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As a rare break from the gravel bike, I went out with some flat bars—largely because I finally found an Inbred frame to buy so I could stick an old pair of wheels on it. Inevitably it's ace.
I chased my son (14-yrs old so 800m of climbing is a normal day for him) up Bengengie:
The descent is brake- smoking.
Looking back up.
@sandwich. Good on you giving him a home. Recall on our younger lab is about 90%. It's the other 10% tho when we really want her to come back 🙂
Another local ride in the local hills under local lockdown....
Anybody know what this trailside object might be...
Perfect weekend, if a tad chilly. Dry, prime trails Saturday. Very pleasant 40 miler Sunday. Shame about all the walkers!
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We were out in the woods yesterday practicing some tricky moves
Even Mrsfoo was inspired to step up and ride some features for the first time. 
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My lad informs me it's rest day today, so was a bit of spannering, brake bleeding and some cleaning going on.
QE over the quarry side yesterday afternoon on my way home from a job, Bermies was riding sweet. Heading out again later before the weather turns.
Pics from the weekend, things are drying out slowly but fear these weeks rain might put us back a couple of weeks...
Rode the local woods on Saturday and then headed out Sunday with boys over the hill into Charnwood where it's slightly drier.
@ElShalimo - it was metal - 2" thick at that!
Somebody thinks there may have been a blast works at this remote spot some time ago so maybe related to that.
40km around back roads hunting sunshine and stalking @globalti new house
Where is this? I think this will soon be my local riding too, moving from Edinburgh to Auchterarder next week! 🙂
Went out for one last Fife gravel loop in good company on Saturday.
Slightly unsatisfactory ride overall, the final 'missing link' of my notional perfect gravel loop was blocked off by an angry farmer, cue fairly lengthy debat-u-ment which ended sort of amicably, but with us turning tail and heading back the way we came.
On the plus side, trails were running sooooo fast though after a winter of mud, loving the twisty singletrack bits on almost slick gravel tyres, some interesting sideways moments. Legs also good, scored a 2nd place on a reasonable sized local climb (pipped for KOM by buddy who decided to give chase at last minute and happens to weigh 20kg less than me...).
One last ride before house move, West Lothian Council are just applying to finishing touches to some lovely new tar on a couple of my favourite roads, would be a shame not to take a freshly serviced bike and freshly rested legs out for a quick blast 🙂
@ElShalimo it was around the 5pm mark. Owl was just chilling on a signpost! Stopped to take a picture and he flew a bit further down the road. He seemed just as interested in us as we were of him, pretty cool!
It's a great photo !
Took a run over to Marple from the house again on Saturday. Was surprisingly dry on the trails. Total loop is around 42 miles which includes a mile 10 loop around Marple.
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High Keillor stone, Strathmore on sunday
Managed to get out again today.
Took a ride over to check out Bowhill trails.
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Last of 4 days in a row of riding and a total of 10,364ft in 87 miles, but conditions have been amazing, shame the forecast is terrible for the next few days.
