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Went up the Bola del Mundo on my road bike, sore legs now!
Went up the Bola del Mundo on my road bike, sore legs now!
Have a nice steak for dinner to help you "recover".
Went up to Queen Liz today, not ridden there in ages and was a major difference. Enjoyed it more so as been off the bike for the last month due to illness
I did 11 laps of Regent's Park this morning all Strava'd up.
30 miles, average speed of 19mph which isn't bad considering the 4 sets of traffic lights on the loop.
I know, I know, but it's still riding a bike 😀
Saturday to the beach with a good friend for good banter, scenery and coffee and cake 🙂
[url= http://coastkid.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/saturday-half-day-ride.html ]Saturday half day ride...[/url]
Easy 3 hours on a Sunday morning... 🙂
[url= http://coastkid.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/easy-on-sunday-morning.html ]Easy on a Sunday Morning...[/url]
Toured historic churches in Suffolk by bike to raise money for the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust.
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nathaneddy - Member Toured historic churches in Suffolk by bike to raise money for the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust.
Sounds good to me. Riding and History Good job 🙂
i have been sleeping outdoors at herts since friday. riding and drinking beer around the fire. bliss
the M4 on a Friday night ride that was the Brecon Beast today 😯
local NW Alps type stuff this weekend
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketdog/7965018634/ ]the Ian's gone missing ride[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/rocketdog/ ]rOcKeTdOgUk[/url], on Flickr
Refound my cycling mojo whilst doing a 55k pootle round the lanes of south Birmingham/stratford.
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Went up the Bola del Mundo on my road bike, sore legs now!
Well done! I watched the race highlights last night and it looked completely evil. The top hill-climbers in the world were reduced to jelly.
Not particularly "Shredding the Gnar", but had a lovely family ride with my kids (6 and 11) along the planets ride at York.
A nice way to spend a couple of hours whilst Mrs Bongo had a look around the shops at York.
Great family ride on the flat (little legs dont like hills!) with the added interest of a scale model of the planets to break the 7 ish miles up for the little ones.
All bathed in sunshine.
Obviously I am not jealous of talk of proper rides with hills and trail centres etc on here!
If you have kids and want to go for a ride with them I would recommend the planets ride
Local singlespeed hack on Friday evening to try to blast out chest infection - I think it worked. Lots of post-ride coughing and then much clearer.
On Saturday Mrs O and I had one of the rides of the year from Stoke Row via Mongewell Woods (in the West Chilterns) along the brilliant singletrack on top of Grim's Ditch and back via Ipsden and Satwell Woods (found an excellent track down from Nuffield which I'd always ridden in the "wrong" direction before); on Sunday we spent the day doing the garden I had a quick local evening loop via Chenies and Flaunden. I almost cleaned the one local slope that I can never do, but span out on a step. Re-started though and then cleaned it.
Perfect weekend.
Been playing in the hills around Monchique this weekend.
lifts to the top & descending all day.
a sweet mix of super grippy igneous rock and dusty singletrack with man made features. By god the Portugeuse like a 'huck to flat 😀
No riding for me. I watched the local MAMILs out in Maghera. THere was Bushmills whiskey drinking on Saturday though, which was nice. (The woman poring coke into single malt was a bit shocking though in an HE Bateman way).
Surrey Hills and it was ace.
Dusty trails, not too busy and found some ace new stuff which came with added extra free grins 🙂
Well done! I watched the race highlights last night and it looked completely evil. The top hill-climbers in the world were reduced to jelly.
Yeah, but they'd been up 3 other big climbs before hand! I did [url= http://www.altimetrias.net/aspbk/verPuerto.asp?id=380 ]ride up from the bottom[/url], from 900m->2250m, hard enough. Whichever way you do it, I don't recommend it on a road bike, the cement's in a fairly poor state, and riding back down it wasn't much fun. (That's only the last/first 3km, the descent from Puerto de Navecerrada is excellent, fast curves with good asphalt!)
No steak for dinner, alas.
I did just short of 100 miles in the Vosges on the road bike. In hindsight, the first day 100km, in 30 degree heat, with just under twice as much climbing as I've ever done on a single ride was a bit optimistic. That said, struggling up to the top of a mountain for 14km then having 16km of hooning down the other side was worth every bit of it.
Beautiful place to ride a road bike and great for a mountain bike.
A few hrs on the flat tracks at the you yangs in Melbourne trying to find my MTB legs again.
Racing at Aston Hill Sunday.
Poor result but lots of loose, dusty riding fun, Enjoyed it... 😀
NDCXL on sat, working Sunday so no chance for riding both days sadly
23 miles of exploring / finding trials / getting lost / dead ends and ending up in holy bushes and various other spiky undergrowth in Epping forest yesterday. A fantastic way to kill a few hours.
I also learned that putting 100psi in each chamber of your pikes means you're more or less riding to very heavy rigid forks 😳
26 miles round Wharfedale from Otley, Middleton, Round Hill, Lippersley, Timble, down the Washburn, Leathley and back up the Wharfe into Otley.
Only saw one other rider, in a bog on Round Hill!
All I need to do now is keep it up and lose a couple of stone and I'll probably get round a bit quicker.
50 miles on the road bike Saturday between Leicester and Rutland, longest ride I've done this year, then went to the speedway for the first time on Saturday night, quite enjoyed it.
25ish miles off road on Sunday around south Derbyshire with a friend. Good weekend to honest.
Did llandegla, with the masts and Worlds End extension in the glorious sunshine on Saturday
Crackin
Rode the Beast, Minor Taur and Tarw Ddu trails at CYB on Saturday and Pont Scethin loop yesterday
Did the Holme Valley Challenge. Fun at start and especially when someone thought a shortcut thru a massive puddle just as we turned onto moors would be a good idea. Big cheer as he went over bars and disappeared into muddy DEEP water. Bloody big hills but a lot of road. Knackered at end...33.5 miles 3 hours 3 mins. A big thanks to organisers and volunteers for a very well run event.
Rode the XC trail at Hopton yesterday.
Mightily impressed! 🙂
Well no biking.. nope but lots of paddleboarding at the National Watersports Festival (formerly the Windsurfing Festival) on Hayling Island.
No wind all day Sat but no swell either so flat paddling in boardies and a grin, Sunday a bit fuzzy headed from the party and again blinkin hot and no wind, so paddled a bit then crashed on the beach until the clouds came, then home.. knackered.
around 35 miles of 3pcx training around winterhill/rivington
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Chamonix on Saturday, then the final day of lifts in Morzine/Les Gets Sunday...
packing up the bike shop today 🙁
Went here. Sierra de Lijar.
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Garburn Pass for the first time on Thursday and Gisburn on Saturday. Grand! 😀
Did the black then the red at glentress.. needed to get some miles in.
To Paris and back.
552 miles.
20,300 feet of climbing
Longest day 182.5 miles
Top speed 52 MPH
Spent the weekend on a BMX track with my mate and our 4x bikes. Smashing time 🙂