Weekend Riding Plans & Pics…

Quantocks. Great days riding. Got lucky with the weather. Missus trying to get something out of her pack and being hassled for food by a pony

@Kellieheros It’s in Derbyshire,Smalley just out of Derby.

Fab pics on this thread! Well done all, makes me wanna go out and ride (but it’s biblically hissing it down…. 😆

Easter Monday, down Jacobs Ladder. Great fun 😀

😯 😯

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Those pictures of Jacobs Ladder are hilarious – it was dusty dry on Friday :0)

Some old Hampshire Lanes… 😀

Unsurprisingly busy on the Malverns today. But I didn’t care, the sun was shining and I was having a skive ride. First time on the Chubby for a month or so. What a fab bike that is. Sometimes I forget it’s a hardtail.

MTB Malverns on a sunny day by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

MTB Malverns on a sunny day by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

MTB Malverns on a sunny day by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

MTB Malverns on a sunny day by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

MTB Malverns on a sunny day by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

MTB Malverns on a sunny day by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

Lovely just to pick a few favourite trails and enjoy the sunshine. And the views 🙂

You cannot be serious. that dust on the lane, chalk flew up.

😆

“With humble heart”

A lovely sunny day for a gentle XC jaunt around the Lambourn Downs in Oxon:

and yes, there was time Tea and Cake…..

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Working all weekend 🙁 luckily my suite doesn’t have a window so I can’t see how nice it is outside. Hopefully get out after work tomorrow for an hour at Woburn though.

The mil is over so quick ride out to Hanchurch & back. Çannock at dawn tomorrow too!

Fell off. Into someone’s garden. Fell a long way. laughed about it. Could have been a lot, lot worse. Another couple of feet further down and a not so handily placed stone wall would have broken my back…..

Long way down…

Still, dusted myself off. Rode some of the Mytholm descent. And Mmbop. And Rodwell Zig Zags. Got to love Calderfornia…

bb – wow, that really is an atmospheric Hampshire lane. Nice pics. 🙂

A paltry hour in the rain yesterday re-asserting my unsuitablility for gravity stage racing. Never found this hut before either. Quality.

Still did get a chat with a old danish dude brewing up out of the back of his camper, his opening gambit was’Like little boys rolling around in the mud, yes?’, indicating my bike with a nod, grinning. To which I replied ‘Yes!’.

Sloppy ride in the Borders yesterday, climbed a tree mid way round too:

A little late, Easter riding jollies in Chiang Mai, Thailand, lots of long dusty descents, mucho fun with the X-Biking crew.

It was a busy weekend but the guides gave our small group a pickup truck to ourselves so we could go our own pace.

As typical with this group, there were no action pics so only we know our full awesomeness.

Yes, Chang was available at the end.

I’ll get some pics up later, had an ace weekend, 8 of us heading south for a really wet but awesome 3 days in the Lakes.

Quick night ride of the best bit of the Bash on fri night.

honister pass – Wharnscale – Rigg beck – walla crag – watendlath – back to YH on the Saturday

The awesome Sprinkling tarn down to Stockley bridge on sunday.

Feeling it this morning mind!. Just confirmed to me that the Borrowdale YH is not only ace, but has enough amazing riding nearby to fill any number of days without having to drive.

I was working this weekend but did manage to get a couple of hours in today in the sun.

Someone updated God on the weather front, thanks 😉

So this weekend will be a dry hack on Rapha’s Hell of the North, followed by Beer & Frites and Mr Fabulous winning Paris-Roubaix..

Such hilarity.

First ride of this new “weekend”, ok Friday arvo then:

Took the ‘big’ bike out for a bash! 🙂

,^^ nicepic

The English have a propensity to queue..

Parkamoor yesterday 🙂

Parkamoor panorama by Simon Barnes[/url], on Flickr

I went to Cannock on friday evening, not content with one visit….I’m going again in an hour.

Lovely day for Dales riding. Bit claggy, mind.

Took my 13 year old son to Torridon for his first big mountain trip

Excellent Kbrembo 🙂

Epic I thInk the word for that is!

Beautiful evening, could have been the perfect ride – if only I’d taken a tube with me.

4 mile walk home.

20160409_115256 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr
20160409_130503 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr
20160409_133701 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr

Cracking day in the Lakes on Saturday. Even got a bit of sunburn.

Had a cracking day in the Peak, started in the thick fog and 0deg in the valley but soon climbed above it and onto the snowy tops and sunshine:
Hope Valley Inversion by Sam Dexter[/url], on Flickr
Broken Road by Sam Dexter[/url], on Flickr
Tranny by Sam Dexter[/url], on Flickr
Top of Fluffy Kitten by Sam Dexter[/url], on Flickr

A few from yesterday at Hebden…

Looking at those pictures of the Peak above I’m really looking forward to a week Friday when we had back up there for a week of Riding 😀

This weekend we rode at Woodbury Common – a slightly disjoined ride as someone had just got a new camera and wanted to take pictures for once. Some of the pictures were better but alas it would appear I pull all manner of silly faces when riding 😳

We started with some of this

And then spent an hour sheltering in part of the forest due to a sudden hail storm.

Paris Roubaix. Rode there, rode it. Fixed.

Strava

Super soggy, so just went out to try and find some new routes. Found a couple of nice sections, now just need to find a way of linking them up.

Gravel’in Kielder..

https://www.strava.com/activities/547199116
Nice day for it even though the wind was bitter!
Untitled by Richard Munro[/url], on Flickr

Untitled by Richard Munro[/url], on Flickr

IMG_20160416_171108 by lee murfin[/url], on Flickr
IMG_20160416_174457 by lee murfin[/url], on Flickr
IMG_20160416_134351 by lee murfin[/url], on Flickr

63 mile CX bimble.

Local Bimble
20160416_134841 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr
20160416_130003 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr