The Midweek Ride Picture Thread.

Hardtail from the back door after a day of heavy downpours, turned into a nice evening.

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Was lovely out there this evening!

Good pics those. 2nd one especially.

Somehow heavy rain and cold winds left us with hero dirt

Fantastic ride. Still too damn cold to go to the pub tho!

Got out for an hour locally on the Tripster in Gravel mode last night.

05/05/2021 – Local by eastham_david[/url], on Flickr

05/05/2021 – Local by eastham_david[/url], on Flickr

05/05/2021 – Local by eastham_david[/url], on Flickr

Local ride around the Edglands…found a slope. Soon to be a factory or warehose or such like 🙁

First midweek evening ride of the year in shorts and t-shirt.

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First time this year that weather and length of daylight has enabled us to do a big Beacons ride on a Wednesday evening. The light this evening was sublime. Shame I only had a (poor quality) phone with me to capture any shots.

Couple of rides out this week so far in the beautiful weather we’ve had.

Twisted Oaks Session

Lovely ride along the river with Mrs Ready

Managed a day trip south to the lakes with my old boss. The mizzle in Borrowdale made for some testing rocky sections.

Dry, Sunny, riding in Shorts & T shirt until 10pm with no lights, Kom’s, cups and Beer. Nice Wednesday night trail club over the Purbecks last night.

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Cycled out to Loch of Skene on Tuesday night.

Was a lovely ride but a bit too much of it was on road for my liking. I’ll have to check some maps for next time to seek out more gravel routes/farm tracks.

Also fell into a cattle grid whilst trying to get my bike under a gate 😀

Tuesday morning a few laps on the local hill with Mrsstu.
2021-06-24_11-01-59 by multispeedstu[/url], on Flickr
2021-06-24_11-01-47 by multispeedstu[/url], on Flickr

Most pleasant on the Downs last night

Overnight at Whitby YHA then a ride on the beach on the way back to Pickering

Nice chilled ride to finish the week.

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Need to learn to post pics!!! LOL

Got the 4 corners of Dunkeld done finally.
Most high points are still in trees so views not as good as they could be but you get the idea.
Should probably have done Cairn to Cottage for the cairn pic but fancied the other side of Craigvinean while it’s dry.

Out on Wednesday testing a Fearless Warlock for ukgravelco.com

Long Mynd. Absolutely epic.

New tyres on and a quick lowers service at lunchtime and a few damp miles, tyres are not as draggy as I expected, but the grip is impressive already.

Over the Purbecks last night, riding down to Old Harry there was a Marines Helicopter out on manoeuvres, as we we’re about to entertain Garlic woods, it came over landed next to us, then buggered off again.

No pictures from last nights ride, but it was nice to not have to clean mud off everything. Hopefully it will stay like that for a while.

Quick morning ride on the local trails for us yesterday.
Surprisingly dry.

Jekyll and Ride. by multispeedstu[/url], on Flickr
Baw Bag. by multispeedstu[/url], on Flickr
New Gap Jump. by multispeedstu[/url], on Flickr

Night ride tonight with mates at Glentress.

It’s coming! Managed an hour post work riding tonight before turning the lights on, and the best sunset of the year so far.

Tuesday morning checking out the trails opening up again in Yair.

Heading back across the old golf course towards home this avo.

Had to take the completed Iroko for a test spin, despite the fact I should be resting my knackered leg.

Popped the summer clothes on the Pickenflick. Trails drying nicely in Leeds.

Commute

First light

Very rare, kid-free, mid-week ride on the Chase with Mrs LJ. Even better, it was her suggestion.

Sky was too blue to stay inside

Do like that digger. Those new Wizard Works bags recommended by @rocketdog are brilliant as well.

If Monday counts as midweek. Snuck out to look at the Daffs, then went exploring in the woods and found lots of interesting trails. mostly under horse-indented clag!

Tuesday evening must be mid week right.

GT night ride.

Beam. by multispeedstu[/url], on Flickr

Woke up early and it was a beautiful sunrise so I thought I’d get up and take the hardtail for a jaunt down the valley. It’s set up as with slicks as a commuter at the moment and hasn’t been out for ages, because who commutes any more? It’s just, like, sooooooo 2019, yeah?

I stuck to tarmac today, but I’m shoving the Small Block 8’s on it at lunchtime so I can take some local bridleway detours for morning spins in this forecast decent weather

A nice start to the apex of the week though…

40 miler up through the Dales from home, first ride with summer tyres, and conditions nigh-on perfect for them. Dust!

Rewarded with an Apache flyby waiting for my train back at the highest mainline station in England.

On its way to Poland?

Lovely evening for it, had a quick local blast and found this slightly hairy looking tree.