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Hints of daylight left en route to tonights ride, longer days are nearly here! 
Daylight and dust on yesterdays after work ride.
Just home from a week in France. Came home to sunny skies and dry trails. Can’t say that’s happened too often!
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Well, it's Tuesday - must be time to update the MWRPT!
MTB Commute this morning, Golden, frosty, and a selection of the best urban trails in North Leeds ...
Solo ride this morning taking in some of the bits of Inners that I've not ridden for quite a while.
Chilly but beautiful out there today. 
Lunchtime ride with a coffee stop. Bit of exploring of some woods, road and farm tracks. Lovely weather (apart from the wind).
Perfect conditions commuting 👍
Local trails are as perfect as they get at the moment. Dry, but not so dry they lose grip, fast, and not overgrown at all. Probably the best conditions for at least 2 years
Beautiful afternoon on Cavehill in Belfast. Hard to believe the trails are so dry.
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XC loop round today with Mrsstu.
45KM/1200Meters.
Another glorious day to be out in the hills on a bike.
Shame one of the hills was on fire.
Not sure if it was deliberate or not but we've had warnings about wildfires recently so who knows.
I was too hot today, but not hot enough for a swim
@singlespeedstu: you guys ride 45km with no backpacks or hip packs! Respect. That’s too long a walk home with a flat tyre for me.
I know almost all my photos are taken in the same area - Cavehill in Belfast. But the weather is so good, and the trails in such excellent condition that I just can’t stop riding. And see no need to go further afield while it’s dusty.
you guys ride 45km with no backpacks or hip packs! Respect. That’s too long a walk home with a flat tyre for me.
Both got on the bikes.
1 x water bottle.
1 x Oneup pump and multi tool.
1 x tyre jabber with spare strips.
1 x tube.
1 x quicklink.
Anything goes wrong with my bike and I'll "borrow" it of Mrsstu's bike and let her walk home I'm sure she wouldn't mind. 😉
Only time I ever use a pack is for backcountry Alpine riding.
I felt absolutely knackered with a headache, tiredness and general lethargy. So off I went to Moel Prysgau bothy with the dog. 
Just a very quick 35 mins bez around the woods on the way back from work in the gravel bike today for me. A bit like @johnhe I just can't not ride when it's like this outside!
It's been a fantastic winter and spring for riding. What a change from this time last year!
Another beautiful day today and I knew I wouldn't get out later so sneaked out on the road bike for sunrise, took a wee loop through Forteviot and Dunning.
An odd feeling to be out on the Sunday best summer road bike while still dressed in all the winter clobber.
Another day in paradise. Well at least until the rain comes back at the weekend.
35KM/1700 Meters.
Was going to have a day off today but couldn't say no to these conditions. 
Like many here, I've been making the most of the current conditions and as a result my legs are knackered... in a good way though, the conditions are just SOOOOO good.
Dumyat summit sunset:
Local trails, early morning, sub-zero temps and awesome trails:
Weekly evening group ride, a quick stop on the way to the meeting point:
Weekly evening group ride, watching others catch up on the climb through the trees:
Another local early morning sub-zero ride today:
Indeed. That bit was cleared a little while ago.
There was another blockage a little further down the trail last week too.
So grateful approaching it today to see some piles of sawdust on the floor and a totally rideable trail again.
There has been so much work going on over there recently it's unreal.
What side of the hill is that - Big Baw etc?
I've not managed along to anything Tweed Valley in far too long now.
Yeah that side.
Trail is Jawbone.
Big Baw is a little strange now.
The second half of the trail has been completely felled.
Trails is still pretty much the same just feels totally different with no trees.
@a11y where are those other pics taken? I've ridden so much recently around Doune/Dunblane/Stirling that I feel I SHOULD recognise them, but don't 😎
@13thfloormonk, mostly a bit further south-east from Stirling 😀
1/ Dumyat summit
2/ Trail network south Falkirk, nr Callendar Estates trail centre & Falkirk Monument
3/ Access trail into Kippenrait - looking back over fields above Dunblane, towards Ben Lomond etc.
4/ Woods beside path between the forestry (aka dogging) carpark and the Dumyat access gate
5/ Trail network south of Falkirk, Easter Strip trail
6/ Trail network south Falkirk, looking east towards the Milk Barn
Honestly, I think I’d forgotten that spells like this are the reason I love mountain biking so much. This is the last dry day. I had an idiotic grin pasted on my face during the whole ride today. It was beyond perfect.
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Absolutely spectacular morning in the Ochils.
Blairdenon, Bengengie, Craig Leith and down...
Sacked off my usual Friday morning swimming club for another bike ride - when conditions are like this it's hard not to ride!
Don't think I need to explain the location of this one 😀
Don't think I need to explain the location of this one
The plains of Rohan?
Al fresco lunch in spring sunshine yesterday.
0Is Monday midweek?
I reckon so...
Quick eeeb blast with the hound to enjoy weather and conditions while they last.
A wet afternoon on tracks. It's about to get much wetter so enjoying it while I can.
Had a great day on the bike near to Chatel in France. I was initially bummed that, after climbing for an hour, I couldn’t get to the lake I was aiming for - there had been an avalanche on the only trail leading to the lake. But after going back down the road, and taking an alternate route(which doesn’t go all the way to the lake) I found some local biker-built singletrack! And even better, when I arrived back at the apartment, I met the biker who had built some of the trails. So a great day, all in all.
The biggest negative is the huge number of trees down across so many of the trails here.
Epic dawn chorus from the comfort of my bivi bag this morning.
