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Rode out to the Lancs RC hill-climb up The Rake today. Some great rides done and very well attended by riders and spectators:
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Many many more on my [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_rollason/sets/72157625009351401/ ]Flickr page[/url]
50km or so around the Surrey Hills, was lovely 🙂
Went for a local ride around the Chesterfield area with my missus. She is quite new to the biking thing so had a steady ride, but was great fun just to be out, ace!
Trailquest around Chieveley, Berkshire.
60km in 3:38
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Enjoyable pootle round the New Forest with a pub lunch thrown in. Turned in to more of a challenge than I had planned for the last ten miles or so after my rear gear cable snapped, entirely user error as i had noticed it was looking iffy but figured a pub ride wouldn't kill it.
quick blast over the burial mounds above kingley vale.
sunshine/mud/slippery chalk.
4hrs being blow footballed round Chapel - Hayfield - New Mills area. All legal usual suspects done with poor style. I blame the wind, also the only time I've had to pedal to go down hill into Roych Clough.
usual bristol ride
ashton court - wraxal pist - plantation - wraxle backwards - 50acerewood -back thou quarry trail and back for buttys.
all in all a good day training in the heat/humidity
SteveBbrain - Member
anotherstans Ingleborough adventure was extended by me rescuing him from the murky wilderness on the summit!
yeah, yeah, yeah. no one likes a self proclaimed hero steve 😉
MTL anticlockwise.
That was a monumental planning fail 'cos it meant I had to battle a monstrous head-wind for the whole of the southern end of the loop 🙁
... and the only tail-wind was down Gorple road, which was consequently super quick 🙂 ... but resulted in the inevitable pinch flat.
Hard work all day but great fun.
7.5 hours round, including lunch and the flattie. Must try harder next time.
...and yes, it probably would have been better the other way around, even without the wind.
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Marin County, Cali
A friend from Colorado who spent a couple of days making a [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45NbH9rw_n8 ]YouTube MTB video[/url] with me was in town and wanted to get in a ride. I took him through Tamrancho legal single track for about five miles and then we rode up the ridge to the Repack downhill course for a Sunday afternoon rip.
Without any armour I ride conservatively, but with the "home pitch" advantage I still smoked my friend. About 2 and a half hours total but a fair amount of exercise in that time.
rediscovering some old and seldom ridden local woods, not as muddy as expected, fantastic weather, good company and good laughs. 🙂
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hunting for further trails:
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I assure you this was some great yet well hidden singletrack:
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a few hours riding followed by a swift pub stop then on to fix up the morris, should actually have it on the road tomorrow, cheers to OldSchoolKona for coming along, today was a good day! 🙂
Rendlesham Forest - a joy!
just a local ride - 26 miles - the MiL had the kids, while SWMBO stayed in bed
Easter ross - Oban - Crianlarich-Fort william-Laggan-Aviemore and Home!
Ok it was 489km on a 750 Suzi,but I promise to go back to pedal power next week.
Gypsy glen for me plus 2. Cracking fun up in the cloud!
[i]Rode out to the Lancs RC hill-climb up The Rake today. Some great rides done and very well attended by riders and spectators:[/i]
I wish I'd have done this now, it looks like a good laugh.
just a little pootle up to the new allotments
in the dark
with no lights
Around the island of Guernsey. Again.
**sighs**
Handsomedog - Nice pics... my home town rammy!
never had a go of the hill climb up the rake but had fond memories on the mtb haha 🙂
2nd ride out on my road bike, taking in Streatly Hill for the first time... I'm beginning to enjoy climbing again!