[Closed] 2015. What's in your ride planner?

Nothing too exciting but BPW and Snowdon are on the list and, hopefully, 417 will get the go ahead and open up too. And I'd like to get some more uplift days in this year

Racing all the Mini downhills at FOD
Racing the Mega
Racing the UKGE
And going on a Basqe MTB trip with all the locals

Jan 1st - tell the hangover to do one, and ride up to Frankenstein's Castle
July - must be mad to go back to Morzine... with a hardtail 😈

nothing else specific planned yet

Snowdon again, but this time on a summer evening, rather than february with a foot of snow on top!!

Couple of lakes trips and some DH in the Pyrenees. Other than that just normal riding but hopefully more than this year. Not much MTB action this year 🙁

Strathpuffer

Fred Whitton (if i get in)

Full PMBA Enduro Series

And possibly maybe a Morzine weekend

Gorrick Spring Series
The remaining Brass Monkey
Assorted weekends away
Maybe a couple of Scott marathons
Mayhem - in a team possibly
BC Bike Race is the biggie though.

New bike, with them new fangled gear thingies. Ride some natural stuff further afield in the Shires.

I was hoping to do one of the trans Provence guided tours, but none of the weeks fitted in, then they came up with this new tour, so I am on that, really really really looking forward to it.

http://www.trans-provence.com/1001est.shtml

I will of course require a new bike.

My list of things to do is more or less the same as last year's- did some great riding but didn't actually do much ticking of boxes. So alrady got a couple of enduros and the glentress seven in, hoping to do the scottish and irish EWS rounds and the trans-wales thing if I can get in... Other than that, just more quality riding, get down to south wales, up to sligachan and torridon, maybe finally do the west highland way which I've said I'll do next year, every year since I got on a bike...

Ah, you know what, who cares, I had a great 2014 on the bike despite doing almost nothing I'd planned so it's just not important

I shall we doing the usual local DH races.
Enduro1 - as many as I can fit around other stuff.
UKGE's - probably the first 2 or 3.
EWS in Scotland.
Whistler for 3 months this summer, i'll race the EWS out there again, maybe the Toonie series too. Will have a crack at the Garbanzo DH race @ Crankworx too.
Hopefully back in time for the last EWS in Finale

Tweedlove Enduro
MT Teide, Tenerife
Hopefully the Alps (again! <fingers crossed smiley>)
Western Isles or Orkney

My aims for 2015

Ride to the coast off-road from home (circa 75 miles)
Sticks pass
Cader Idris
Some other natural stuff in wales
Ride round Gradbach area (about only corner of peak I haven't explored)
Ride in Calderdale again
Weekend at the Dales bike centre
Try and shoehorn in a day at Moab during a USA trip

Snowdon early morning for sunrise
Tour of the national forest sportive
Hopefully get back to the lakes
MTB Marathon
Cotswolds
More roadie stuff

Nothing planned as such, but I'm definitely going to venture further afield next year if I get the time.

An uplift somewhere would be nice, maybe Antur or BPW.

A multi-day "adventure" ride in mid summer

Got a couple of events lined up already.

Dyfi Winter Warmup
Coed Y Brenin Antifreeze
Dyfi Enduro
Snowdon, done it a couple of times but need to go back as it was brilliant
Couple of Mini Enduros along with UKGE possibly
10 Under the Ben too hopefully.

Should be a good year. Heres to hoping

To do some....

This year has been a bit poor!

I suspect mostly Lakes, bit of Dales... and if I get lucky perhaps Scotland??? Odd afternoons grabbed whilst working mainly.

Lots of long rides that aren't in forests. Some bikepacking. A foreign trip or two.

I'd like to do one or two rounds of the SES this year and get a weekend up riding Torridon during the summer if I can fit it in around a new mini-me arriving sometime in April as I'd imagine most of my cycling plans will go out the window when he or she arrives.

Long distance CX'er "sportives" (or whatever you'd call them) things like Lakeland Monster CX and that other one in Grizedale. I'll seek out all the others, may even do a Wiggle offroader thingumybob (get me) and then I'll ride my Roadie over there >> in that France and will be hacking all over the Vosges and then bit further south to ride the Mistral and do the MontyVonty et all down that way.

I have some rides to tick off next year..

Should be great, looking forward to it.

CyB Antifreeze
Dyfi enduro ( if i can get an entry)
Little Devil at NyA
Elan Valley
Welsh Coast to Coast
Long Mynd

Got a few of plans and lots of i wants.

Got a week in Scotland to ride the 7stanes,
#mtbmeetup on April 18th (check twitter if you fancy it),
Riding twentyfour12 in July,

Want to finally visit BPW,
Ride snowdon,
Do an overnight ride somewhere,

Plus many many other things that no doubt work and family life will intervene with.

Dig In At The Dock
10 under the Ben (even though I don't actually like MTB racing)
3 Peaks CX
Track World Masters
Scottish CX series
as much time in France as I can manage
local RRs, TTs, track league, that sort of thing

july i'll be doing the tour du mont blanc (three countries ) with my mates for a 50th celebration 🙂

Nothing as fancy as you ^^^ lot, I'll just be happy to get some riding in, kids, work, life has got totally in the way and I've done less than 200 miles all year.

So for me just getting back out in 2015 will be ace!

My plans so far...
-Some Local XC and CX races (FNSS, Midlands XC...)
-A couple of weeks of alpine bikepacking over the summer
-A few peaks/lakes 2-4 day bikepacking trips
-HONC if I feel like it

Puffer
A week with Ciclo Montana
Cairngorms Loop(ish) or Torridon

Hoping to finally get to Fort Bill and have a chairlift day and getting in as much quality mountain biking as I can(I did lots of road riding this year)

I'm after a couple of other things to look forward to so this thread will be ideal inspiration.

Just to add.. I've just read CXSportive have joined up with Wiggle and are doing a 100mile SDW hack on the 4th of July..

I'll be well up for this..

They're doing a few more events that take my fancy too..

Looking busy already int'it.. 8)

Cinglés du Mont-Ventoux
Raid Corsica
Hoepfully a week in the Pyrenees watching the TdF and doing some riding
Maybe Tour of Flanders sportive

Um... the odd local event too.

july i'll be doing the tour du mont blanc (three countries ) with my mates for a 50th celebration

I had a sniff at this for the big 30 next year but decided I'd never get fit enough to do it. Doing it at 50.. wow! Respect.

Grand raid (swiss) in the diary for August along with a weeks road biking in Sardinia in March, a couple of weeks in the alps in July and as much as possible everywhere else!

Quite fancy the epic Cymru event if I can get out of work. Dyfi enduro if I can get an entry.

SDW there and back in under 24hrs

Dutch 24hr racing on a fatty, Bristol bike vfest, 24/12 & as many other people's trails as possible. Any invite considered

Anything just anything

Hopefully the big one next year will be the world champs in Andorra, I just have to get selected by BC. If I don't get into the team, I'll probably head down that way anyway, give the British riders a cheer and have an explore of the area.

Other than that, I'd like to do some of the UCI junior series rounds in Europe, some of the French, Dutch and Belgian nationals alongside the British ones, and all the standard local XC races.

Towards the end of the year I'd quite like to give an enduro a go, although it might be a bit tricky unless I get hold of a bike that isn't a 100mm XC hardtail 😕

And most of all I just want to ride in the sun, this rain and cold is reet grim.

Nowt planned.
I intend to try and get out for as many Wednesday night rides in the Lakes with the beercore crew.
Doing the Great Gable Round via 4 passes in each season is my challenge.
Seeing how close to 1 hour 45 minutes I can get to doing Nan Bield round from the top of Kentmere.
Taking MTB on holiday for once.
Might do Dyfi again, but will try not to lose an argument with Welsh slate...
Oh and take copious advantage of my mate in Malaga and go ride some Spanish trails.

India with MTB Kerala Dec Jan
Weekend MTB Wales Afan BPW Cwm Carn etc
Majoric road training camp April
Peak District MTB weekend
Poland Beskidy enduro
Trans Rockies Jul
Sacred rides ultimate British Columbia Aug
Enjoy late summer autumn on UK trails

Normal amount of MTB in between Quanttocks, Wales, Exmoor, FOD

Transcontinental in July and in to August. Starting in Belgian flanders then 1st checkpoint at Mt ventoux. Onto the Italian alps and the 2nd checkpoint on the strada Dell assieta, one of the untarmaced passes above sestriere. From there across northern Italy, through Slovenia and then Croatia to the 3rd checkpoint at vukovar. Then down Bosnia and Herzegovina, into montenegro and checkpoint 4 on mt lovcen. From there its Albania and a bit of Macedonia, northern Greece and then the finish at Istanbul. All this is unsupported and find your own way. Should keep me occupied 😀

Possibly a week road riding in Cyprus in February
Paris-Roubaix challenge - last year for us as it's gotten too big now and it's getting fuller of Brit Mamils with no manners
Maratona dles Dolomites again, but with a week getting there via the French Alps and then getting back via the Schwarzwald and the Ardennes.
Thinking about doing either one or two of the following Dirty 40/ Three Peaks USA/ Iron Cross depending upon timing.
Intending to ride Battle on the Beach with a bit of time before riding some of the South Wales trails
Also Bontrager 24/12, Bristol Oktoberfest and maybe Bikefest...

Aiming to do the full PMBA series, plus am already in for the Ard Rock Enduro.

Tempted by the Red Kite Enduro series as well.

After that, want to get down to the Long Mynd and then up to the Lakes.

Apart from that, I want to continue to have a bloody good laugh with my mates 😆

So far.

Usual local club rides.
Usual monthly club trips a bit further afield
Week in the Lakes in February (Whinlatter and some natural depending on conditions).
North Wales weekend in mid-May (Antur and something natural)
Week in North Wales in July.
Ard Rock in August.
Possible Glentress/Inners weekend in September.

For me it will be trying to get some consistency into riding, in 2014 reckon I've done round 10 rides all year! So my aim more than 10 🙂

January -- Final round of the Brass Monkeys, the only one I've been available for in this series and first outing in the Grand Vets.

May -- Shepherding MB Junior round his first 100 miler at the Cycl;ists Fighting Cancer sportive in the Cotswolds. I see that being a big test of father-son harmony.

Sometime in the summer -- French Coast to coast to coast (Channel - Atlantic - Med) which I think/hope I can do in a week. I'm still working out how to fit this one round family and work.

Candodavid - Member
2 weeks till the New Year, what have you all got in your head that you want to do.
I'm booked for a bit of alpine tech @ Hebden Bridge with Great Rock
A week in Sierra Nevada with Ciclo Montana
A couple of weekends in the Lake District with lots of rocks.
Exmoor Enduro

When you off to CM? Going for a week at Easter, canny wait.

As well as Spain, got a weekend in the lakes planned for March, one of many hopefully. Ard rock in August, planning some Cairngorms riding too.

Most of all, I need to do more trail building, I really don't do enough, and some of my local trails could do with a bit of work. Need to put a bit of something back.

Highland Trail 550
Bearbones 200
Dunwich Dynamo

Looming at doing my first 300k audax in April. Slightly concerned at trying to fit a couple of 200s in in February and March first.

Few mates are looking at the CX sportives next year after they did the Lakes one this year. Kind of tempted....

And this years family holiday is close to Kirroughtree. I need to learn to ride a mountain bike again.....