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Hope everyone has got a good easter lined up - with riding and cocoa-based recuperation in equal measure.
Mine kicked off this morning. My main riding buddy is in a moon boot and restricting herself to road rides only (!), so I joined a shop ride. Only two of us were on real bikes, which was a bit of a surprise. But the e-bikers were generously patient as we all slid around a greasy set of trails at 6am.
No photos from me, but one of the lads put a nice reel up on his instagram so you can watch that if you want.
I have a busy weekend planned with little time for riding. Wishing I'd booked today off as the weather was glorious here this morning on the dog walk.
So will live out the weekend vicariously through this thread.
Yep - stunning morning here in West Yorks - been for a swim - heading out on the XC bike later - breakin out the shorts - finally.
The forecast for tomorrow is dismal, with Storm Dave forecasted to arrive. So a last minute outing to Tollymore was hastily organised. Shockingly, the weather was really quite nice. Although the trails were predictably soaking. Back to the waterproof trousers for a day then.
when I arrived back home, the sun was shining, and it was a lovely afternoon. So I couldn’t resist another quick blast on my local trails. You can see the hills in the distance where I was riding in the morning!
We are in the Peak for the weekend. So far it's raining and strong winds.
One of us has ventured out to fetch some tea. I opted to stay in the warmth of the van
Got back from Italy last night,
I had a job to do in Nice but needed to collect parts and tooling from the Italy office, so flew into Pisa, rented a van, and drove to Nice, stopping to collect the stuff on the way.
It also ment driving past Finale Ligure, so it would have been rude not to take the bike, I travelled Sunday and today (Good Friday) doing my job Monday/Tuesday so swapped those for the Wednesday and Thursday that I rode, I justified the £100 to take the bike, by flying today which was £40, rather than £200 on the Thursday.
So other than my shuttle passes, all on the company $ which was a nice bonus, and what I did for about €2000 all in saved us about €27,000 in labour costs alone for a local dealer to swap the main component of the unit under warranty, and the owner doesn’t have to cut a hole in his deck, so everyone’s a winner.
Across the 2 days, 20,000’ descending and 3,500’ of climbing as my favourite run (Insallo ecstasy into Revenant) still has a 450’ climb from the drop of to the start of the run, then it’s 3,000’ 13 minute trail 3 mile black run down the pick up point, first run Thursday morning I came across a wolf on the trail and he hopped up into the woods as I rode past.
@Jimmy748: Wow!
Spent good Friday giving the rest of the UK Scottish style countryside access
Posting from the pub - 2 mile riverside singletrack home from here.
Woke up with a bad back and a 4 pint/bottle of wine haze, so had to force myself out. Obviously that calls for the ebike.
Local loop
Back to reality ride for us. First ride out from our NZ trip. Weather was better than forcast and the trails in the Peak were better than expected with all the rain that has been put down.
Today was my day on the bike, but we were catching the tail of storm David down here in Sussex, so it was a mizerable mizzly day on the tops and in the weald, and strong souwester to contend with. The new recipe banana bread was a bit of a hit, and the sourdough hot X buns along the way we're great, even if not much to photograph
Just a quick ride around the local parks today so my mate could test his new foldable ebike (ADO Air 20 Ultra with a fancy carbon belt drive). He had it delivered to my house so I could get it all set up for him. He seemed super chuffed with it.
Partially hidden by my bike, but he took the photo...
I was also testing out my knee for tomorrow's trip to Kirkhill. I crashed last weekend and it's been giving me grief all week, but should hopefully be ok.
Couple of family rides for me over the last few days. Towing son and daughter up hills has tired me out, even though it was only 5 miles both times. Dragged my old man out for one of them and he seemed to like it too, started rumbling about an e-bike which would be good for getting him out more. Enjoyed it but looking forward to a bit of biking without kids soon 🤣
Also called in at the Lakeland motor museum on the way back home from a week away for my car mad son, quite a few cool old bikes on display which I found interesting. 
Best ride for a week after spending 2 days with a nose running like a tap
@oldfart - you do know you can post pictures and words in the same post? 😉🤣