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Loving the hard icy ground this weekend,fast flowing,luuurlvley..
local loop yesterday up on the tops.
Cut Gate today,nice n hard up there with the ice at the moment and no deep snow.
nice bit of mileage put in good set of lads to ride with both days,fitness coming back at last. 🙂
who where when ?
Just back in from a great ride around Cannock, nice covering of snow, clear blue skies, some new to me trails and great company
Rode the 'forbidden' section of the BreconBeast. It was minus Stupid degrees in the wind at the top. So the blow-out on the rocky descent was not very welcome at all. And then I discovered that I'd forgotten to pack a spare tube...
Loads of SAS selection squaddies up there too, moving slowly but surely over the hills with 50lbs on their backs and a gun in their hands. Respect.
Great 4 hour ride out from Sidmouth - only 2 of us 'cos everyone else chickened out!
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Stopped by the sea for Coffee and Chunky sandwich too!
whereabouts do you ride around Sidmouth?? Peak Hill area? from my few visits there seem to be some decent bridleways around that bit.
My riding today = nil , damaged wrist still can`t put any pressure on it 🙁
Found a secret bit of Hampshire which I have passed so many times on the A31 / A32 but completely missed - club ride from Selborne near Alton with some lovely singletrack through the woods and surprisingly big hills. I even admit to walking DOWN one! (It cosnsited of a deep steep gully with big chalk boulders hidden in the leaves)
Didnt get above freezing but wrapped up warm so didnt notice the cold. Welcome fire in the pub after.
Over the N Wessex and Marlborough Downs to Barbury Castle then back in time for afternoon tea and medals.
I'm ashamed to say it was the first time I've had the MTB out this year- felt like I was dragging a boat anchor around compared to the road bike but a clear, fresh day and nicely frozen mud meant it had to be done.
Swinley, great fun riding through the frozen puddles and all the muds completely rock solid. timed it all so arrived home to a hot and spicey chilli 😀
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Wrap up warm,keep moving,no dithering jobs a good un in this weather.
Cant do with chickener outers 🙂
I popped my CX cherry this afternoon in a snowy Graves Park in Sheffield.
-5 this morning around surrey. Cold as **** whilst i was mending my chain, again and again, and again!
Only got chance for a rather icy blast around my usual route, sorted my hangover 🙂
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whereabouts do you ride around Sidmouth?? Peak Hill area? from my few visits there seem to be some decent bridleways around that bit.
Not my local haunt - down visiting the Parents, but yes lots of green lanes - Peak Hill and East Hill Strips. Just a case of linking bits together...
Gratuitous MBUK shot 😀
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2 Pentlands rides here... Today was lovely, very cold, very snowy and very beautiful. Also very bloody hard work and very slow. But worth it. Very nice riding through fresh snow and realising your feet are dipping into it, we were leaving tyre marks and footprints 
I love these days...
Sub-zero 'Cross race at Ashton Ct (Brizzle) in 2" of snow. Mud frozen solid. Managed a one-hander-lander after jumping off the roots into the woods on the last lap 😯
Missed out on the Vets' Win by half-a-wheel 👿
I was out around Loch Leven on the road bike on Friday night, then Inchree this morning as the race over at Wolftrax was cancelled due to snow. Both great fun.
-10 as I set out to ride Crich/Ambergate this morning. I had a beard of ice and my snot was freezing in my nose. Warmed up slightly once the sun can up propley single speed great bike choice on frozen gears.Winter don't you love it.
Road ride on my new winter bike round Cheshire lines, dodging icy camber.
Was a beautiful day. Great to have the excuse to get out in it 🙂
lots of lovely frozen snowy singletrack in the crookes back-country...
in a freezing (-11) peak district
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I thought it would be no ridding this weekend as I'm knackered, Experience tells me that as teacher its not a good time of year to worry about keeping fit
But my son asked to go on a ride yesterday moring. It was a short Woburn loop but we both really enjoyed it.
Racing Ralph -11 you say? wonder if it was that on cut gate today then?
Sunny but bitter Round 1 of the Soggy Bottom race series at Newnham.
I need to get fitter. 🙁
Just a quick local bridleway run for me today. Spent ages sessioning one bit where all the mud had frozen in ruts so it was proper bumpy. Eventually got down it at full speed with no feet off the pedals incidents 🙂
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When i set off from home - in the valley it was a degree colder
Too and from work last night and again tonight.
coming home in the morning was funny tho - I had my spike tyres on and was overtaking cars 🙂
I saw an ambulance behind me with blues and twos on - stopped to let it past and then it held me up all the way down the next hill.
Ruddy cold tho and the snow in my eyes hurt
Was at the top of spooky wood for 'sunrise' at 7am this morning. Blue, Red & Extras down to the hub for full brekkie and numerous cups of tea. Shooperb. Would have been back out but broke the bike on a slidey-dismount 🙁
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Bangor > Bethesda > Mynydd Llandygai > slate mines > Llanberis > Moel y Ci > Bangor. Top day.
Also at the 'Sub-zero 'Cross race at Ashton Ct (Brizzle)' was my first cross race and it was bloody freezing. Thoroughly enjoyed it.. now off to order some carbon forks 🙂
Loops around Crynant. Sarn Helen was good in the snow if a bit nippy.
Went for a quick blast round Haslemere up to Gibbets Hill. Chlly... Got home and straight on Wiggle for some warm clothes!
A little poodle round the new forest....
not as cold as you all had, but a welcome log fire at a nice pub 😉
3 Peaks, (not all of them though!) from Dent yesterday. Brrrrrrrrilliant conditions, decent grip in the snow, not too deep to ride and only a smallish amount of ice underneath.
Just around delamere for a few hours this morning, good fun and didn`t have to wash the bike for once!
25 miles round Thetford today. Was gonna go yesterday but was quite snowy so didn't fancy driving.
Was about -5 there and really grippy - was great riding conditions.
Loads of the Thetford MTB racing boys & girls were out getting some practice in on the WS2 route.
Cwmcarn was absolutely stunning once you got to the top. You could see for miles. Bit icy on the descents.
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Not much snow in the Dales today, rode from near Grassington over Boss Moor, Mastiles Lane, Weets Top, Winterburn Reservoir. Arrived home just as it started to snow. Looks like tomorrows ride will be a proper snowy one.
In and around Malvern both days 🙂
Fullface required for only one reason........to keep my head warm 😆
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Planned Pentlands ride was cancelled so went for a spin on my local Fife trails. Bitterly cold but felt toasty in my winter gear.
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London League 'cross at Penshurst. A real cracker of a course, bone dry and fast. Ended up on the vets podium with my team mate taking top spot. 😀
20miler on local trails. No snow but the ground is frozen solid making for a nice speedy ride. probably about -2c /-3c, my water bottle froze up after an hour.
Kev
Went to Swinley for a few hours this afternoon, was pretty quiet over there for a change. Nice fast trails, not too cold although my bladder leaking down my back from the start didn't help.
Chilterns for us, the cafe at Wendover Woods at least enabled our Camelbak tubes to thaw out - but seemed more MTBers out than usual.
@ saxabar
Looks amazing. I stay in Ffachwen periodically, any chance of a bit more detail of the route you took, or some good local loops?
A little pootle around some Hampshire hillocks in minus 1 degrees. Very pleasant wee jaunt and saw not one but two herds of deer. 8)
The picnic, however, was a mistake. 😳