The Midweek Ride Picture Thread.

Trails are starting to dry out on the eastern edge of the Peaks (shoot me).

Last Tuesday

Today

Birthday ride today.
Over 2000 metres of descent seems like a nice way to spend a morning.

Chilling by StuartBrettle[/url], on Flickr
Hammer time. by StuartBrettle[/url], on Flickr
Clicky for GIFy
VID-20230426-WA0003 by StuartBrettle[/url], on Flickr

Saw our first bluebells of the year too.

Early morning ride for me – cold, grey and still really muddy in places – colourful bluebells and rapeseed, thought would have looked nicer with a blue sky!

Rip round with Mrsstu this morning.
Trying to make the most of the dry trails before the rain comes.

2023-04-27_03-32-22 by StuartBrettle[/url], on Flickr

Gorgeous evening last night, the fun stuff dry too!

Sunny gravel evening spin on Tuesday

No new pictures for a week?

Best give it a bump then.

This mornings hardtail spin round.

Rusty Hinge. by StuartBrettle[/url], on Flickr

Castle for scale. by StuartBrettle[/url], on Flickr

Got my shock back after 4 weeks away with a warranty issue, So I went out and did a very enjoyable 1000M of elevation in 20 miles to celebrate.

I’m working a nice commutable distance away at the moment, most of it off-road, now the weather has perked up a bit and the suns come out

and it happens to pass a rather nice pub beer garden on the way home. Result! 😀

A glorious evening up Snowdon on Monday 😎
Up the tourist path and down the (quite tricky 😬) Ranger’s Path.

Tonights short commute

Work is done, kids are in bed, it hasn’t rained for like 3 days and the sun is considering coming out.

A cracking ride last night over the tops and then down through the woods after an enforced diversion for live firing on the ranges. We finished in the beer garden of the Hare and Hounds and had a couple of pints and watched the Champions League semi on their big outdoor screen. Midweek evenings really don’t get much better than that 😀

Nice out tonight.

Covid in the household so to manage the boredom I cobbled together a bunnyhopometer.

It could be a big week.

I’ll be honest, these are all from last week, in and around Torridon.

I had a ride around Whinlatter for the first time in years after work today and really enjoyed it.
I came up the Braithwaite road so picked up the south side blue trail on to the red sections of the south and then over to do the full north red trail.
It is quite nice and flowing for the drop bar bike.

2 evening rides this week, weather and prime trails make it rude not to!

Weds
2023-05-24_09-39-34 by Steve Weeks[/url], on Flickr

Tues
2023-05-24_08-11-52 by Steve Weeks[/url], on Flickr

Lovely light last night riding around Staunton

Celebrating a Covid negative test this morning with a sedate ‘gravelage’

Beautiful evening last night, didn’t leave the pub till 10 minutes to sunset, and it was a bit dark back across the heath to the ferry

If the rest of the spring/summer is like this I’ll be happy.

But… where am I?

Another Topstone pic 😁

scotroutes
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But… where am I?

looks awfy like the flat river plain area after the Burma road des ent and the bridge crossing ?

^^^ or not 😁, I should’ve looked on Strava first… !

Visiting the folks down South, been a while since we’ve been up on the Downs…

Tuesday avo rip round the local.
A trail that was wrecked by storm Arwen has been given a new lease of life.

Old Trail Back To Life. by StuartBrettle[/url], on Flickr

Came the long way back from the gym this morning

20230601_111222~2 by davetheblade[/url], on Flickr

20230601_111547~2 by davetheblade[/url], on Flickr

20230601_121331 by davetheblade[/url], on Flickr

A rare occasion yesterday I got out to the actual woods for a ride, with actual hills*, and actual trails. Got a bit of a beating on the rigid MTB but was expecting it and taking it easy(ish) to reduce impact. Brakes got a good workout! Need to get my Bird Zero TR back up and running with 130 forks. *compared to my regular doorstep riding.

A rather splendid day out with @nobbingsford in the Lakes.

Blue skys and dusty stanchions, heaven.

Couple from our week off:

Mini family cycle tour

Couple of days near Bala with Mrs Davy90 without the kids

Riding showing a worrying road bias of late!

Half term in the New Forest with the boys. Glorious.

Only one picture for me so far on this weeks rides.
As this tyre is now seemingly as much plug as tyre I’ve pushed the boat out and ordered a new one. 🤣
Plugged. by StuartBrettle[/url], on Flickr