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Battle of Edgehill.
No storm here... Just bluebirds.
Went out on the road bike in the gap between this morning's yellow warning for ice and tomorrow's yellow warning for rain.
I mean, you wouldn't want to waste that sunshine.....
Went for a walk to assess some of the storm damage instead of riding.
Could have been worse...
Until we got to nearer the top.
Gona need a bigger saw.
All good in Wiltshire, so far.
Cabins at GT are now tree houses.
A dry, bright and windless Portland ride.
A slight breeze in the lowlands of the The Shire, but nothing to even suggest there was any kind of storm kicking around...
Second ride back after injury. Slow, and still not yet ready to ride anything properly rough but still fun and just grateful to be back on two wheels in the woods!
Also, found out trails through the trees and drones without forward or lateral sensors don't really mix that well...
A slight breeze in the lowlands of the The Shire
This is the day, when things fall into place...
Jimmy748 or anyone...what is that in the first photo...some sort of bowl?
Thanks C
Tout quarry, it’s a sculpture of a boat.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/PoVX8mZYbnV9vqWr7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy
Popped out for an hour on the road Friday after the wind dropped
Just about dodged the rain. Gravellers throne with a cheeky peasant on it
Surprisingly few trees down at Drumtochty in Aberdeenshire. Slippy slidey conditions and a light dusting of snow higher up.
No pictures again (I really miss the point of this thread, don't I?). However, a few trees down here in Dunblane. Nowhere near as many as I had feared, but we did have deadly ice. About an inch of snow that I reckon saw a wee bit of rain and then a super hard frost. I fair keeched myself quite a few times. Lots of thawing since, so nowhere near as lethal now.
Good slide around the local woods today, creaking pedal aside! 
I can’t post photos any longer, and can’t figure out why (my photos are now too large to post on STW, but I’ve changed nothing). Anyway, I’ve just walked the dog, and I can confirm that, in my 35:years of both dog walking and mountain biking, this was the most miserable outing of my life. Very cold, lashing rain, and very windy. A perfect trinity (or whatever the evil version of “trinity” is).
26+ miles in the cold and mud yesterday for me.
Good weather this morning, so I took the new Camino out for a good test. Muddy and wet, everywhere, but this bike redefines fun and exploration. Best thing about it is doing those easy bridleways that you never touch on the mountain bike
Saturday was definitely the day to ride! Not even that greasy after plenty of rain this week. And the sun was out. About 15 degrees colder than previous 4 days I'd been in Alicante, but always good to ride under blue skies.
Going to be absolutely filthy out there now tho. Rained about a months worth yesterday 🙁
Three days of riding thanks to a public holiday. Saturday a solo gravel spin. Was mostly firm...until I hit some wet clay that the 4x4s had smashed and I got fully clagged and had to scrape just to get the wheels turning.
Sunday laps at the local. No photos.
Monday 3.40am alarm to get to the inaugural Tour De Jank group ride for a 5am ride off near Noosa.
30km/1000m of mostly off-piste tech. Hot and humid and exhausting.
In between times I've been reshaping the garden dirt jump to try and match the boys favourite.
Treemaggedon in Falkland Estate
Fat-boy-fat's neck of the woods today, relieved at how few trees were down.
Another eyes-bigger-than-my-legs route trying to ride every bit of singletrack in Stirlingshire, absolutely loving it at the moment, old CX bike with 40mm tyres and inserts will cope with virtually anything it seems, and I swear the Silca Synergetic chain lube helps, the bike just feels fast no matter what I pedal it through. I just need to get fitter and stronger to be able to keep going, I had to cut bits of trail out today for lack of time and legs!
Mills n Moors Series - Luddenden Valley. A big 46 mile ride on the excellent trails of Calderdale, with a quick coffee stop in Hebden Bridge en route. Perfect event for winter fitness even though we took a load of wrong turns and I froze to death in the last 5 miles
Very jealous, iamnotamused. I had entered but was ill and couldn't make it. Hopefully will get to the next one in February
@fog it was great! I'll be at the next one for sure! I used to love the Merida/CRC/hope MTB marathons but I think the cost of putting fully organised events on is becoming overwhelming Vs numbers so it's great to see these mills n moors series 'events' getting booked up. Even tho there's no ride support there's still a sense of event with other riders knocking about on the route. Hopefully see you there, I'll wear a carnation in my lapel! Or look out for the bikes in the pic