Weekend photograph taking. Bikes too if you want.

Short local loop with some faffage of shock pressures, saddle height and bar rolling.

It's months since I did this loop, it's all within about 3 miles of my house. Great fun in the wet....

Last ride before our Italian trip. Only us and the sheep out on the trails. Still quite warm and dry but the wind was strong on the tops.

Tried another bike park in Japan this weekend. This one is at the base of mount Fuji. It's quite small with a chair lift. The weather was absolutely glorious. It's a bit higher so cooler at a nice 23-25 degs. Got a 3 hours ticket and somehow managed to get 11 runs in.

This one is called Fujiten which is about 90 mins drive, but it's 90 mins drive on local roads so actually quite close. The other one (Fujimi) was 2 hours but it was 2 hours worth of motorway driving.

That's Mount Fuji in the background. No snow this time of the year.

Only had 3 hours so didn't really stop to take any more photos.

@nicholas_yiu - can you post up about Japan and riding on a thread? I've got a son who spent a few months there this year, looking to go back in 2025 to stay a year...

5.30 this morning, setting up for the first round of the Notts and Derby CX league at Shipley Park. 800 stakes, 7km of tape, ready for 250+ riders. (I was a small cog in a big machine)

I went for a ride along the Surrey/Hampshire borderlands. Picture taken near Waggoners Wells.

Off to Italy for 12 nights from tomorrow, (work trip, but taking the bike), so out for a few hours last night instead of this morning.

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Does Friday afternoon count as the weekend? Had to drop a parcel off in Ilkley so had a short but sweet ride around the moor.

Just a quick ride round the local woods with my son. Good fun although still got the urge to ride as was only 4.5 miles. 

Me and Curtis went to the seaside ?

Had Ellie out for a blast round Beecraigs last night.

First time out with the drone and got a bit of learning to do. Eventually worked out how to make it follow me

Hire bike and park laps in NY for me

Long overdue visit to Wharncliffe today.

Towards Langsett reservoir.

That's spooky. Yesterday's ride

Marple to Edale and back. Pissing down with rain, decent spiced potato roll from the lovely Sett Valley Cafe.

Searching for signs of the 8th century in the Galloway Hills

Calder Divide Trail day 1, day 2 was too grim for photos

Grim in calderdale indeed..

Suns out now though, lol!

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Saturday in Penyard woods for me. Started off really well with a couple of "firsts" but ended up with me faceplanting on a trail I've ridden loads of times before. No idea how it happened, which is concerning. No pics of the bike, but one of my ugly mug, complete with blood and abrasions.

Took the mutt to Mallards today for a nice gentle bimble.

Only riding I done this weekend is down the stage I was marshalling today at the last tweedlove, stage start.....

Krafty bit of parking there Rocketdog.

Krafty bit of parking there Rocketdog

Ooft.

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Dartmour mon amour:

Does the Instagram embedding still work?

Did a few bits from Grasmere on Saturday, was wet and windy.

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Riding the last ever Tweedlove enduro in Innerleithen was scuppered with car troubles. (Tractor incident - that's why you're meant to raise those loader arms! No-one injured)

Cover it with a sticker?

^blimey!

No-one injured

Is the bike OK?

(yikes!)

Early morning wazz along a bit of the Union Canal and Avon Heritage Trail, including Scotland's longest and tallest aqueduct.

Then I sneaked in a quick shakedown ride of my new-to-me frame on my local trails - not many tweaks required although the rear shock undoubtedly has some better settings for me I'm sure. Very undertrailed/overbiked but still very much fun.

@euain, where were you parked when that happened? Hope I said hello to you at the start of 4, how did you get on over the weekend? (Apart from the car incident)

Just back from our third time in Molini. Fab as ever.

@euain, where were you parked when that happened? Hope I said hello to you at the start of 4, how did you get on over the weekend? (Apart from the car incident)

No, I was in the drivers seat - it appears my instincts worked OK and diving for the passenger footwell was the right call. Driving home from work and the tractor just nosed out of the hedgerow to join the road. It doesn't really bear thinking about as my driver's headrest is bent back. ?

I didn't make it down in the end. Complete Tweedlove failure for me this year. Broke collar bone at the end of April so missed Laggan. Not healed fully so marshalled Glentress one. Then all set for a (slow) return at Innerleithen and this happened.

Wedding anniversary weekend for me so Mrs Hoppy and I went to the peaks with Hoppy Jr. Saturday was lovely and sunny so we went down a cave.

Sunday was windy and raining so we rode across the moors from Hathersage to Lady Cannings and back.

Fortunately we did get an evening ride in on Saturday so didn't miss the entirety of the good weather.

Some boss pics this week.

Hearts for eyes emoji.

Managed to get out on Saturday to Wharns with the boy. Only did the Noddy stuff as I'm a mincer, but managed not to die, which was nice.

Sunday morning a spin round Curbar, got caught by the rain at the end.

My last ride with the Austin Ridge Riders here in Texas before going back to the UK. The Sunday meet with perhaps 50 riders or more turning up, splitting off into smaller groups of similar ability. Great bunch of people, I will miss riding with them. It was a tad warm at 34c though.

No biking for me, but a half hearted attempt at getting dunk in a storm off the coast of Croatia