[Closed] Who's had a good ride today, we have

did the Full loop of the passeportes de soleil today. Chatel to chatel. Super sweet. Off to pub now for beer

Looks fun!

Had the best ride in ages yesterday after getting a new front wheel - may sound ponsey but I LOVE this dryness!!

Just went for a short blast over the Surrey Hills today, to check everything's working before the alps next weekend. Fantastic riding today, if a little hot!

Not been riding this weekend 🙁 Might have a quick bridleway ride tomorrow morning before it gets too hot.

Hopefully I'll have some nice pics to post tomorrow, going out in an hour over to the Stretton hills for an all-nighter, dusk till dawn, finishing at Mitchell's fold stone circle around sunrise then back to Bridges for breakfast.

Just under 40 miles around the Surrey Hills for me too, was surprised how quiet it was actually. Was nice when the sun went in! I think the trails would ride better with a bit of rain too, dampen the dust slightly, but I'm not gonna complain!

I had one of those 50/50 rides, went for a random 30 miler, first half was great and rediscovered some great singletrack. Second half saw me getting a bit lost and performing a full body dab in a 6 foot high nettle bed 🙁 Managed to get a bit muddy later on tho, which cheered me immensely 8)

fast, dry and dusty - not something you can usually say about Aston Hill.
did 10 runs of the DH trails, which was a killer on a hot day but well worth it - grins all round 😀 😀 😀

Just got back from a cheeky Friday B&B break. Had a gorgeously dry ride around Brecon, The Gap, Talybont, the mines up on top, down to Pontiscill, and on to Merthyr. The bike only needed the most cursory of a spray down. Sweet!

😥 Indoors all day family duties.

Hoping it hits the 30s Sunday for a long hot hundred on the road.

LOL full body dab..
Great late evening ride last night.. Rode around our local gorse common/pebblebed heath until utterly lost and then found our way out again.. good times.. found lots of fun new stuff to ride..

Kept stumbling across a larger group of MTBers but didn't stop to make conversation cos we were a bit intimidated by 'bigger boys' (see that 'Kevin and Perry' film for the reference)

Dartmoor Lustleigh Cleave area tomorrow on way to in-law duties..

Thats good couple of weeks ago i was up there and you could not see 10 yards in front of you because of fog and thats after 14hours of rain the day before some what muddy.I think they have spoilt that trail up Hagg side.Lovely area.

yes, a great ride from Abbey Village (near Bolton) in the scorching sunshine and unmatched levels of dryness on the trails 🙂

Oh, and I'd just like to say "well done" to the trail builders at Healey Nab - excellent work and even the climbs were good :o)

21 miles off road, started in glossop, lunch at roman lakes then back 🙂 super hot though.

Loop of the Mawddach Estuary. Great company, gorgeous weather, stunning scenery some lovely trails plus a beer in Barmouth.

I've just done my 15 mile commute along the lanes across the Quantocks 🙁 but I think I'll be taking the scenic route home in the morning 🙂

I rode out from Leeds through Otley and up to Stainburn, did a few laps of the red, minced down the black, and played on the pump track for a bit. Got back and sat in hyde park showing off my lycra and tan lines 8)

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Passed this on the way round a route borrowed from the Boggies. More here

[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/38136212@N07/sets/72157624237185111/show/ ]High Cup Nick[/url]

Not too hot, favourable breeze and drought conditions. A wonderful, non-technical big solo :)))

Cheers
Paul

Today had a play on Low Quarter Fell above Staveley

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Wednesday night was High Cup Nick, Cross Fell. Navigating by compass over Cross Fell in the cloud at midnight 😀 😳

(apologies to I_did_dab for being the model in this)

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clarkpm - do you have a link to the route you did?

14 peak based miles. As sambob says, superhot, but cracking riding, nice people out on the trails and walkers holding open gates for us. Fun days. Back in time for lunch too
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[b]JonT[/b], well done for finding some water 🙂

Nuffing. Waiting for a 70mm-ish stem to turn up on the classifieds lol.

Spent today driving down to Morzine.

Will spend tomorrow riding the PPdS. Off to Pila Tuesday. Chatel on Wednesday, Switzerland on Thursday. Les Gets on Friday.

Dartmoor - recorded 104 F out in the sun - few!!

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Didn't go out today but was out on Tuesday night doing the Hayfield > Jacobs > Hollins Cross > Rushup > Roych > Hayfield and saw 3 other bikes and 2 other walkers. One day after the solstice and a lovely evening. To quote the Aussie tourism ads "wherethebladdyellareya?".

Just out locally exploring a few bits I'd seen on the map, but not ridden, plus a few old favourites - funny how a regular route looks different if you go round the other way. Flax is out now, couple of wonderful big blue fields of it round here.

Helped out a couple of guys who'd had a tubeless tyre failure by giving them my spare tube [gave me a donation for it, thanks guys].

Adjusted the karmic balance by interrupting two other people's ride, but the way they had been going at it in the long grass I don't think they stopped for long. 😆

Mendip DH on trail bikes all morning. Knackered. XC tomorrow.

Quick blast over the Malvern hills after work tonight.

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that pink giant looks uber slack

Did Helvellyn

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Skiddaw

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crossed the Old Coach Road to Pooley

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with a return down the East Side of Ullswater

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dry and dusty but hot hot hot

Not long in from a couple of hours road loop. Yesterday couple of hours hopping from one local wood to another, and Tuesday Cut Gate out and back from Langsett end. Not bad considering it's been busy with work, family and footy too.

Followed distant riders somewhere new, lost sight of them and discovered the joy of rhodi-bashing singletrack.

Took the new ss for a little run. Weather fantastic, Trails utterly ace. Did my Fav trail for first time on ss. felt the fastest I have ever done it. Ace ride 🙂

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Hundred miler road ride from Bristol out to Monmouth via the B roads, back to Bristol via Wye Valley and then a big loop of the Chew Valley. Hot, hot, hot!

Had a great day riding the trails in Cannock with some riding buddies - loving the monkey - boy was it busy though!!

A great ride in the Mendips. Starting at Burrington Coombe, taking in downhill, Black down, and then to Charterhouse, hike a bike up the gorge, across the top (I swear the rocks there are getting even pointier), cake stop, Warrens Hill, Black down.
Buzz - did we bump into you at the top of the Christmas tree downhill (malt loaf discussion)?

Had a great ride too in Co Durham not far from the Derwent.

Started at Rowley Station, across to Edmundbyers and up over the moors on the Lead mining trails - looped over the moors to the Parkhead Station (had a much needed bite to eat at the cafe) and back down the Waskerley way to the start.

Great views and weather apart from a pesky strong wind which seemed to be in our faces regardless of which direction we travelled. It's normally really fast back down to Rowley Station (it's pretty much all downhill) but the wind was so strong we had to work pretty hard.

Only one comedy fall when a heather branch caught in the chain during a shift and locked the back wheel. Ended up lying upside down in a heather bush - thank goodness there were no cameras around.

clarkpm - do you have a link to the route you did?

Hi JonT

This one, great on a good day after a long dry spell :))

[url= http://www.bogtrotters.org/show_album.php?album_id=877 ]High Cup Nick and Great Dun Fell[/url]

Enjoy!!
Paul

Neninja, that's the wrong way round. Pootle up the waskerly and blast back down across the moor to edmunbyers, the singletrack is superb!!! Only jealous as I'm working all weekend

You're right - it was the first time we'd done that moorland trail and soon realised it would be more fun going the other way - fast and loose.

As you say some excellent singletrack up there. Found another route on Bikely we'll try next time - up to Slaley Forest and then back to Edmundbyers via that same trail.