[Closed] Weekending Riding plans and Pics

7am doorstep ride around Strouds fine valleys with a buddy 🙂

Switching back to ss for the autumn/winter and upcoming endurance races. But this means bleeding brakes, new freehub bearings, new tyres, new rear light....aaaargh!

(rode ss last night - the above became apparent)

Shopping and faff it seems.

I've just finished fettling my bike and packing my gear away for tomorrows ride. I'm sick of driving so I'll be doing a fairly local ride [just over 1hr away] around Gradbach.

Commute was nice this morning...

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Exmoor tomorrow - sunny all day, might drop down to Minehead to see the Flying Scotsman.

Hopefully get my new forks fitted and out for a ride.

I'm likely to be on the Ridgeway tomorrow (keeping an eye out for molgrips) and then at Swinley on Sunday

Btw, great snap, snaps

Day off tomorrow, doing stuff around the house. Then Sunday I'm driving to the Quantocks (about 2 hours) to ride in the Quantocks Quake; a 20 or 30 mile off road sportive 8)

Just back from after work shuttle runs at stainburn thanks to mrstomhowardtobe, wish I'd taken lights as it was riding really well!

No riding tomorrow as I'll be driving north all day.

Sunday will be riding somewhere in Scotland as the start of a week's holiday up there with the bike 😀

Social pre season hill climb race with som intervals afterwards. Hill walk on sunday with the wife and I've got Monday off to watch the ToB.

Still having issues with my back that is exacerbated by time in the car.

So, another day riding locally, maybe a spot of lunch and a beer. And get away from town, as it's the Scottish air show tomorrow, and it'll be rammed.

Horton Moor Pen-y-Ghent (Yorkshire Dales) today
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Yak..you going SS for the Brass MOnkeys?

My plans are:
Sat - load up family bikes on roof, drive to the downs link and do a little 8k ride (out'n'back) - I'll be on the cargo bike with bubba, son on his, wife on hers...
Sun - early roadie ride on my own... 100k (or just shy of, depends how accurate the routine is) to be back in time for lunch...

Haven't been out on the road bike for months!!

DrP

With any luck about a quarter of the local C2C with the kids (8yo and 6yo). Less impressive as it sounds as that's just 6km on the flat..

A quick spin on the steep stuff around Ballater tonight. First time I've ridden the trails since I knocked myself out on one of them. I felt a little tense to start but was beginning to relax on the last run.

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Probably High Burnside and Laggan tomorrow and Wales next week 8)

Going up Ben Vorlich

Tidying up my flat so I can ride on Sunday without feeling like an overgrown teenager. Oh and I might have to cut the steerer on my Lyrik's as I just bought a direct mount stem for the Dune that makes it look like one of those tribeswomen in Myanmar, who's culture dictates they wear rings to create lengthened necks..

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Going up Ben Vorlich

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It's awfy short, I'd be tacking something else on, unless yer time short.

Took my kid and the lad from a few doors down the road on my little front door loop.
Turns out that the trail fairies turned up over the last week and transformed a section of footpath into a flowy combination of jumps and berms, so we sessioned it because it will be flattened out before long (It isn't every day you see a gap jump on the Chemin de la Compostele)
Not the trail fairies' finest hour

Two day Cairngorm loop this weekend. Looking good for tomorrow, but very windy Sunday. Might have to formulate an escape plan!

DrP - yes! Don't worry, my soundly mid pack mediocrity will be upheld singlespeed or geared 🙂 .

Road thing taking in Saddleworth and Calderdale probably on Saturday, something else on Sunday,

If I can be arsed I'll set the fat bike up tubeless and fit mudguards to the Arkose.

We're both racing tomorrow- a local one at Eastgate which is a proper old-school, race-down-a piece-of-countryside-that's-had-bits-taped-off downhill. I can't wait, fetch my Rocket! 😀 ! 😀 ! 😀

Didn't feel like it this weekend, it's been a rough week, so I went for a little bimble round the fire roads over the Chase and a bit of the blue with the odd off piste section thrown in. Really enjoyed myself, might do it more often.

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Solo mission to comrie was idyllic, a deer nearly knocked me off my bike, I saw a vole thingie, lots of colouful butterflies and damselflies.

With any luck about a quarter of the local C2C with the kids (8yo and 6yo). Less impressive as it sounds as that's just 6km on the flat..

A whole 9.4km in the end.

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Lovely to actually get out with the kids and spend a quality few hours messing around in muddy puddles!

Bit of a loop at fod today taking in some of the good bits. Decided to do it on my inappropriate bike for a change.
K'nell it's rough on a rigid! Fat or no fat.. Did Flatlands at the trail centre and very nearly rattled my brain out of my head.

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Mint day 🙂

Did a fairly big ride around Hope and managed to smash my mech off. Again 👿 . Haven't broken a mech for 3 years and now managed to do it twice in a week! Thankfully a quick emergency run to 18 bikes sorted me out with a new one - having just replaced one on Wednesday it was fairly quick to get set up...

This was much harder than I thought it would be. Took 2h40m to get up and about 20 mins to get down. I had Two falls (in front of people lol) and an almost massive fall.

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Nice train-assisted day out in the Dales

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Rain ~4 hours than predictions yesterday have stopped play this morning. 👿

Local 20 miles yesterday , planned 35 miles for today - but its properly pissing down and forecast for the rest of the day 😐

Short ride to set up the new forks today

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Rode yesterday @ 7am with a buddy, 20 miles / 2700' of up. Weather & trails great so repeated it again at 4pm. Great riding. Glad I did, it's wet in the Shire today.

not had a bike since june after it collapsed on me, still waiting on my replacement

Fairy Toadstools in the Staffordshire wilds this morning.
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Everywhere was much overgrown, I am cut to shreds.

Some huge ones over the Chase, I was going to take a picture but I'm too lazy to get my phone out of my bumbag

Spectators

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Trees gone

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Went to our local place yesterday evening where I haven't ridden in far too long.

Ran straight into a stump in a fast corner and had a proper over-the-bars dismount. Fortunately I landed back on the smoothish track again and slid a few feet on my front, then the bike landed on me. I ache like a bastard today..

Went exploring cheeky trails round Surrey, somewhat surprised when crossing a field and a bloke landed by us in a replica Junkers C1.

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FoD was wet today. But new bike had to be ridden. I rode pretty much the same trails yesterday in the dry and today was quite a bit more challenging!

Had a cracking day in the Peak yesterday riding a few bits I've not ridden before, then had a quick blat round a very dusty, sketchy Chase this morning.

All in all a bloody good weekend so far 😀

Tour of the Cornfiekds, starting from Wimpole Hall outside Cambrudge. CX bike.

100km, the hurting creeps up on you.

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Glorious Day around Grizedale and Claife.