Weekend Riding Plans & Pics…

Sunny day in CyB riding some steep, cheeky off-piste trails.

And yes I’m fully aware I’m using poor switchback technique ^^^ there.

Drumlanrig – dry and dusty !

Aberdeenshire: still snow up top.

Cripes, some of your local trails are spectacular !

Niiiice 😀

Not much sign of anything drying out in the Surrey Hills.

https://www.rootsandrain.com/photos/1370406

PMBA enduro, confirmation that I’m really crap at enduro.

Went to show off my Enduro Sled at a pretty damp Llandegla, actually managed to ride with a friend for a change. Rode the red, black and blue so 48k in total.
Snowdon View by Sam Dexter[/url], on Flickr
Degla Bridge by Sam Dexter[/url], on Flickr

Cripes, some of your local trails are spectacular !

Niiiice

Not sure if that refers to my picture (there are a lot of great photos on this thread), but what mine didn’t show was the bitter wind! The 20 minutes after that shot was taken were spent with the bike on my shoulders trying to stay upright and the choice was between walking through six inches of slushy snow or walking on the heather covered bog to the side of the track. Either way my feet were freezing. I love a god epic though and conditions were a lot more benign as soon as I dropped back down into the glen.

Suffered yesterday. Don’t know if I was just sub-par, but it’s the first ride in Swaledale I’ve ever had which I really didn’t enjoy. Headwinds, bit gloopy, very cold in the hands and feet, couple of minor mechanicals, got to Great Pinseat and just decided to bail back to Reeth.

Northern Beer Snobs visit Shandyland. We found out that Chilterns Mud is very nearly impossible to ride on.

IMAG0035 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr
IMAG0029 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr
IMAG0017 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr
IMAG0046 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr

Poorly Missus meant just a snatched hour on the local trails yesterday, planning a proper one for next weekend

1 second off a KOM too, grrrrr (although given the inherent inaccuracy of Strava, I’ll claim it!)

Lakes for me on Saturday. It was splendid.

Brown Pike – Highest point of the ride by Simon Barnes[/url], on Flickr

Perfect by Simon Barnes[/url], on Flickr

Working Saturday and only managed to get out at end of day yesterday…

Well I had Friday off work so me n mar mate could drive to Wales. We stopped in Talybont on usk and set out to do the Gap Route in the afternoon. That rocky tramroad is hellish, up and on and on and up and rocks and more rocks. The descent back down from above the resovoir was fantastic and we had a great time. By this time the weather had turned and we were cold so instead of climbing back up to the gap we opted for the road back to Talyont and the pub.
On Saturday the sun was out in full effect and we had a fantastic days riding at Bike Park Wales. My first time there and loved it. We managed 8 uplifts, we only did 2 red runs and the spent the rest of the time on the blues whooping it down the mountain. Loved terry’s belly the most, espicially the bits towards the end, so fast and so much fun. We didn’t stop to take any pics.

Gisburn Thursday, local Friday, Penmachno Saturday. Weather was great for all three. Never been to Penmachno before but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I built up the Old Skool Gnarpoon last week & took it for a shaedown around a surprisingly dry Rivi on Friday

Then had a hoot at a equally surprisingly dry Antur Stiniog on Saturday

It was all going so well then this happened 🙄

Of course it happened 5 seconds into a descent. Not even a tyre boot could save me. A 1,000 foot descent on foot and 4 miles back to the van. I could’ve cried.

BB Half a mile into my first descent of the day mine looked like this 😯

Still running tubes on this one so I just put a new tube in..

BB Half a mile into my first descent of the day mine looked like this

Ouch

Big thanks to the four riders who blasted past me when my bike was upside down and didn’t even acknowledge me never mind ask if I needed a hand.

Cant let anything coming between them and their Strava time…

Big thanks to the four riders who blasted past me when my bike was upside down and didn’t even acknowledge me never mind ask if I needed a hand.

doesn’t surprise me, even when you try and flag them down for help they avert their gaze head down and carry on.

Hong Kong humidity is back, those aren’t tears running down my cheeks, only sweat, honest.

Salisbury Plain on Sunday

Next Monday I start on my Coast to Coast via the NCN 6 from Kendal to Seascale, pick up the NCN72 all the way up the West Coast via the Solway then across the country to Whitby, then ride back on a mix of NCN’s back to Kendal.

Yay!

51 miler with stu and nick, from wollaston to Alveley up to Highley, into stoddesdon across to Cleobury Mortimer, then back through the wyre forest for beer at the plough and Harrow.

I did the northern half of the recently opened South Peak loop. Nearly 50 miles of off-road, quiet lanes and old railways (e.g. Monsal Trail). Had a grand day, although I confess the Monsal Trail is a dull ride when you’ve no one to talk to #billy-no-mates.

Calton pastures panorama by stilltortoise[/url], on Flickr

Up on Wavering Down in the Mendips. Never been up there before, but had a great day exploring new bridleways.

IMG_20160424_120537292_HDR by lee murfin[/url], on Flickr
IMG_20160424_120304125_HDR by lee murfin[/url], on Flickr
IMG_20160424_120004893_HDR by lee murfin[/url], on Flickr

55 Miles around the white peak yesterday.

Why do people fix bikes in the middle of the trail 😯
53 miles on my turf bike n bivi
Untitled by Richard Munro[/url], on Flickr
Untitled by Richard Munro[/url], on Flickr

Are they wheely tents? 🙂

weather is blinding (quite literally) a fine oak coming into leaf on todays early morning road jaunt (there were a lot of riders out today :))

Bit of a fail today. Weekend away near Edin. Planned to ride Inners on the way home till I realised I had “lost” the key to the motor homes “garage” doh 🙄
Went for coffee/lunch ar Cafe No1 and met the guys from CRC who were demoing bikes at Inners, guess where my riding gear was? Yup, locked away safely in the back of the ‘van 🙄
Anyway, went for a stroll round the demo, gave Tally a wave and spoke to Trev Worsley and Clive Forth both of whom I’ve not seen for a while.

Spectacular pics folks!

Cracking roadie day Dans Le Downs..

The aliens have landed in the rapeseed …

IMAG0090 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr
IMAG0093 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr
IMAG0098 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr

Tour of Ingleborough.

Ohhh, I like that.

Where’s Ingleborough?

Found it, noted for a CX jaunt cheers..

a few bluebells 🙂

IMAG0165 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr
IMAG0156 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr
IMAG0147 by Dave Lowe[/url], on Flickr

Where’s that Dave?

Downhill riding / training has begun here in Åre , Sweden. A friend made a video:

Also some trail building

and Grisen came out too oink oink

Whiteless Pike.