[Closed] One year ago today..

One year ago today i had a silly cyclist tan and a cough from dust inhalation. This year I have a S.A.D. box and frostbite

I was north of Manchester heading for Penrith and them JoG.

Weather was perfect.
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A few days later however we rode through horizontal sleet and then after we finished there was snow in Wick and the hills were all snowy on the train home.
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Nice pics/shared. Made me smile 🙂

They've made me angrier than I already am! Between the weather and this government's nastiness I couldn't be more pissed off.

One year ago today..

But look how the summer turned out! Maybe this weathers a sign of better things to come.

Great pics, but we tend to forget that, while last March was great, last April it was cold wet and (at least up here in Aberdeenshire) it snowed.

[i]But look how the summer turned out! Maybe this weathers a sign of better things to come. [/i]

God loves an optimist

OP; your friend just couldn't find a loo in time, huh?

I worked pretty much for 3 months solid and missed the best of the weather for the year. Still had a cracking holiday from the proceeds with the wife and kids.

A year and a day ago 😕

Above Glen Strathfarrar, all day above 3000ft, 3 munros on the bike. In a T-shirt.

Pertex top on only when I stopped for lunch.

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This time last year we rode the Glen Tilt - Beinn a Ghlo loop. The trails, even the spongy peaty stuff was powder dry. We wore short sleeved jerseys.

This photo was taken a week after the one in my first post

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Couple of days off, but this was the 25th March last year

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And last Easter, 5th April, my lad made it all the way up Place Fell in the sunshine, (his cousins were carried)
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Rewarded with an ice cream in Patterdale

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1 year ago it was ace weather but 2, 3, 4, 5? bet most of them it was showery windy and not great riding. Might be cold but where it's snow free the trails are almost summer speed and grip. Wrap up and get out riding!

If you're currently stuck inside your house beneath a 15' snow drift I apologise for my glib comments.

[quote=D0NK ]1 year ago it was ace weather but 2, 3, 4, 5? bet most of them it was showery windy and not great riding.
OK - this was 2 years ago (almost) today...
http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh/14394-brave-charity-cycle-stopped-due-to-weather/

A day out over Glen Buckie, and the Finglas loop. Shorts, sunburn, not another person all day. Ace day out.
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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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OK - this was 2 years ago

Unfortunately, gusting winds of up to 49mph and rains saw the team halt at Broxburn. At one point, Julie was forced to dismount and carry her bike due to the high winds.

yeah, 1 year and 1 week ago I got burnt to a crisp doing the Killhope Grimpeur in Weardale. This year it was cancelled due to snow!

Yes, but iirc, this was Easter last year.... April

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No Pics, but this time last year we were having a week off in Brockenhurst in the New Forest sitting in the beer garden of a pub until early evening in shorts & t-shirt!

Captain Mainwaring, Donald and I rode the seven munros of Ben Lawers almost to the day. The next day was spend riding Glen Ample on my Fargo with Pistola and the next day was a lovely ride out to Kippen and back with Ginger and my wee one for a cracking al fresco pub lunch at the Cross Keys.

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/55229898@N08/7044572449/ ]Meall Garbh, An Stuc, Ben Lawers from Meall Greigh[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/55229898@N08/ ]CaptainMainwaring1[/url], on Flickr

where it's snow free the trails are almost summer speed and grip

This

Had an ace ride last night. Some of the back lanes near me have still got 8ft drifts at the side of the road, but up on the hills the wind had blown most of the snow away, leaving icy hard and fast trails. I'd rather have that than the more common boggy mess we've had.

A year ago

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30 seconds after taking the picture he fell 😥 - had mountain rescue, ambulance and air ambulance out and he was air lifted to James Cook hospital where he spent the next 6 weeks - took him 6 months to get back to work but he is all right now - not been out with me for a bike ride though 😉

double post 😳

1 year ago I was sh*tting it as my wife (then on maternity leave in the sun)was very close to 'due date'...

fast forward a year and I'm loving being a dad 🙂

I was having my leaving drinks from work and packing up to move to California.

It's rained today 🙂

This was taken on my commute home on March 26th last year

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I'd been doing the long off-road route home over the turbines because the weather had been so damn good, it would have been bad form not too. As it turned out, it was the best spell of riding all year 🙁

OK, this thead is now depressing - please stop.

Love that photo Bedmaker.

Lasr good friday we cut the first turf at Southampton Bike Park. I was in t shirt all weekend and got sun burnt. On the monday it started to rain and only stopped briefly to snow for the entire time between then and now.

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Wow, this really is depressing. Who can we blame for this weather? It just seems so futile without being able to direct anger towards someone.

My father-in-law is getting the brunt of my anger as he once said he didn't really like the hot weather and was more of a winter fan.

SATISFIED ROBERT?! SATISFIED?!

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Took both of these a year ago and remember both rides being glorious spring evenings....

For balance.. three years ago at Easter (which was later)

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Elan Valley death march ride and...

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And late Easter 2011

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Ying and Yang. At least it's not raining. I've just come back from the south of France which had proper sun and dry trails but I'll still be out this weekend. Option is not riding and where's the fun in that?

I was Afan doing W2 getting a suntan!!

Not bikey, but on the 24th March last year (four days out, I know) I was practicing my panning technique at 1/40th of a second with the massive 70-200mm lens. Had to kiss a few frogs to get this one 😀

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Ladybower this time last year...
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Was a couple of days ago a year ago but I was laid up with a ruptured patellar tendon after a stupid slip on ice 8 weeks earlier. This was an excursion to Aberdour.

This year is, despite the weather, far better. Leg still isn't 100% though.

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I was riding around the Verdon Gorge.