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A foggy and greasy solo ride over the Golfie to start proceedings
Ooooohhh.
Look at you with your new bike.😁
It's a ride and a half old now
A tour of the Shropshire Alps. Or as the Ordnance survey call them, Brown Clee hill and Titterstone Clee hill. 40km and 1200m of up. As a 59 year old a few months post ACL reconstruction surgery, I'm quite chuffed with that
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Looking down Loch Ness this afternoon. Early start to the long weekend for me.
where are you guys getting your 4th day from here?
where are you guys getting your 4th day from here?
Personally i'm not counting. I'm retired, every day is a bank holiday! 😉
"where are you guys getting your 4th day from here"
I work a 9 day fortnight and it fell well this week
Solo lap of Hamsterley. I couldn't get the standard 'top of transmission' picture as it was crowded with the e-bike social club and I couldn't see the view through the vape clouds.
Had to stick to marked trails sadly. All the fun stuff was waterlogged.
Only a post-ride pint pic. Beat the rain, until the pub when it binned it down.
Surrey hills for us - so wet and muddy! It rained relentlessly all morning. Great fun…
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Can't take credit for this one, my kids went off cycling by themselves this morning and my son took this picture of his sister on a moody Ilkley Moor.
today's little foray around in the foothills of the Mournes
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My day started well
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And then spent most of the afternoon here with my mate who went OTB quite spectacularly. Broken wrist & finger on his left and a broken elbow on the right 😳
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A ride around the trails of ladhope and Gala hill yesterday. Nice and warm, then all of a sudden very wet
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Took Jnr out for his first long endurance road ride with me, 74k covered:
He's now too tired to do anything other than MS Flight Simulator and raid the Fridge. #teenager
Glorious day for a road ride.
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So good that I took a wee detour on the way back and headed up to Cairngorm Mountain to take a photo of the snow on the Coronation Headwall.
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You can make out the bottom of the "bike park" where they've started construction too.
@blokeuptheroad you need to remember your 9-iron next time 😉
Nothing as exciting as the 'alps' (or Cairngorm snow for that matter) for me, just a nice sunny, warm, sea-fretty, sunny and warm afternoon 😁 now sat outside the house in the sun with some St. Peter's 0%. The camera on my phone really doesn't do justice to just how bright and yellow the fields were. Simply amazing in the sunshine.
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Had a fun day in the Yat even after some biblical rain yesterday. Probably the reason I had an early lie down!
Also quite like the B&W version of the first photo
Meh got absolutely soaked in a storm, I was popping up to get some nice dam pictures, it was warm thou but turned around as it was getting all thunderbolts and lightening.
Theres some interesting old streets and squares that you wouldn’t want to drive a car thru .
Surprisingly hot ride on the tops today.
full on **** gear tonight- nice to be able to ride in t-shirt and shorts. Ride into paisley then through Glasgow. Meet a lovely celtic supporter who called me a dirty hun and kicked my bike because my riding top was blue.
22 miles; ave power 202w; loads of PRs - getting fitter.
Not an MTB, but at a push it does have 90s XC geometry and flat bars. Just happy to be out (only my second ride of any type since November).
Second ride of the weekend, after my trip to the Clee hills above. A curtailed whiz round Cannock with my son. It was planned to be at least 2 laps each of the dog/monkey to bank some miles as a build up to 'Heaven of the South' in a fortnight. My dropper died after a single lap of each though and I wasn't feeling fit enough to stand up pedal for the whole of another lap!
I managed to get over to Tarland Trails after work on Thursday for a quick couple of hours in lovely conditions.
The rest of the weekend has been thoroughly dreich. Thick fog, low cloud and rain. I finally got out today at Drumtochty and it was exceptionally muddy. I must be getting to be a better rider as I’m starting to enjoy muddy conditions.
A great 'Tour de Reservoirs' ride on Saturday avoiding all royal shenanigans. We bet on most red socks being flag shaggers so we could ride the kind of cheeky stuff that's normally the preserve of night rides. It worked out brilliantly as we rode empty footpaths on a Saturday and saw virtually nobody
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And its lucky if a bird craps on you, right?
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Mini Peak tour with my sister in law. My mate dropped out. She stepped in and I shortened the route. Lucky the 2 nights accommodation were close
Busy weekend with family stuff, took the kids out for a ride this morning round the local parks
Then managed to squeeze in a couple of hours round Woburn solo , was mostly dry too
I'm still shagged from tweedlove last week I think, so took it easy
Good road ride with my infrequent (both with young families) riding buddy, his turn to dish out a bit of pain on the final long drag through Glen Devon, my legs have been a bit empty for a week or two, not sure if I have rd.4 of the low grade lurgy that's still hanging around or if I've just unwittingly been overdoing it.
Highlight of the weekend was virtual handlebars on some beautiful (and apparently virgin) local singletrack discovered on a wee family wander. Unlittered, pristine natural deciduous forest with some quite exposed perfectly bench cut trail. Not sure I could even bring myself to take the bike back and sully it with tyre tracks 🙄
And its lucky if a bird craps on you, right?
Wonder if Lee Mack will mention this on Would I Lie to You 🤔😜
Saturday was a short run around Angle Tarn Pike and Satura Crag...
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Sunday was Raise and Sticks. Was going to do Helvellyn but it was RAMMED with people so cut it short.
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Celebrated turning 50 this weekend with a quick refresher at Twisted Oaks with Mrs Ready, before heading off to Madeira later this week. King Charlie was super kind in letting (most) people have the day off to celebrate it with me too
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What's going on with your windows @cokie, are you a vampire?🤔
We have a nice row of big old military officer houses that have been boarded up for a good 30 years.
Complete waste but good for some post apocalyptic photos.
On a side note, the C5 is bloody awful to pedal without the battery. You can't fully stretch your legs out so it's like trying to pedal a BMX sat down.
Vampires riding Sinclair C5s are nowt to worry about, they'll never catch you.
There must be some kind of modern e-conversion parts you could fit to a Sinclair C5. I don't know what they look like under the plastic.
I bet you could have it popping wheelies down the street.
I've got my eye on a front hub motor, but the question is how lairy I go.. 12v 250w is standard and would keep it legal but they do a 52v 1500w one 😀 !
Bulb's gone in your security light as well, need to get that checked..