[Closed] Lets have a winter riding picture thread.......

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Took the day off today and rode a cheeky trail, meant to be around 10-12 degrees but with the wind felt a lot colder, yes, Hong kong can get chilly to.
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I stopped at a dryer spot on Sunday and took a couple of pictures;

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other than the wind blowing me off my bike, getting wet and muddy and some of my favourite bits of singletrack becoming a slippery nightmare I had a great time 🙂

I'm off out for some more tonight.

Cairngorms:

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Yesterday in the Peaks it looked exactly like a Summers evening. Mad.

Is first pic Speyside Way above Glenlivet ?

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Is first pic Speyside Way above Glenlivet

which pic? My first one?

Nightride at Rivington last week...
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Time to turn back. Cutgate is not open

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This quick edit was only a month ago: -

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/63955848@N05/8405824106/ ]IMAG0607[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/63955848@N05/ ]heavy_rat[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/leecollis/9323835399/ ]A brief reminder of what we left behind.[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/leecollis/ ]Lee Collis[/url], on Flickr

Solo ride
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Bottom Of Jacobs ladder or maybe Wales
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My bestest mate Snakebite
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Camo dog.
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Lovely idea son, but down here it's not winter yet 😉

One of the advantages of living in Aberdeenshire; I've got loads of these 🙂

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Properly cold and dark Black Forest

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what's that frame pack in that Ibis? looks useful

these pics are making me feel alll brrrrrrrrrrrr, seems weird seeing snow on the pics, we've not had a drop so far and this time last year we'd had a few episodes of the white stuff

This morning....

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/8308384@N06/11436139996/ ]This Morning......[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/8308384@N06/ ]Slugwash[/url], on Flickr

A few years previously.....

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/8308384@N06/4198060170/ ]Dartmoor in December[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/8308384@N06/ ]Slugwash[/url], on Flickr

ir_bandito - Member
Is first pic Speyside Way above Glenlivet
which pic? My first one?

Not many of those pictures reflect the reality of the winter riding that I do down here on the South coast 😉

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Wanting to get away to some winter sun? Try Milton Keynes!

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😉

Liking the photos. Wishing we had some frozen trails, it's a mud bath down here already.

Two years ago this very day...
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And two days earlier:
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Is first pic Speyside Way above Glenlivet

First pic in the Cairngorms set however is south of Tomintoul [url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=318005&Y=799890&A=Y&Z=120 ]heading up to Bealach Dearg, below Culardoch[/url] IIRC, towards Braemar

ah ,cheers, it does look similar !

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Sunrise over Blithfield Reservoir last Saturday Morning.

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On the Borrowdale Bash
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzrich/8588849493/ ]Photo by Gavin Maudsley[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/nzrich/ ]Richard Munro[/url], on Flickr
Local Hill
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A bit of cheeky
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/stu-b/5273816933/ ]2010_1219sundaysnow0017[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/stu-b/ ]multispeedstu[/url], on Flickr

One from last winter

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And one from last month!

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Looking forward to the cold crisp weather again, been raining for days....

that frame bag on the ibis

anyway
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Lammermuirs in East Lothian. What followed was the hike a bike of doom. 'Drafting' like polar explorers in each others footsteps through frozen snow. We all had cut and bruised shins three miles later.

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Shropshire in March
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that frame bag on the ibis

looks like a custon one from Judy at http://www.beerbabe.co.uk to me

Thats right, I asked Judy to make it up after a tip off from Rocketdog.. turning out to be a good bit of kit. Should be available soon...