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Ride? pffft, we had some fun in a boat 🙂
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went for a ride around llandegla to try the new sections,quite good ,as long as you like tabletop jumps.
Built my new bike up in the afternoon, off to Hayfield for a peaks epic tomorrow
A quick trip to town on the road bike for a new Ethernet hub, and back. Then a couple of fun hours messing about on very slippery local woodland trails on the HT. A longer ride tomorrow at AC and 50A, with Martin.
Nah, thought I'd get a few chores done today and then ride tomorrow morning. Guess what. Everyone elses arrangements have changed so the *best* I can hope for is a quick road blast on the ss.
Pissed off? You don't know the half of it!
A slow start for me, about to leave to collect the bike then ride, but was asked to install a hack to make a DVD player region free. A 3 mile walk along the river and then canal side finally gathering my bike.
9 mile road ride, 6 of that up hill 😕 then cruised across the ridge looking at the fabulous colours and clear sky. Minced about up there for about 15 miles, before the final 1.5 mile single track descent in gloopy fun mud. Arrived int pub after 34 miles caked in mud. A lovely pint of the dark stuff, then 3 mile canal side ride back here. Bike cleaned and ready for a days guiding the Frome posse tomorrow(hence the easy ride today) Not a bad day at all.
Same as every weekend for me - I stayed in and caught up on 12+ hours of the recorded weekly daytime TV that I miss during the week.
Not biking, but not wasted - spent the day in the wild mountains around the head of the Lledr Valley in Snowdonia. Beautiful day, sunshine, stunning views, and absolutely deserted ... Snowdonia - busy? Not if you know where the quiet corners are 🙂
Another gorgeous day today, but unfortunately got to get on a train to Cardiff in a bit 🙁
davesmate - MemberBrilliantly muddy day around Swinley in the sunshine.
anto164 - is that Parkgate?
If its not I'll eat my hat.
Worked until 4am yesterday then back in at 2pm. Finished at 3.30 am today and going back in at 3. My weekend starts tomorrow. Empty trails but I'll be Billy no mates.
Yesterday: 30ish miler from England to Scotland and back at Kielder including some of the bloody bush singletrack (and stupidly slippy northshore) and some red at Newcastle on my own yesterday. Saw 3 other people all day. Did it in a reasonable time for me (4.5 hours), including messing about filming for Britain in a day (probably could have saved a good half hour). Followed by Strictly (well I am a girl) and couple of glasses of red.
Mates waited for me to drag myself out of bed this morning and did a 10 mile very wet, foggy and muddy moorland blast this morning with one of the mates dog. Now F1, soup and vension stew making (and sadly some work!)!
nope,
went out earlyish even though had copius amounts of ale eve before. just a quickish 15 miles on SDW and local ST around Worthing area. very busy out, very nice out too.
few more ales now in the sun......
Did housework-related tasks yesterday in the hope that I'd be granted an early release for good behaviour today. Even put the mud tyres on in gleeful anticipation.
Then last night the wife said, "My stomach feels sore, I think I'm going to be si... BLLAAAARRRRGH!" So between her getting up in the night to spew, and our eight month old daughter repeatedly waking up crying due to emerging fangs, it was never going to be a good start to the day.
I think this is the sixth weekend in a row where one of the three of us has been ill enough to mean I don't get to cycle, and it's DOING MY TITS IN!
Nope, yesterday got the sun in my eyes and a muddy bum 🙂
Now it's all cold and grey; and is time for chores and work 🙁
Moist at Glentanner
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eh lovely day ?????? where r u based ??? the weather was rediculous over here in the home of singletrack land...once you got on the moors it was blowing a gale the mist was down to knee level couldnt see nothing....awful so windy :cry:... i had to diverse my ride split it up alot today....no sun wot so ever....
Er... that was yesterday Elaine Anne and it was all fab and lovely - got up early to get London Road in before work.
I guess we're in the same place as I got up early again today thinking it was all going to be the same then realised you couldn't see Stoodley Pike for vertical drizzle so I commuted on the valley road into a blinding headwind. Ugh, it does throw it at us.
Took the kids to the local jumps.
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And had a wee shot as well .
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good use of the helmets there....
Out at 9 for a beautiful morning ride around Ashridge, trail of death in both directions to start and finish , glad i put the mud tyres on!...
Got about 2.5 miles out and crashed on a gnarly canal towpath when my chain snapped due to the massive power in my singlespeeder legs.
Ripped my arm to shreds and either badly bruised or broke at least one rib.
Awesome!
Just got back from a great road ride:
Radcliffe, Bury, Edenfield,up to 'Owd Betts, down Ashy Valley to Heywood, back via Pilsworth.
Sunny, fast & fun.
Forgot how much I enjoy road riding, first spin out on the road iron for a couple of months. 🙂
Wasted 2 good weekends in a row! I'm going off the bevvy!
doh, i new i shud have gone on the roadie bike today...nevermind... my poor orange is a cacked in mud ....cant be bothered to clean it now its dark...
Plotted a random 141km circular route around Hyderabad, India, loaded up the Garmin, and headed off in the 36 degree mid-day heat! Temperature dropped considerably as darkness fell though, was a good wee spin, although the body seems to ache all over now 😕
The novelty of 50 guys crowding around watching gormlessly while fixing a puncture has thoroughly worn off though 👿
Cheers, Rich
Was having a magnificent thrash round my local trail centre being chased down by some random guys.
In the heat of the battle for ultimate male trail supremacy I changed quickly and probably under some load only to completely **** my rear cassette.
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20 miles through the swamp more commonly known as Epping Forest this morning. Great single track xc but ground was like porridge in places. Met a team of Husky sledge racers exercising thier dogs, they suggested some sites that sell attachments for dogs to bikes, now that might save the legs a bit !!
proto left hand drive bike there hugor?
Took a ride around the lower slopes and valley floor of the NW Alps before the heavy snows arrive, didnt expect the bridleways to be as muddy as this...
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proto left hand drive bike there hugor?
its upside down on the trailside!
Nowt yesterday as it was grey and cool here in the East. Today a 3 hour blast around Thetford. Tomorrow if it's good I'll be out on the road bike,
I was going to have a Snowdon day but couldn't motivate myself for the climb. Ended up doing both loops of Penmachno. This was a very good idea. I forget how ace loop 2 is - particularly the climb back up after the descent. North Wales is also looking especially multi-hued and spectacular at the moment. A top day 😀
Yes out and about but got stuck in some mud 😆
Lovely out this morning out at 7am was glorious
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an hour of riding around a muddy field (Hengrove park cx) - was fun once i'd finished and had some chips!
Walked up to half way house on Snowdon on Llanberris path, was lovely out today bit windy saw a few bikers heading up too, then a Sunday roast at The Heights, oh and a quick pop in to see Stefan in the tea room Pen-y-Ceunant at the foot of Snowdon.
cheeky day out (well with gf on footpaths) *Sunday
through the forest, dapple everywhere, so mellow as to be like a toking session, down, via the victorian (??) cast iron 5 bar gate with the oldest 'horse' pull I've ever seen to the disused church (where I was delighted to see a solitary poppy cross at the foot of the 1st WW memorial), then down across open horse and sheep filled fields to the river, over the old sluice gates (original ornament still attached), the millenium salmon runner, past the mill over the canal and into the tree tunnel. Then back onto the canal, where convenietly a 'cafe' was doing alfresco bacon butties and brekkies, eating in the sunshine, canal again, looping back over the footbridge to via the fishing trail (*all fishermen smiling and saying hallo as usual) over the railway on the footpath, horn goes on a fast train - we've just crossed and are standing by the corrugated gate next to the line, through the local village and back along the canal, up a foopath onto back roads and home, a glorious morning, and then I mowed the lawn - ho hum .......
certainly didn't. First ride round Surrey Hills for 18 months. Beautiful. One of the best things about mountain biking is it gets you out on days like today 🙂
I wrote this yesterday on [url= http://www.bikeandbivi.co.uk/php/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=329 ]Bike and Bivi[/url]:
Hi,
I set off to from my house this morning with the trusty steed fully loaded to catch the train from Workington to Foxfield. The plan was to bike from Foxfield to Staveley, camp, then ride back home via Windermere, Ambleside etc. The closer I got to Workington I realised I wasn't going to make the train! Mad dash to Harrington, the next station...saw the train going over the bridge, argghh. Nevermind I thought, I decided to follow any path I could along the West Coast. Whitehaven, Sandwith, St. Bees, Braystones, main road to Gosforth, Santon Bridge, Birker Fell (you bar steward!), Ulpha, Broughton in Furness...do I head to Coniston and camp or head for Foxfield to catch the train to Workington? Legs are shot, can't imagine doing the same distance or more tomorrow. FI, Foxfield it is! I'm in the Prince of Wales pub, 3 pints inside me, sat in the corner with a 1000yd stare as I write this. Catching the train in 10mins and a mate is picking me up from Workington...pleased and sick with equal measure!
Better luck next time, eh?
I forgot to say that I had still thought about camping and doing a shorter ride the next day instead (Broughton Moor and Seathwaite). The problem was that there wasn't the train I wanted on a Sunday (any excuse!).
Over 80k done with over 5hrs riding. I'd set off at 9.50am, had a few stops for food and got to Foxfield just after 4pm.
😀 + 🙁 + 😯 + 😳
Glorious day out in the Beacons, riding the Gap. Fitness! is very slowly returning but the Bryoer tramway was seriously hard work- damp and slippery. I was wearing a (now rather crumpled) poppy and I paused at 11:00, looking out over the hills. Thank you boys.
The sun shone all day, the Gap climb breezed by but the rocky descent is not yet showing any signs of returning to its previous self. It is so loose that it will possibly drain too, so the usual winter glacier might not form there either. Not good. Lower down was super fast and uber splashy.
The bridleway at the top of the tarmac has been cut back 😀 and now you can see what you are doing 😯 Perhaps this is why I stalled and fell so many times. Great fun though. All in all, a good day out. Mid- November, shorts and shirt. If this is global warming, bring it on.
Waves at fellow Cymru residents 🙂
It's beautiful here at the moment isn't it! The moors were glowing with that wonderful golden warm hue as the sun was going down yesterday. And the weather this October and November has been fab - hope it just changes to lovely crisp snow without any of that pesky rain business in between. Living in Snowdonia rocks 🙂
Couldn't be arsed driving somewhere, so I rode the park, open spaces, bridleways, old tube lines & country lanes of North London (yes they do exist)and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Sue- I'm hoping to make it to Fachwen sometime soon, fancy showing someone from De Gymru around?
I Went for a twenty minute spin on my bike today.First time on my bike for 8 weeks as i crashed off my bike and sustained a tibia plateu fracture.Still on crutches at the moment but needed to go for a quick spin.Will be a while untill i can properly ride though,but looking forward to the challenge.Oh and I have two metal plates holding my bone together!!
Nope just getting over Bronchitis so hidden away in the warmth.
Gutted.
Ambrose - be more than happy to, as long as you don't mind that I'm in the "enthusistic but not very fast or technically competant" category 🙂 Stick a post up when you're in the area.
*thread hi-jack* - Grantway: I'm meeting Elf and Plumber for curry and beer on Monday evening if you fancy joining us? *end thread hi-jack*