Nice and warm out, all the chores done. Couldn't resist a couple of hours out with the dog.
After not getting an invite to Farmer Johns on Wednesday I'm up early in the morning for some jumps training in Greno with Abigale before she goes to work 🤔.
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A wee pentlands ride locally tomorrow but then on Monday I'm off to Peebles for the week 🙂 Round of Golf, some gt offpiste, a day on the adrenaline uplift, maybe a wee jaunt down the river to thornie...
No bike today but walked to check out a steps of doom descent for when my shoulder is 100% fixed.
They're a lot steeper that the pic shows and quite committing.
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Twisted Oaks tomorrow, I was at Rogate Wednesday and had a bit of an OTB and landed on my shoulder so might ride the full suss tomorrow and take it easy if the shoulder hurts too much.
Can't wait to get back up North.
Them rocks look interesting
Does yesterday count? I took the day off to enjoy the good weather and headed up in the hills above Ballater. I rode up and over Morvern, around Cambus o’ May and took in a run of Mastermind on the way back to Ballater.
I can see why there is a wildfire warning at the moment, the hills are bone dry.
I’ll be heading out tomorrow, probably to Ballo Woods.
Sunday is a write off as I’m having my first COVID vaccination at midday.
I’ve been renovating an old 1993 RockHopper recently so took it out for a shakedown ride today. It’s short, steep and surprisingly fun.
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Out with the dog in the morning. Followed by a bit of local lanes riding to clear my head. Sunday, I'll try for some pics in Freston Woods of the bluebells and garlic.
was out with Samuel and Sophie around stairs and jumps at the house. Cathkin tomorrow and Golfie without the kids on Sunday.
Northwind.
If you fancy a trip over to Yair next week give us a shout.
I'm free to ride from Wednesday on.
more dusty trails
I snuck in a cheeky early weekend ride on Thursday afternoon!
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Had the place to myself in the sun, just me and the squirrels 🙂
Weekend started last night, lovely in the fading light but flipping cold once the sun disappeared
172km on the roadie today, Oldham to Lytham and back. Pretty hard work with a headwind all the way back.
Quick 20 miles on the road tonight after work. Tomorrow is a right off but night pop over to Chopwell woods on Sunday evening for a spin around.
Planning a ride from home, Aberdeen to Inverness tomorrow, Saturday. Wind looks favourable. Plan is to go over the Cabrach and over from from Grant-own on Spey.
Train back to Aberdeen in the afternoon. May involve a few tins of beer. The last leg from Aberdeen station home may be wobbly.
Despite only being an hour away I went to the Quantocks for the first time, exploring and then doing some of the Triscombe DH tracks.
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Glorious weather. Bonked at the end of the ride so the last few (massive) hills killed me.
Yesterday?
A short local walk, most of which I'd previously done by bike (we walked up to the top of a trail called "Cake or Death" which some folk on here have done). The difference today was to carry on where we'd normally turn off onto the MTB descent, we walked to the top of a wee hill I'd not been up previously.
Not too shabby. That photo is now the background on my PC desktop.
Great after work spin this afternoon
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How are you finding the SL.
My boss said that because I'd got a new bike, I should take the day off and go and ride it. He's good like that *
Woburn.
Epic. Like riding on the beach at the moment.
*self-employed
Isle of Wight tomorrow on the GRAVEL BIKE 👀
East from Yarmouth on the Tennyson trail, pick up the old railway to Shanklin, coffee by the sea in Ventnor then use the forecasted brisk easterly to smash it back to the ferry on the old military road.
Bike heaven
~1.75 hours in the late afternoon sunshine just north of Upham, continuing the steady recovery after prolonged vaccine side effects, lovely weather to be out in.
Not sure when or how it happened, but lower back muscles moaning a bit tonight (as are the legs), hope I can still head out and steadily climb some proper hills tomorrow near Butser.
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Loving it ! Didn’t ride it at all really through latest lockdown as local to home trails pretty tame, so it’s been road and gravel only since November.
It’s great to get back out on it and I even managed my first fall on the rebuilt shoulder today when I topped it out on a really steep slow grassy knoll climb. Soft landing fortunately 🤣
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More Purbecks with cold windy pint at the Square & Compass.
Some great pics as ever
Skived off yesterday afternoon to test out new bars on gravel bike. Not much gravel, lots of hard baked dirt and a bit of sand. No bluebells tho, cold/dry seems to have stunted them this year 🙁
Off to Symonds Yat in a few mins. Trails over there are running perfectly. Hopefully a pint in our fav pub by the river later.
Cracking day in the FoD yesterday, pair of Whyte e-bike's booked for Monday.
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About to leave the Whernside walkers path & head over to Dentdale
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Pic taken about 200 yards away from my pic earlier in the thread! I'll keep an eye out for you zooming off in the distance on your motorbike next time i'm there! 🙂
Super dry dusty and blown out in the woods at the moment, some berms you can trust, sum you can't.....
We've had a great morning out sessioning Steel City and been given some tuition.
It's always fun on a family ride
Last run down Kevin stacked it, a bit battered, bruised and cut. At least the bikes OK 😉
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Climb up tennyson down was brutal with a 30kmh headwind. I wanted to go for a lie down after that. Coming back along the military road with the wind behind me was a lot more fun.
One of my best mates has moved to Effingham and it was his birthday on Thursday so headed down from London with the road bike to show him around a bit and then actually sit in a pub with other people and order food and other things that used to be normal but that I haven’t done for about a year.
Absolutely delightful day for 100km or so in the saddle that’s for sure.
Swimming down the beach in the morning, so no mtbing, but discovered the other day, from random browsing, that there is a pump track not far from us, so me and jr went down and checked it out. Blimmin good it is. Got too busy after a while with nippers on scooters and little bikes, which was great to see.
Pic taken about 200 yards away from my pic earlier in the thread! I’ll keep an eye out for you zooming off in the distance on your motorbike next time i’m there! 🙂
Oh yeah! I'm surprised I didn't see you holding me up on the climbs... 😉👊
Rad day in the Fod today.
Only slightly hampered by this little beauty from Thursday at Woburn.
I swear since I've been riding ebikes I've been way more battered and bruised.
Finished off a dusty week in the Lakes this morning with a ride up the far side of Ullswater to Pooly Bridge and back to Glenridding (sorry, no pics).
Helvellyn earlier in the week.
A lap of Whinlatter with the nipper.
Descent to Howtown.
Bikes are ace!
Awesome day at the Yat. Felt like the first proper Spring ride. Warm, dusty, beer. I'll take that every week from now on 🙂
And back on the RipMo. 3 years old tomorrow. Still love riding it.
And then beer in the sunshine. Quite a lot of beer if I'm being entirely honest 🙂
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Seems the Forum software doesn't like Flickr videos. This is from the morning ride. I am married to a most excellent woman who sent me out again this afternoon. There's a second post to come after pizza.
Bit of an oldschool XC ride for us today as I'm trying to get fit again after my nine months enforced break from riding.
Did around half of the old Selkirk MTB marathon routes with a little bit of fun in Yair thrown it too.
I'd forgotten about the grassy push up the hill with no real track...
Still nice day to be out and no rush.
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I managed my first 50 mile ride, it’s fair to say I’m made up if not a little tired in the legs.
Bacup to Davyhulme with a fair bit of road and some nice trails below Swinton
Last Thursday, but great to be back at the Golfie (even did a new trail).No one else parked at the quarry and saw about 15 other folks on the hill. Trails were mint.
