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A brisk 100km off-road int peak today. Longest ride for a while after an Achilles injury - feels ok now 🙂
First ride since fracturing my elbow. Arm still working so good sign. Also didn't get run over which is a bonus.
Teaching my 8 year old drop offs and steep descents today. Feeling proud.
used the 105 11 speed for the first time - brilliant, everything it's cracked up to be and then some!
My victory was to stop, look around, take a few pictures.
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Rode into the same tree twice.
The victory is bothering to have a second crack at it.
And showed someone some new trails, I love introducing folk to trails I enjoy and seeing them get some enjoyment out too 🙂
Out on my Stoater on the SDW and left a bunch of mtbers in my dust... 😉
An arch rival was puffing and panting in front of me in an XC race today. I was feeling good thiniking "ive got you, I've got you he he he.." before I passed for the first time is year.
Yes.
Had my first ride in dry, dusty conditions since september around Cwmcawn and found my efforts at not getting drunk too often and getting some winter training in were successful (easier said than done when a student!).
All the tracks (cafell, pedalhounds then the old xc track over to the dh track) were running the best I've ever seem them, pedalhounds and the cafell xc descent both running noticeably better after a winter to bed them in.
Next goal, clear that ****ty right hand switchback at the top of the old DH black run. The one where you need to hop right up onto the bank to make it wide enough. 😯
Came down a pretty fast descent through the trees and unexpectedly got the biggest air I have ever got . Some scrote had put a jump in since I last rode there . It was all over and dusted before I had time to crap myself , had I seen it I would have probably braked or tried to ride round it . Although it was my biggest air ever and felt massive it was the sort of jump most people do without even giving it a second thought . Still achieving new things at 58 woohoo .
2 weeks ago a local ride resulted in a serious bout of hosing bike and all my gear.
Today's post local ride task - a quick clean of the chain and squirt of lube - not even any mud of the tyres - result!
NorthCountryBoy - I recognise Angle Tarn but not the other shots - where please?
KBrembo - where is that? Like.
My longest and most climbing ride of the year, with a couple of kom's 😉
https://www.strava.com/activities/272441234
Amazing session at a special place for riding.
Got to have a laugh with some mates and spent the afternoon chasing each other down the trails. Great fun jumping and finally cleared a few sections I hadn't done before
Hi Rascal
the other 2 are on the way up to Angle tarn. The river is at Stonethwait then bike on the fell is looking down Langstrath after pushing up Stake pass.
Got my first 1st place today! @mondraker enduro 🙂 well actually, you could say it was my 2nd, as they rewarded yesterday's results too!
Riding sections my mate won't. He's a faster rider, I'm a better technician, so I like finding bits he won't do to keep my ego boosted 😆
Oh and just generally having a grand day out around the golf course, it's actually dry!
Was up there most of today too NW. what did you ride?
Not that much, tired teenager stopped play- 3G and Boner up top and a bunch of the lower level trails. Took two hours to notice I still had my fork locked out from comrie pump track, what a fanny.
How had I not done nyny the sequel before, btw? Loving that.
PS, if I accept your strava-stalk, does that mean I have to read all your rides too? I think that's why I unfriended everyone on there, I can barely be bothered to read mine. That, and I don't like humans.
I managed to successfully decontaminate my front brake. No more fork oil on my pads, plus new forks = happy Swamptin finally loose in the local hills.
ha ha... no. just don't follow me back and I'll promise to try not to comment on your rides or give you any kudos. 😆
we just did a loop taking in both sides of the valley. climbed up and rode spleene twice so my mate could crash in the rocks before the drop each time.. first time I'd ridden that, sooo good to ride something up the golfie with intentional doubles 🙂 then we just rode aussie and lower jawbone then into the cafe at walkerburn before heading up to ride a mix of the IXS and some older DH tracks on the otherside.
MC was with us for the first bit before making his excuses and keeping himself hidden away from humans for the rest of the day.
dunno what nyny the sequel is (I'm not too great with trail names)
You gave me kudos before, I think that's why I unfriended you, it was just weird.
Sequel- That's what it's called on strava anyway- you know that new section quite near the bottom- there's a fairly wide pumpy section that runs across the corner from the quarry? (near the bottom of offender etc) Straight on from that. Nothing techy, just no straight lines ever. Kind of assuming it's by the same feller that did nyny.
I don't know the other side much, tbh I don't ride there often enough to get bored of the ones i know, take it it's worth a look?
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Just being out!
Ah.. had a look at that on the climb.
By other side I meant other side of the tweed. ie. Traquair and Elibank.. you've surly ridden most trails there.. thought you'd have helped build the IXS?
But the other side of Caberston has a lot of good trails too. like I said tho, I'm not great with their names.
must remember never to compliment you.. not too difficult a task for me TBH. 😉
Golfy was running great today! Hero dirt flattering me into believing I can drift.
Now I just need to get some fitness back after not being able to ride for about 6 months....
Little victory was just getting out in the sun and finding I could still chuck a bike down a nice steep hill. Had so much fun today.
Ah, crossed lines- I was meaning up feeding the pony/no social hill, the other side of the valley that jawbone etc go down into.
Where's spleene about? Never even heard the name before 😳
I fell off but didn't break anything.
My last two offs (in quick succession) have resulted in a broken knee and a broken elbow.
Cleared the bamboo bridge of death in Hoi an Vietnam
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Top 5 place in the local Sportive on my singlespeed
Little victory? Yesterday was a massive earth-shattering victory. Blue skies, (mostly) dusty trails and feet that weren't frozen at the end of the ride. Having slogged through the winter in all manner of horrific weather and conditions I felt like I earnt that.
Back to cold drizzle today though 🙁
Hit 47mph and got in the strava top 10 on a well known descent near my house. Got home and found my front wheel QR wasn't done up properly. I'll take that as a victory of sorts.
squeezed a short road ride in despite social commitments - front shifter jammed solid - a bit of fiddling and reset cable tension to hold on middle ring so no need for a pit stop but without the big ring failed to set a lap record
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My little victory was getting a roadie to slow down and chat for a minute or two 😯
And no, not for [b]that[/b] reason - I'm an OWL (Old Woman in Lycra)
Continuing to knock minutes off my local flat forest loop PR (Salcey Forest, Northants). Also realising how good forks are when you have the right spring for your weight and all new seals. These things may be related...
My longest and most climbing ride of the year, with a couple of kom's
https://www.strava.com/activities/272441234
Good god
This week, it was getting my 10 yo daughter out on her bike after 6 months of no riding. She enjoyed it, and I loved being out with her.
Last week it would have been clearing my first gap jump, at 47 yo! 😳
Didn't get out on the bike, but had a great run in the mountains near where I live: https://www.strava.com/activities/272350886
Little victories: most of it was new to me, it didn't rain (although it did start snowing at one point), and good company.
Nobody crashed and everybody sprinted well during my coaching session. And after my session I cleared Turn 1 at Cyclopark consistently ten times without touching the brakes. Anyone who's ridden that bend will know what this means.
Found a new piece of bridleway/green lane to join up a route a route I'm going to be riding a lot this summer.
My OH managed her two biggest road hills to date and actually got to the top of them smiling - nothing massive but it opens up a load of new routes to do with her.
Followed a you tube video to adjust my rear hope brake so it lined up correctly and didn't rub - didn't realise that its easier to get the initial alignment by taking the brake pads out and lining the caliper up centered over the rotor.
Then rode Bickerstaffe trails which were nice and dry for the first time this year.
Loving that bamboo bridge up there, bet thats lethal in the wet?
Coz "nae spleene"'s new. nr 3G.
Ah, is that the grassy start on the left just when you hit the woods at the start of 3G? Saw that but didn't go down it, thought it's either new or I am unobservant?
it was v. busy Sunday
Take it easy through the wee rock garden and off the drop to make the turn 😉
2 rides on my summer road bike, it felt so much faster than my lump of a winter bike. Also found a couple of new road close to home, well, I say roads, more tracks.
And I got 2 PB's up a climb that I hate, PB Saturday then did the same hill Sunday and chased a guy in front of me, PB again. Chuffed.