coz I've been to Swinley & Cannock!
really enjoyed Swinley, never been before. After 30 minutes I found a parking spot then set about the trails. Very good, lots of flow, LOTS of berms, berm city in fact. Loved the downhill bits. My local centre is Cannock and in comparison Swinley is very peddaly as it's so dam flat. I'd defo go back to Swinley but they do need to enlarge the car park.
Where have you lot been? been pretty good weather. any pics through them up!
no pics .
Forest of Dean Friday
Afan saturday
Cwmcarn today .
Fettling yesterday- nothing changes eh? But today a sweet ride with the Willow-pooch around Cwmrhaeadr, followed by a late lunch in the Tywi Bridge Inn. Dog friendly, and we both love faggot, mash, peas and gravy 🙂
Did the Moray Way, including a brief overnighter on the coast between Lossiemouth and Hopeman. It was more of an "epic" than it should have been (more of which later).
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I spent Saturday working on a 'Scotland's natural larder' course for teachers-think foraging, wild salmon and venison all round....
Today, a local pootle out to Braes of Doune, trying to stay out of the axle deep slop in the woods....
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not so sunny Aberdeen, sun did come out once home 😐
Borrowed a Trek Emondà and i didn't want to stop riding it. 71 miles in the end 🙂
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Gisburn yesterday. On the Park Wood section there's a downhill berm onto a little wooden bridge that I always wish I would commit to more - the youtubers probably make this look "sick" or something...
Lovely pic @scotroutes
My weekend involved murdering myself on the bike as I'm training for the reiver. Next few weeks will have to be Z1&2 as I'm done
Mount Stromlo in Canberra, on holiday. My first mountainbiking for about 8 years and on a 29er too. Ace.
Cuyahoga, what's open at gisburn at the moment?, seen the boarwalk is closed and I know they were working on the hope line, that still closed?
20 miles of canal towpath/ginnel/snicket riding in and around Leeds today, good fun!
At the minute the first section, The Snake, is closed for another couple of weeks to fill in the bathtub-sized holes. The boardwalk at the top is closed, I think for a couple of months due to needing complete replacement. Pretty sure the Hope Line is back open, as there was a skills training course using it one time I passed the bottom.
I was there to grind out the miles for basic fitness around the blue loop, so the closures didn't bother me...
No riding due to man flu and shaking it off for a half marathon next weekend!
scotroutes - love that picture.
Dug out the roadie for the first time this year as we had a weekend of blue skies and temperatures just getting into double figures! 8)
Grizedale n it was shit.
Must do more proper stuff.... still I did some settling in on the new bike
Quick ride st Learnie, North of Inverness this morning.
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Swinley.... On my e bike... Loved it
1st session on my calf tattoo on Friday means no cycling for a while, so just enjoying everyone posting pics of their rides on here.
1st session on my calf tattoo
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Nice
That's pretty close.
Yesterday I cycled the entire 157km of the Cheshire Ring. 12 hours in all and by far the biggest day out on my mountain bike. It was a mud fest.
The barbers.
Ballater on Friday in beautiful weather
Ballater on Saturday in beautiful weather
Pitfichie today in beautiful weather
I rode with a HRM for the first time and discovered that even if I beast myself uphill my heart rate is still a fair bit higher on the descents!
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Bit o' gravel in Snowdonia
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Just Riverbend so. Waiting for weather to change.
45 minutes worth of the chase to try the new bike out. Still not enough daylight for a proper morning weekend ride with my schedule.
Spent all day Saturday knackering myself out by doing many laps of Cwm Rhaeadr 😀
8 laps in total!
ice road commute this morning across the lake to work
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@howsyourdad - is that the back of Poundland in Slough?
that's a difficult incline to navigate I'd expect.
Walking.....This weekend
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Hill of fare -wetter than a wet thing all over and tarland trails- excellent for a couple hours of fun.
I did this route as a bit more training for Dirty Riever. The climb up and over Black Mountain from Brynamman in a very gusty headwind/rain was a real joy.
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Lovely Tee shirt day in the Tweed valley on saturday, riding both sides of Inners, Mucho fun.
I've got this cold that seems to be doing the rounds, but wanted to get a feel for the new forks on the fat bike. So, I took it up to the Moray Monster Trails and tried to take things very easy. Not really my sort of riding, but I did manage to set my slowest ever times on all the climbs. So, mission accomplished. Spent Sunday putting the lighter summer tyres back on 🙂
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Where have you been cycling this weekend? (& pics?)
Lots of cheeky stuff 😉
Felt rough so nothing, zilch, diddly squat.
But took my kids to round 1 of the southern xc at Wasing. Was caught off guard as although we've all raced there before, it's always been dry, buff and superfast. But yesterday it was mud-clag-mageddon. Mud tyres all left at home - doh!
So result was 2 dnfs, 2 bent mech-hangers, 1 snapped rear mech and the van was stuck for a bit. Awesome.
Bivi ride out to a little pond. Nearly scuppered by a stick in a SS tensioner 2 miles from home. Tensioner was mangled, but gear was Magic! link out, absolutely perfect tension.
Nice being near to the water and listening to the waterfowl. Different noises to the little tweeters we get at home. Good to be back on the fattie, too.
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3 days based around Rusland in the lakes.
rode breasty haw, devils gallop, wood yard, lakeshore, claife heights, knipe fold, arnside, hodge close tilberthaite, tarn howes, high cross, monk Coniston moor, parkamoor and moor lane.
it was misty, wet and miserable, but I loved it to bits.
and the Loweswater Gold in the Tower bank arms and the Eagles Head was like pure liquid heaven........... 8)
Manchester Velodrome. It's a roundish indoor thing you don't need pictures.
A pootle around the local woods and bridleways.
Mud and restless natives...
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Bone dry brilliant fun chasing mates round Area 51. The sun came out and we all moaned about being too warm !
Having done two metric centuries back to back last weekend, this weekend I went for the old fashioned variety. Ended up with 167Km and 2700m of ascent. Struggled a bit around halfway due to not eating enough - a cafe stop sorted that out 😆
Sounds like an awesome weekend Ton!. 8)
Saturday went to the Peak with the Local guys and had a cracking ride around Ladybower, which involved some plumb and top tube interaction!
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Sunday went to Cannock with the wife, which was very nice as well! Though we discovered her forks are on their last legs, which she's decided means new bike time.
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Shielding my eyes from my sons CRC TLD clearance clothing...
I give up, can never get Flickr links to post pics
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Early morning loop out of Ambleside and bagged the days only sunshine.
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In the Britannia for a quickie on return leg for 10:30
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A gentle pootle on the Clyde walkway as part of a training course. Hernia op 2 hrs ago so no riding for a month now....
Absolutely nowt due to this hip/thigh pain, can just about get up the stairs!
Glad you all had a grand old time though, some great looking photos!
Exploring some more esoteric parts of the Peak
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A large gathering yesterday remembering a friend who passed away 3 years ago. It was great catching up with folk I hadn't seen in a while, there was plenty of chit chat, tons of good natured verbal abuse, close calls on the bikes, but most of all tons of fun.... and we put a few more stones on the wee memorial cairn.
It was a cracking morning and the sun even shone on us for a while.
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Nice, Yetiman....
Thats great Yeti... Cant think of a finer way to remember him.
I have a 3 hour window of opportunity for a post-manflu, no toddler responsibility xc hack: cwmcarn or FoD today ... decisions, decisions...
oh you can push that 3hr window to 5 shirley?
FoD will be nice I reckon. Between a clan-fest and spring conditions last weekend but local woods above Ross have dried out completely in a week. Cwmcarn will be fast 🙂
Yat/Staunton for us tomorrow. Full day out. Should be pretty good. Went a month ago and in the immortal words of David Coleman 'He's gone too early'... pretty much slippy death on every trail.
Bright Vic, falls Creek tomorrow
Alex...local woods above Ross, where I slipped and opened up a 2 inch gash between my lower gums and inside lip yesterday ! Nice day for it though !
Grabbed the only dry bit of the weekend around here I reckon for the normal local loop. Need some spring weather to dry out some more trails.
Essex
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Night of the toad last night, riding at speed they are just sitting there stock still in the middle of the path like little green statues, it was toad slalom! I have to confess I might have run over several. 😥 they don't make much noise when you roll over them, I expected them to go POP.
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Check out my ride on Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/906480883/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1489948657
A string of catastrophes in grizedale
Picked up my new truck this week so first try out with bikes in the back onto the edge of the moor. Only 90 mins , successfully dodged the showers, didn't scare any walkers on the cheeky bit but scared my mate who's not good with heights (in my defence I didn't know that before!)
Depressingly damp and windy since then though
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Where the hell does that path go ?
Did my first Audax today in wet and windy Carmarthenshire. Who knew trying to find the number on a fire hydrant in the middle of nowhere in a south-westerly could be so much fun.
Built a nice new descent in the local Woods on Wednesday, then sessioned it yesterday.
She's a good un.
FoD in the end, no time for exploring so two laps of Verderers, no mud or gloop - just enough moisture to keep it grippy. Then the family trail today for junior's first visit to the FoD: 40 minutes for the full circuit on a tag-along.
Quality ride out round The Long Mynd. Pretty dry everywhere but gusty on the top to say the least
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Local loop to check out equipment on a new bike it was a tad moist!
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I had a spin on the gravel bike earlier.Proper windy,but at least the rain had finally blown through.Still wet in places..
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A wet and (very) windy Laggan. I had one off-track excursion emerging onto the new section of the Lower Red when the wind just blew me sideways
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Bright and Falls Creek
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I think now I've left Australia mike might have to back on my banned list! Made me homesick! But for Australia. Confused now!
Watch out wildhunter I've for another 6 days of holiday here, next stop thredbo.
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We also did laggan but on Saturday.
Sunday was running round morlich for wife's half ironman training
Legs hate me now - i ain't no runner fool.
I was idly perusing the Strava heat map when I noticed some tracks on a nearby hill that I'd never ridden. So I went out to rectify that.
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A day spent getting utterly drenched on some hills in the lakes on Saturday.
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