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Cracking day in the Lakes on Saturday. Even got a bit of sunburn.
Had a cracking day in the Peak, started in the thick fog and 0deg in the valley but soon climbed above it and onto the snowy tops and sunshine:
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A few from yesterday at Hebden...
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Looking at those pictures of the Peak above I'm really looking forward to a week Friday when we had back up there for a week of Riding 😀
This weekend we rode at Woodbury Common - a slightly disjoined ride as someone had just got a new camera and wanted to take pictures for once. Some of the pictures were better but alas it would appear I pull all manner of silly faces when riding 😳
We started with some of this
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And then spent an hour sheltering in part of the forest due to a sudden hail storm.
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Paris Roubaix. Rode there, rode it. Fixed.
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Super soggy, so just went out to try and find some new routes. Found a couple of nice sections, now just need to find a way of linking them up.
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Gravel'in Kielder..
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https://www.strava.com/activities/547199116
Nice day for it even though the wind was bitter!
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63 mile CX bimble.
Local Bimble
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Sunny day in CyB riding some steep, cheeky off-piste trails.
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And yes I'm fully aware I'm using poor switchback technique ^^^ there.
Drumlanrig - dry and dusty !
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Aberdeenshire: still snow up top.
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Cripes, some of your local trails are spectacular !
Niiiice 😀
Not much sign of anything drying out in the Surrey Hills.
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PMBA enduro, confirmation that I'm really crap at enduro.
Went to show off my Enduro Sled at a pretty damp Llandegla, actually managed to ride with a friend for a change. Rode the red, black and blue so 48k in total.
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Cripes, some of your local trails are spectacular !Niiiice
Not sure if that refers to my picture (there are a lot of great photos on this thread), but what mine didn't show was the bitter wind! The 20 minutes after that shot was taken were spent with the bike on my shoulders trying to stay upright and the choice was between walking through six inches of slushy snow or walking on the heather covered bog to the side of the track. Either way my feet were freezing. I love a god epic though and conditions were a lot more benign as soon as I dropped back down into the glen.
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Suffered yesterday. Don't know if I was just sub-par, but it's the first ride in Swaledale I've ever had which I really didn't enjoy. Headwinds, bit gloopy, very cold in the hands and feet, couple of minor mechanicals, got to Great Pinseat and just decided to bail back to Reeth.
Northern Beer Snobs visit Shandyland. We found out that Chilterns Mud is very nearly impossible to ride on.
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Poorly Missus meant just a snatched hour on the local trails yesterday, planning a proper one for next weekend
1 second off a KOM too, grrrrr (although given the inherent inaccuracy of Strava, I'll claim it!)
Lakes for me on Saturday. It was splendid.
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Working Saturday and only managed to get out at end of day yesterday...
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Well I had Friday off work so me n mar mate could drive to Wales. We stopped in Talybont on usk and set out to do the Gap Route in the afternoon. That rocky tramroad is hellish, up and on and on and up and rocks and more rocks. The descent back down from above the resovoir was fantastic and we had a great time. By this time the weather had turned and we were cold so instead of climbing back up to the gap we opted for the road back to Talyont and the pub.
On Saturday the sun was out in full effect and we had a fantastic days riding at Bike Park Wales. My first time there and loved it. We managed 8 uplifts, we only did 2 red runs and the spent the rest of the time on the blues whooping it down the mountain. Loved terry’s belly the most, espicially the bits towards the end, so fast and so much fun. We didn’t stop to take any pics.
[url= https://www.strava.com/activities/552695543 ]Gisburn[/url] Thursday, [url= https://www.strava.com/activities/553538456 ]local[/url] Friday, [url= https://www.strava.com/activities/554431455 ]Penmachno[/url] Saturday. Weather was great for all three. Never been to Penmachno before but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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I built up the Old Skool Gnarpoon last week & took it for a shaedown around a surprisingly dry Rivi on Friday
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Then had a hoot at a equally surprisingly dry Antur Stiniog on Saturday
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It was all going so well then this happened 🙄
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Of course it happened 5 seconds into a descent. Not even a tyre boot could save me. A 1,000 foot descent on foot and 4 miles back to the van. I could've cried.
BB Half a mile into my first descent of the day mine looked like this 😯
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Still running tubes on this one so I just put a new tube in..
BB Half a mile into my first descent of the day mine looked like this
Ouch
Big thanks to the four riders who blasted past me when my bike was upside down and didn't even acknowledge me never mind ask if I needed a hand.
Cant let anything coming between them and their Strava time...
Big thanks to the four riders who blasted past me when my bike was upside down and didn't even acknowledge me never mind ask if I needed a hand.
doesn't surprise me, even when you try and flag them down for help they avert their gaze head down and carry on.
Hong Kong humidity is back, those aren't tears running down my cheeks, only sweat, honest.
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Salisbury Plain on Sunday
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Next Monday I start on my Coast to Coast via the NCN 6 from Kendal to Seascale, pick up the NCN72 all the way up the West Coast via the Solway then across the country to Whitby, then ride back on a mix of NCN's back to Kendal.
Yay!
51 miler with stu and nick, from wollaston to Alveley up to Highley, into stoddesdon across to Cleobury Mortimer, then back through the wyre forest for beer at the plough and Harrow.
I did the northern half of the recently opened South Peak loop. Nearly 50 miles of off-road, quiet lanes and old railways (e.g. Monsal Trail). Had a grand day, although I confess the Monsal Trail is a dull ride when you've no one to talk to #billy-no-mates.
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Up on Wavering Down in the Mendips. Never been up there before, but had a great day exploring new bridleways.
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55 Miles around the white peak yesterday.
Why do people fix bikes in the middle of the trail 😯
53 miles on my turf bike n bivi
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Are they wheely tents? 🙂
weather is blinding (quite literally) a fine oak coming into leaf on todays early morning road jaunt (there were a lot of riders out today :))
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Bit of a fail today. Weekend away near Edin. Planned to ride Inners on the way home till I realised I had "lost" the key to the motor homes "garage" doh 🙄
Went for coffee/lunch ar Cafe No1 and met the guys from CRC who were demoing bikes at Inners, guess where my riding gear was? Yup, locked away safely in the back of the 'van 🙄
Anyway, went for a stroll round the demo, gave Tally a wave and spoke to Trev Worsley and Clive Forth both of whom I've not seen for a while.
Spectacular pics folks!
Cracking roadie day Dans Le Downs..
The aliens have landed in the rapeseed ...
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Tour of Ingleborough.
Ohhh, I like that.
Where's Ingleborough?
Found it, noted for a CX jaunt cheers..
a few bluebells 🙂
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