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Weekend rides 21/22nd September 2019
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Posted 4 years ago
Ballo for us. Lovely autumnal sunshine.
Posted 4 years agoBack home and all back to normal.
But not quite; the Chilterns are properly dry and dusty.
Its nearly October!!Posted 4 years ago
Posted 4 years agoMarvellous day at FoD.
Did my biggest drops ever! Scared myself a few times
Posted 4 years agoFirst ride on a gravel bike. Borrowed my dad’s. Bit small for me but I got the idea. I’ve never got on with road bikes and I struggled descending on the rougher stuff. Just felt sketchy so I was really slow. It felt nice on smoother stuff though. Don’t think my wrists/hands could take the punishment.
Posted 4 years agoSo far, a couple of dog rides, a sprint round the woods that left both calves cramping, and a pootle today looking for kids from school doing their D of E bronze expedition (I never found them…). Another pootle planned for the morning and a dog ride tomorrow afternoon (assuming the rain holds off).
Posted 4 years agoYesterday was the Forest of Dean Enduro for the little man.
It kinda went brilliantly, kinda went badly. Last time there we did the Intermediate course, which he found quite easy, still fun as it’s a swoopy jumpy blue… But wanted more of a challenge. So this time we entered ‘Advanced’
We got there and rode up the hill to practice, we’d invited his school mates who he plays with in the local woods but they’d entered Inters. So we did some practice runs on there and they all loved it.. So of course did me and my lad. He was about 5s quicker than his school buddies… (Which will come back to haunt us)
We then did a run down the Advanced course, which was Flatlands into Sheepskull. This was SO nothing like the other course (Launchpad) it was rooty, techy, slow and nadgery. Quite tough actually, some downhill off camber roots and stuff. Neither of us greatly enjoyed it… it was good, but not ‘fun’ as such in the same as the jumpy swoopy one.
So we went down for cake and viewing of all the demo bikes, it was an open day so Orange, Whyte and a few others were there. We asked if he could change Cat to the Inters. Sadly we were blown out of that idea due to the timing equipment being setup to the number boards and the complexity of changing. Bummer. My lad was actually quite disappointed with the news and it kinda sucked all the fun out of him. I was nearly in tears for him.
Anyway we went up again for the race and I came down first before his races started and sat for 15-20 mins waiting. He came down and actually really enjoyed it. So all was good with the world.
We then scooted down the 2nd half of Sheepskull which was a bit bloody techincal !!!! jumps, roots and drops (my most hated trail feature) LOL. But somehow we managed to get down ! Phew.
After that we had an hour to kill so spent time in the skils area doing jumps and drops, i was really pleased after this as it really helped with my fear of drops, i attacked more than i expected and came away really happy.
Onto the presentation and sadly for my lad he never made it into the top 3 in his Cat. However both his school mates did, one got a WIN ! (Year below him) and his classmate got a 2nd, he was only 0.5s behind the winner.. (Which using dad logic means my lad would have walked it.)
That was the disappointing bit, but the rest of the day was absolutely excellent !
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2hiKetV]2019-09-21_09-11-02[/url] by Steve Weeks, on FlickrThis morning brought 2 hours of spannering, cleaning and sorting on both his bike and all of mine, replaced a spoke in the CX bike, fitted new grips to his, cleaned them all, prepped them all, great stuff.
Posted 4 years agoGlad both of you enjoyed it.
Beggars can’t be chooses and what should have been our first day in Finale was a pootle around some of the area in Pizzo
Borrowed bikes and back to front brakes but at least we were out for a couple of hoursPosted 4 years ago[url=https://gasstation-nearme.com/]closest fuel[/url]Eschewed all that ridiculous sunshine yesterday in favour of DIY 🙄. So went out for a refreshing soaking this morning instead. Autumn has arrived!
Posted 4 years agoFrom Killin to Crianlarich to join the WHW. Under the railway at Auch and on to Loch Lyon then over the Hydro road to Glen Lochay and back to Killin
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undefined, undefined@undefined, fundefined, undefineds, ISOundefinedPosted 4 years agoGlorious weather on Friday and Saturday.
Went for a local leg stretcher on Saturday.
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Ripped to shreds by Brambles though.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2hjocpX]IMG-20190921-WA0014[/url] by Dave Lowe, on FlickrPosted 4 years agoAbout once a year I’ll pull the road bike off the turbo and take it for a spin. This usually serves to remind me why I hardly ever ride on the road these days, but yesterday’s bimble was quite good fun. Probably just more evidence that a nice sunny day makes any ride fun though.
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