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Five pictures. Five sentences. Must be 2018.
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on the turbo, 1 week after a hip replacement this time last year
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at tan hill in feb, with mrs t.
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riding back from the boozer.
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relaxing after riding 66 miles back from Manchester on my new ecr
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riding attire in malaga
Where the hell is the like button?
Nice one ton.
Sherwood Pines, wet, cold, awesome !
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Moments of proudness.. FoD
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Local woods, newly found, much loved.
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Morzine/Les Gets, fantastic, STW fun !
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Wallingford, by the river, Grims Ditch. Sunny goodness
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how many old duffers does it take
to sort the bikes for a sunny Highland tour
with some awesome scenery
and some mighty faffing..
and some great memories
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After returning from an early spring in Portugal I was greeted by this!
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Summer was different!
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Hill climb season was wet!
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And then autumn was dry!
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Lovely ride through local woods on the Kinesis Crosslight.
WEMBO European 24hr MTB Solo Bronze Medal in Slovakia
Multiple Golds for No.1 Son in his first season of Circuit Racing, much proudness.
Grinding up Mow Cop after over 100 miles in the saddle
Cyclo-cross at it's finest
Sub Zero in Wales
Early season mud at Kirkby Stephen station
Walna Scar awaits
Semer Water in April
Long hot days on local trails
It won't be this good next summer...
Snow at the start of the year
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7 Stanes
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Jenn ride
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Ard Rock
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And many many road loops
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balls. will try again later!
Good thread, Matt! Well done everybody.
You used to be able to grab the image url from the instagram page source. They've stopped you doing that, now. rolley eyes emoticon.
Bugger it, I'll do it later.
Bugger it, I’ll do it later.
Ha!
All local, only had three trips away this year to Antur, Kirrou PMBA and Glentress but what weather!
Dont take many pics but here goes....
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Chasing the fatbike up the Pike..
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More snow....
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Sons freehub exploded halfway up High Brown Knoll, so he carried up for the descent.
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On the beach!
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Summers over.
Learnt how to jump
Entered first Enduro Race
Went on first trip to the Alps
Rode EWS Trails in Ainsa
Hopefully started my son on a lifetime of riding bikes (Preferably off-road)
My 13th solo StrathPuffer on a singlespeed.
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Most interesting cafe in the Highlands (Abriachan)
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Only meant to go for first 20km or so, ended up doing 200+km audax on my 3 speed shopping bike.
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Loch Orrin part of HT550 on the 3 speed
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Another part of HT550 towards Alladale on my 70 year old rod-brake roadster on 150km loop
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Garburn pass in January with Dad, a quick skive from the Penrith Centre Parcs...
My little lad getting to grips with his Isla bike...
A week with Ciclo Montana with my Dad...
The summer I discovered road biking... Managed a top twenty finish in a biblically wet Matlock Top Ten event
A solo ride over Walna Scar during a beautiful late November weekend...
Home - After being trapped for three days by the snow, emergency wine run!
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Rhayder – 2 days of brilliant riding in Mid-Wales
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FoD – Bluebell Day. Dry, dusty hot and absolutely stunning
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Sospel - Maritime Alps. A brilliant weeks riding on some of the Trans-Provence trails
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Haydn - near the top of the Hermitage climb - Classic Black Mountain loop
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Not great selecton of photos this year but:
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not all adventures this year were by bike
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The summer I discovered road biking… Managed a top twenty finish in a biblically wet Matlock Top Ten event
Imagine what you could have done without that parachute!
I know, I purchased a non-hooded road jacket shortly afterwards!
The Cantilever stone on the Glyders, Snowdonia
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Descending Carnedd Llewellyn after a bivvy at 5:15am and get into work
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A few days in Ireland
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Novembers camp in the view of Snowdon
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Being in issue 119 (me in red)
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Started off up north
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Did a bit of riding in Petzen
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Over to La Thuile
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Spent some time in Verbier and then Ainsa
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Before finishing in Finale
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Did a load of riding in between. Nice 50th birthday year for me. Stepped up to 29er and ebike.
All local pics from me.
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Just five?!?
I feel a separate thread coming on...
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Great thread. I like seeing where people take their bikes.
Reminds us why we're here.
Shame there's no like button.
April, went through a phase of riding on beach rock when the tide was out on commutes home.
July, didn't get out to as many group rides as I hope this year, this was from Folkestone
August, scorching hot holiday in the centre of France, plotting gravel/xc routes and seeing what I could find:
September, doorstep ride with my boy on the wee ride seat.
November, bought my first street trials bike, hoping early 40's not too late to learn.
Snowy start to the year:
Riding in Sapa, Vietnam
Wet & Wild New Forest
Best weekend of the year at Black Sail YHA
Messing about with retrobikes
Good year all round, really.
The winter project: one overnight camp or bivi a week, every week.
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April: a chilly visit to the summit of Helvellyn.
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Lots of hit'n'run overnighters to Exmoor and the Quantocks.
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Bothy nights.
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Autumn: moving back north and rediscovering routes I haven't done for over a decade.
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Given up hope of posting so apologizes for the links!!!
Started of the year right with a trip to Rotorua, great trails, empty bike parks and even a copter ride.
Started doing a little more competitive stuff locally as more events are now getting organized, this was a little DH race at Tai Mo Shan (Tin Man).
Been a tough year for everyone injury wise this year, here I had to get Sonny out of one of the local Lantau trails after he popped his shoulder 🙁
Lucky enough to catch up with an old biking buddy who had moved to Melbourne and ride the Youyangs a couple of times in October.
Finally popped my Enduro cherry last month, the International Chiang Mai Enduro, good fun and will look to do a few more of the Asian Enduro Series next year.
A cold start to the year and a broken car meant commuting in this.
Sat at the top of my current favourite trail....Heartbreak ridge near Ballater.
Frustration that much of the summer was wasted due to this.
Going for a bike ride with my brother for the first time in about 20 years. He thoroughly enjoyed Glenlivet and Aberdeenshire.
Biggest trip was a solo one to Pila and La Thuille.
Watergate Bay, Cornwall, on new years day on't fatty.
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Gisburn Forest
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Local ride in the snow
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Cadair Idris on me Jack
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Guiting Power, Cotswolds
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Choosing only 5...
Starting off with a freezing puffer
Then fleeing to NZ for some winter sun - looking down the Ben Lomond ridgeline at Queenstown
Spring Beinn a' Ghlo trip across the tops, stunner.
An unreal summer spent on evening rides like this
An 8 munro epic in the cairngorms on my own. Ride of the year.
Many more to choose from but think they progress through the year nicely!
Revolution, in the mud:
Riding around the new 'hood:
A rare ride on The Hills due to new house:
Wife's new bike:
Summer rain:
Most of my big bikey adventures are covered here-
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/2018-a-year-in-mountains/
So I'll stick to my other adventures.
Accidentally got 5th at the Stratpuffer, which was a real surprise!
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Went to Orkney in a campervan as a 30th birthday treat and loved it - all the ancient stuff was right up our street.
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Continuing the theme of cold holidays, we also went to Iceland in June which was like nothing else.
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Then in July some pals and I cycled from Finland to Poland, via lots of wild swimming, a trance music festival, eating pigs ear, sketchy Soviet toilets, horrendous washboarded gravel roads, a live military shooting range and some brexit negotiations, so that I could say I'd visited 30 countries before my 30th birthday.
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And finally, after seven years of wanting to do it, finally moved back to Edinburgh.
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Trip to watch a world cup:
New bike day:
Another world cup:
Trip in the new camper van to Ard Moors (actually me this time!):
My brother making it to the big time and winning the Kinlochleven enduro before being on the front of this month's MBUK (still in shops folks!):
OK, my five since I started it. Too many to choose this year.
The Beast from the East commute was just daft fun.
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Then middle_oab and I had a bike-packing ride around the roads of Argyll in stunning weather, as a reward for exams.
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Summer saw family holiday in the amazing Polish and Slovak Tatra's. More mountains to climb there.
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High summer saw sunburn and bikes while I chased DofE groups around the most stunning scenery of the Cairngorms for a week.
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A day around High Burnside and Aviemore with eldest and youngest_oab was just ace - Scottish woodland in the autumn and amazing riding....
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my xmas present meeting up with some friends from UK to ride loop of Lake Taupo, NZ the one pic with sun shining - wet wet wet
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Early morning sun hitting sprinklers riding from San Fran' to LA avoiding quite a few days staying with in laws 🙂 craft breweries were available
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Looking better than feeling on Col D'Izoard a holiday with hard rest days
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out in the Yarra Ranges not so far from (temporary) home in Melbourne, down under
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not my favourite destination but teen antigee loves the local dirt jumps...and its great to ride there and have a cafe stop and chill... hope it lasts
A cold start to the year:
Taking my 9 year-old out for a proper ride:
My regular solo ride to the nicest place on Earth:
CX day on the MTB trails:
The last proper ride of the year, and almost the ride of my life:
BONUS PIC: Looking forward to better days ahead:
Loving all the adventures.
Saxon - I'm expecting *not* to see the last one next year.
Great thread Matt. I've really struggled to pick 5 things as I've had suck a good year of biking and being out doors.
Anyway, first up was a January ride in the Peak which involved hiking through thigh deep snow drifts over Jacobs ladder.
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An April weekend in South Wales with the wife.
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A few days away in the Lakes toward the end of May which included a walk up Helvellyn on our 5th wedding anniversary in glorious weather.
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Many stunning Wednesday evening rides in brilliant dusty conditions.
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And a brilliant weekend away in June involving the 3 passes.
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I could post more but that'd be more than 5 🙂
When the snow came
When the snow was gone
When I found a forest in the desolate Dales
When gravel biking got exciting
When gravel biking took my partner and I to what appeared to be the moon
beast of the east
Dunwich Dynamo fixed. Painful.
Dordogne
Gap
Peddars Way / North Norfolk imperial century