'm now just about sorted I think.

It was great! Wife and son are at her dads down south, so went up to my mums in Northumberland. Rode into scotland on the road bike, fairly gentle ride, 75 miles, no real climbing, but stunning day, quiet roads and amazing views. then back to Mums for sunday dinner, watched the vuelta time trial, had a snooze, got home about seven and watched eight hours that I'd recorded from the night before. Very enjoyable!

Friday-paddled Canadian canoe down the Thames and camped on a tiny island overnight. Beers and bbq.
Saturday-paddled home again.
Sunday-a mate and i DJ'd at the Gorrick 12 hour race under a bridge in the woods which was fun.

No riding for weeks with dodgy achilles though. Did i miss summer?

Mine was boring.

Mates were all riding and racing, and i'm still injured. Ended up going for an epic drive around snowdonia and using up over half a tank of fuel over 200 miles around the mountains yesterday :D.

The road from Bala to Festiniog is EPIC. Slow, but twisty and up and down, with epic scenery.

Picked up new car 2ltr tdi touran, much more pleasant drive to inlaws in Wales than usual. The counter balance to this nice thing for the weekend was having my chain snap and headset play up less than 2k into a 50k loop I had planned in the Black Mountains.. grrrr

No bank holiday here. Worked four 12-hour shifts between friday and yesterday. That's 18 shifts in the last 21 days. Arms and legs are completely free of scabs, that's not a good sign (means I ain't been riding). 🙁

Why thanks for asking,
Fri eve full xc race mode on my local trails, Sat lead to a bit of maintenance then (change of tyres and middle ring) Sun was a huge walk with the OH from Yarmouth/Freshwater/Yarmouth over Tennison Down, which comes highly recommended days walking. Mon ended up bikeand car cleaning day then huge super and sparkles, still off today and a long walk planned in the South Downs, then a pint or two at the Flower Pots.

Had a few hours spin saturday, raced mtb sunday and watched jenson button in a f1 car fly up and down deansgate in manchester monday, not bad weekend realy.

watched the GP, vuelta and not the crapfactor.

Oh and had quite a bit of orangeboom in between all that, kids loved it ! 🙂

Worked Saturday,
Worked Sunday.
Wondered why the bank wasn't open on Monday.

Got up at 4.00am Friday, drove 8hours from Glasgow back home,
Saturday drove 2hrs to bike science for a preliminary bike fit (highly recommended) found out I only really fit 2 tt bikes and neither is a Cervelo - unfortunate. Sunday, 3rd triathlon in 3 weeks and 5th race in same time period. Won age category but only 4th overall, not happy, free t-shirt was a bonus though. Watched Belgian GP then tried to source aforementioned tt bike no success. Monday had breakfast, speed session running, 2nd breakfast, gym session, Lunch, re organised shed n+1 rule leading to little space for new bike arrivals, 2nd Lunch, recovery ride, dinner then bed.

Quite a fun weekend all in all.

Iain

There was a bank holiday ❓ Just like any other work day exept a lack of incoming phone calls. Hope those of you who were off enjoyed your riding 😉

Spent Saturday fitting new flooring to the hallway, including cutting teh damn stuff to fit snuggly round the base of the stairs & newel post as the missus doesn't like beading on wooden flooring, then erm cut the laws - they were like a jnugle after 2 weeks of warm & wet weather.

Rode on Sunday, did Llandegla. My mate couldn't ride his Five as he ****ed the brakes "fixing" them, so he took his single speed - he then proceeded to snap the chain halfway down the new black, so carried/scooted it the rest of the way round amidst taunts from us all day 😀

Monday was a trip to B&Q to get the rest of the stuff to finish the hall & stairs, new doors, skirting, architrave, beading, lights, socket facias etc - so guess what I'm doing next weekend.

On the plus side got a letter from the inland revenue saying i'm getting a Tax rebate, think I might just go and get an Whippet with SID's

bike? what bike?

went to the amex stadium on saturday for a bit of hospitality at Brighton and Hove FC. very nice harveys. excellent stadium. top result 2-0. seasons started far too well. not looking forwads to the dip in form.

normal stuff for the reat.

Great weekend in Hawes, biking saturday and monday. Walk with waterfalls and caves on Sunday. Plenty of ale. It did sound like the river was going to flood our tent on saturday night though.

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