Weekend Ride Picture Thread.
You know the score.
Ride your bike.
Take some pictures.
Post them up with a few words about your ride.

1100 meters and a worn out mech that needs replacing for me this morning.

Sorry to anyone that caught me swearing at my gears after the derailed the chain for the fourth time 🤬

This morning, Saddleworth. Just after a downpour, and just before the next one.

Friday afternoon early finish, still light so for the first time in a long while I took the slightly longer route home along the coast. In the past of I’ve been bored to death riding this stretch but do it so infrequently now, it was really enjoyable.

Was a funny one today. All excited that I got to knock off work early and actually ride in the daylight, and it was sunny, but I’m so used to riding in the dark now! Legs felt like lead, turns out I was just under-fuelled given how much dinner I had afterwards.

Posted in my Ragley thread, but anyway. First ride on the new build yesterday. Lovely sunny ride on the local moor. It’s always a good loop for avoiding loads of mud

Obligatory couple of pints after and the local boozer let me use their hose to get rid of what bit of mud I had collected

Post covid singlespeedy mosh trying to get some lung funtion back, at the moment I seem to have the lungs of a small hamster  called derek, who’s worked down the pit for 30 years.

Lovely ride around Minchinhampton near Stroud. Not been here before so nice to explore.
Slippery as anything but stunning colours in the woods.

That Ragley is bloody lovely!

Obligatory Parkamoor photo, wonderful view across Coniston to the Old man

Ride with my son today… “Dad, I just want to get really muddy”.  I’ve made it in life. 🙂

Local, muddy, and in parts, utterly unrideable. Emergency-dismount activated more than once 😳

Found our local dirt jumps dry and running well on Friday afternoon, which was an absolute treat 🙂 then a fantastic time was had at the Llandegla night enduro yesterday!

Yoofs’ been busy in the nearby woods. This sender would give hardline a run. It is massive! (If you’re gonna land it.)

Impromptu ride on the SS this morning. Filth. Loved it.

Decent muduards are proving a bit of a game changer.

Was really quiet out, I think everyone had stayed inside due to the weather forecast (heavy rain), but it only rained a little bit and even got a bit of sun at the start.

Proper riding. Was mint.

Don’t you love autumn when everything turns orange.

Slid down some woods this morning (‘Rode’ would be giving myself too much credit) Not been that cold/wet for a fair while!

Somerset ride. I did annoy a driver while taking that picture.  I’m very inconsiderate.

Leafy Bike Park Winterborne Whitchurch ride today.

Local loop this morning. Full experience of the other side of Autumn.

first ever CX race at Castle Douglas. Good crack, lots of clag.

Went out for the first proper muddy ride I’ve managed this year, looking to test the DIY mudhugger I had fashioned, think I might need to just pony up and buy a proper mudhugger…

Took the day off work to avoid spreading my lurgy. But had the energy for a walk around the neighbouring national park. Rained steadily for the first time in months. ‘Twas lovely. Saw tiny baby bats in the old rail tunnel.

Rounded off my weekend with another 1000 meters of descent this morning.

Seemed to be the only rider on the hill for the first couple of hours, then a few others showed up when the rain stopped.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2pgUko7]2023-11-20_02-36-41[/url] by StuartBrettle, on Flickr

Apologies for the slight thread derailment…

@rOcKeTdOg what are those bars you have there?

@reeksy

what is the foam running down that tree?

Never seen that before 

@martymac it seems to be a thing eucalyptus trees excrete to protect themselves, then when it rains it foams up. It may be more apparent because it’s so long since it rained. That particular tree was covered in it.

@rOcKeTdOg what are those bars you have there?

@donslow
Ritchey corsalitos

@rOcKeTdOg nice one, thankyou, sir

I had a long weekend with yesterday off for the wife’s birthday, and out for a couple of hour this morning before heading to Heathrow for a red eye to Dubai.