bloody typical, I get a free Saturday to get out and the whole week has seen the worst rain followed by even more over the weekend.
I was going to go to the lakes but it's just going to be a mud bath 🙁
My plans will be the same as if it were dry, except wetter.
Grizedale will be ok, its never particularly muddy round there. It has been raining on/off here since sunday evening.
I'll having a Chinese in China Town, San Framcisco on Saturday followed by riding 'The Repack' on Tamarancho in Marin County on Saturday! Weather forecast is looking good! 😀 😉
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/london-to-brighton-at-the-weekend
that's what i'll be up to 🙂
I'll having a Chinese in China Town, San Framcisco on Saturday followed by riding 'The Repack' on Tamarancho in Marin County on Saturday! Weather forecast is looking good!smug git 🙄
Lakes is fine in the wet, it's far from a mud bath.
If it helps other than the wind around here it's been not a bad week.
building a shed base
As the weather starts to turn, think I might need to get a CX bike or something. Always more fun riding off road in the wet.
Ive got a weekend biking in the Peak District booked in. Looks like weve got the weather for it! Anyone know how the routes around ladybower and jacobs ladder will be holding up in this weather?
Thats what I've been thinking, CX FTW
Yep, Lakes will be fine apart from the wind in exposed areas. You get wet riding in the Lakes even during the driest periods (especially if you are a Bogtrotter and are obsessed with riding through rivers and lakes) so just go out, enjoy yourself and make sure you finish the ride at a cosy pub with a big fire.
A week of rain will not have helped the local trails and Saturday looks like sunshine and shows = Quantocks
Will find something else to do Sunday
Jacobs loop should be mostly ok apart from the traverse over Rushup Edge (I think that's what it's called) which'll be a mudbath, and the initial climb up to Hollins Cross will probably have some sloppy sections. The rest is mostly rocky so shouldn't be too bad.
Round Ladybower I'd avoid Whinstone Lee Tor, but most of the rest of it should be fine. Roman Road will be muddy, but it's generally not too bad - you might have to avoid some massive puddles though.
Riding singlespeed up big welsh mountains, you fair weather types need to grow some 'nads
Oh, and I may slack off riding this weekend, I have a bruised foot and the weather looks foul... So Xbox and Game of Thrones, plus possibly stripping and greasing my bike in preparation for winter. Maybe even build up the hardtail...
What...? You're letting a bit or rain stand in the way of a good ride?
Ok, so I'll be the first to admit I hate rain, I'm not keen on going out in it whilst it's pooring down, much happier if I'm riding out and then it rains, but this weekend it'll be raining and windy.. so I'll be mostly doing this:
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sefton - Membersmug git 🙄
Hehe! Oh..... did I mention after that on Monday & Tuesday I'll be riding at Downieville? 😉
Bad weather is good cos it keeps the trails free from red sox & fair weather mtbers ;o)
Sunday i shall be mostly riding on Dartmoor :o) possibly on my own due to the rain & lthesinger being in the USA!
I might do the Ramsbottom ride, trial shouldn't be too bad (all cobbles on rooley moor anyhow)!
Forecast to be a lovely day Saturday so I shall be out on a nice long ride on the NYM
Sunday is reserved for good food and drink
I'll be doing a combination of helping a mate move house, DIY and possibly a little bit of riding locally if the weather clears up a bit. All this fair weather cyclist stuff is fine but when its coming down like it is here at the moment, you'd have to be ****ing stupid to go out in it. May take a walk with a shovel into the woods actually and start clearing a line for a new section of trail... as above, no red socks to bother me in this weather.
crispy bacon - MemberBad weather is good cos it keeps the trails free from red sox & fair weather mtbers ;o)
Sunday i shall be mostly riding on Dartmoor :o) possibly on my own due to the rain & ithesinger being in the USA!
Enjoy your ride Les - we'll be thinking of you! 
We'll catch up and ride again when we get back.
Eh, not checked yet but is the weather really that bad this weekend?
Edit Skyweather's website (who I trust) says Peaks is fine on Sat.
Was planning on camping at Torver on Friday night then spending a long day on and around Coniston Old Man and the surrounding hills.
Given that the lady at the campsite has contacted me to say that they are closed due to the waterlogged state of the site, and that MWIS has forecast 80 mph winds at the summit and low cloud, I may give it a miss.
Of course all the tough guys will still be out on the fells.
If there is even a hint of a shower you'll shy off riding Hora, so it doesn't really matter anyway
Who wants to spend their spare time riding 4hours over a moor/out without cover of trees when its chucking it down?
So drive to somewhere that's forested instead then , you mong.
Ive got a weekend biking in the Peak District booked in. Looks like weve got the weather for it! Anyone know how the routes around ladybower and jacobs ladder will be holding up in this weather?
Jacob's will be fine, it's mostly rocks and rubble. Avoid the bridleway that runs below Kinder Low though towards the reservoir, that will be a sludge fest. The Roych'll be gritty sludge, but not proper mud and most of the Ladybower stuff holds up okay, though not Whinstone Lee Tor. Bring some spare brake pads...
Talking of which our lad did a runner in John Lewis last week- really shat me up
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May take a walk with a shovel into the woods actually and start clearing a line for a new section of trail.
Actually that is a top idea. I've collected a decent pile of rocks at a boggy spot on the trail recently. It may be time to shovel out the mud and embed the rocks in the trench before re-packing it with a mud/gravel mix. Should keep me busy for a couple of hours.
Missus & daughter are away, so weekend starts tonight.
Riverhead brewery tap for food & a few shrinky Pinkies tonight with mates.
Back to back test of my crush & 29er scandal friday night.
Collect a Rothan sat morn, then up at new house diying sat.
Out with dad sat night.
More diy sunday then clean house for families return.
geetee1972 ouch. What happened?
Sat day with family
Sunday road trip to Chesterfield to help a mate collect a car.
Monday son's first day at school, *sobs*
Tuesday riding round the IOW offroad in a day, assuming its not been washed away by then,
As always the weekend will involve cataclysmic amounts of bike riding followed by vast quantities of food and lakes of alcohol.
Stopped worrying about the weather a long time ago.
you guys are bloody hard!
I bet you'd think nowt of sticking a sharp knife in a fresh loaf!
Watch England - Argentina Saturday Morning whilst doing the ironing.
Trip to the jewelery quarter Saturday afternoon to spend more money that I should as it is the only weekend Miss Lunge is away for the next month or 2.
Beers in Brum Saturday night with any luck.
Football Sunday morning.
Cheeky local ride Sunday afternoon.
Big shop.
Tidy house before Miss Lunge comes home.
Sleep.
Exciting times...
Brecon beast. Going to be great.
Lakes has been great this week, just back from there. Four days riding in a row despite the weather.
Quite damp days admittedly, but hey it's only water 🙂
Should be 'interesting' 😯Brecon beast. Going to be great.
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Saturday - Very windy with gales or severe gales on summits.
Sunday - Still very windy with severe gales likely, combined with thick cloud and often heavy rain.
Rear shock is away for a service this weekend 🙁
Was planning on riding both Saturday and Sunday.
Pick up bike boxes for trip to alps
Loads of bike fettling (sort rear brake, fit front brake, sort rusty chain)
Blast round AC, to make sure bike is ready for Alps next weekend
Watch as much rugby as possible 😉
Monthly club 100 miler.
Cannock Chase this weekend 🙂
Watching rugby and child on Saturday, watching rugby and riding on Sunday
Oh and mid Wales at the weekend with the Shipham Thursday night lads & lasses 🙂
Trying to get rid of all the Kielder sand/fine dust from the bike I borrowed . 🙁
If I ever do that again ,it's going to be an SS with V-brakes 🙄
Nice weekend of bikes and beer in the Land of my Fathers! 🙂
Was considering a lap of the Dorset Dirt 50k this weekend, but I reckon it'll be mostly Dirt and not much Dorset to see.
Considering going to the local Cheese Festival instead (which will probably get cancelled as it's on the flood plain at Sturminster Newton).
Huh? Surely Danny Hart's run has inspired everyone who owns a bike to head up to their local spot and get all drifty this weekend?
And don't I always say 'never look at the forcast'.
It's not, it's going to be wet. It's, that was wet.
Scalextric frenzy with my boy and 5 year old nephew.
Skyride Glasgow with my kids on Sunday - although if it's really rank I reckon they will mutiny on me !
Scalextric frenzy with my boy and 5 year old nephew
Slow down for the corners...remember that. And have you sorted a Daughter/girl/wife or any other female to collect the cars that go off the track?
Riding to the Lakes on friday evening.
Then either Borrowdale Bash, or shelter in Whinlatter on saturday.
And probably come home in the car, but I could MTFU and ride back on sunday.
Wish I was tough enough to not check the weather forecasts and ignore gales when traversing the Lakeland Fells.
Slow down for the corners...remember that. And have you sorted a Daughter/girl/wife or any other female to collect the cars that go off the track?
My boy isn't quite 4 years old so I suspect there will be a few high speed launches off the banked curves. My missus says I have to clean under the kitchen cupboards before we are allowed to play.
My missus says I have to clean under the kitchen cupboards before we are allowed to play
Dangerously close to a euphemism that is.
If youre bored and a sicko like me.
Also braving the Beast on Sunday - going for a Danny Hart whip off the Gap steps 😛
Helping a friend empty their apartment in Morzine on Saturday, then riding the Verbier Sportive on Sunday, if I can wake up at 4am.
Forecast here is sunny all weekend and next week again, would be rude not to get at least a few full runs of the mountain in 😉 to be fair I can't believe the luck I've had with the weather so far, I thought September in Canada was meant to be rainy.
We're off to Cornwall for a wedding - so I'll be mostly windsurfing like bikebuoy 8)
My missus is away out with two of the three kids so I have 3-4hrs to myself for a big ride (even if it is wet) around the Malverns 😀
Forecast's not bad for here... So diggin oles at glentress on saturday and then a ride afterwards, and on sunday, possibly testing out the downhill bike at innerleithen depending on what my mates are up to.
Heading over to Holland in the morning to ride the Dutch Singlespeed Champs weathers not looking too bad over there 🙂
Taking a group of our older youth club on the Glasgow-Edinburgh Pedal for Scotland ride on Sunday, so Saturday is going to involve a day in the workshop making sure all the bikes are sorted.
Will fit in the Scotland game at some point too.
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Huh? Surely Danny Hart's run has inspired everyone who owns a bike to head up to their local spot and get all drifty this weekend?
Haha. I was riding through a local wood this evening and it was slick and tricky. And then I thought of Danny's run and MTFUpped 😆