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I hope your mates got a licence for those shorts Lowey?? 😆
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Quick singlespeed ride enjoying the sunshine
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Schralping the gnarmacz to teh MAX at Farleigh Wallop.
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The air was heavy with the the scent of bluebells and wild garlic. Glorious.
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Bluebells you say?
North London very pleasant today:
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I spent yesterday putting the Anthem back to what its supposed to be, rather than my idea of "Trail". Amazing how shite I must of made it, its been supreme today.
After spending far too much time trying to decide which of my full sus bikes I prefer (thankfully now resolved) it was nice to get back on the fat bike for a bimble in the hills. The wind was trying to be annoying, but given what is suppposed to be coming our way tomorrow (snow!) I'm not complaining.
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bailed on the road, did another 3.5 half hours on the singlespeed with a pub stop.... so fast and dry 🙂 Home for lamb kofta in tomato sauce slow cooking in the tagine with a lovely bottle of rioja. So lovely and sunny and warm in the garden, heavenly 🙂
Cannock Cotic.
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Had a great time, doubled the dog and doubled up on lower cliff too. The chase was busy but everyone was really friendly, got chatting to a few folks. The sun was out and I was cycling in short sleeves for the first time this year, these are the days we dream about when it's subzero with 2 scraves & base layers on in Winter.
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Only managed to ride local today but did manage to stain nine fence panels
Few pics from yesterdays Peak ride
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A loop from Fortingall up Glen Lyon and over to Loch Rannoch then return over the side of Schiehallion
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Usual 06:30 road loop yesterday with a lot of cyclists out now the mornings are lighter. TT bike honing session this afternoon. Position needs work still!
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New wheels look nice and ride even better.
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Went for a massive ride from Cardiff, over the Ridgeway between Castell Coch and Machen then over the next mountain to Cwmcarn, a loop of the Twrch then back via a small play at the Van Road jumps and dual slalom track. It was as knackering as reading that sentence without a breath 😀
47 miles and 6500ft of climbing in glorious sunshine, great way to start my week off 😀
I was lucky enough to get Friday off so we managed to squeeze in a cheeky unplanned weekend in North Wales with the family. My lovely wife was happy to let me take the bike too.
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Rather less big mountainous pics than from some of the other riders on this thread, but it was another beautiful, buff, day in the (dry) Woburn back woods, with the trails running to perfection!
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Surprisingly few others out on their bikes considering the weather and the awesome state of the trails, but chatted to a couple of other riders when catching our breath at the top of the climbs. Guy out with his son and a guy out with his trail dog, all with big smiles and grins thanks to the a-typical conditions 8)
I captioned this one "Loamy McLoamface" on FB...
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You could probably get a slot on Gardeners World with that little cutting Chaka! 😆
I hate you all
*Posted from Gatwick airport
I dun this;
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Bit sore now but largely got away with it
Took lewis for a small ride on the West highland way from balmaha.
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Sore knee or not, Evening light was too good to miss tonight.
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Ace ride on the Quantocks, trails are fizzing at the moment.
Arrived back at the car park to find one of the LBS had set up a Whyte demo day. Fortunately for my marriage I had to get back home so couldn't ride anything. 😉
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Thanks to Jekkyl, we did a nice loop around Dimmingsdale.
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Took the boys up to tilberthwaite this afternoon, youngest is an animal on the downs, just need to familiarize him with the brake to minimise parental palpitations. Eldest is developing into a snake hipped climber. Lads. Then had to get a blast on some local trails to kiss the weekend sunshine goodbye.
Check out my ride on Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/952479638/shareable_images/photo_based/757877/1/5519cab5-a5d9-4067-8ecb-e75eaf3a3f72?hl=en-US&v=1492867540
Pics from two local Arkose rides this weekend.
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colournoise - Member
Probably A little local pootle tomorrow morning.
End up as 40km off road, so not such a little pootle...
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Some great pics on this thread!
No pics i'm afraid, but I did my longest ever ride - and on proved how versatile a 29erHT can be into the bargain!
I had a 60mi ride planned with my NC500 charity group as that was the groups target for this month. I'm kinda hoping to do a double century in ~8 weeks, so decided to ride to and from the group ride as well.
Lovely day, but OMG that headwind home 👿
Ride:
https://www.strava.com/activities/955161178
And not so subtle charity plug:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/DPC-NC500
Great weekend in Cairngorms with a group of young riders form Glasgow Riderz. We has 21 young 'uns and 9 coaches. Saturday skills and trails around Feshie, Sunday mixture of orange, red and black at Laggan Wolftrax.
Here's iaincjnr getting psyched for the upper red descent 🙂
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One of the best days on the bike for a while on Sunday. Nan Bield.
Going to flood the pictures, you have been warned.
Heading towards Gatescarth pass.
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Gatescarth.. Tom is not a fan of climbing.
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Pace RC127 at Small Water Tarn. Hardtail took it all in it's stride. Great bike.
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Best get climbing then..
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Looking down onto the tarn and Haweswater.
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Almost there..
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At the top, descent snakes out in front of us - what a great feeling.
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Well earned!
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Great ride out, looking forward to more!
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Bristol trails
A mix of new-school enduro trails and old-school hill tracks a Dunkeld, with LD, eldest_LD and smallest_OAB here.
A bonus wedding as well, but not ours as LD and I are already married. 😉
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Some local pottering around Dunblane on Friday evening.
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Lovely ride over cannock early doors on saturday morning. No pictures, but I did take my gopro and did a crappy montage.
One of those lovely warm(ish)windless spring days. Didn't want to stop.
Local ride in Morley on Sat, BMX at the national cycle centre in Manchester on Sunday.
Couldn't help but think how much more fun the bmx track would be on [s]a grown up bike[/s] an MTB...
Couldn't help but think how much more fun the bmx track would be on an MTB...
They do an open night down at the big one in Brum if you can get down. £5 on the night and you can ride as much as you like.
Had 7 lucky volunteers turn up for my first Fat Lad At the Back social ride on Sunday morning. Blue sky, a leisurely 19 miles on road, great way to meet different people with a similar interest.
Myself and some friends had three rides in the Lakes this weekend. Skiddaw and Ullock Pike on Saturday was first up and fantastic. Then we were out of the Hostel door at 3:30am on Sunday morning for a push up Helvellyn, for a perfect summit sunrise. This was followed by Ullswater singletrack. Not a bad weekend at all 🙂
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Veledrome Sunday morning for couple of hours then Farmer Johns on DH bike. Good contrast of styles
Good effort Flimbo. That looks ace.
What a splendid set of rides and pics this weekend, absolutely belting.
3.30am Flimbo?? did you get back and go back to bed? 😉 great pic of the sunrise, you were very lucky to get clear views.
The alarm rung out at 3am and after a quick breakfast we were off. Back to the hostel by 6:45am in time for their full English breakfast and then back to bed for an hour before check out and a loop of Ullswater.
The people we were speaking to whilst drinking the night before didn't believe us at breakfast that we'd already been up and down!
The forecast had looked terrible just a couple of days before so we certainly struck lucky.
That looks like the perfect weekend Flimbo. Very jealous.
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Edit; knackers
A quick loop early doors round Rydal and Grasmere. It was fast and dry and not many folk about. Oh and I nailed a big exposed bedrock slab that I have always minced out of doing 🙂
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