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It's that wet, the FS hasn't been touched, the CX is in road mode with mudguards (and still get's filthy), two road bikes without guards haven't moved since summer, and the commuter bike get's filthy every day.
You know that we had snow again the other day in Sweden right? _Just_ rain would probably be an improvement on that, although I would cheerfully take actual sunshine and a break in the current clouds.
argee - this is the video, sure looks pretty dry.
Fingers crossed,we are in the camper as we speak heading North from Yorkshire 😎
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Rode Woburn on Sunday, perfect conditions, didn’t even need to clean the bikes. It’s really sandy there so if it gets too dry it turns into a horrendous sandpit but right now it’s fast, grippy and lovely.
I did a nightride round woburn last night
Was pure filth, plastic seat covers for the car ftw
Anyone able to comment on the state of East Exmoor? We're there over Easter. Trying to decide between FS, the hardtail or bollocks to it and just take walking boots and brolly.
Thank you.
East Exmoor ish here. Can report stoney generally well drained on most of the above treeline climbs i.e. Dunkery Beacon, top of grabbist etc (apart from heading directly across the moor on peat trail of course), below treeline it's an absolute gloopfest. We had snow on the moors today and a massive downpour with hail. Perfect UK mtb conditions then 🙂
Thanks for that, really helpful. We're in the area between Clatworthy and the sea. Erring towards the hardtail.
Raced at Sherwood Pines on Sunday and it was bone dry, no need to even clean the bike afterwards. The whole area looked dry when we were driving across.
Only place I can get what I want out of biking at the moment is Woburn. Like everywhere it has it's filthy days but drains well so you can get a good ride in next day.
Raced at Sherwood Pines on Sunday and it was bone dry, no need to even clean the bike afterwards. The whole area looked dry when we were driving across.
Yeah north notts area is drying quickly but we had heavy rain again yesterday.
Glentress certainly wasn't today, apart from the new bike-parky stuff.
We started with the blue at Blue Velvet and were proper filthy and soaked by the time got to the bottom. Big smiles though 😀
In Mull for the Easter weekend and have sunburn.
The Chilterns are currently epically muddy. So muddy we are driving the dogs to the local hardcore track to keep the mud in the house down to acceptable levels. My latest exercise in mud and pedestrian avoidance was to MTB on the towpath in such a way as to rupture my AC joint. So now I'm riding zwift, where it's also raining. On the plus side I saw a stunning double rainbow across the effluent filled river chess on the way back from buying more ibuprofen.
On the plus side I saw a stunning double rainbow across the effluent filled river chess on the way back from buying more ibuprofen.
This line needs to be narrated by Sir John Gielgud over Elgar's 'Nimrod'.
Drying nicely in Suffolk. There were some longstanding parts that reamined sludgy but one of these was dry yesterday. There was a huge gully down the middle of the bridleway caused by run-off on sandy soil 300 to 400 mm deep and 500mm wide rideable but not much fun.
I rode from Nottingham to Essex yesterday. An entire day of glorious weather and mostly dry roads.
I've done the ride most Easters for the last 7 years.
All the rivers and stream were swollen and well above their banks.
The fields were sodden with regular enormous puddles.
Someone has dug a mile of drainage ditch down their field next to the road since last year. The ditch had a decent river flowing down it.
I was delighted to be on road all day. None of the footpaths bridleways I passed looked any fun to ride.
Just back from two dry weeks on the road bike in Mallorca and it looks like I've missed more rain in the south of UK. There's water running off fields and floods where there never have been before. Zero interest in riding off-road for the foreseeable and I expect I'll be booking some sunnier trips to Europe this spring/summer.
Very much a mixed bag yesterday, on my road ride to around Droxford (Hants)...
Some roads were bone dry, including the fun Sheep Pond Lane descent, which is quite exposed. A fair few lanes had bits of water run off from the fields, pretty much those a bit shielded from the elements by dense hedges and alike. But I was a bit shocked to find a giant paddling pool sized puddle on Cott Street on the way home, just up from the old Hunters Inn pub, which covered my poor bike in gritty water.
Trying to coax myself to go out for a very short ride before a family gathering, given the forecast for the coming week, kicking off with a rain warning this evening.
We were up at Dalby yesterday (off piste stuff). Some runs a bit greasy with a few spots of peanut butter, others running really well!
Leeds is starting to dry (ish) ... ready for more rain this week
Kinder Scout dry all day today.
Hmm, the reservoir pictured in that Guardian article is currently full to the brim and, last week, was weiring over the dam.
The forecast for the last week for Lacock has been predicting between 30-60% chance of rain. I’ve been paying close attention to it because I was taking a couple of Japanese visitors over to look around. It did briefly rain a couple of times, but mostly while we were inside, so I’ll take it as a win.
However, I cleaned the car yesterday for the first time in months, and it’s covered in muddy splash marks! 🤨
Arrived at Glentress today for a few days of Dirt School with the little one. It has not stopped raining for hours, absolutely relentless, and the rest of the week prediction looks much the same. Gonna be a testing time I think (we're in a van, not a cosy air BnB!!)
Laggan was bone dry yesterday apart from one or two patches on the black. But the rain is looking grim up here or everywhere on Friday.
It's years since we've visited Laggan, what a cracking little spot 😎
Inners was weirdly dry for the uplift last Sunday.
But that's not in England - and it's probably grotty again now anyway.
Peak slop is lasting way too long locally. Even the canal towpath is so muddy I took a spill last week.
"Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, there had been a “large increase in the amount of rain that falls on the island, particularly in the wintertime, but also in the autumn and spring”." SO basically, rain all the time.
From memory, May and June were nice. That leaves us with 10 months of wettness
Aye, and we’ve a prediction of hosepipe bans in the summer.
We really need to get better at slowing the flow, encouraging the ground to store water and preventing run-off and downstream flooding (beavers and peatland restoration?)
Related to this I guess but the weather forecast seems to be utterly worthless lately, the BBC one anyway. Literally no point looking at it the day before.
Is there anyone doing it better than the BBC at the moment?
I read between BBC and Met Office as well as Met Éireann as we're in NI, the latter is usally the most 'optimistic' in forecasting drier weather, the BBC most pessimistic, so Met Office somewhere in between but usually hopeless as it tends to use cloud symbols to cover a multitude of our typical local weather! One thing I miss from the old Met Office website was the 'live' cloud cover (satellite) imagery, as this was often more reliable to use as a short-term forecast for us, once the wind direction was taken into account.
I find Met Office pretty good, nice app too. And they have a map on the app which is useful for avoiding downpours. On the map you can switch between 5day forecast / last 6 hours. Using the last 6 hours, grabbing the slider and rolling forward/backward is actually really useful to see how a weather front is developing/heading for you.
Well met office said heavy rain all day here (glentress) today but thankfully it barely rained at all. Everyone is filthy though. The campsite is pretty muddy, every task is a logistical headache!
Forecast still horrendous for the rest of the week. Just have to see how it pans out!
Just got back from England. It was quite wet, but we had a couple of dry periods during the days.
i have been trying to dry out a tent carpet for weeks now. officially had enough of the rain now.
If it makes you feel better, it's just as wet in Denmark.
west Berks/Hampshire/Wiltshire borders are drenched and most of the bridleways I use are just a mess.
@richardkennerley has your tent been washed away? It has been torrential in Peebles for a good few hours now...
Halfway through a week in a holiday cottage near Bamburgh, very wet today, as it was on Monday also. Dog barely drying out between call of nature walks ! I didnt bring a bike this week, think it was the right decision this time, we have had our usual lovely beach walks at Beadnell, Embleton etc, and refreshments in The Old Ship Inn amongst others.
Everywhere is saturated, roads, fields etc.
It’s definitely wet down here, I was on a flooded section of trail earlier, looked down and there’s a small Eel swimming along next to me.
It’s definitely wet down here, I was on a flooded section of trail earlier, looked down and there’s a small Eel swimming along next to me.
