[Closed] Where have you ridden today

A wee bimble round Glenbogle
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A spin up the Black Mountain. It was a bit wet up there today. Back through the woods and beside the river was slippery as heck.

Mainly on East Lothians beaches & coastal trails. Unseasonably warm & a flippin amazing day out :o)

local NWAlps

good job it was calm, warm, wet and horrendously muddy then!
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Usual visit to Peaslake/Surrey Hills. Most of the trails were holding up well to the rain, a few were a little worse for wear.

Weather was a bit sucky, drizzly rain and a bit chilly but fun nonetheless.

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Delamere forest, it was a filthy muddy mess and my first time on a mountain bike since 10th October this year.

Tamworth Snow Dome - does that count? Tomorrow a couple of hours of Sutton Park slopfest

Travelled over to keswick and did the Borrowdale bash. Not as wet as we thought it might have been. Cracking day's riding

QECP, my usual. One of the most slippery rides this year though! At one point I was Sat on bike behind my mate, watching his back wheel slip down onto lower rut of off camber, and my back wheel decided to slip down. Bike and me went slithering down the slope to bottom lol! All good fun though

Nice pics Rocketdog, but what's that thing taped to your TT?

Some kind of pleasure device?

Practicing & failing at wheelies on the rebuilt ancient hardtail in a sunny but flooded West Lancs..
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chakaping - Member

Some kind of pleasure device?

For massaging the feeling back in. 😉

but what's that thing taped to your TT?

Wallace Warriors Christmas ride out - Dunblane, Allan Water, Bridge of Allan. Slop, muck, mud, slippy, wet and ace. Remind me again about how slow riding in big groups, especially of children, is....

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Nice pics Rocketdog, but what's that thing taped to your TT?

Black & Red loop at Brechfa. Sold to us by a mate as being the driest day of the week. It rained almost continuously 🙂

Was tough going at times but it is running quick on the downhills if you can avoid the trees. Great fun.

Road loops of Chobham common. No Rapha 500 as I'm away for three days, but I could have been a contender (if I can put 8hrs in next Thursday).

Afan, inside a very big cloud.

Down the road to my mates to load the bike up for tomorrow's trip to Rogate!

Poking about in the backlanes of South Devon.

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Bluebird day in San Diego. SS spin on the waterfront and grind up Soledad.

one of the local forests - mostly fire road with some extremely slippy / sideways movement singletrack thrown in.

Ice / snow lying on the upper sections. Singlespeed for extra calorie burn. Ace!!

I was sitting on the sofa feeling like a right doughboy and unlikely to do anything till this thread gave me a bit of a shove, so thanks.

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This is where my circular route became an out and back.

Thornilee in the Tweed Valley, 3200ft of climbing/descending in just 10 miles. 🙂

Surprisingly grippy, but water was pouring off the hills.

Local loop up to Darwen tower, the main trails have suffered from the last weeks rain!

A wee bimble on the cyclocross around Tentsmuir, near St Andrews;

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Lovely weather!

Cannock Chase, great ride, v busy, shhhitte trip home on the M6 🙁

Better to have ridden and got stuck in traffic, rather not to have ridden at all!

Getting ranted at by an old lady walker in the Goyt Valley.....

"There's just too many of you" was her main rant - despite me being outnumbered by at least 100:1 (I was the only bike I saw) on my ride. She didn't want to discuss, she just wanted to rant, so after trying to engage her for the 4th time, I smiled at her and cycled away.

Didn't spoil my day, had a great laugh slipping, sliding and splashing away 😀

Local ride in the woods and on the moors above the flooded Aire Valley.

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Rode the Monkey at Cannock, well I say rode more like chatted like dinner ladies with two friends i've not seen for a while and occasionally rode a bit.

Went for a paddle round rivvy

Stromlo, ACT, Australia. Not as wet as the UK.

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Round and through a couple of floods near Leeds.

30 odd road miles on soggy south Lanarkshire back roads, lovely though, esp as first 10 was with junior on his brand new road bike on his 13th birthday 😀

A little loop around Bedgebury with my son.... nowt special but great to see my lad riding hard and enjoying every second.

Swinley today and Surrey Hills tomorrow... I will then be about 20 miles short of my targeted year total so there will be another ride before 1st Jan.

Nowhere. It's 38c and not even 10am. Too hot.

Off the top of Feldberg in Black Forest, Germany, rocky rooty madness but great fun.

Rode along the north Wales coastal path to Llandudno, round the orme and back again.

Hit a dog at 12mph. It's owner decided to throw a stick in front of me. Dog was fine. I was annoyed. Lady was in shock.

Portland Harbour and Weymouth beach so far today.

Ogden (near Rochdale) to Denshaw Moor, Marsden Moor, Marsden Moor descent into Marsden. Old Mount Road climb leading to Standedge then a lap of the Diggle Jiggle (Diggle, Greenfield, Dobcross, Harrop Edge). Back to Standedge then cross Castleshaw ridge and down the west side of the moor. Over bridleways to Wham Lane and then up to Crompton Moor then circle back round to Ogden.
Not really a Winter route due to the amount of mud in places. Most of the time it just slowed me down and made the bike filthy, only place that caused me to have to get off and walk (and still struggle) was the west side of Castleshaw Moor

Local road loop in the West Lancs hills at dusk.

No rain and not much traffic, lovely.

A VERY wet, muddy and enjoyable 40k, 1900m climbing round The Long Mynd. Light winds for most of the day and would you believe it, mainly tail winds too :-). Got in 3 new descents and riding new stuff is always good, right?

Just hoping the kit dries out for tomorrow's loop from Hayfield to Edale and back.

3.5 hour road ride in the Peak. I particularly liked the headwind on the 20% gradient

Road loop, Eastbourne, Beach Head, Alfriston, Abbots Wood