WRPT - Summer Solstice / Father's Day Edition

SUMMER Solstice - this year is having a laugh.

Great ride, great pics though 👍 

Well if we're doing Thursday... 

Laps of the local woods last night, finished off with a gloriously sunset fieldside singletrack descent back to the car. Lovely. Even if it was getting a bit dark in the woods by the end! 

Friday morning coffee ride. Glorious morning this morning. 🌞🌞 

😭

Maybe tomorrow 🙏

  Lovely 20 miles loop with mrs Ampthill on her ebike. A few gravel sections and a new coffee stop. The only photo i have is an interesting sluice behind the coffee shop

Afan yesterday, great fun but trails were a bit soggy.

Little undercover lap tonight 🥷

Jevington south downs route from mbuk 165 today. I've been meaning to do it for ages, and glad I did. The weather was perfect. Spitfire flying over beachy head (couldn't get a decent pic) gave the ride proper mint sauce vibes!

Stopped at the Longman brewery for a sausage roll and a cheeky beer after. Also made a new friend. 

A nice ride this morning. I stopped to check out the geology. I believe this is part of the Bagshot Formation, probably the Swinley Clay Member. It's a mere 41 to 56 million years old.

Saturday at Tewantin. Felt like shit but tracks were mint and I had a ball on the flowy downhills. 

Posted by: reeksy

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Saturday at Tewantin. Felt like shit but tracks were mint and I had a ball on the flowy downhills. 

hmm, what kind of saddle is that!?

Specialized Mushroom Power

Jevington south downs route from mbuk 165 today.

That sounds like just what I am after for Monday.  Do you have any links, Stravas or pointers?

Posted by: bubs

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Jevington south downs route from mbuk 165 today.

That sounds like just what I am after for Monday.  Do you have any links, Stravas or pointers?

Linky : https://explore.osmaps.com/route/14851443/Jevington-South-Downs-issue-416

Hot one yesterday

I went a bit further south of Wiltshire this week end. 

Distant showers on the Ridgeway this afternoon.

Big skies, South Pennine gravel and good old moorland plugging. Hot!  

Still feeling tired from Thursday night's Cut Gate ++ ride, so the 2 hours local SS HT ride today felt a bit of a plod. Lovely to be out, and trails back to dry & dusty.

Glorious day at Kirkhill today. 23 miles and just shy of 3000ft of climbing, then home for a BBQ 😋

L2B is always on father's day, so the beacon is closed to traffic, so EpicJnrJnr and EpicJnrSnr joined for a cheeky ascent. A great opportunity to finally get @nbt and @bunnyhop erstwhile tandem out for a ride, w JnrSnr stoking and JnrJnr on a MTB riding shotgun. It was hot early doors, so it's going to be a tough climb for everyone climbing in full heat. Lad taking the opportunity to do it in his wheelchair surely the winner of today's kudos.

Best ride from home this year. Road, cycle path, easy bridleway to the “cowshed cafe” near Biggleswade. On the way back realised  i had the time and energy for some single track in the woods at Chickdands and Maulden

Excellent. 
Did Epic jnrjnr fancy a bit of being the stoker, also did Epic Jnrsnr fancy a bit of Captain action? 😀

Five mile ride for gelato and to meet up with our guide to see whats his plans for us. Back to the camper for beer.

Sunday club ride, and a stunning morning for it. The cheese and bacon scone was pretty good too! 

This was 12.01 am up in Galloway hills 

Out again briefly this morning - a leisurely saunter on the gravel bike. Some of the trails are very overgrown now!

Posted by: somafunk

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This was 12.01 am up in Galloway hills 

 

edit 00.01am……doh….

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Did a Hayfield loop, Elle bank, shooting cabins, Latern pike, not many miles buts quite a bit of elevation - on a stupidly hot day, so y'know, good move...

Took the kids to Sherwood Pines yesterday, first time trying out the Kids Ride Shotgun. She loved it but didn’t go too far as it she’s never ridden anything unharnessed before, but a very enjoyable 5 miles. Local loop on my own tonight hopefully when (if) the kids go to sleep.  

Headed butted the ground today, three weeks after breaking a rib I probably should've taken it easier today.  

This was with a full face on.

New t shirt is very appropriate at the moment.  

Headed out on a solo ride over the tops to Black Rocks. Bumped into a couple of mates on a ride so tagged on with them and doubled back, heading up to Stanton Moor. 

There's a small stone circle up there and it's become a bit of a gathering place for hippies on the solstice and a few days either side over the years. 

One of the busiest I've seen - proper festival vibe up there. They have some fires, they have a lot of rubbish, but to be honest, they've become pretty good at controlling it. It would be better if they didn't descend en masse, but would take a lot of policing to stop it

Didn't really get any decent photos, so just one of my mates I tagged onto 

A couple from Thursday's cut gate ride with @hardtailonly

Then a couple from today, steady local xc trying to rid myself of a hangover. Inflicted it on myself pretending to be a student in Sheffield last night (helping our eldest move student house. Accidentally went to a tech house night at Kelham Island and it was great)

Just arrived this evening to the Abondance valley, near Chatel. So glad to have arrived in time to have a quick blast up the hill behind the apartment. Beautiful evening.

I got this 🤓

My son took me on some of his trails in the Hindhead Devil's Punch Bowl for Father's Day. Some of it was pretty scary stuff for an old codger used to pootling round the south downs lately. We only managed an hour cos it was so hot, like a tropical jungle down in the bowl, with no breeze. I was even overheating on the ebike, so when he said he'd had enough, I was happy to stop and go to the pub.

Didn't take photos, just one of my awesome Father's Day gift 😀

Posted by: somafunk

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This was 12.01 am up in Galloway hills 

amazing photo @somafunk

Beautiful day yesterday down Loch Ericht, round to Loch Laggan and up past Phoines to Loch Cuaich and back to Dalwhinnie. Hot, sunny, awesome tracks. More of this please.

Took my 2 eldest kids to cwmcarn yesterday

A very sweaty one but great fun

4 day long weekend around the 7 Stanes for me, trying to keep up with ebikes. Thursday at Dalbeattie was biblical rain but still good fun. Inners on Friday riding a mix of official and unofficial trails due to diversions and riding what looked fun. Glentress Saturday in the sun, shame half of the black is closed but enough there's for a day. Yesterday was a big day at the golfie, great fun as always