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Short road ride yesterday and first proper mtb ride today after injury. Rode Blanchland-Edmunbyers figure of 8 to put together all the best bits of singletrack I have ridden for 8+ months! Dry, fast, sunny, awesome Nicolai (first time it has been given a proper work out). Legs weak but longest ride so far in 2011! Much smiling and whooping - even if it was just to myself!
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lovely dads day ride out. Flat off road to the pond. Bit of pond dipping with the kids. Then to the park and back home again - all off road and a bit of cheeky thrown in 😉 One of those special days when being a dad just rocks.
Oh yes 6.3 miles in 4.5 hours GET IN.
Me - thoroughly enjoyed my day out doing the Orton loop from Tebay services
Feeling a bit tired after yesterday so never really got into the groove today at innerleithen but still a good day out. Bit too warm for my taste...
Top weekend, widowed to Ms Rickmeister attending Air Maiden at Gt. 2 Blacks,, 2 reds and some odds and bits. Great weekend all up. Met some STW folk, 3 nice collie dogs and had a bit of craik with other folk too. Air Maiden was superb too. Top Job you organisers ....
Me n mrs tr did aboyne out the fungle and back along the firmounth . Ace fast decent back to ess bridge on the firmounth rocky as **** . Climb up to it was a test on 32:18 . Got a beater tan on my upper arms thanks to my under armour vest
Leith Hill with cousin Paul from Team Bullheart. Weather was great, company was great, new bike was great.
Like MTGraham, I too am O.G. enough to enter trailquests. Did the Yarrowford one today at the back of Innerleithen. Would have been the nicest day of the year for a normal ride - absolutely glorious on the hills. Bit too hot for an event though, was riding like an invalid on the Southern upland way towards the end. Pure buckled with the heat. Minch moor road descent to finish with nothing to spare was good.
A couple of hours round the rapidly drying Chilterns for us. Cleared a load of wood from a fallen tree blocking a cheeky trail so feel like we've earned access to that bit of the woods
I introduced a friend to the Quantocks today. everything up there is fast, loose and dusty. Managed 20km, 600m of climbing and a couple of lunchtime pints in The Plough to wash down the food. All in all, a great day 🙂
Early start and 28 miles around the hills of Winchester before it got hot.. great start to the day!
Took the lad to cannock and did 10 miles off piste- very enjoyable morning.
Just back from Gunnerside Gill, done it a few times over the years but today did the MBR version, hadn't done it that way round before. Big old climbs and plenty of em, saw no one else on bike, only a few bimblers. Top day, now knacked!
Me! Got out early, followed my nose up some hills towards Carsington, lovely whisky fruit cake at Armstrongs Mill cafe, home by 11.30 feeling happy and smug
Me! Went proper boing and it was rather unexpected! 😀
Yeah three rides this weekend totalling about 6 hours in all. Fast and grippy and sunny. Just loving riding my HT at the moment.
showed a friend today there is more to bristol than ashton court for mountain biking.local knowledge is the key! great weather and fantastic dry dusty trails ace!
i been out riding since 10am and just got back . riding, beers and curry = radness
awesome, hot day in the east dart and dart valleys. completely banjaxed now but determined to go out again tomorrow and exploit the weather before it goes wrong on tuesday.
Doing the double - road ride this morning, mountain biking this evening, with a siesta in the middle and a beer at the end!
Just loving this weather 🙂
Great road ride yesterday and a cheeky road ride this evening. Lovely.
Settle loop yesterday and 85 road miles today followed by a barbieq - best weekend of the year to date.
Went out on Saturday evening to have a play on some of the lesser known Mabie tracks. Got lost on a very overgrown track and ended up walking-in on a BBQ in the forest. All was well once I was offered beer and some very good sausages. Might have to get lost more often...
Gently roasting Peak road ride today, big respect to the mature couple on tourers soldiering up the Barber Booth climb to Mam Nick - brilliant 🙂
went out in bristol for 5hrs was a superb day not a cloud in the sky for most of lovley and dry then followed up by beans and chips at the hut was all goooood.
No riding for me today, too hung over 🙁 Did spend a few hours fettling though, trying to get my shock set up better for me.
Cracking day out - 24 mile loop in the southern Rhins of Galloway. Nice sea breeze on the outward leg so never felt too warm. The big hill in the distance is Cairnsmore of Fleet which Kirroughtree runs up alongside.
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crc marathon at marshbrook, good course and good weather, lovely tan lines. bad .... 6 hours of back pain hell to finish the full marathon, still at least i've still fight in me to want to finish.
now watching the motogp with a beer...all good again.
Did about 16km. Came off after about 3. Busted up the knee and elbow. Started to get very stiff near the end. But I'll be out again tomorrow evening blazing up the trails. Can't let this good weather do to waste!
Out with the chaps for a local loop then stop for a could of pints of SA gold.
Just the ticket.
Mrs Ononeorange and I did the Marshbrook CRC too - and had a throughly good time. Weather couldn't have been better, she rode brilliantly and the course was perfection. And the best bit - she wants to go back! Result!
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Did my standard loop around Chanctonbury ring - but finally tried the big jump I've been too scared to go over and nailed it, twice. And someone saw me do the second one, which shouldn't make any difference, but we all know it does.
Don't worry timnwild, a witness is incredibly important. I did a 2 minute trackstand the other day but because i have the balance of a new-born giraffe no one would have beleived me. But i had a witness, so all is good.
Out for a couple of hours on the singlespeed with my brother-in-law. Running 33:16 in the Chilterns is flipping hard work; I couldn't make it to the top of Ivinghoe Beacon, and my legs are, er, knackered as a result.
Cracking ride up at Cannock - did the Monkey and tried a little bit of off piste which cut out the long d/h pebbly fire road. Also had an epic fail on one of the rocky sections near the black option - ouch....
To the guys who did the Malvern's that is one of my local rides - maybe see you up there sometime ! - I do like the Malvern's but not as exciting as the trails at Cannock.
Super 3 laps of Cwmcarn ... you just can't beat Wales when it's Sunny!
Everything came together perfectly this weekend.
1. Brilliant weather.
2. Wife and daughter away all weekend.
3. Feeling strong/brave (or more probably just foolhardy).
Pleasant pootle from Clapham on Saturday.
30+ miler over Great Hill and Rivi on Sunday. All the best bits crammed into one ride. Just found myself flying through stuff on the 100mm H/T that I've balked at on the F/S on occasions. The fantastic condition of the trails made all the difference.
Only two pinch flats too 🙂 (I really gotta tubeless that hardtail sometime soon).
All-in-all a fantastic weekend's riding.
No... I have the kids at Weekends. Going to get out a few nights this week though.
As per Lowey - two boys join their sister here at the weekend and so three under tens mean no riding at the weekend. Mind, I just had a cracking ride this morning and, judging by my manager's diary, I should have another one on Tuesday and Thursday 🙂
We're on holiday in Portugal seeing some friends who had managed to borrow me a bike, so I tagged along with a group of locals yesterday. Only one spoke English so I had no idea where or how far we were going. A great ride in the Algarve region, 60km when we got back. Dry, dusty tracks and singletrack down by a river, most of the route off-road.
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Me n the bro did a loop north yesterday, starting at ladybower, round glossop etc, 7 hrs in the baking heat! Saw lots of other riders n had a quick chat with a few...though everyone else was going the opposifte direction! We were in red cherry valley gear if any of you guys saw us
went out again today and rode from home. 78km - totally fubar.
Commuted to work today. Crawley to Biggin Hill, 25.78 miles each way with a climb of the North Downs at the end of the outward leg.
Total of 3hrs 58mins of riding - saw a fox, several deer and loads of rabbits in the morning, then 83 million gnats on the way home. 😎
Really chuffed with myself, not too stiff (but expect that to change in the morning) and am thinking of maybe doing it once a month.
Happy days!
that were a grand ride today TM... I'm glad I didn't have quite as far to go as you..!
sorry I sped off so quick but I was worried about getting an earbashing.. 😳