Winter riding – is meant to be fun?

Winter just adds an addition challenge to the ride.

Trails can be transformed in the winter into technical tests and the extra muck just helps towards extra fitness.

Maybe issues wrecking trails but as long as we/I take it easy just helps keeping the vegetation back.

this time last year, minus 5degrees in the lakes

I find riding in the mud rather enjoyable, possibly more so than riding in summer, my wallet dislikes winter riding however as I have been through three sets of disc pads in three rides.

Its not so much the riding i dislike, its all the cleaning/maintenance afterwards, especially as its too dark to do it outside and i haven't quite got round to owning a massive workshop/garage yet, so i end up doing it in the kitchen and having to clean that too. Then theres all the bike kit i've got permanently drying around the house. ggrr….

Everyone seems to have different winters to me, as all the pictures seem to be of lovely snow and ice rather than dragging a mud siezed bike round the edge of a field 🙂

@clubber

A bridleway near pilning, south glos.

@clubber

A bridleway near where I live.

We've had three wet summers on the bounce….so only the temps are different.
Been to the Peaks today and it was proper grim,still enjoyed it though.

Can be great, can suck. I do find towards the end of winter that the riding just seems to be some bits of missing time that fit around cleaning the bike and putting new brake pads in though.

your not a real mountain biker unless you love riding in mud, snow, wind, rain, hail, fog, thunderstorms, hurricanes, pretty much everytype of bad weather out their…how ever…its alot easier and cheeper when its warm and sunny…