[Closed] Where have you riden this weekend ?

Awesome ^^

Thankfully gambling correctly on frozen trails, I've just done a ride in Epping forest which with the snow & sun was very picturesque. Down to -6 at the bottom though!

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Nowhere for me again, as foot still isn't quite right. Hopefully be rolling again at some point early in half term...

Should really get out on the local trails before the thaw starts tomorrow but did almost 60km yesterday and feeling it today.

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very pleasant riding mostly mud free, hope to get another ride in tomorrow morning before it thaws

Done 3 frozen rides over the last 5 days 🙂

Today especially was summer levels of dry.

Didn't even have to wash the bike after a 52km ride around Woodbury Common and the Otter valley.
Even bagged a couple of KOMs.

Dragged the ancient MTB out 3 times this week. Trails frozen solid. Been up onto Mount Famine / South Head out of Hayfield but the drifts turned me back on my first attempt a couple of days ago and then this morning I got as far as the turn off to High Brown Knoll (FP which I was intending on riding anyway) but it was calf deep drifts and a freezing wind, the chill must have been -15 or more and I could barely stand in it never mind cycle. So I turned and descended the way I'd come and then off down Coldwell Clough which was all nicely rideable, no ice.

Not far at all (it just took forever riding into that headwind!) but much better than trying to do a road ride in these conditions!

Not been able to get out as much as I would like, but just HAD to get out once while the snow on the minor roads was still compacted but not rutted and slushy, the best conditions for some surprisingly fast singlespeed fun! Was a brilliant wee ride, so even if I'm trapped indoors with deadlines for the next two weeks while it all thaws again I won't feel too bad

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-7.5° on the Garmin when up on Cleeve Hill, Glousc. this morning, with a bitter wind. Ground was frozen solid, even the deep muddy puddles. Brilliant to get a brief reminder of what summer riding is like 🙂 I even saw some frozen dust being pushed up at one point from my mates wheels!

So, so nice to have frozen ground today.

I even rode my bike across the flooded meadow, where others were playing ice hockey.

Rock solid ground, but all the poached ground from trail traffic means its Rough AF. It put me in mind of The rockiness at Coed-y-Brenin. I got battered on the hardtail today.

Puddletown for me, its been a while since I’ve had dusty stanchions.

Out earlier this week on the MTB, but it's still a quagmire out there on many trails with the number of foot traffic over the winter.

Took my old Ribble 653 out for a spin - I've recently completely refurbished it and it's a perlescent white now - took some work.

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In an effort to make my mid Beds bimble seem more interesting I strapped a Gopro to the top of my down top tube with an old strip of inner tube

Joking apart getting back on the local trails again, courtesy of Jack Frost, has been fab. Third time this week

Long Weekend.....Lovely winter ride out to Coldrum Long Barrow and back on Thursday:

and then a ride out around Cliffe and back along the Thames yesterday,finding a good amount of non frozen mud:

I haven't quite worked out how to deal with cleaning layers of frozen mud off the bike after a ride yet - it was a bit of a mission.

Out on the fat bikes today. Chuffin' freezing! About -5C on the tops but an absolute gale from the east.

The canal had a bit of a skin ...

Barden Moor was icy rather than snowy. We decided to go with the wind, some were riding the other way which just looked hard work. Never seen this bit iced up before:

A bit more snow once you got higher but it was very patchy, I think the low temps and high winds have just stripped it away.

Stopped for a bite to eat out of the wind. Despite having taken a down jacket to wear for any stops I still got a bit cold and with the main descent coming straight away it was about half an hour before I properly warmed up - didn't take the jacket off for an hour!

Didn't let up on the descent either, about half the length of the track was sheet ice so we mostly just rode across the fields to the side!

A total of 49km with 900m of ascent. Think it might be a bit damp tomorrow 🙁

Dollar here. No pics snowy DH.

Snowy as a bastard. Well, windy and blowing the fallen snow into ridiculous drifts, so the first ride out in a month thanks to the Bat AIDS was 4 miles of half ride, half walk.

Only a tiny bit of snow here in Cardiff but this week has only tipped up above freezing for a few hours a day, and only in town. So the trail mud is rock hard unlike the last frosty spell when it was mostly mud with a crusty top. A couple of great ridea this week on local trails. The terribly muddy bits where they've been felling are now just really bumpy and technical.

Nowhere fun... 😒 Lockdown means local only and all the bridleways are quagmires and all the woods have no access signs round here so it was a 54KM backroad ride to Moreton in Marsh for hot chocolate and a brownie and back. Same but different tomorrow with Winchcombe being the target. Taking the hilly route though so hopefully I'll be able to catch some roadies and buzz their back tyres on the climbs.

Did a road gravel ride. Ground like summer, air and wind like Greenland. Bike came back cleaner than the start.

The Cotswolds above Cheltenham and Gloucester have been frozen solid for the last 3days very rare Lecky was great and Cranham woods were dry and frozen will probably have to wait another 4months too be that dry in Cranham great riding just a shame cant go down the Forest Of Dean bet that was ACE today not worth an £800 fine.

Yet another pentlands blast. If it wasn't for the snow I'd be going mad tbh but it's kept it both novel and fun to ride instead of the usual february swamp. Wind and drifting snow was a bit much today though, like having little knives thrown at you so I hid in the trees

“ Puddletown for me”

I miss riding Puddletown!

Thought I grab the last slice of dry/cold conditions yesterday. Three corners into first DH section, tore a hole in tyre, wouldn’t seal, didn’t have any tubeless plugs, couldn’t get valve out to fit a tube. Got cold fingers. Swore. Pushed back to the van and came home to sulk.

shitting it down with rain now.

Doomaniac:

Nowhere fun… 😒 Lockdown means local only and all the bridleways are quagmires

Where do you live? Channel Islands? I find that hard to believe

Fossy:

Out earlier this week on the MTB, but it’s still a quagmire out there on many trails with the number of foot traffic over the winter.

How much earlier in the week? The difference between Wednesday and Saturday was huge here in Manc. Ice topped bogs on Wednesday,but absolutely frozen solid on Saturday. Looks like you missed a treat.

2.5 hours around the higher hebden bridge routes was exciting but quite enough! Warm enough with enough windproof/layers on but by God that was a wind! The snows all in the lanes and behind walls hiding from it. No photo, I wasn't taking my gloves off! Some impressive ice patches, best one at House of shyte.

I just went for a ride around the local lakes. The snow is so deep it’s only possible to ride on compacted parts ( either from vehicles or XC skiers) which makes it all great practice for balancing. It was about -12 yesterday and today is another beautiful day. I think I’m going to try the winter CX bike on the roads today. Strangely enough the roads in the countryside have been mostly cleared where as the city roads are still under snow.
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Barden Moor was icy rather than snowy. We decided to go with the wind, some were riding the other way which just looked hard work. Never seen this bit iced up before:

I was planning on heading up that way myself but a dropper failure heading out of Skipton meant I limit my ride to a more local route. Headwind riding towards Ilkley was freezing then Skipton Moor was sheet ice! Would ave taken some pictures but the dropper disaster meant I just wanted to (limp) home.

Candy woods Oswestry.
Llynclys common. Oswestry.
Blodwel bank quarry. Oswestry.

Come to think of it they are all I've pretty much ridden in the last year. Repeatedly.

Looking forward to being allowed out and about now.

Localist loop around the Langdales

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Couple of loops round chicksands, lovely in the dry. Not long distances though but it's more like interval training

Just another doorstep ride in Thanet. Looked at the weather forecast and realized I'd miss the opportunity to ride on hard frozen dry ground unless I went out for a night ride last night. 17 miles 675ft climbing.
Strong crosswind here was a challenge to stay on the path:

In some areas the snow had cleared:

Very last off road track near my house was the only one unrideable due to excess snow:

Anyone else enjoy gamlbing riding over ice puddles wondering if it will break or will I skid out? So good when neither of those things happen and just the noise of knobbly tyres on the ice for a few seconds.

According to the forecasts the temperate down here is rising by 10C tomorrow.

Road then up to some local dh trails at Watchwood plantation. Plenty of riders getting in before the mud reappears.

Frosty, solid and grippy - so nice. I put the gravel bike to the test and have been very much enjoying some pumping and jumping, honing my technique.

Apart from Watopia, absolutely no-sodding-where as usual in this lockdown. The local lanes are a death trap with snow and ice, and its a half hour drive to the nearest trails, which is against the rules - at least morally if perhaps not absolutely legally. The sooner this sh1t ends the better.

Some great images ^^^ folks, it’s a pleasure to share what we are all up to.

For me a bit of road work on the Camino today with a hack out around Rossendale.

I wanted to check out the gearing to plan wider rides over the hill into Terra Incognito (Yorkshire)

All was well until the short climb up to Deerplay when the savage wind stopped me in my tracks, so I stopped for a photo opportunity 😉

Apart from Watopia, absolutely no-sodding-where as usual in this lockdown. The local lanes are a death trap with snow and ice, and its a half hour drive to the nearest trails,

Are you sure? As with loads of other people I've been amazed at the trails I have discovered locally during lockdown. Posh flat Cheshire just to the south of me and we've found some lovely ( in comparison to staying at home) frozen, fast swoopy trails to play on.

Just be a bit more flexible on the footpath/ bridleway definition.

Awful conditions on the edge of Sheffield. Sheet ice everywhere. Should have turned back when I saw a family sliding down the bridleway on their arses. Just about managed to stay upright. I'm now ready for spring. 16 degrees next weekend, bring it on.

@thegeneralist Yes missed out, went out Wednesday. Needed to give the Ribble a roide - just done 10 miles on it since the refurb, so needed another shake down. Had to pop the seat post up 1cn as it had slipped since the re-build. Not really ridden the road bikes since I got my spine broken commuting to work 5 years ago. Did a few rides on my 'posh' vintage bike in September at our caravan in North Wales, then decided to refurb my Ribble. Never commuting again, but it'sOK on the road out of commute hours - had many commuting incidents, but non doing normal rides.

Pleased with the refurb tbh. Rattle cans and lots of prep. Looks ace now.

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Are you sure? As with loads of other people I’ve been amazed at the trails I have discovered locally during lockdown.

Maybe the type of bike makes the difference, I'm still amazed at the quantity (and quality) of new trails I've been finding since I went full CX for the winter. Anything muddy is fair game, no matter if it's flat, downhill or uphill. Every ride in the last two or three months has involved new trails and even more trails spotted but un-ridden.

Had a fabulous (snow)drifty and icy ride around Rossendale (again) 🙂

60km ride NW of Leeds yesterday afternoon. Frozen solid everywhere, really rough going due to the churned up frozen mud.
16km run this morning, again some rough bits but rock solid ground everywhere.
Didn't get hardly any mud on myself or the bike!

Some well overdue pre ride maintainence followed by the local moors. Awesome out there, Rains here now though 🙁

Just a hack around Rossendale on the new Camino.

It was still perishing after first putting on enough merino wool layers from a field full of New Zealand sheep.

Where is that Monty?

Trails were still hard when I took the dog out for a ride. Just managed to get back before the heavens opened. The temperature has gone up a few degrees but it was still bitterly cold in the wind.

Slackboy, cart up Burnley Road East, turn right up to the Deerplay and this gate is almost level with the War Memorial just as it levels out before you cart down through Wear

Totally bottled it this weekend. Yesterday everything was sheet ice with no give and a bitter easterly wind. So I went on a pub crawl instead.

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Today the wind was stronger and colder and the rain started. Made a good choice to do nowt all day.

Envious of some nice looking ride pics though, back at it this week in the mud no doubt

 Burnley Road East, turn right up to the Deerplay

Thanks, explains why I don't recognise it. Don't get up that end much.

Ride out towards Scammonden and Rishworth, awesome conditions on the trails.

I’d share a photo but know idea how to

Snowy (and Slushy, and icy) ride here down sarf, don't get much chance to ride in the snow.

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Was feeling a strange vibration once per revolution in the rear wheel, but bearings fine and tyre straight. Then I realised its probably the sealant which had frozen into a solid block at the bottom of the tyre given that it only just got to 0 degreeds today.

Struggling for motivation currently. Don’t 20 miles in total this year. Short ride tomorrow if I can be bothered.
January and February are never good months so not too concerned.

Took my newly built hardtail out for a shake down ride in the local park. Not got actual any trails but haven't been out since October. Need to change saddle and adjust bar roll. Arse is killing me lol

Nipped up QE Park Sunday morning on the hardtail. Apart from the temperature, summer-like conditions... on summer tyres. Nice.

Rode my local loop on Saturday evening, which was fine until I got back to my estate, where the roads were like glassy ice. Even though I was extremely careful I had a moment when 1 second I was teetering along, the next I was on my back, looking up at an upstairs window where the occupant was laughing at the fool who'd just fallen off his bike..

Sunday was spent in the local forest where the trails were rutty, grippy, mostly frozen funtime goodness.

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Fortunately had booked the week off. Ridden over 100 miles outside in the last 10 days. It’s been fantastic but hard conditions. Last Sunday a 16 mile trip round stanage burbage and houndkirk resulted in frozen mechs and toes!
Tuesday Did a 44 mile road ride Sheffield to bakewell and back. Saturday did white edge and froggat from home. Via longshaw for a mega hot chocolate. The burbage bridleway was sheet ice though and I’ve got a sore hip where I slipped off.
Best week of riding in the last year easily.

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After 2 months the snow and ice has finally buggered off from our low lying areas....

Only minus 3 this week over ogden in West Yorkshire but I've never seen so much ice there before.

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Even the back roads were lethal

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I fell on my arse a fair few times #bambi on ice

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