[Closed] Where did you all ride this weekend?

I didn't ride at all this weekend... Flew home from the Alps on Saturday, spent today doing nowt

66 miles yesterday, 25 today
http://a-pic-a-ride.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-delivery-ride.html

Big bike bash.

Areches Beaufort with Trail Addiction. Really quite good indeed. 44 degrees in the sun, a mere 38 in the shade.

Nowhere special really. Friday was digging at a new jump spot, the most riding I did was ride across the fields to get there. Did 25 mile road ride on Saturday, few miles today. I can't ride properly at the minute as I've hurt my shoulder.

Had a cracking road ride early on today around the Test Valley. That climb out of Wherwell doesn't get any easier!

Oh, and it was stinking hot today! Luckily, a pool was on standby on my return! 🙂

did 23 miles round the road track at Cyclopark in Gravesend.. was getting on for 30 degree ambient, when the sun was out it was like riding in an oven...

100km around the Peak District. The last 10km with a tropical downpour - arrived home wetter than a haddock's bathing costume. At least it was warm rain.

I went out this afternoon on the mountain bike and did 37 miles 😀

Rode out from the house, up onto dartmoor, around Burrator reservoir and back again via some singletrack.

I've done the loop before, and the guy I rode it with told me it was 37/38 miles. I didn't believe him but I mapped it out when I got home and true enough! Pretty chuffed with that for an afternoon spin.

40 miler road ride from SE London via North Downs, Biggin Hill and Sanderstead.
Bloody hot but a beautiful day to be out

Bloody hot but a beautiful day to be out

Is there a better place to be than to be on a bike, in the British countryside on a day like today? No. There isn't. There really isn't.

Just couldn't get off of the sofa this weekend.

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Down to the end of the cul-de-sac and back to confirm my SPD cleats were correctly alligned. They were.

Local loop - 48km of mixed road/dirt (about 2/3 road, but the RQ makes that a nice workout). Too hot by half, even in the morning 'cool'.

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slainte 😀 rob

A big Torridon day out on my tod yesterday.
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Quantocks yesterday. A mere 15 odd miles which is piddly by the above standards, but I enjoyed it, which is what counts 🙂

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Fantastic day

Nice bike bedmaker. 😉

Loggerheads then through to Ruthin on Saturday

http://app.strava.com/rides/18899837

Then a 40 mile road/cycle path ride today.

Rode off road over to the N Downs, rode around the trails then rode home via Ash and Tunnel Hill. Fantastic day, great company, 7hrs 85miles. More like this please! Today has been spent sitting in the sun reading Wiggins' autobiography and feeling humbled.

GB

Sat, road ride from Aboyne to Braemar and back
Sun, short mtb ride up the Sidlaws
Fab weather 🙂

Radlands skate plaza...flippin scorching all day.
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nowt so far this weekend..
I spent this afternoon clambering repeatedly over a large inflatable assault course.. much to the amusement of all the assembled water pistol toting kids..

tomorrow will be my riding day.. I haven't a plan yet although it will involve lots of riding over Dartmoor.. I may very well head off my usual trails in one direction or another and try for an exploratory epic..

Had a nice ride with some mates and the other half at Bedgeburry Forrest.

Not technically the weekend, but Ax le Therme in the pyrenees on friday. DH trails, first time in the proper mountains and I want more!!

Fatpacking on a Scottish beach catching sunset & sunrise 8)

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Just arrived home from a 12-13 hour drive from Chamonix this morning at 02:00..........but sneaked a ride in Verbier on Thursday 😀
Twas very good

40 miles around Derwent and Hope off-road yesterday, then another 25 towards Hayfield ths morning.

40n ish miles on the road bike from Mendip to Bath and back .via my girlfriends and the pub.It was so bloody hot today though .Best not complain as winter will soon be here

Innerleithen XC on Saturday afternoon. Weather was nice but a bit close lower down on the route.

Just a little spin around Whinlatter on Sunday with a load of mates, some of whom don't really bike - started foul but brightened up a treat into a gorgeous day.

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hooned around bits of north wales and the Marin trail on rigid singlespeeds, 'twas ace fun, then ate my body weight in cake and chips in Betws-y-coed which was even funner 😀

did the local loop around the new campsite. Luckily left it until pm, am was foul. View of Cadair idris before going home.

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Did a little local Todmorden MTB ride yesterday. Today was John North's birthday road ride. 80 miles around Hawick. He's not doing bad for 69 is John 🙂

chipps, how did you get on at the No Fuss DH endurance event? is there a write up somewhere online?

Did a fast 69 miler today. Flattish stuff apart from a cat 4 hill but just kept the hammer down the entire way. Legs ached for a while afterwards.

Did the jumps and drops skills day at llandegla, was great!

I WENT all the way to work on a Bicycle. I did not fall or hurt myself. thEN i rode back home 2 miles. on a bicycle.

shit what's next! a fricyclebobulule

A-Line
B-Line
Ninja Cougar
Karate Monkey
Samurai Pizza Cat
Ho Chi Min
Heart of Drakness
Monkey Hands
Crank it Up
Canadian DH
Freight Train
Blue Velvet
Black Velvet
Original Sin
No Joke
Top of the World
Khyber Pass
Babylon by Bike
Tunnel Vision

I'm bolloxed!!!

I'm not surprised after typing all that out!

Not quite Whistler, but Saturday afternoon was spent on the DH trails near Bangor, Wales; Sunday was my first MBNW Wales forum-ride in the hills above Conwy and Penmaenmawr. Top fun had.

Sherwood pines . . . . 🙁

I got up early on Saturday morning to set off for the Trailbreak ride at Woodcote (Chilterns), went to say good-bye to Mrs O who on the spur of the moment decided to come with me. We decided to ride the the 65k route (I think me saying "It's what Jessica would do" at the sign-on tipped it!) and I was the happiest rider of the day to have her along with me.

The evening speed work we've been doing really paid off - we were so much quicker and had a great ride. The bit along by the Thames was fantastic. Really hot and suffering from the heat towards the end but she stormed on and we finished happy and knackered. Brilliant day.

Friday local trails to the jump spot and razzednaround there with the kids. Saturday in beautiful Marsden around the pennine way. Sunday Shipley Glen and baildon. All was going so well until I crashed into a an upended tree onto it's roots I now look like iv been branded with a child's Lego collection.

Big Bike Bash for me, was great.

Saturday spent at Delamere introducing my sister and brother-in-law to cycling in addition to my lovely boyfriend, and it all went fabulously!
Sunday did local trails with the gorgeous boyfriend!

Couldn't have been a better week-end, thankyou Martyn! 😉

127km and 5000 m of climbing on the grand raid cristalp from vernier to grimentz. Fantastic riding, even better views and 30degree heat. Rest day on Sunday!

We rode Saturday, which weatherwise was the right call. A quick loop round the back of Scout Moor, a lap of Cragg Quarry then a mad fast descent back to Rammy. We were going to do Lee Quarry too but it was bloody hot so we opted to sit outside the pub instead. Everything's a delicate balance 😀

Did some jumps practice at a jump park.

La Pinilla Bike Park about an hour and a half from Madrid

http://www.lapinillabikepark.es/

11 runs
Total ~3,000m of descent
5 stacks
3 grazes
2 bruises
1 leaking fork leg

Innerleithen cross country. Seemed a little rougher than last time I was there. And descending skills were a bit shit tbh. Still, climbed better than expected so can't complain.

Two very hot a sweaty racing laps of Blenheim Palace for the Brompton World Championships. The organisers were merciful and said that cos of the heat, jackets were optional. Not sure where I came yet but in my starting wave I spotted Michael Hutchinson last years winner. Thought if I could hang onto him, even just for a bit it would help propel me round. I think I lasted about 30 seconds max before he dropped me & shot off into the distance to win it again! He's bloody fast you know.

I did 30 miles over Cannock. From MD to Castle Ring, up to Seven Springs and back, taking in a bit of FTD / Monkey and some cheek.

Abortive outing to Epping Forest.
Hot, too tired from hectic end of work week, rear derailleur unhappy, front brake AWOL.
[i]And[/i] I don't know where the best trails are. Frustrating
Did an hour, drove home.
Still, [i]always[/i] better than not leaving the house.
Yesterday I fettled the rear der. Today it's snicking up and down perfectly. All's well that ends etc etc

After a six week holiday of drinking and diving, I rode London to Brighton (103km) on the road bike in just under 5 and a half hours. The last hill was an absolute f*****r, especially on deep-section carbon wheels and a 38/26 smallest ratio.

Then spent a couple of hours digging up the front yard yesterday - don't want to skimp on the upper body training eh? 😉

I'm bolloxed!!!

I'm so jealous 🙁 This time last year I would've been 2 weeks into my Whistler summer of awesome! Need to find some way of securing a job before I go out again so I can stay there for longer.

Sat: out around Leigh Woods for 90mins with the six-year-old on a tag-a-long, quite a workout.

Sun: Took ten-year-old stepson out to do Forest of Dean blue, then red, then lunch. Popped over to Cwmcarn and did the Twrch loop in fantastic sunshine, finished just before 7pm. Yes, he struggled, but largely only where I did, and he managed all the downhill sections absolutely fine on his rigid Orange. Epic.

QE park to Brighton on the South Downs Way.
Very hot.
Harder than I remembered.
The girlfriend managed it, which as a non biker was good.
Cracking views, quite a few other riders out.
Lovely day..

Great thrash with a mate down Skyline trail, Afan
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Nowhere. Injured NOT 8)

Saturday morning, I did a loop of the Capcir: Col de la llose, col du creu, across to Formigueres, up the valley a bit, then down to les eglisiettes, into les Angles, up to pla del mir, then down to la Llagonne.

In summary, it was too bloody hot even at 2000m for such shenanigans, but well worth it.

I did this

http://app.strava.com/rides/19004500

We rode High Street and then a singletrack trail by Ullswater back to Hartsop. Had everykind of weather you can imagine in the space of 20 minutes but it ended up being nice for the most part.

High Street is a bog up there though, it's like riding in treacle!

Another Brompton Worlds attendee here 🙂

HOT HOT day. Reasonably happy with 36th overall - 13km in 23:24, but hope to tighten the seatpost properly next year so i don't get sag, and actually drinking some water in the hour before hand might have helped.

Gave QECP 'Orange' run a first ride (twice). Hot as hell under the trees. Average..

Sat
Went to Bedgebury for the first time and ponced about doing their [url= http://app.strava.com/rides/18926534 ]XC race[/url]. Thoroughly enjoyed it though should have tried a bit harder.

Sun
[url= http://app.strava.com/rides/19034903 ]Out at 4:35[/url] to push off on the ESCA / VTTA 100 mile time trial. Great to be out for the dawn, and just two cars passed me in the first 11 miles.

Then [url= http://app.strava.com/rides/19034916 ]ponced about East Sussex before grovelling home[/url] with hot foot problems

I did a local "mountain bike challenge" thing organised by the council, [url=

one[/url]. 30 miles and about 1400m of climbing, quite pleased that I managed to just about make the gold medal cut off time in spite of losing about 20 minutes taking a wrong turn, breaking my chain, and having a puncture on the last off road descent. It was pretty well organised and marshalled overall, although the signage was a bit patchy in places.

Apart from the mechanicals the only bad bit was getting past a convoy of mardy green-laners coming down one of the big off-road uphills. None of them looked like they were having fun at all, some of them had even brought their wives and kids along to sit in the back and look bored and grumpy too, very weird.

Nice we hill climb.

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3 days road riding in the heat in Gran Canaria, 1 more day to go tomorrow then take the loan bike back
🙁

umm do I qualify on a canal boat?

Stourton to Tardebigge (for an overhaul before I get comments about the state of the boat): 4 tunnels, 29 locks in 14 hours and a wedding reception crashed in Brindley place

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and quite bizarrely the amount of coconuts floating in the canal is daft.

A fair bit of stuff around Aberfoyle and Callander. Anyone familiar with the area (or Scottish singletrack in general) will be shocked to hear it was a mud fest.

Then we had a BBQ, it was ace.

I did the first half of the Hope mountain bike challenge route, 16.5miles round the hills around Hope. Its a great loop.

The full 28 miles course on sept 15th will be quite tough i think.

Saturday - Private coaching with Tony at UKBikeSkills. One of the best days I've had on my bike and learnt a lot.

Sunday - Aston Hill.

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high5!

Sat am: a 45 minute Salisbury plain blast with a few loops round the local BMX track.

Sunday pm: 3 hour ride from Wilton round Grovely wood onto the plain. Not exciting but beautiful. 🙂

i camped at herts all weekend and coached and rode

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No biking on Sat or Sunday for me but I did manage to take my lad and our pooch round the Gisburn blue route on Monday. Couldn't get him off the bottom half of the hope line he loved it that much.
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Buffalo Creek Trails, Pine, Colorado

Nice.