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Just done a 35 mile " gravel" route. One I do fairly often and it takes me thru the Dalmeny estate. I have never seen so many bikes out there. Literally hundreds. From full on lycra clad roadies to ortleibed up serious tourers to grannies on shopper bikes to families with wee kiddies. Really good to see.
Okay its a nice sunny day and the tourists have gone home but I really was astonished at the variety and number of people out enjoying a bike ride
Cyclist mag has a good article on gravel in the latest edition.
Okay its a nice sunny day
rub it in why don't you.
🙂
I did post this yesterday. Its not nice in sunny leith today
ah - so you did. My being dressed hopelessly optimistically for the weather has resulted in some pretty soggy / foggy thinking 🙂
loads out today around here, including some who didn't seem to understand that we share the paths with others, high speed passes and shouting at pedestrians. I had to say that our small group were nothing to do with one cyclist who upset walkers & apologise to another group for the antics of another rider trying to point out we're not all like he was. great to see lots of riders out it also means the percentage of dick-wads is also higher.
Strangely I saw very few this weekend. A longish road ride yesterday over to the Bowland Fells and I saw less than twenty cyclists all day - I saw one couple twice. Today we were out mountain biking and saw just four riders, all roadies.
dickwad quotient on my spin was also rather low. Smiles all round
First ever ride around Peaslake in Surrey Hills today. Glorious day out and wasn’t as busy as I was expecting. Some nobbers doing a sportif causing a bit of chaos by the shop but otherwise a literally perfect day’s riding.
The trails there are soooo much fun.
Did a 42 miler on Saturday, horrible overcast and windy day, saw 7 walkers, regular snoopy butty van lady on Isle of Skye road A635, one gravel bike coming down some serious off-road rubble track, then 2 roadies and a few other bikes , didn’t see another mtb all day
Saw no one on the gravel roads I ride on either day this weekend but that is why I go out at 07:30 in the morning, it is intentional
Went to Cwmcarn yesterday, about 4 cars in the car park. The gnar shredders have all decided to go touring in Scotland it seems.
Yesterday, I wasn't out on the bike, but had to visit a few friends in Newcastle and Northumberland, I have never seen as many cyclists out having fun, from a single rider to groups of 12 or more, there was riders of all ages, but I reckon no-one was under 25 years old. I decided to try and count them on one driving session and there was over 100, I think there would have been 200+ before that and another 150+ on the drive back home.
I was like Christmas Day being a sunny day and everyone had been given a bike.
I did a 30 miler 'gravel' ride yesterday. Never seen so many walkers!
Not many bikes though.
Need to revert to getting out early for clear trails I think.