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Two reasons; one because I'm as shallow as a tea spoon, this is the first picture in a long time that makes me look I might have at least a vague idea how to ride a bike. Thanks to Ian B for that one.
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Secondly, I spend much more time taking pictures that being in them. Probably for the best, but it makes me realise how many of us take static shots of the bike leaning against something or some lovely landscape.
Let's get a few pics of riding. I need some cheering up as working this week is proving difficult after the last weekends riding!
Well you look fine, but what about the poor rider further up the trail?! 🙂
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Well you look fine, but what about the poor rider further up the trail?!
He is the poor bloke further up the trail. 🙂
The only one that I've ever seen of me was taken during a Cotic demo day and makes me look even fatter than I actually am*, so it's not getting put up on here.
*than I believe myself to be, anyhow, which is the only thing that matters.
I am the one behind the camera usually....
Laggan
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Summer hols 8)
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The only two I have
Stanage Plantation
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BPW
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Oh I like this thread already. Like the BPW shot with the dust behind. Looks like the start of Bonneville.
We met three lovely fellas in the car park at Llanberis. The guy who has fallen there fall off A LOT. I felt a bit sorry for him as I rode past his prone form 😉 I think it's one of those trails that if it gets in your head, you're going to walk a lot of it.
On an @martinh - get it up there. You know what a supportive group STW is 🙂
I'm another one who's usually the one behind the camera, but was messing about with my camera on a solo ride at the weekend.
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At BPW a few weeks ago.
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And then some older ones.
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Somewhere in the Black mountains a few years ago.
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I really like this one from Kinlochleven- no drama, just a cool angle and colours. Quite singletrack mag.
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Does this count?
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I'm the unofficial photographer on my trips because no one else can be bothered. I asked my mate to get a photo of me in the Brecon Beacons and this is the result. I'm not even the first rider!
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Snowdon a week or so ago...
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Looking cross in an XC race in 2015...
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Gurning while riding some steep tech...
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More gurning...
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From a while ago in my racing on inappropriate bikes gallery (this was a 50km XC race)
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Dunoon last Sunday
One of me taken by James V (Justin Bieber of this parish) on a wee trip to Snowdon
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He's even managed to make it look like I'm travelling above walking speed, just... 😀
Go on then.. 🙂
I think I'll return the favour Al.. same descent, looking t'other way 😉
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Last weeks MBR Demo Day
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Cheddar Challenge back in the day!
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Mountain Mayhem, a lot chubbier then!!
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I do nearly all the the picture taking in both the groups I ride in so only got event pics but here's my favorite couple.
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Evans RideIt last month at Harewood House
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I'm always the photographer so the most recent photo of me on a bike by someone else is in August!
Cocking about in Calderdale with some mates-
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Other relatively recent (within 2 years) ones that I like are-
Near Holmfirth in February on the self timer.
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Near Hollinsclough
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Great Fryup Dale
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Helvellyn
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Edit, I tell a lie - this is the most recent one of me from Sunday in Calderdale. Think it's the only shot of me on my new bike.
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We need a "post a pic of you on your bike making a stupid face whilst trying not to crash and die" thread don't we??? 😉
At Stilettos on Wheels, Rother Valley, a few years ago! 😀
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From the weekend just gone. Mucking about in the local woods.
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Chainless challenge 2016 *I think, maybe 15*
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Also Chainless challenge, in less clement weather
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HtN t'other week
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Just above Alpe D'Huez on the Mega course
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Local Trails, Pro pic courtesy of Joolze Dymond
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Neil D presumably reporting on the rad riding he's just seem from me in the lift queue in Whistler
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Yes, I do like my flouro leopard print shorts, thank you.
Hells, what top is that you have on? Looks Piratey.
I don't take photos but apparently I don't appear in many either. This one comes from my trip to Bike Village last year and gives me a warm glow as I managed to exceed all my expectations about what I could and could not ride on this trail at La Thuile:
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That tree's nicely in focus, isn't it!
This one's by me, rather than of me, but it is of Northwind and he's posted to this thread already so I reckon that's close enough. 🙂
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Edit - warns74, that's a brilliant photo!
Hells, what top is that you have on? Looks Piratey.
It is! Dang I've been rumbled!! 😳 😀
Blimey we do actually ride then 😉 Some great pics there, too many to comment on but there's clearly a whole load of fun (and a bit of terror) captured in those images.
I did love that one where the only shot of the fella was a spec behind another rider. I have friends that take photos like that!
It does make you realise how brilliant modern cameras/phones are. When I started we we still on film! Or certainly very slow, rubbish in poor light, heavy digital cameras with crappy image processing software.
Keep 'em coming. It's definitely cheering me up. I think my fav might be Cha****ng on Snowdon but that's probably as we were there last week. Also recognise someone on Jedi's gap jump. I bottled that at my session...
Stacey, if thats the staircase at RH then respect. Its scares the bejesus out of me.
I'm usually the one behind the camera so not got many. Bit of a mincer too.
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I don't have the pic and don't want to steal it, so here's me at Hit the North the other week.
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Other than that I'm in the "photo of my bike propped up against something" clan as I often ride alone or am the one that takes the odd photo if I'm not alone.
Great thread...
Like the BPW shot with the dust behind. Looks like the start of Bonneville.
Wibbly Wobbly, or Sixtapod, not sure
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Me doing the slab at laggan at the weekend there. Wearing my pj outfit... i again usually take the photos
Looking through this has made me realise I honestly don't have a single digital picture of me riding an actual bike (there's probably a print of me on my ancient peugeot 3 speed somewhere)
I normally ride alone and don't do events so oppurtunities are limited. Also pictures would be cack as I only ride at cannock.
Here's a view from a bike I'm riding, does that count?
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if thats the staircase at RH then respect. Its scares the bejesus out of me.
That's the one, I just about managed the stairs. Below was just too steep & awkward, above was do-able but hard to stay on the actual trail 'cos of the steepness.
Here you go. February in New Zealand.
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Tenerife, photo by Laura of Lavatrax
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2016 Dyfi Enduro.
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That's the one, I just about managed the stairs. Below was just too steep & awkward, above was do-able but hard to stay on the actual trail 'cos of the steepness.
Bizarre. I found the stuff above and below the stairs just about ok. Belting descent though, one of the "thank god I got down that" ones.
Bizarre. I found the stuff above and below the stairs just about ok. Belting descent though, one of the "thank god I got down that" ones.
It was steeper and techier than I remembered it, there's an awkward stretch just after the stairs which I think would only be do-able if your surname was Macaskill or Akrigg, but it gets a bit more enjoyable below that.
I'm not going back for a third go.
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No air
Not gnar
But a good day out!
...hopefully a little less chub for this years WBC...hard work last year.
As others have said - I'm usually behind the camera.
I've bought a few on races though:
'Ard Moors
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Vancouver North Shore
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Coedy
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Steezy move there AlexS!
Cheers chakaping - I can't even jump without doing it now! - the good old late 80s/early 90s turnbar!
First Strahpuffer-
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Rigid 29er singlespeed wheelie along the Old Coach road-
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Alex - Member
Also recognise someone on Jedi's gap jump. I bottled that at my session...
That'll be me then.
Oddly (as I'm not a great jumper) I found that gap pretty easy and rode it first time of asking. I think it's because the right hander leading into it means your speed is controlled for you to just the right amount to smoothly clear it. Been back to Tony a few times but haven't got into the right headspace to do the two bigger gaps next to it yet...
As I ride alone most of the time I tend to only have pictures from events. I particularly like these two from last year though. One is Kinlochleven and the other is at the glentress 7.
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Bit of a weather difference in those last two shots 😉
@colournoise- fair dos. I wanted to do it but I was mentally frazzled and Tony quite rightly warned me off it. My mate did it tho.
I really must go back!
Alex - Member
@colournoise- fair dos. I wanted to do it but I was mentally frazzled and Tony quite rightly warned me off it. My mate did it tho.
Good choice. Not long after that photo was taken, one of my group felt a bit pressured into having a go at the end of the session as most of the rest of us had ridden it. I ended up getting an ambulance ride and waiting in A&E with him until ten that night as they checked him for head injuries after his not-quite-landing.
I really must go back!
Ditto.
Only got one on a road bike - descending Sa Calobra last month
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Very true, and each was equally fun in different ways!!Bit of a weather difference in those last two shots




















































