No post Xmas ride pics? Let me get us started…

Classic gap. Dreadfully hungover. Properly snowy. Some 3 foot drifts meant lots of carrying and half melted snow meant lots of hard pedalling. Top of the gap was solid ice. Did that bit on our behinds hanging onto the bikes. Frozen feet and numb hands. So basically a brilliant day out!

So you missed the boxing day thread then ? 😀
Edit..nice pics though

I did. I was too drunk on boxing day 😉

Great photos. Never ridden The Gap, but this makes me even keener to do so.

Feeling a bit shitty that my earlier comment may have inadvertently killed the thread before it got started (really sorry !) ..a guilt trip had me out locally so that I could add to it and maybe give it a kick start again ..
These pics from the Pundershaw / Cairnglastenhope area of Kielder Forest..ground conditions were fantastic firm to crunchy after a really hard overnight frost which hadn’t given at all…

Wanna go for a ride ? No?…just me then ..

20171228_145730[/url] by Neil Hodgson[/url] – Flickr2BBcode LITE

20171228_153720[/url] by Neil Hodgson[/url] – Flickr2BBcode LITE

The white capped peak in the distance is Deadwater Fell at Kielder ( 20 miles away )

20171228_154139[/url] by Neil Hodgson[/url] – Flickr2BBcode LITE

This is it on maximum zoom ..you can make out the radar at the top

20171228_154520[/url] by Neil Hodgson[/url] – Flickr2BBcode LITE

20171228_154316[/url] by Neil Hodgson[/url] – Flickr2BBcode LITE

By the light ..of the silvery moon..

20171228_154500[/url] by Neil Hodgson[/url] – Flickr2BBcode LITE

20171228_154739[/url] by Neil Hodgson[/url] – Flickr2BBcode LITE

Not really needed as there was still enough natural light to see by..but just like the way it picked out the frost ..
Fantastic afternoon ..one of those rides that you wish you had shared ..that nearly didn’t happen 😉

20171228_161015[/url] by Neil Hodgson[/url] – Flickr2BBcode LITE

If you had black shorts you could have been delivering the Milk Tray 😀

Man of mystery & suspense ..or maybe just pig ugly ! 😆

LOL !

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/boxing-day-ridephotos

Reading comprehension – FAIL!

Somewhere near Longridge Fell. Lovely Christmas Eve pedal.

😕

@RD – I can’t stop watching that 🙂

Great photos. Never ridden The Gap, but this makes me even keener to do so.

It’s a great route. In October it was dry, fast and only fairly breezy. That ^^ ride took over 2 hours longer. It’s only really two big climbs and two descents. But it can be epically muddy in places and the last descent – even tho it’s been sanitised a lot at the top – still can catch you out. Especially if it’s icy.

We only saw one other set of tyre tracks and no actual riders which is unusual. Can be very busy with riders and walkers in summer. Good one to take a weekday off to do.

Old Winchester Hill, just down from the Station Road junction

First ride out today since Christmas eve that hasn’t been straight to the pub on tarmac. 😆
It was a bit moist and I seem to be a bit unfit.
No idea how that happened…

2017-12-29_04-20-01 by multispeedstu[/url], on Flickr

Staveley, Troutbeck, Garburn and Kentmere on a cracking bright blue sky day.

It was a bit cold and we were thirsty so we had to pop in the