The Midweek Ride Picture Thread.

A ‘red’ trail forks descent in Murcia. This was the easy bit of the trail. it got steep and incredibly loose after this and no photos exist.

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Spent some time failing to get ShockWiz tuning completed satisfactorily… but it was nice to be out and in the company of twisty tree.

Got the “big bike” out of winter hibernation, surprisingly warm and pleasant 34 mile loop

i love my single speed but it’s nice to have gears and not spin out so easily on the tarmac for a change

Mrsstu’s non working day today so she joined me for a spin.

1150 meters, no rain and grippy trails.
Nice.
IMG_20240228_110733589 by StuartBrettle[/url], on Flickr
Green. by StuartBrettle[/url], on Flickr

I’ve noticed this rare tree a few times recently so today I stopped to get a picture of it.
The Sausage Tree. by StuartBrettle[/url], on Flickr

It felt like riding inside a cloud yesterday. Moist..

Got another ride in today as the sun was attempting to come out.
Windy as **** but bagged another 1000 meters.
Attempting to teach myself how to ride in SPD’s again.
Used to switch back and forth but not used them for around four years now.
Three rides in and only one moment so far…

A wee bimble around Glen Tanar and Birse today. It was windy up high, enough that it was taking my breath away from me. I also came close to losing a derailleur and wheel after hooking a large branch.

^^^ looks ace!

A bit more gloomy in South Wales, but avoided all but a few spots of rain.

Last nights spin around the tops of Rossendale

Seaham this morning..

Another ride with Mrsstu this morning.
Trails are getting slippery now they’re drying out.
1000 meters then went to the cafe with a mate. Trying to cheer him up a bit after he had a nasty crash last week and will be off the bike for a little while with two cracked vertebrae and a broken collar bone.

A solo 1100 meters this morning.
Drizzle and mist but no proper rain.
Trails were wet but grippy.

Monday mornings should all be like this.

Solo XC ride for me this morning.
40KM 1000 Meters.
Great to see a huge rainbow.
Not so great when I rode into the heavy rain at the top of one of the hills.
Win some/lose some.

My first commute to WFH today. Nice weather but everywhere is soaked through so mainly a tarmac bimble.

Malaga at 0630 tomorrow for 3 1/2 days dry and dusty riding 🙂

@Alex

**** off will you.
😂

@singlespeedstu – fair 🙂

I do have to get up* at 0145am to get the early flight. On the upside shall be riding around 1pm hopefully. Assuming I packed everything removed from the RipMo.

I’ll normally ride every week however bad it is, but this year I’ve sacked off two day long rides as I couldn’t be ar$ed with another day in the slop. So really looking forward to riding proper trails outside rather than the turbo/treadmill winter I’ve been having!

*realistically I’m not going to bed

Post tinkering shakedown ride on the big bike, was going well until I found ALL of the slop

Bike looked like it was in a mud made travel case at one point

First Wednesday night club ride I’ve been able to get to since the Christmas break. Get to the meet up point (admittedly about 5 minutes late) to find no one else there…

So pootled off on a solo ride instead, but did later bump into a couple of club riders on their way back.

Not quite enough light for ‘good’ photos under the trees.

Away camping and decided to sneak in a 40km gravel loop on my Ripmo.

Amazing roads. Came across some very big roadworks in the middle of nowhere (aka Whoop-whoop) and the roadworkers said they knew I was coming and could ride through…so I was mixing it up with the trucks and graders.

It’s finally dried up down here, and now light enough to get a ride in after work without lights.

First ride with lights this year for me…

Almost drowned in swamp to get to this point

Out for a wonderful dry ride around Mynydd Llangorse. Trails were prime, no lights were needed, and the bikes were clean at the end. And best of all…. NO BRACKEN 🙂

Finally got the gravel bike built and finished, quick shakedown ride to get it fine tuned

Not mine but Abigales birthday ride today. Wish I was on it with her.

Great evening ride last night, hit the spot after a mad few weeks at work.

Gravelling on Tuesday evening – mint

Normally the webs that cover our tracks snap and you just keep riding. This morning however I was effectively wearing a veil on my helmet and couldn’t avoid stopping to get this monster off as it was hanging right next to my left eye.

Dry trails and blue skies in Stirlingshire Shocker!

So looking forward to the weekend…

Not mine but Abigales birthday ride today. Wish I was on it with her.

That looks absolutely, bloody brilliant!

6pm start, 2,250ft of elevation and back before dark with dusty stanchions, can’t complain, though the wind was a little chilly.

First time in a long while the local woods are half decent! Fingers crossed for the weekend.

Same as @halifaxpete – our local woods and tracks are now worth riding on the MTB again!

Classic low level XC woodland singletrack on the single speeds tonight with @hardtailonly of this parish. This route is beautiful, especially when the bluebells are out.

Had a lovely ride out on the Stooge for a pint. Was really nice having a back to basics ride.

In London for two days starting tomorrow, so went out on my tod expecting the worse based on two days of constant rain. Was actually pretty good, very puddly but not muddy, all washed down the high street by the the look of it!

Also wanted to dial in the ‘new’ shock on the Yeti. Yeti base settings pretty close and a few tweaks and we’re all green.  Not sure of the efficacy of the shockwiz, but it feels way nicer than the DPX2 I took off.

Porlock this weekend. Very much looking forward to riding the new bike there.

Little blast on the canal