WRPT. The Get Out And Ride Before It All Turns To Shit Again Edition.

Pished down all day. But went out anyway and had a great time. But damn, it was wet!

I wanna be @singlespeedstu ? sniper is super fun in a feel the fear way.  Edit the ? Was a 🙂

@onehundredthidiot

I still can’t believe I’ve never actually bumped in to you when out riding.

Sniper is very much brown fun but a step too far for me if it’s wet.

Two days in the lakes doing the “lakes loop overnighter” from another bike packing website…

Last Leogang ride of the season for me, beautiful day.

@sharkattack

No riding yet but I just arrived in the Premier Inn opposite BPW. Haven’t been here since 2018 and really looking forward to it.

I like a Premier Inn myself but I don’t think I get as excited about them as you.

Gisburn Saturday. Was like summer.

Flasby fell and Embsay crag Sunday.

Sunnier on Saturday. Recce riding the route I put together for my LBS’S social ride next Saturday

Slightly overbiked (blimey, it sounds odd saying that about a 14-year-old 26-er!) for a bit of simple gravelly bimbling, but I enjoyed it and got home before the rain arrived in earnest

Tough day out on the bike today.

43km off-road with some ace bits and some proper slogs.

Sadly I’ve been struggling with some issues at the moment and I wasn’t sure if I’d puke, shit my pants or give birth to an alien for most of the ride.

Finished it in 30th out of 58, which wasn’t bad considering how **** rubbish I was.

The only saving grace was that my tech riding was super, on the woods section I was flying and hitting everything with fun.

IMG_20241006_145728 by steveweeks59[/url], on Flickr

First proper ride since having some sort of BatAids. Bimble up to Farleton Knott. Bike is just off camera.

No hills on this evening’s ride (one of the segments is called flat as a pancake) but bumpy terrain and with some footpaths having been cut back meant I quite enjoyed it and pedalled with enthusiasm, even overtaking a car at one point because I could go faster on the very potholed gravel track than they could!

Mid-week but technically my weekend:

And a day time yin too.

Torridon Classic for us yesterday. We didn’t think we’d get up here this year but the stars aligned and even the weather wasn’t too bad 🙂

we stopped at Tagg Lane Dairy for an excellent flat white and a truly mind blowing scoop raspberry cheesecake ice cream made with milk from their Jersey herd,

Yum. The only time we cycled over to that ice cream parlour was on a cold, wet, windy day. Ended up having to have hot chocolate. Must get back there soon for a scoop or two before winter.