your riding pictures from this weekend?

My first CTC group ride.

🙂

Not a riding pic as sucj, but a post riding, just cleaned pic of my new bike…

Weather turned out lovely in the end 🙂

Did you find the fat b*****d that sat on your top tube ajantom?

Haha!One does wonder why they didn’t go for a straight tube and a brace. Which they did on the updated Instigator. I like it though, looks odd, but pleasing (to me anyway!)
Rides like a corker too.

Yeah, looks sweet regardless

Absolutely perfect roads north of Cardiff yesterday evening: 20kms without a car to be seen.

bit cold but still got a good Sunday ride in solo
IMG_20160522_133742 by Mike Smith[/url], on Flickr
IMG_20160522_135513 by Mike Smith[/url], on Flickr
Some recent Dragon problems but still no sight of the Mother of Dragons out there – will keep looking though
13217159_10153457376535974_8541751942370044094_o by Mike Smith[/url], on Flickr
and nothing like a pair of bright pink socks to keep the pedals turning

Dropping out of Stainland yesterday the sun appeared

On the road only this weekend sorry…

That young lad is thinking “when that ride goes out I’m gonna need a proper fat bike Dad”

[/url]IMG_20160521_105359 by Dan_kujawski[/url], on Flickr[/img]

Fantastic weekend of riding for me. BPW on Friday and then a ride from Talybont on Usk Saturday. Got soaked and covered in mud. Introduced my mate to tussock riding! Cwmcarn on Sunday.
Even the grumpy guy in the shop at BPW couldn’t spoil my mood!

for got my bike this weekend -but many cool skys to be seen !

did go home the long way friday night thouugh

From Ranmore Common, part of a great 48km ride over the North Downs in the sunshine…

Sheltering from the imminent thunderstorm at Burrator

Birthday ride with Mr Nutt…

50km which was bordering on “local epic”…

Lakes – awesome weekend.

Lakes MTB Trip – May 2016 by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

Lakes MTB Trip – May 2016 by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

Lakes MTB Trip – May 2016 by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

Lakes MTB Trip – May 2016 by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

Lakes MTB Trip – May 2016 by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

Lakes MTB Trip – May 2016 by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

Lakes MTB Trip – May 2016 by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

Three days of epic riding/pushing/hanging on for dear life including the last one on a fat bike after my forks exploded with no injuries. Then slammed fingers in van door –> broken finger 🙁

Alex, that 5th pic looks steeeeeeeeep…

That was nuts! We climbed about 750m to get ABOVE nan bield. Took a while. This was the trail down to the start of NB. It was incredible exposed as well. I didn’t ride much of it, Cez (pic) rode most of it. Kind of got me warmed up for top section of Nan Bield tho. Never ridden all that before. Although I many-dabbed!

Another Lakes Weekender

Friday (not my pic)

Saturday (my pic)

Sunday (not my pic)

P5228439 by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

More fun that expected!

Scuttled – where’s the first pic taken?

Jeez, there are some nice picks on here. The UK’s a bit of alright!

Alex
Route if it is Whiteless

I was chased around the woods by this bunch of reprobates:

They look WAY too happy, will have to set a harder pace next weekend!

And we found a rather cheeky, rather excellent, new “Jump” trail hidden in plain sight 😆

With middle_oab, LD and mini_LD of this parish. Lush day on the river.

Took the fatbike on the train (lots of staring. Has nobody ever seen a blummin fatbike on a train before?…) to a distant town so that I could ride it back as offroad as I could.

Let the train take the strain.

Nettle rash hell on earth! There is a path there believe it or not.

Amongst bluebells; they’re small and dainty – just like me. Woods only a few miles away.

Torridon was the wettest I’ve ever seen it, but it was still amazing.

We almost turned the Torridon Inn into a swimming pool!

Took a newbie out for a spin up Lantua’s steep trails. not sure he will be back in a rush and it didn’t help that I made him ride the bouncier bike.

sometimes those days are the best hairyscary – that photo looks like your on an epic 😀

I love that trail – feels like your riding on the moon.

The ride up by the loch musta been a bog fest though?

mixed riding this weekend…..

This one from the MTB Marathon down in Rahayder

This one from on top of a big climb over the Aberystwyth Mountain Road bridle way.

and this one form the Elan Valley reservoir where Barnes Wallace first tested the bouncing bombs of Dam Busters fame.

Thanks @trekster for the link. That looks well worth a re-visit to ride that.

I’d happily be carrying back up here than looking out of the window today!

Lakes MTB Trip – May 2016 by Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr

Hi Alex – Friday pic is Ullock Pike. Which is not strictly a BW hence ridden on a Friday 😉

Saturday is the woods at Claife down from Far Sawrey to Windermere (Harrow Slack on the map). Sunday is the BW down from Natty Bridge over near Torver/Walna Scar.

Trailrat

We did the classic loop, but included the left turn just after the bothy and stayed to the right of the two lochs after the road climb.
No mud are all 🙂

@scuttler – thanks. The ridge looked epic!