Me, and it was lovely. Most of the muddy bits of my local woods (well one of them) have had stones put down; all the trees had new leaves bursting everywhere like bright green raindrops; bluebells, mustard and whatever those little white flowers are over the entire forest floor.. it was beautiful. Of course I didn’t take my camera did I?
wyre forest, enjoyable enough, dryer than we thought, but then last hour it rained and roots got slippy, and became more challenging, but overall a decent outing
We jumped in the car and pootled over to Harvey Nic’s for a cocktail and lunch. Proceeded to wander around Hyde Park before a small smattering of rain. We then miandered down to Eaton Sq where we met up with mates and headed to our fave Cafe for espresso & cake.
Smashing day t’was, really smashing.
The only bike related stuff I did was unfold the foldie and pump up the tyres. 😀
Hour loop on the South Downs. Warm, breezy, bluebells out. Few shallow puddles that were easily avoided, bike still had dusty tyres when I got back, it was lovely. Rained since though.
30 miles with the missus on the road bikes. passed ( and were passed) by loads out today. Lovely to see, from old dears to brand new all the gears. made me smile.
Beautiful morning here in Surrey. Took Jr for his first proper MTB adventure (he’s 10). We did the blue route at Swinley twice. He never battered an eyelid heading round all the berms and even cycled uphill past some guys pushing their bikes 🙂 24″ Kona Stinky was great for him. The only downside was getting some abuse (as we almost immdediately pulled over to let them through) from two twonks on the blue run.
Epping Forest @ 10’ish. Entertaing, dry rutted downhill tramlines, or dry + rain v slippery, or turn around and give up mud, or loamy stuff, or sand, all in 100 yards. Back just in time for a shower and up the boozer for the Spurs game. Get back after and pissing down so bike still in garden and almost clean already. Decent day all round.
This I don’t mind so much; kit in the washing machine, jump in the shower.. job done. When you ride in really grotty weather you’ve got to spend so long getting the bike sorted before you can even think of getting in a nice warm shower 😉
I avoided it today as I’m ill, *cough* see? I did go out on friday morning for 37 miles and it rained almost all the time. Don’t you find when cycling you hit a sweet spot where you’re nicely warmed up and can go on for what seems like forever but when it rains you take much longer to get there and it’s not as good (high?) and doesn’t last as long. Maybe it’s psychological more than physical.
A few of us did 30 miles in the lakes today, the Sam Houghton Challenge route from Staveley. The rain held off until the descent off Garburn down to Troutbeck. Hard going in places, but it was good to be out though.
Did the Bash in the Lakes, which was good, but started from Grasmere which meant going over Blea Tarn from Thirlmere, which was not good. Couldn’t face a repeat on the return leg so just got on the road from Keswick round Back o Thirlmere (lovely road).
Re-spect to those on the Whitton today. Conditions were probably only a 6.5 / 10 on the Lake District misery scale, but must have been hard work.
Gisburn. The weather was the least of the problems. People in track suits, no helmets and halfords specials stopping and laying their bikes down mid-berm for a rest was more of an issue…
Perfect day for riding in Madrid: nice and sunny, not too hot, no wind. Did 100km on the road, couple of decent climbs for a total of 1780m of climbing, lovely.
Going to start pissing down from Tuesday on, though 🙁
What bad weather? 85k road ride dipping In to Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Oxfordshire and Surrey. No rain, little windy, little bit sunburnt.
Did just over 30 miles of pootling round the Surrey Hills. Rain started about 30 mins after we got home
snap. lovely day for it – bit of surface slip in places, but otherwise dry. Dorking to Peaslake and back again via all the interesting bits plus a couple of runs of Barry’s.
although my ride home from the station was drizzly.
Mrs Eye, the baby and the dog are all up in the Wales, so it was a weekend on wheels for me.
Yesterday 24 miles in Epping Forest, pretty much the same as Bungles experience – got soaked on the way home.
Today didn’t get up in time to go to Swinley so I went to BMX school at the local track. I was the biggest and slowest kid there. The guy running it lent me his Haro as I turned up on my MB.
2 hours later, I can pump (kind of) and now want a BMX. Looking forward to next week being down with the kidz upping my bike skillz.
Got soaked on the way home again, but it’s a small price to pay for being able to ride all weekend.