The Midweek Ride Picture Thread.

Out exploring around teeside. I’ve been meaning to get up here for ages, never managed it for some reason.

Today the forecast was bright sunshine while most of the rest of the country was under cloud so it was too good and opportunity to miss.

Trails were a mixed bag, some really good magical dry loamy carpets covered in orange larch pine needles. Long descents too, some great flowy stuff and also some properly gnar committing steeps.

Also some absolute death, very steep, slippy slidy no-grip-at-all rut tracks. Several times I had both wheels locked accelerating down the rut and had to tripod my way out of it gracelessly then have a little involuntary sit down.

Glad I was on’t eeb today as otherwise I’d never have been able to find half the good stuff and would have spent a lot of time being a bit annoyed that several of the descents weren’t anywhere near worth the climbing.

I don’t think I saw it at it’s best at all though. Id like to go back when it’s drier and grippier to try some of the harder lines again.

I had plans today but got dropped in it. Stuffed my face and watched YouTube all morning. Then felt lazy and guilty so pedalled over to Parkwood Springs.

We’ve just had 3 days on Mljet in Croatia. We hired bikes to get around. Unusual for Mrs Ampthill to be on a bike these days. Lovely area to explore and accessing hiking trails and swim spots by bike worked well. Yes i found a WW2 88mm flack canon

We’ve been in The Lake District 🙂

Cheeky Monday off work and a local ride in some of the best conditions we’ve had all year, ferns have died back and everything is dry?

Drifts of dry, crackling leaves on this morning’s local ride. Great conditions, but it’s looking like the trees might be bare before the sun next shows itself. There are blue skies up there somewhere, but not on moorland at 400m. I’ll have to get higher tomorrow…

Another day off and another ride from home.

More XC than usual.

Tuesday morning tear up.

No bike wash needed again.

That’s five rides in November and not one bike wash.

I’ll take that.

This guy had been fishing in the same spot for the whole of my ride. 😀

Went to Bedgebury. Still very bad at riding bikes, but it was a gorgeous day out.

Back lanes and tracks ride this morning.

Heard James Brown this morning so followed his instructions for this ride.

Ride Of Bridges. by Stuart-B[/url], on Flickr

Ride Of Bridges. by Stuart-B[/url], on Flickr

Ride Of Bridges. by Stuart-B[/url], on Flickr

Still in the honeymoon phase with the e-bike, so I’ve been enjoying autumn, wet, muddy biking more than normal. But even so, I’m starting to get a bit fed up with the slippy, muddy trails at the mo:

Just one photo today, it was a bit murky. TVTA have put in some new handy posts to learn your nine against 🙂

Nice to see clear skies again this morning.

A fitting Mojo end to a cracking few days in Braemar and Ballater riding

Skived off work this morning and went out to Stainburn for a few hours. The Aeris AM has just had it’s fork and shock serviced, and bearings replaced, and was running sweetly. Also new, a 2.6 Magic Mary (non Radial) ultra soft up front for a bit more confidence/skills compensation for the loamy/rooty steeps and the chunky rocky ‘official’ trails. Gorgeous golden morning and the trails were mint.

Grand out in the Derbyshire Dales too this morning

Lovely crisp clear morning ride.

Zero degrees at the bottom but a fair bit colder up higher.

Yet another ride with no bike cleaning.

This isn’t normal for this time of year.

Following the hare tracks

First ride on the new bike after months of procrastination over buying it. Also first exercise for a long time, felt it!

Whitelee wind farm.  Great views today if a little chilly at -2°c

Slightly disappointing snowfall last night in Leeds, but made for a pretty (and actually quite rideable, rather than a muddy/slushy mudfest) hour and a half out on the local trails this morning.

More sub zero sunny dry fun this morning with Mrsstu.

Had snowfall on Darwen moors. Not bad to ride in just very cold.

Last night on Dumyat: -2degC, solid ground and a complete absence of mud. Not used to this.

Mine from yesterday lunchtime. Managed to get out for an hour

Snow is mostly gone. But sunny, clear and cold. Today’s commutes …

In:

Out:

More Leeds commuting. Took the eeb because I had to carry a reasonably big bag of crap into work this morning.

Trails still in decent condition, not much mud at all. Main hazard is all the leaves on the floor.

I actually quite enjoyed it being cold, being able to wear all my winter stuff again and check it all still fits and enjoy it keeping me warm and comfortable

Deploy the pogies!

Frozen trails last night 

Purbecks yesterday.

Local heath just now.

More dry valley fun this morning with a couple of mates.

I can’t remember ever getting so many dry rides in in November.

Just above zero but a hell of a big windchill out in the open.

I’m sure if a rock had pinged up and hit one of my ears it would have shattered and fallen off.

Belfast today. First lovely, hard, grippy trails in ages!

Big ride across the moors last night. Only 5 km but took best part of 2 hours inc fixing a puncture. Was very cold but thankfully very still. An enjoyable ride.

Doing Laps in Blairadam Forest.   Blacker than black…..

@hardtailonly I really like the second photo you posted. Enjoying all the night and snow photos as we don’t get any snow in our bit of East Yorkshire.

Good light today but trails felt slow from leaf cover sadly. Brain freezing cold weather though.

Very cold night ride last night. Trail conditions were excellent. Not that it was wet beforehand, but the frozen trails had huge amounts of sandpapery grip.

Local loop this morning.

Damp with a little drizzle in places.

Got back just before it rained.

A mooch around some back lanes and bridleways in the Shropshire hills. A chilly but sunny day, great to be out. I was wishing I’d taken my mtb on one particularly gloopy track though.

This is one of the first days this year that I just couldn’t motivate myself to slop though wet, slippy, muddy trails on a bike. So went for trail run instead. Sad, sad days.

Lunchtime gravel. Weather was decent. Not too sloppy on the trails just yet.