Oh RIDE picture. I thought it said Rude picture.
Still disappointed to some degree 🙁 But some lovely pics all the same.
Thursday is mid-week, right?
Damn Straight.
like those pics @jimmy748 🙂
This pic is very boring.
However it does mean 2 things
1) silverfish have warrantied/fixed my very squishy / noisy X2
2) we went to the pub and sat in the beer garden for the first time in 2022. Outside post ride beer is an important box ticked.
Roll on the weekend 🙂
All riding is great, right. But sometimes you get those rides that just hook up to perfection. Just 80 minutes last night. Local trails. Fast and dry and grippy, not yet too dusty. Twisty rooty singletrack. Gravel bike just riding really well. Me feeling great. Gorgeous early evening sun. Trees starting to burst with green. Bluebells out.
Beautiful evening over the Purbecks last night.
Some cracking photos on here.
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I normally just ride the gravel bike on the flatlands of East Yorkshire but visiting family in Lancashire so took the hardtail and realised how much I miss the mtb!
Just a pootle along the banks of the Thames from the caravan site today, to here....
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Dusty trails and Bluebells last night, Spring is my favorite riding season.
Here's a few from Tuesday and Wednesday. Too windy to ride outside today!
Here's one from last Thursday, one of esselgrunfuttock's toothpicks, aka the devil's arrows. Second tallest standing stone in Britain.
And since I like that sort of thing, thought I had better tick off the tallest this week.
Bright but breezy after work pootle
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Last night, straight out the front door, across the road and up the river. It's barely 7km out and back, but quite tricky in bits. Had to laugh at the teenage kids egging each other on into jumping into the river at Fankerton. It was sunny....but it's still only April in Stirlingshire!!
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Eeber ride at Inners today.
Managed to talk Mrsstu into trying Prospacker.
Went well with no tantrums.
Result.
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Does commuting count?
(It does when the commute is on sublime, dry, singkwtrwxk on the SS Hardtail ...)
On the way in ...
And home again ...
Bloody lovely over the Golfie this morning.
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Working away this week and didn’t bring the bike, so had to use local transport instead.
Molly playing peekaboo
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I was "forced" into an improptu trip up Glen Feshie yesterday - a recent landslip has caused a wee bit of an issue and I wanted to see how bad it was before the Cairngorms Loop Group Start on Saturday.
I had plans to bivvy a wee bit further afield for a change but needs must eh?
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Local local tonight.
First time I've ridden one of the trails and it's actually been dry.
Even dust hanging in the air at some points.
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had to use local transport instead.
Did you wear your Camelbak while you were on camel-back?
@scotroutes - once again I am reminded why I keep speaking to mrs_oab about moving to Speyside at some point in the future...
*goes off to browse self-build plots*
Same spot as the first photo on the thread
Scorched Heath
Portland last night, always a favourite little route.
Yesterday, borrowed my brother’s old hardtail and went for a quick explore around his villa in Spain
Today, up the mountain, this photo at 1240m, with brothers friend on his spare Orbea Wild. OMG this is an ebike in it’s element. Such a great ride. Another on Saturday. Looking directly towards Gibralta and Morocco
First one must remove the sleeping spider.
I'd go for a run and hope the house had finished burning down by the time I got back
Went to watch some riding last night instead of going riding myself.
Not really a roady type of person but it was actually pretty intense racing until the field got split by a crash.
Plenty of bar banging/brushing the barriers and pedal strikes going on.
First lap was pretty calm.
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6am dog biking
Last night with a couple of mates. Trails are in sublime condition.
Took my Pact out for a spin round some local woods after doing a full fork service. Quite amazing how lovely it all feels again. I guess I just gradually get used to decreasing performance.
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Another of last nights adventures, wee local loop,
Then up the back of gala hill, don't think it'll ever recover from the storms
Then, like singlespeed went into town to watch a bit of the racing
Talked into going out at short notice by another forum member this avo.
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Another Golfie blast this morning with a forum member who's been up for a couple of days pre EWS.
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Working out the Italy office this week and next, quick ride after work tonight to get my bearings.
Dales feeling hot this afternoon
Oldschool XC ride this morning.
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Going well until I got half way round.
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Glorious morning over The Golfie.
Then went for lunch and Wyn Masters came and sat at our table.
Really nice guy. Doing some pretty big training rides pre EWS. 2000 meters on his race bike then another 800 on his Ebike yesterday.😮
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Quick spin after work.
Bah, can't post the photo.
Imagine a scenic lookout with a sign showing a labelled diagram of weathered volcanic plugs laid out before you, except there is no view, just mist.
That is my entire week.
Excursion to bag a couple of North Dales summits I've not ridden before. Some great riding and plenty of suffering too.
Girlfriend upping her matchy-matchy colour co-ordination game...
