[Closed] lovely day for a ride today, you didn't waste it did you?

Bad back 🙁

Made cider 🙂

APF

I spent all day in bed with a moderate attack of manflu like symptoms, and I have work to do tomorrow. Boooo.....

Stuck in work all day aaarrrrgggghhhh

Yep totally wasted, sofa and newspaper all day.
It would appear that guzzling damson vodka into the wee small hours is not compatible with getting up early to go out on a bike.

60 miles round the lovely Cheshire lanes on the SS road bike. Gorgeous day.

Yep late to sleep as working, up early and more work so cleaned the car for a few hours, planning to stroll up Snowdon on foot tomorrow to make up for it, and probably rebuild one of the bikes ready for next week. Nice pic rocketdog here's one of my days work 🙂

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I spent the day inside decorating whilst it was sunny.
Going for a ride in the fog in the morning.

Went and did a few road laps round The Great Orme (where the WRC was on thurs) as the sun went down, was a bit sullied by a boy racer maniac coming up the wrong way (tis one way) as I was descending at 30mph, if there was no wind I'd be at 40mph and certain road paste. Scared the crap outta me, who says road riding is boring.

Sick in bed no riding for me this weekend. Sodding germs.

rOcKeTdOg - what's the freak bike then?

Was lovely in the sun so I had a little walk around Salisbury Plain. 8)

Rode around a muddy field for an hour 🙄

CG, a 69er

Been ill in bed for two days 👿

Beyootiful day in the Peak, I had a VERY muddy and joyous ride ...I think I pedalled twice as far as I travelled.

Went out with the local road club for a blast. Swift would best describe the pace. 😯

Yerp.

Went for a slow 24mi ride on the road bike, was lovely out.

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"here's one of my days work"
I think you cleaned the number plate too well

Kind of wasted it really. Though got an hour locally on a SS made up of parts too worn out for other bikes. I think I got the gear wrong as there was a lot of spinning out and saddle bouncing, but no grinding away out the saddle

Not wasted but certainly not out mountain biking having fun. A pleasant family day followed by looking at my shot linkage/pivot bearings and sobbing gently.

I've spent the day lounging about, vaguely doing work and day dreaming about bikes! Stupid arm...

Solo jaunt on the cx bike. Offroad sections were muddy as hell and I had an over the bars dismount on a rocky descent. Lovely 😀
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ohh I did, but fear not, the plan is to use the work industrial x-ray machine and a dremel to insert the herbert screw and my two piece scaphoid will be as good as new!

on call out

Got called out to Exmouth but all was not lost I took the wife and mutt with me and we had an ace walk down the beach

i only got up at 5.30 pm today (was playing skyrim for around 15 hours yesterday/this morning) am now doing the same thing again 😉 the game is fantastic 😀 what's a bike 😳

Was inside but drooling over some great Classic Cars at the NEC... out for a muddy one tomorrow morning.

james - I better check that in the morning 🙂

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A perfect afternoon ride in Monaughty forest, followed by steak, cake and wine.

words cannot adequately express the awesome.

In many ways yes, I did waste it..

popped into the LBS this morning for a whinge about SLX M665 chainring compatibility issues and to give the owner a chance to shame me over the years of baked on crud and cheap grease encasing my front mech..

then an afternoon and evening of generic 'family stuff' including the supermarket, in-laws and a few hours of wooden trainset bizzle...

25 mile pootle out to Tynemouth for coffee and back. First ride on new road bike. First ride since RTA that smashed last bike and me! Mainly stayed away from traffic. Nice n sunny. Panno choc with latte - all good. 🙂

I definitely didn't waste the day.
You are definitely not seeing pictures.

Yes. Knackered achilles so didn't go orienteering this morning as planned. Didn't even get out on my uni today (I reckon practising on that's made the achilles worse). First low wind day for a while and I didn't even manage to get out to fly any of my RC planes. Total waste of a day.

Had a lovely 50 miler on the road tandem avec Mrs BL and a nice 10 mile run this afternoon as the the sun went down.

I feel I've earned my carbs this evening 🙂

Lovely day slithering about at innerleithen. Small amount of bus assistance. Noticable amount of leaving the head unit for my good light in the car. Large amount of whimpering on the last descent.

Incidentally, the course for next week's enduro race is completely mint, you will not regret it if you live. Which you may not.

Twice round carron valley for me today.

A lap of Golspie in the morning, removed two drowned mice from a defrosted deepfreezer in the afternoon, made extremely awesome guacamole in the evening - what a day...........

Errand running for me in prep for tomorrow's departure for the continent so no riding. Did plot next Saturday's ride though; 50 miles with some cat 4 and cat 3 climbs.

Glen Bruar

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Didn't find time to ride my bike, but took the boy out on his balance bike for an hour, does that count?

Damn well going out tomorrow though.

Got up early to do shepherding then off-road to work... could not resist the tops and shaved 5 mins off my CX best for the London Road bit of the Mary Townley loop. That's 5 mins more to rub mud off face before opening shop to the discerning ladies of Hebden Bridge 😀

Brilliantly muddy day around Swinley in the sunshine.

anto164 - is that Parkgate?

Fantastic pic birky. Care to divulge any more info?! Route etc 🙂

Rode the Gorrick course at Crowthorne woods in the dark with my Exposure Strada. Then onto some of Swinley' more famous singletrack. Just back. Surprisingly warm too.

Getting lapped at least once by Rorscach 😐

30 miles odd route around surrey hills rode up to the tower and the sun came out.

Brilliant day muddy as hell loved every minute !

lovely ride on my new to me jones, followed by an afternoon of making cakes and drinking large quantities of tip top niche beer. happy days

turbo training at 06:00 tomorrow will hurt a bit though 🙁

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 🙁

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Brilliantly 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?

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.