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Torridon, beginning of the descent to Annat 🙂 (Pic not mine, taken by Gav - cheers Gav!)
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Th'Alps
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Snowy riding back in Feb... just plain ace fun 🙂
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdymond/6824148725/ ]Sun & snow[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/jdymond/ ]James Dymond[/url], on Flickr
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This day will stay in my bike memory log for a long time .
The first time we ever descended from the calf in North Yorkshire .
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The holiday that got me back into biking after two or three years off. Four days in Chamonix / Morzine with great mates. A life-changing time 🙂
One? hmmmm
My riding - March, hottest day of the year up here(!), solo round Balqhuidder, Glen Buckie and Glen Finglas
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/matt_outandabout/7021531949/ ]Where did the singletrack go?[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/matt_outandabout/ ]matt_outandabout[/url], on Flickr
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With family - this ride 'clicked' with the kids that riding is just flipping good fun - we did a couple of loops, even the smallest one..
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/matt_outandabout/7592911488/ ]Callender Estates ride[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/matt_outandabout/ ]matt_outandabout[/url], on Flickr
Didn't get nearly enough bike time in this year due to niggling back problems. However, still managed Lake Geneva to Antibes in July. This is the high point of the route - 2800m, at the Col de Bonette. From this point, there is a 56km downhill...
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartie_c/7699091836/ ]Cime de la Bonette[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/stuartie_c/ ]stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr
can someone techy take these photos and make them into a screensaver (assuming no-one objects)
Great thread. Loving looking at all these photos and loved looking back through all mine to pick one! It's a toughy but this photo my good lady took is one of my favourites. it was on a sunny and crystal clear two day cycle round the Fife Coastal Path. The weather was great and everything just went perfect. Loads of fun.
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/alpinist-photography/8191799420/ ]16th November 2012[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/alpinist-photography/ ]Rob Sutherland[/url], on Flickr
I only really started riding again in mid Autumn - couple of wee rides over the summer, but not really much until October. This was my favorite so far though, the south loop of Whinlatter is a bit silly, I was riding on flats for the first time (and taking it way faster than I should!) on a sneaky late afternoon whilst I should be at work ride 😉
Hoping for a LOT more in the New Year.
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Ibiza in February, a great ride.
The Dales in May.. We all stayed at Stu's, and had an amazing weekend.
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A few mates, a road trip and the Matterhorn.
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Had some great rides in various places thanks to my extended honeymoon/career break/jolly earlier in the year but this photo of me going up in the Skyline gondola for the 1st time in Queenstown, NZ pretty much captures all of the excitment/anticipation/nerves of a new n gnarly trail.
Puts the grin right back on my face
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/21384834@N00/8298598542/ ]Bike grin - Queenstown, NZ[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/21384834@N00/ ]Mama Bovril[/url], on Flickr
STW 'playing nice with cameras' day.
I'm in my preferred spot - behind the camera
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/66452821@N00/7991848839/ ]Throwing shapes[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/66452821@N00/ ]ritcheyp20[/url], on Flickr
A fantastic ride around the Kinder circuit including Jacobs Ladder. A red hot day, great tracks, loved it. It was part of a road trip starting in Gisburn with a skills course for wor lass with Greatrock. That transformed Tashas riding, much more confident and flying. Then onto the Peaks, before finishing in the Quantocks. Bin Combe, simply stunning bit of singletrack. Overall a brilliant holiday
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Stop Crashing with Ed Oxley
As p20 said, we had a great year, with a particularly awesome September NW-Peak-Quantock road trip, plus rides in Aviemore in March, earlier Quantock trip in May, Cross Fell, Loughrigg amble, Borrowdale Bash, Glentress & Inners, Yorkshire Dales, Cheviots, Thrunton and due to the weather, numerous trips to the weatherproof Hamsterley. However, in that I have done Stop Crashing 1 and 2 with Ed this year, and it has totally changed my riding, and I am so grateful. I want to keep going on the courses to not forget anything.
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It's not a singe ride, because I do it so often
this is the view from the circuit..
that starts at my back door 🙂
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Not a single ride,
this is one of the views..on my local XC circuit. 😀
A lot of good rides but Magic Carpet with bikevillage is going to make it's second appearance in this thread, this time with me on it
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The Alps with The Whiteroom in June. Joy of joys.
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Day 6 of 8 on Transpyr and the bladder infection is flaring up....810km, 20,000m of up, 40c first day then riding perfection punctuated by monsoons. I've just carried the bike for a mile uphill through a mudfest and I'm feeling a bit sorry for myself. Best week of my life.
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As many of you will have picked up from the forum Ton has not been well so it was great to get out for a ride with the big fella - 😀
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Descending to Dubh Loch above Loch Muick in spring.
Going up the back of Snowdon past the old slate works with the oth erhalf who doesnt ride much, Think we saw two other people all day. The weather was awful all the way there in the car but as soon as the bikes came off the car a gap in the clouds appeared and very weidly followed us all the way up.
After a hard non stop climb we came over a ridge and were rewarded with this view which the camera doesnt remotly capture.
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Crater Lake, Oregon, USA. Ten year old does his first 70 mile ride on the back of a tandem -not me on the front; I'm not sponsored to race in the category below my age in the US cyclocross league. I was on an MTB, took some detours and by the time I got to the campground, drubbed, my son was happily running around chasing chipmunks. I may as well retire now.
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Normally you get fantastic views of a volcanic crater with a perfect blue lake -today everything is hazy due to a forest fire 50 miles south; we'd had to cancel plans to visit the Lassen Volcanic national park because of it. Cleared up the next day for the classic views.
If you haven't been to Oregon with an MTB, you've missed out on some excellent trails.
Just dropping back in to say that some of these pics and words are reminding me why bikes are so awsum. 😀
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmhodgey/7018680845/ ]P1010373[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmhodgey/ ]DavidHodgson[/url], on Flickr
The Cobbler. Roasting hot day mid-March
From Finale Ligure, Italy May 2012
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Fredrik Arnesen
Norway
http://fredrik76.wordpress.com
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Enjoying my post-ride banana.
Ogden, Oxenhope and the like.
April 2012. Rich's 29er in the background.
Four season in one day ride. Snowing by the time we topped the Withens Road climb from the reservoir.
Kinder scout including Jacobs Ladder. Face planted at the bottom!
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/38227112@N00/7556824178/ ]Faceplant[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/38227112@N00/ ]t.clark50@btopenworld.com[/url], on Flickr
I dont often post on here, But felt compelled to do so after looking through this particular thread. There are some fantastic photo's here and each one in its own way captures what we all love about riding!
inspiring thread i hope it never ends........................ 😀
It's been a year of mostly local, solo biking, due to work.
Had loads of brilliant rides in the few weeks of hot, dry weather we got down south at the end of the summer though. This could have been from any of them...
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My last epic ride in the UK with my Welsh buddies.
A long hot and foggy climb to the summit of Pen Trumau in the Black Mountains.
We stopped and wondered how we were going to descend with such limited visibility.
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As if by act of God or magic a wind blows it all away in an instant revealing my favourite descent in South Wales.
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Amazing day.
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First time in the US so made quite a change from Birmingham. Took a 29er over the bridge and overtook a few roadies coming up the road pictured. From here I then road all over the Marin headlands, all the trails that Marin name there bikes after. A Beautiful, never to forget day.
Haven't been on the bike much this year, the best of the riding was going to the pub:-
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Back on the Downhill bike as it has been broken most of the year. Chicksands in November.
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/39159013@N04/8332716291/ ]chicksands[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/39159013@N04/ ]lesoxdh[/url], on Flickr
11th August bivi ride. Waking up to the view of Liathach after the best star gazing night I've ever had. [url= http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8499/8332761223_819b8fbb59_c.jp g" target="_blank">
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/65460103@N08/8332761223/ ]bike etc bivi spot liathach in background[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/65460103@N08/ ]martinxyz[/url], on Flickr
Taken in the French Alpes near to St Martin. Another fantastic day !
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/91811264@N08/8334357690/ ]me1[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/91811264@N08/ ]pjlande[/url], on Flickr
The hardest day on a bike for me ever. Manx e2e 2012. Great sense of achievment in tough conditions. Made it in less than 5hrs. Chuffed.
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Dartmoor - sitting out yet another band of hail.
That turned out to be a properly hard ride that one did ...
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Finally think I may have worked out how to post a picture
(-and this thread should be resurrected - some great shots)
its a toss up between
just a cheeky sunday morning ride at Stamner park with a friend
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or me ripping up singletrack on Cissbury ring
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