Little trip up Helvellyn again clear skies in Glennridding as we set off for the climb up Big H clouds rolled in as we made our way up but timed it to perfection as we summited the clouds cleared 🙂
Only downer was a broken bike an ankle and several punctures 🙁
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Feel a bit inadequate after that posting postierich 🙁

Only managed a 25 miler around Rivvy and local on the Tripster.

By eck it was bloody filthy, the pockets in my Gabba were filled with mud 🙄

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Ha, yesterday was this..

great pic bike bouy

Putsborough!! Smashing it 😆

No pics, hardly ever take any tbh. Should’ve made this a NY resolution

Had a pedal/hike up Caddir Idris yesterday morning then a loop round the MBR at CYB in the afternoon. We’d normally do The Beast but time was a little short

Dunkeld was misty, wet, ridiculously slippy and as steep as ever.

Only downer was a broken bike an ankle …

am I reading this right?
Sorry no ride pics, rollers in garage!

did you go up Dollywaggon Rich? seriously tough arsed cyclists

Yep seems broken carried him for around a km to get to the nearest road,he was in Preston Infirmary last I heard 🙁 his bike is ok though another downer for him he has a boarding trip booked for next week 🙁
Aye Dollywagon was the route of choice nice and steppy 🙂

Had a good Ambleside based ride in the Lakes yesterday.
Started out foggy but was only misty later,not a bad day for January good company & a mid ride pint in the Britannia at Elterwater.

Had a wet & foggy ride around Rivington earlier,got soaked & covered in mud but that’s Rivi in January for you…

Just vouyering other people’s pics this weekend, suffering with a rotten cold and couldn’t ride.

Awesome pic hairyscary.

Vortexracing – I’ve done a wee where you took your pic (well, the other side of that gate).

😉

103K of S Wales lumpiness as part of Dirty Riever prep.

42 mile solo mixed terrain ride this morning.
like Rocky Balboa……….getting stronger

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Had a wet & foggy ride around Rivington earlier,got soaked & covered in mud but that’s Rivi in January for you…

I wondered how long my brake pads were going to last this morning up Rivvy, all I could hear was grinding from the moment I set off 🙄

Vortexracing – I’ve done a wee where you took your pic (well, the other side of that gate).

I thought it was a bit wetter than normal 😉

On Saturday I was at the PMBA Night & Day Enduro at Grizedale. It was misty all day and the trails were wet and muddy but it was a really fun day out.

Exmoor by fat bike with a work colleague.

Honister and Warnscale on Saturday. Warnscale was slippery as hell. Incorrect set up of the new bike had a pedal strike catapult me over the bars on the track at the bottom. Try coming back over Honister with one functioning hand.

Strange weather too, low level mist and an weird light in Borrowdale but thick wet mist over in Buttermere.

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Just a short lap of Cwmcarn yesterday, been busy with life crap the rest of the weekend 🙁

FOD tomorrow and haven’t decided what for Tuesday yet, hoping it stays warm so I can possibly do the Gap 😀

Trapped a nerve in my back so no riding for me, so managed to get a few jobs done like finally fitting the new rear tyre to my Arkose. Took the missus round a few shops and she fancies a Carrera Subway which is decent news.

I then felt better tonight so thought the gym was a good idea. Wrong, deadlifts felt fine at the time but now I’m in more pain than yesterday. Oops.

all went a bit Midwich Cuckoos on todays ride

Metalheart and I headed up Glen Banvie near Blair Atholl to start bivvy-a-month for 2017. Short ride, decent night, and I got to stop over in a wee block of woods I’ve had my eye on for a few years.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/QtFBHE]Neill, En Repose[/url] by Colin Cadden, on Flickr

Some great pics guys here is the borked ankle chap not sure he enjoyed the fireman lift by me 🙂
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Some good pics up there ^^

I had a 30 mile quiet lane ride on the hybrid. I’ve not gone that far in one go for ages as work has been busy, been helping mate out at weekend and then Xmas.

Confirmed how heavy the hybrid is when I was putting it away and had to move the mountain bike out the way. After lifting the hybrid, I nearly put the mountain bike through the shed roof lifting it with the same force. Oh well it’s good training on the hybrid.

Scolty

No pic but did a local loop this evening and couldn’t believe how wet its become in the two weeks since I last did it. Now covered in heavy deep craggy puddles and the “fast bits” now covered in that thin but lethal mud that sends you sideways unless you are going in a dead straight line.

Oh and the fog on the road joining section was so bad I couldn’t see more than a couple metres.

Great pics above BTW

Local loop. Bit minging and foggy!

It was a mucky, muddy climb up to Darwen’s Jubilee Tower, but luckily the website told me I’d “… be stunned and amazed at the panoramic views as far as the Yorkshire Dales in the East, and the Isle of Man in the West…”

A quick blast around Wainuimata in Wellington, NZ on Sunday

Not nearly as impressive as some of those above, Shackleford Trail Break, and my injured knee held up!

No pics but 15 year old oab and I were in dark up Dumyat at 5pm last night.

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Birthday bike ride weekend. Had some old mates come up, drink beers, eat curry and muck about in the woods. No route, no plan, just having fun. Great to get one friend riding some steep stuff that he’d been walking down when we set out.

Prior commitments meant we had to give the PMBA Day and Night Enduro at Grizedale a miss. We did managed a blast in the Peak, not many riders about but loads of friendly walkers.
Gave us some time to se up Abigales 29er. Having to run the Lyriks at the minimum pressure to get full travel

Headed to the Peak for the first time this year for a quickish solo ride but bumped in to a friend so had company for most of it.

It was pretty dank and foggy but really atmospheric which was cool. Also snapped my gear cable at the bottom of the last climb so it was mostly a push!

Relive of the ride.

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cuyahoga, great pic of the swirls of mist round the lights! I like that a lot. Think I might be getting cold on a ride near me some time soon trying to get something similar!

bikebuoy, nice looking waves. Definitely need to get in the water more this year!

I went for a quick radge round the Punchbowl early Sunday with a couple of others.

Then took the just-finished new/old Raleigh Randonneur for a quick randonnée up the hill and back. Very nice. Smoooth!

No pics but spent saturday up a very muddy and slick Bringewood on the 120mm 29er, chasing a bunch of peopke on ‘enduro’ bikes and yesterday with the better half at cwm carn. Her confidence is low after a broken scaphoid so it was good to go somewhere that was not too slick. It was only her 3rd ride back.

So overall a good weekend.

I can confirm that the Chilterns are muddy.

But it was good to get out and do some riding/sliding.
I can also confirm that grippy tyres are good for training.

Had a breakthrough day with my two young boys, riding the red trail at Glenlivet. They absolutely loved it (as did I)!