[Closed] the rain wins

Had every intention of riding but walking the dog was enough of a trial by sludge.
Sofa snoozing is my current favourite fall back plan.

Not me. Seems like the perfect time to do some of those jobs I put off during the summer so I could go riding.

Sort of a karmic payback I think.

When I was half the age I am now, I'd ride no matter what. I'm certainly older and wiser now.

Although clearly I'm procrastinating.

Lasted 1/2 hr or so on road bike earlier - kerb deep puddles, bow waves from trucks and almost zero grip or brakes convinced me pretty easily to head back 🙁

did 50 odd miles .... opppsss that means I've been rumbled and caught
roadie riding. i feel shamed now ?

+1 for getting the things done that have needed to be done for some time. Outside looks like a horrible place today...

I'm currently shopping for mudguards.

I got mucky enough yesterday....

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Ran up Skiddaw this morning, expecting to get rained on... and the sun came out 😀
I had to have a sit down to take it all in....

I may go down the nice dry gym later but this morning I've been watching video clips of Moab thinking I really wat to go next year. Tuesdays mudfest was my last outdoor cycle 🙁

i haven't given up yet.

ok so im deluding myself.

Have to say I was glad I got a decent ride in last weekend as the forecast was such I decided this Sunday would be a lie in and cinema later ! Cold and wet today in London.

@Jedi got to say the Internet is great, instead of watching TV you can pick what you want.

Just got back from a 20 miler and swept most of the trans pennine trail off my drive...wetter than an otters pocket...

Sun splitting the sky here. It's lovely. Will head out after my bacon butties.

Had a great ride last weekend, and my 30th birthday last night so taking things a bit gently with the rain outside is just what I need. Also waiting for a spot of frame tape to arrive so that I can fit my new mud huggers, after having to clean the bike twice last weekend to get the Swinley sand off it...

Sun splitting the sky here. It's lovely.

Ditto here but I'm completely lacking in motivation

It's not raining here so we did a little 12 miler and then back home for a cup of tea and a full English 😀 My first time out on a singlespeed mtb too, which was nice.

I'm back on the coast having a few weeks off that thing called work 😆

I've ticked off quite a few rides I've been meaning to do lately, some long distance CX stuff and three days tour of Yorkshire on the roadie, loads of hacks in the Moors and now back home on the coast and it's pissing down 😆

So yesterday I had to fit a new water tank in the loft which took 4 hours and a lot of swearing. See I walked in, turned the heating on, popped upstairs to find a bow in the ceiling.. and a drip coming from it 😕 Anyhoos fixed that all up, today I've put some mouse traps up there and now ive just had to fit a bloody toilet inflow cistern thingumybob because it's not shutting off..

So the rain can bucket down for all I care, Prince of Persias on Sky Movies and then early beers tonight at my fave pub eva..

Annnnd relax

went for a run earlier this morning, couldn't face going out on the bike, soaked within 5 mins, wasn't too cold so just got wet.

sofa and cake

Out on the fat bike for 2 hours in local woods, wet and windy and muddy but great fun 🙂
Now, Grand Prix , erdinger and fig rolls.. With spurs on Telly later ,great day off

Like nickc, really cannot be fussed with getting the bike manky for the sake of what would have only been a shortish ride.

A quick run first thing. Done in under an hour leaving me to spend the day vegging on the sofa with the kids.

Nope. It's peeing down outside so I'm doing jobs, currently clearing out my loft before I get free insulation fitted. Wife is sorting through it all for ebay and charity items and we're both trying to work out the least muddy place to take the dogs out before the roast is done. Found my ski boots and am wondering if I should get a new pair or stick with them as they've only done 8 weeks (in 8 years)

I got some kind of virus last Friday but had a weekend of (bike, I had a couple of days of horse riding there a few weeks earlier) riding in Wales ahead - did the gap route round the Brecon Beacons on the Saturday, where the virus tried to kill me on the climb up. Goggled up (yes, full enduro!) and powered by tangfastics, the descent was brilliant! Was sensible in the pub but still had a night of sweating and shivering which didn't bode well for a day of uplift at BPW...

Armed with cold & flu pills, more haribo and malt loaf I had a great day at BPW - somehow managed eleven uplifts! I think I knew that if I stopped my body would give up. Drove back (Sod's law it's the first trip to Wales in a while where I've been one of the drivers!) to Brighton and at that point my body did give up. Have had a week of me being ill, wife being ill and then toddler joining in with something different. Heating stopped working - fixed it. Washing machine broke and spewed welsh mud everywhere. Felt better on Friday! Got toddler's cold on Saturday. Just had a pie, which was nice. Will have to go outside when mini-CGG wakes up because she will demand a walk...

Looking forward to playing in the mud on two wheels later this week but enjoying recuperation right now.

Been full of a headcold all week but it's lovely & sunny outside here,West Lancs, so I'm going for a decongesting session/ pootle on the roadbike.

Lovely and sunny in Midlothian. I'm looking after the kids so swapping bits over on to a new frame but front mech isn't suitable so it'll have to wait a few more days. Might have to try the singlespeed.

26 miles in the pissing rain. Very cold and wet. Trails were lovely and technical though, plenty of wet roots and chalk to keep me concentrating! 7 of us out braving the weather 🙂

Shoe drier doing wonders for me now!

No rain here just blue skies and slow melting frost. Riding buddy got himself a new bike and was understandably mad keen to break it in. We were on the trails before 9 and back home by 12.30.

Heavy rain in Hertfordshire all day, not even a nineteenth-century Welsh Baptist minister would walk out in this.
Staying in: reading, five live, writing.

Just got back from yotting - if you are going to get wet then best do it properly! As an aside I wore an aldi merino top and waterproof socks from the last cycle stuff sale and they were both superb

Forced myself to get out first thing this morning from Hitchin. A very wet 19m, but still ended up having a good ride surfing through the slime.

Now trying to motivate myself to clean up the trail of muddy carnage I've left through the flat.

Stood around in a muddy field getting soaked while the 30 kids got themselves even more soaked by rolling around in the mud and chased after an egg shaped ball.
Loved it!

Just back from my first ride in about two months after surgery. It was ****ing ace. Woods, roots, leaves, mud, new bike, beer.
I love mountain bikes.

I went out with my boy (7) to the quarry to do 'skills' (riding down banks). He lasted half an hour before he got too cold.

Just back in after 25 miles of very wet and muddy riding on the North Downs...nobody else out there today at all which made it all feel a bit more grrrr that it really was.

Now at home with that slightly unpleasant itchy feet and hands thing you get when you heat up frozen limbs too quickly

I saw one person on my ride, he was wearing a proper old-school bright yellow sou'wester - I felt pretty hardcore!

Probably wouldn't have gone out just by myself, but a couple of mates were up for an early start so that was t hat. 3hr slush-fest around Leith Hill but well worth it.

No riding today, but got a day off tomorrow - forcast looks good 8)

A nice day out from about midday which was about the time my hangover wore off. Unfortunately I forgot my sunglasses, really needed them with the sun so low at this time of year. A bitter wind though, you didn't want to hang around anywhere exposed.

I raced the Merida Brass Monkeys today. Squeezed in 3 laps as just went under 2 hours for 2. Last one was a particularly wet agonising slop fest.

And an hour to clean all my gear after...

A full lap of Thetford Poacher (the old red) it was a bit soggy. The clothing had a shower before it went into the washer. Second load for the outer layer about to go on. Bike rinsed off in the wet again.
There were other madmen out in the foulness today and Go Ape were also running.

Quick blast around Grizedale before the combined effects of a head cold and general 'riding down rivers' shortened the ride after a few hours.

Mercifully not raining here but a jaunt around Leigh Woods and Ashton Court was pretty soggy nonetheless. I looked like I'd been to a fete and had my face painted as a giraffe by the time I got home.

Too busy this weekend sadly but saw some rubbish weather so don't feel too bad!!

stopped raining at 9am, dry all day since
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My forks are knackered on the MTB so took the Road bike for a Pootle of about 35 miles.

Only a light shower here in Lancs but it was bloody cold. Trying to warm up now as I need a pee.......

Stopped raining in the Shire early afternoon, so a dry ride and a perfectly timed sunset at the top of the last hill.

Well despite my comments above I did go out in the end. Hacked out on the CX'er over Hamble Lines way and got throroughly into it. It had stopped raining by 3, dramatic sunset over the New Forest and the a bit of a wait at the jet wash.

Glad I went out in the end 8)

Just back in after 5 hours on the bike - though I did stop for a roast at the inlaws half way round. My average speed dropped dramatically after that!
Quite surprised at how well the local trails are holding up considering the weather we've had.

What rain?

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Sunny all day in the Lakes!
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Lovely and Sunny down here in Wales too. Got a nice (if cold) 13 miler around Ystradfellte. Didn't see another soul on the rough stuff other than a local hunter with gun and terrier. Lovely. Needed new feet by the end of it though 🙂

Job for this week: Find all the bits of my "winter" hardtail and put it back together again...... 😉

If there was a like, then i would 'like' that Lakes shot..........

If there was a like, then i would 'like' that Lakes shot..........

You could always share it. I believe you'd be the first to try that feature out

Its not that good........

The share feature, or the pic?

No Rain in the Forest Of Dean plenty of water on the ground though 😆

Lovely & sunny in West Lancs,glad I got out!
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don't need an actual bike - am riding in my head!

still buzzing from coaching sess with Mr Doyle on saturday - have been walking round the house holding an imaginary set of handlebars doing sweet jumps

Just been out on the road bike. Managed six miles before my hands were so cold I couldn't change gear. Now searching for winter gloves.

Glad I got out though (despite pitiful distance)

Did 40 km on the single speed in the rain. I really enjoyed it, especially slimy descending with no suspension! I did stop for a pie and chips on the way home though... Followed up by a couple of pints and pork scratchings...

Beautiful weather here. No riding due to a bad cold. Very annoying.

Properly minging in the Chilterns, but snuck out for a sneaky lunchtime ride when the wife popped to the shops. Only 12 miles, but great fun riding down streams and skitting over roots with kacked up glasses. Was thoroughly sodden and filthy when I got home, but fortunately wife was not back so was spared being hosed down before being allowed in the house.

Welshfarmer, is Ystradfellte your local spot?

Wetter than an otter's pocket in the upper reaches of the River Test here. Still got out for a cheeky couple of hours of mixed road and track action. One massive flint puncture just before Farleigh Wallop which was a shame, but otherwise, a cracking ride!

It was pissing it down all day in Suffolk. I had a 1 hour tempo power test to do, which would have been reet grim in the rain, so I stayed indoors on the turbo. Which was also reet grim.

Early morning run around the Punchbowl in the deluge. Great for running but would have been nasty on a bike!!!

Horrible drive on the M25 in the floods later.

Lovely sunny morning, crisp and clear and .... Monday 🙁

Boris bike is just not the same

Nice photos by the way rocket, postie and buster

Breadcrumb - is your pic at the top of the Arnside Intake climb? My brain is too fuddled to compute this morning.

Light was wonderful in the Lakes yesterday. If I hadn't been so dumb as to try to get away with a thin softshell, I would have kept on going.

Envious of the Lakes photos!! On the way to Iron keld?

Boris bikes were good this morning - if bloody parky on the fingers!! Best time of year for cycling on BB as not too sweaty and early morning views of the fiver are great.

I've just come back to the grim north after ten weeks in Greece, making the most of dry, rocky trails - I seriously don't know if I can be bothered going out riding in the cold and slop we've got here, I'm just getting too old for it I suppose.

Everything down my way is a massive, slippery bog-fest. Sections of trail are impassable because your frame clogs with cloying mud in less than 100 yards.

Yep, I'll be running for the next few months until everything dries out...

Rain, what rain?
Beautiful blue sky day in the Lakes. Only three of us out but we enjoyed a nice scenic ride from Ambleside:
Loughrig; Fox Ghyll; Rydal Hall; Coffin Trail; Grasmere; Elterwater; Tilberthwaite; Slate Mines; Hodge Close; Iron Keld; Loughrig; Clappersgate.
With just the three of us out, we kept up a fair pace all day, only stopping for a butty at the top of the slate mines. Legs feeling it today!

22 miles, 4000' and a post-ride pint in The Watermill at Ings.
Overall, one of the best Lakes days for ages.

If we'd have known that the weather was going to be as nice as that, we'd have gone for a high level route instead.

Beautiful day in Northumberland too.

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Got out for a few hours exploring new cheeky trails in the sunshine in the afternoon. Glad I took the lights to get me home though...