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@scotroutes that's what I'd consider the perfect place to live. Where is it?
Backyard bivvy tonight so a wee pootle round the locale beforehand.
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This lot wasn't there a couple of days ago. Dirty, dirty b*stards.... Just what is wrong with people?
Less than half a mile from the local council tip in Telford (OK, it's closed at the moment, but who didn't know that, so why load the car up in the first place?)
Gravel "adventure" to bag the highest point in Cambridgeshire and Essex (they are only a couple of miles apart). Pic at the Essex high point - a whopping 151 m.
The geographic high point was also the high point of the ride as featured actual singletrack for a few metres, bluebells and a couple of Roe deer.
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Did a little bit of exploring in the areas next to my now normal loop. Discovered an old railway line I had no idea about and a small section of canal too. Will come in handy for making a loop work in the opposite direction to what I normally do.
Golden hour, Weets Top, South Dales.
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@thelawman - its worth reporting to the local council. I've been taking photos when I see it and reporting them on the Calderdale Council portal. Hopefully they'll be something in there to link it back to the numpties doing it.
epicyclo : 1st pic looks like the upper part of the aviemore trail that runs around aviemore, 2nd pic is (brain fart - can't remember)) 3rd pic is lochan an uaine on the ryvoan path
Another mincecore light ride with Mrsstu.
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Little evening paddle in magical light
Bluebell Monday*
*Saturday
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Taken, appropriately enough, at Whitadder reservoir
@donald Yikes! Don't often see those guys, just the holes they make when they bite my tyres.
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pleasant hr or two sat at the shore
Took a wrong turn. Bradford looking beautiful tonight.
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Rode my new bike. Did I mention I had a new bike? Anyway, here it is with a tree.
@ElShalimo - yep, I'd intended to do exactly that, and then promptly forgot. Job for Sunday. I did have a look at a couple of the cardboard boxes to see if there were any address labels; no joy. At least I cleared the bed parts off the road so as to allow room for traffic to pass, not that there's much on the lane in question.
Sat in the park this afternoon after the council reopened it. Really glad, it’s a lovely spot to have a sit down partway round my Saturday afternoon wander into town to do some light shopping.
Attack of the alien tree beast...
A few from my birthday ride today.
couldn't carry any beers so stuck to the shots instead. 😉.
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First time we have seen quite a few out including the picnic blankets and disposable barbecues on the river bank.
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Been waiting 6 weeks to post here. Spain finally let accompanied kids out for 1h a day, 1km radius from home. The boy hasn't left the house since 15th March. Adults and kids over 14 will likely be let out from next weekend.
Downhill all the way to the pub once at the top of that little rise...
Glorious day.
Out on some of the gravel that doesn't exist in the UK
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The M25 on a sunny Sunday morning.
I might use this as a traffic free route next time.
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It was ace fun chasing these two around - it was like RoadRunner with a dust cloud following us all at golden hour... I'm so proud of the youngest one - he's suddenly found real climbing power, an ability to judge well what he's capable of and ride with real confidence. 😎
Anyone got a small, curved bit of cast iron hanging about?
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The empty M25 reminds me of the M32 cycling club. All you had to do was cycle from the St Paul's roundabout up to the M4 and back. Some of the members went on to found a major cycle campaigning group - possibly.
A few from the week:
Fly tipping. Reported and removed.
Bike and Bluebells.
A big thanks to the trail pixies. A small kicker to a berm. Amazing that this is only 600 metres from my front door. So well hidden that I never spotted before. If you were responsible I'll get you Beer after this is all over (assuming you are over 18). Nice one.
Exit from the new found trail. Even though I'm awesome* I walked it. Seriously steep and off camber.
* Not true!
Fly tipping. Reported and removed.
that's minging. But couldn't help but notice there's a couple of 80s pepsi cans in there. Haven't seen those ringpulls for years.
Sorry, as you were.
Love the adder photo, never seen one in the wild.
Went over to Avebury this afternoon for a little stroll away from the village, along a byway up to the Ridgeway, back along the Ridgeway to the Herepath and back down to the car. The stones have been closed off, and according to a lady I met while walking up towards the Ridgeway, they’ve been hit pretty hard by C19, she said she’s buried three from the village so far, I guess she’s a rector, I didn’t ask, but she said people have been sticking up posters saying C19 is a hoax and doesn’t exist! I mean, W the actual F?
Anyway, it was a perfect afternoon, not many people about, and nice and quiet, skylarks singing ‘n’all!
The Chalk.
I love chalklands.
Another coastal shot but I am surrounded by water with roads/paths/trails everywhere so that’s why. And whilst out round the deserted coastline tday we surprised a pair of coppers having a picnic (bag of crisps/can of coke actually) besides their car whilst parked up at carrick shore (Galloway) so me n’ mum stopped further along as well for our fruit break.
Edit : forgot you can’t publish Flickr pics using iPhone, its a nice pic....trust me
Got bored of all the tame singletrack so broke out my big bike and went for the Tree Root Of Doooom huck to flat.
I'm still ****ing buzzing now. 😉
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Steady on there @singlespeedstu. It's a pandemic not a holiday.
Hope you scoped your landing properly before the send.
I know it was pretty stupid and irresponsible of me to take such a huge risk but i had my crew check the line for me before hand so minimalized the risks as much as possible.
Making the most of the last of the perfect weather.
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Giving the Fatty an airing. It’s brilliant in the loose surfaces and dried up hoof prints.
Fat bikes. I remember when they were a thing....
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See if you can guess where I am from the first pic
None of your sweeping hills or dramatic views for me, but as long as I'm on the bike it's ok.
Making the most of it before the rain comes. Possibly my last ride on the camber as the occam is arriving this week 😬
I know where you are from the second photo @easily as I used to work about 2 minutes from there.
See if you can guess where I am from the first pic
A dairy farm.
I walked to the supermarket this evening and passed one of the best real ale pubs in Northampton. It made me realise how long it's been since I had a decent pint
@Mister P
Riding through that tunnel always gives me much enjoyment. I don't know why, but it does.
Love that idea yourguitarhero. Do you have the route to share?
OK ignore me yourguitarhero, scrolled right.
A few from my evening Pentland rides
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The cows are milton keynes
Another poke around for new singletrack near home. Found a nice descent through a quarry.
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^ I want to live where Martin lives.
Got very wet tonight, but this was nice.
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Teapot poses at the golden hour.
Catching up with the last few...
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@CZ Your pics are so Wiltshire with the distinctive clump of trees! Lovely.
@colournoise Excellent selection of monochrome quirkiness and particularly like the one with the flower.
The no mole no fee ride.
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I sussed out that I'd not had a cheese and onion pasty for over a month. Then word reached me that Greenhalghs bakery was open. So it made a nice 12-mile round trip to forage for pasties and sausage rolls
I can see this becoming a regular thing 😀
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First ride on the Jeffsy for a month as the dropper was away being serviced, dodging rain and hail showers.
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Unfortunately I had an off on a tame bit of bridleway I've ridden 10's of times, I got a little off line to the right which caused my bars to get grabbed by the undergrowth, which then ejected me off. Wasn't going massively fast, 15mph according to my gps, but the bike stopped a good 15ft down the trail and I landed on my shoulder which is now pretty painful. 🙁 Pretty sure nothing is broken, just swollen and hurts to move it in sone directions. Rest and painkillers for me for the next few days!
Dodging the hail showers in the wilds of north Hampshire this afternoon.
All around The Wrekin, with lots of added bluebells in places
There are some nice hard tails on this thread
Thickthorn Woods, Warwickshire
Crackley Woods, Warwickshire. HS2 workers putting in heavy shifts to destroy ancient woodland right in nesting season and ignoring any social distancing. All of this activity seemingly sanctioned by the Police and hired bully boys who guard the perimeter 24/7......which is nice.
Lining up for what passes for Alpine singletrack in the south Dales. All 10 yards of it.
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Yous might've read that as of today, we too can have our 1-a-day in Spain. As we 'de-escalate' the lockdown, the restrictions are actually stricter than the UK's have ever been - solo pursuits only, within your city limits, between 6-10am or 8-11pm (over 65s get the post-10am slot). Some municipal boundaries contain more riches than others - we at least get Igeldo and Ulia mountains either side of town. Photo also in the running thread - will do a MTB ride up there again tomorrow as my knee is quite badly borked.
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