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With sunset now being barely after 1920, it's getting increasingly difficult to do a decent ride outdoors after dinner before it goes pitch black and it will be nigh on impossible in a couple of weeks.
That’s what lights are for. Although there seems to be a segment of the cycling community who are obviously unaware of the concept.
With sunset now being barely after 1920, it's getting increasingly difficult to do a decent ride outdoors after dinner before it goes pitch black and it will be nigh on impossible in a couple of weeks.
That’s what lights are for. Although there seems to be a segment of the cycling community who are obviously unaware of the concept.
I have lights, i've not fitted them to a bicycle for 10 years though.
Not riding my bike because it's dark doesn't compute.
Night rides are ace - although I didn't do many last year tbh, but that's generally down to not being around in the week and riding was mostly at weekends
Re: Autumn, I'm still trying to deny it in my head although the outside has different opinions.
Hopefully we get some crisp days and beautiful colours - hate it when we get a storm early/mid autumn and it offs all the leaves early 🍁
One positive - some of my favourite clothes can come out of the wardrobe. Check shirts, boots, parka, hats etc
Not sure why I took this crappy picture last year, probably something to do with the Frahm coat
Taking every Friday off between now and Xmas. Going to go do stuff with the better half. Loads of stuff to see and do we've never got round to it. Unless it's a crisp autumn day in which case I'll be going riding 🙂
Having missed the summer through injury, I'm making the most of the autumn!
Wore a hat going to work.
Put mudguard on the hardtail.
Bought cough medicine today.
Off to Spain on Friday for a week of riding.
Switchbacks by any chance?
Basque MTB's High Pyrenees trip. Very excited and mildly bricking it.
How do I celebrate Autumn? Cooking some very delicious Japanese curry stew (must be the real deal imported from Japan). Try it. Very easy to cook and taste good too. 😀
Just done 2500 vertical in an 83km loop over some Basque cols. Nothing unusual about that except it was 33°C on 17 September. Or when Autumn can't be arsed to kick Summer out.
All these people coming to Spain... there's a lovely late summer heatwave here at the moment, which is going to break this weekend... so hopefully you'll all have decent weather, but I'm not sure it's guaranteed!
So at least in Madrid Autumn hasn't really hit yet. I did have to wear a light jacket while walking the dog once this week, if that counts?
Spring here, so celebrated by buying a 1977 Mini Moke. Now the race is on to get the big overhaul work done before it turns oven hot in what will undoubtedly feel like only a weeks time.
Staying indoors in the dry, feet up and reading lots. S’posed to be warmer and dryer for a few days, so I might get the bike out and go for a few rides.
Put my winter duvet on just before heading to switchbacks for a weeks riding where yesterday it got up to 32 on our day off. It’s going to be a shock to the system to return but glad to have missed some heavy rain.
Winter quilt, roast potatoes, proper south westerlies at West Kirby Marine Lake and hoping the new radiator I ordered for the living room gets here before I need to turn the heating on.
I used to get a little week of melancholy when I had to accept the summer has gone but after the last few years of hot weather (maybe coupled with moving to a house with a south facing garden) it's now more of a relief
Sprouts are back in the supermarket 👍
Our walnut tree is being exceedingly prolific!
it's getting increasingly difficult to do a decent ride outdoors after dinner before it goes pitch black and it will be nigh on impossible in a couple of weeks.
Sorry if I'm suggesting the bleeding obvious, but I always ride before dinner (known as tea up here) - did you consider that?
Trying to meet autumn by being grateful for the lovely long summer this year and re-finding my wet riding skills on Tuesday's ride (not bad but room for improvement).
I adore the sun, warmth and late nights of summer - seemingly more so as the years go by 😩
For this reason I'm not looking forward to winter at all and Autumn is just a prelude to the misery that is on the horizon. So I'm not 'celebrating' it at all - instead I'm trying to make it go away with a trip to Croatia next week and maybe another trip somewhere properly warm in my most hated month, November.
When the inevitable happens the stoves will be fired up, I'll probably embrace cooking more than during the summer, spend time in the barn prepping the boat for next summer and we'll grab every opportunity we can to get to the beach.
I've also had this stupid idea that I'm going to get back on the rowing machine and set a low target of just 1km every day [I'm here] until Xmas. That starts after Croatia 😉
(I also fancy learning to TIG weld! I don't have a requirement for it but it seems like a fun thing to try ..... we'll see about that one.)
I am now planning out the winter turbo setup again. Sadly not enough apples or hops came through this year for me to brew cider like last year or make a beer with the hops.
Oh yeah, I need to start moving firewood in again.
I'm trying to make it go away with a trip to Croatia next week
Just back from there, really missing the weather and amazing coastline (if not the mardy locals so much 😆 )
Well we'll be on a boat so not too much local interaction 😉
It's nice.... this will be our 4th trip!
Not a celebration but today definitely marked a shift in clothing requirements for my commute!
Had to break out the softshell jacket, full finger gloves and a buff.
Chilly on the platform waiting for my delayed train this morning. Cars in the station carpark overnight were frosted over.
Just to add to my previous comment, it got very windy the other evening, when I went out to deal with the birds and hedgehogs food, I noticed the wind was practically blowing my apple tree out of its pot, which led to around forty minutes of me tethering the tree in place, then deciding to strip the tree of all its apples, before all the branches broke off. I’ve now got five or six kilos of very sweet, juicy apples to work through! The most I’ve ever had from the tree has been eight or nine or so, if I was lucky.
🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎😋
On a hill overnight for the equinox with good food and a decent single malt. There's a tent in there if you look hard enough.
I’ve got up early and made the first soup of the season - my wife is celebrating with a cracking cough!
Sweet potatoes and apple with some spices and other vegetables.
Still chasing the sun. Trails above Pietra and Ranzi today.
