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Travelled 200 miles down to the Forest of Dean for an afternoons down hill training with Scott Beaumont in preparation for the 661 Mini DH on the 6th of Dec. It banged it down for the full session but every minute was worth it. All three of us learned loads of little tips on berms, drops, wet roots and jumps which made it all worthwhile. I think we all got faster and faster throughought the afternoon. Still grinning from what was a first class experience.
The 200 miles drive back were horrendous
No pics taken but wished we had taken a waterproof camera
Tracey
against the odds, the rain held off in Dalby yesterday, trails were mud free too 😀
Lucked out with the rain, miised it Saturday and again today (just)
Loads of mud at the Forest of Dean
sorry i'm affraid i bottled it this morning
It was a little nasty at times up in the Pentlands this morning but I still enjoyed getting out.
Missed the rain yesterday
Hit it square on today
As I slid round a corner I thought of people still on their racing ralphs
but apparently they were already home
Damp road ride for me yestrday
Went out in the rain this morning. Got into the woods and didn't notice it, and the Sun came out after about 30mins 😀
Run yesterday in the rain (earned myself tea and toasted malt loaf), two hours in the rain and mud of deepest darkest West Berkshire this morning (earned myself tea and home made muffin).
me, tested out my cheap army goretex shorts/trouser things - seem to work ok
Braved the rain and floods yesterday with a 50 mile ride on the CX in the Lake District! Day off today.
Looking at all the pics down south I almost feel guilty saying that I have had a very nice weekend in the sun. Was out singlespeedng round the woods last night and will again later on this eve.
I've not ridden this weekend had flu jab yesterday morning and feel rough from it!! The weather hasn't been great but this am would have been fine if I'd felt up to it.
Plenty of other stuff to do so it's not wasted time.
Second weekend off riding due to bad back 😥
Sorting a night ride now over Cannock with the lads tonight, but I have just realised I have no clean waterproof shorts 🙄
What is that stuff you call rain?
I got out [url= http://www.paul-knott.fotopic.net/c1783157.html ]friday[/url] , rested yesterday and Qs today. Didnt notice if it rained but I was wet so I guess it did. Who cares anyway.
lovely & wet in the peaks today.... thankful for waterproof shorts.... they make it all so easy.
Been hibernating in Cumbria for the last few days, for obvious reasons.
May get out during the week though, depending when the call outs start to build up as the flood waters go down. Thinking I may head out somewhere tomorrow, maybe just (very) local though (so cheeky trails then!)
Out this morning but on a 60 mile road ride. Can't be arsed with all that bike cleaning business.
40 mile round trip commute yesterday and today in the pi$$ing rain, mudguard split halfway in today so got a propper wet ass as well... 😥
We had comedy high winds, hail and torrential showers on the south downs this morning. It was brilliant, brilliant fun. The bike is in slathered in mud 🙂
Dodged the storms for a fun couple of hours sliding around on slippy rooty muddy stuff in Stockhill wood, and again today.
A rear mudguard and sudocreme are saving my bum. 🙂
singlespeeding yesterday round the local trails and it was reet grim. road biking today and it ****ing lobbed it down. but whatever. 😛
Braved the rain ?
Only weather condition that ever stops me getting out is snow & then only when it's to deep to ride through......
Fraid not its been tipping it down in D&G, spent most of yesterday rescuing the kids and other dinghies from the local club. The water was chest deep in the dinghy park, and waist deep inside the clubhouse. What a mess!!
Still its a lot worse for the folks who have been flooded out of their houses. 😐
Cyclocross race yesterday that only got wet after we started - great fun but HARD work. Today was a 45 mile road ride-started sunny-a bit wet-then dry by the time we were back
Coed y Brenin again today - I love that place in the wet:) The water falls were amazing today.
Bit miffed about the trail closures though
Kind of did and didn't really. On Saturday went out on the mountain bike, spread mud around in the LBS then got a proper soaking.
Today got up at 9 very hungover, considered the thunderstorm outside and phoned my mate to cut short our road ride 🙁 Still out for 3 hours though, and had lovely sunshine. Was bloody windy on the exposed bits of the New Forest.
I had a good 2 hour local ride yesterday morning and had fun with all the slippy leaves covering the trails, managed to avoid the rain!
Lee quarry was a reservoir today 🙁
2 frequently very wet rides:
Saturday = Newby Bridge
Sunday = Garburn & Longsleddale
good fun too, and better to get out and be soaked than skulk pathetically at home :o)
Went out yesterday, just wet enough to be fun. Then today I went out on the motorbike - thinking it would not rain too hard. However, it got biblical on me.
Riding my motorbike in the wet is not much fun, but my mountain bike is perhaps more fun in the wet than the dry.
Whinlatter (perhaps a little off piste as the forest was all closed) Good fun in the rain, ticked all the boxes for riding round here today.
Higher than the lakes
No bridges to cross
Out of the wind in places
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Waterproof shorts? Awesome. My second set and worn every ride since I bought them a month ago. Malvern hills, wet, slippy, windy as owt. Mostly has them all to our selves.
Really don't mind riding in the conditions. Feels like proper mountain biking 🙂
Been out digging at Gisburn rather than riding, very damp with intermittent rain but could have been a lot worse.
Got caught in a bit of a deluge this morning. Good to get out though.
Couldn't face it yesterday, but had a fantastic 'Cross race in Cheltenham today. Horrific conditions on the drive there, but miraculously it cleared up nicely. Just muddy and windy with a few light showers while the race was underway.
Perfick.
Left home this morning when it was quite sunny with gusty winds against me in open area's, made it to Theives Wood through miles and miles of sloppy slippy trails (great fun). Saw some familiar faces coping with a puncture, one fixing other 2 giving all the recommended encouragement and instructions when it just started to tip it down. The queue for the cup of tea was so long I did'nt bother and headed for home with the wind behind me giving me a very welcome push.
Nothing wrong with the rain. 🙄
Left home this morning when it was quite sunny with gusty winds against me in open area's, made it to Theives Wood through miles and miles of sloppy slippy trails (great fun). Saw some familiar faces coping with a puncture, one fixing other 2 giving all the recommended encouragement and instructions when it just started to tip it down. The queue for the cup of tea was so long I did'nt bother and headed for home with the wind behind me giving me a very welcome push.
Nothing wrong with the rain. 🙄
Friday and Sat rides around Elterwater including Walna Scar parts of total soaking both days a grand weekend out plus pints in the Britania also Scotland beat Aussies joy oh joy
Greaty weekend - road ride in S Cumbria Sat pm and 2 hours at Farleton Knott - muddy, wet, cold...brilliant!
Very wet road ride today around Lancashire and Yorkshire. Wouldn't be so bad but for the seriously strong winds blowing around the place.
Been round a damp and Windy dalby forest, but nothing compared to other places. Cant beat sliding around in the mud! 😀
Did a ride in awesome conditions up on the Long Mynd on Saturday (having driven down Friday night to meet up with a great bunch). We were fortunate to be guided by a local with an excellent sense of both adventure and direction - first time I've ridden around there and it really was good fun. 19 miles, 2,000ft of climbing and descent - incl. Minton Batch, which is worthy of every bit of praise it gets.
Didn't really have the opporunity to appreciate all the views as the horizontal stinging rain rather made you keep your head down at times! 😕 What we did see though was fantastic - beautiful scenery and stunning colours.
Today - tinkered with the garage door up this morning whilst it rained, and have just come back from a sneaky bit of singlespeeding as it got dusk, and no rain!
Mustn't grumble - we've got a fabulous little island here, rain or shine. Oh - it's raining again...
Bottled a solo night ride Friday evening, bottled a long drive to Dalby Saturday morning (bugger it was dry). Spent a couple of mind-numbing hours 'cycling' in local gym 🙁
But had a great 3 hours out around Llandagla today and no rain 🙂
Paul
was out running on Friday morning in the rain, got back from a 2hr ride just before it got dark this afternoon. Not raining out but loads of water on the ground, quite muddy. I really should swap my tyres over.
Kev
Sounds great Tracey! Shame you don't have pics. I must admit I steer clear of any gravity related riding in conditions like this weekend - all I've managed is a quick ride to the shops on the BMX and I was even rubbish at that after last weekend's plastic pedals incident 🙄
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just missed the rain at Hebden bridge but wet low clouds at the top of the hills. Thick mud made 24 miles seem like 48 miles but excellent ride. Managed to get some air on the downhill mainly because i couldnt see the danger lol
If this doesnt work i give up
In my case it's not so much bravery as that I don't have much choice about the matter
clear skys here(looked like rain all around) and dry and clean on the beach... 🙂
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I braved them, a nice 2 lap jaunt around the strathpuffer course.
Got up silly early this morning and had a quick blast round FTD at Cannock Chase. Only a couple of cars in the car park when we set off, the rain held off although it was very puddly as you'd expect after the recent biblical weather. Got back to a very full carpark just as the weather closed in. Not too smug however as I had to go straight to work. I think I may have knackered the washing machine and Mrs LJ has just walked in 😯
Trip up onto Calbeck Common at 8am this morning. Stinging hail, rain and a massive rainbow.
wasnt raining on the cromarty firth ....
rode from whyte n mackays to glen morangie - up through dornoch and back down to dalmore this afternoon
yesterday i rode along from alness to tain to scotsburn to dingwall and back to alness
I went out today for the first time in 5 months due to ill health other things going on. Managed to put a few miles under my belt in attempt to regain some fitness. Even got the antlers out when I saw other riders in front of me. Bloody horribly gloopy round here though and some new trail rivers have appeared
did a great 15 mile ride from home with my 12 year old and his three mates - very wet, very windy and they did not complain or even comment on the weather.
The washing machine is having a bit of paddy now though !
Went cross racing in Bingley. Oh how I enjoyed myself: -
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Gravy- That wasn't me you saw still fixing punctures from Adeys ride last Sunday was it? Found 2 more this morning, one before I started out and the other one soon after we got started not too far from thieves wood. Despite the dry forecast it then proceeded to piss it down for the rest of the ride clearing just before we got back.
Yep - first ride for a while and first on new bike - very wet but had lots of fun!!
Me and Italspark had two fantastic days riding up at Aviemore. Burmah and mast climbs and descents on Saturday, not quite beating the rain which caught up with us at Kincraig as we rode out to the Inchriach cake shop only to find it closed.
Top tip, the Hilton otel at Coylumbridge will let you use its showers, pool and sauna for £5.
We tried to get up Caan Ban Mor today, but the lack of a bridge at the foot of the climb, made us ride back and explore the Inchriach forest. We met a bunch of guys and did some riding with them. Top weekend
rode into the peaks and took a newbie down dore drop in the tipping rain. Great day out, and i found out that my raceface baggies arent waterproof (despite the description saying so), but that added to the fun of it. Reminded me of biking when i was a kid, with the most innappropriate kit and bike imaginable!
Went on a local ride today with my daughter, once the rain was bouncing back up off the ground by a couple of inches and it was staring to get dark I called my wife to come pick the wee one up in the car, she doesn’t like the ride home anyway because it’s all up hill. It was awesome, and on the ride back home the rain washed all the mud off the bike and me. Happy days!
We were at the FoD today too Tracey! Glad you had a good time down there.
Really was slippy, nowt like wet roots to have me making a total arse of myself.....and of course it was all caught on headcam. Most fun I've had riding in the mud for ages! T'was an awesome day 😀
Did a 30mile loop out on to Dartmoor yesterday, driving rain and a riding head on into a gale worst conditions I've ever ridden in and loved every second of it!
Out both days running skills days at Gisburn Forest. You've got to love the slither. Out again tomorrow - Sleep, eat, ride, repeat........
30miles around Hebden bridge strong winds stinging rain laughed (manically) cried (was solo)bloody great
Out in the Purbecks this morning, wet n windy, cold n shite! not a lot of fun but coffee and a cake in Corfe helped a bit, it was bad though! Not one I would rush out to do again! well probably would you as you just had to laugh it was so bad!
out Saturday at stupid o'clock, missed most of the rain but the wind was like dragging a Bob trailer up the Machen hills.
Mud wasn't a problem just the ankle deep leaves, hiding rocks and branches 😯
Burnt my legs off in the FOD with the niche one et al today, very muddy it was too!
Course we did. As if rain stops play
i did only to build a berm. riding/coaching tomorrow 🙂
oh wow tracey. did you ride the track we're using? how did you find it?
I was meant to be over there practicing with my gf today but wimped out 🙁
Wish we'd gone now.
Only went out locally on the bmx. Bit too much wind for me. Usually go out in bad weather but this all seemed a bit too much.
80 miles road ride legs, feet and head got soaked but body was dry due to new expensive waterproof (worth every penny!)
Me and J stayed local (west Sheffield) yesterday for the first outing of his prototype riding arm.
Horizontal rain and strong headwinds on all the climbs made for not the most fun ride we have ever done but the downhills and off road sections were great fun. And we found a new bit of trail to ride too so it had its ups. 🙂
However, my trousers look like I've had explosive diarrhoea and my socks are full of grit. It was a bit wet out there...
