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Bit icy out first thing this morning but the sun was out and it soon warmed up.
Mate was on his new Stumpy Evo he picked up yesterday avo and loving life.
What you all been up to?
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Another local ride on the new flaremax. It's definitely made me faster on descents. I've had a couple of PBs on it already despite the winter slop. It's a beast.
Club ride in the Surrey hills this morning - cracking ride…
Great fun, all on my lonesome on Eastern Dartmoor
@trailmonkey.
How's the shoulder doing now?
Seems like you're making a good recovery.
Cracking ride yesterday to the Peak District to return the Cotic Cascade I reviewed. Seemed cheeky not to ride the trails after dropping it off
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Not many photos as I was mostly filming for my YouTube channel
A very windy Weymouth and Portland.
And one more from last weekend.
Baboon edition
@singlespeedstu Hi mate, shoulder’s about as good as it’s going to get I reckon. Bit of nerve damage so it feels a bit weird but I’ve got full mobility back so it’s a result really. Just enjoying my riding at the minute and it all seems to be falling back into place bit by bit.
How’s the collarbone ? All fixed now ?
@trailmonkey
Seems we're level pegging on the nerve damage thing.
Full mobility, not stopping me from doing anything but still randomly aches/tingles/goes numb/ hurts like **** on bad days.
Bone is finally fixed but the plate is now a permanent feature.
Riding life has exploded since moving up to the Tweed Valley.
Give us a shout if you ever get up this way.
Be good to show you round.
Sounds great Stu, pics always look amazing.
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Just bimbling up and down the Middlewood Way and Macclesfield to Marple canal towpath. Mudguards might be in order!
Friday skive. Plan was for a 50km gravel/trail/bit of road loop around the FoD. Ended up 40km after GPS death 😉 Sloppy after rain, but new bike was fab. Dropper post makes it so much more fun on the interesting bits. Definitely a bit slower (esp on the road) than the Tempest it replaced but a good trade off for everywhere else.
With anxiety levels through the roof, I couldn't face the prescribed 3:30h training session, so decided I go out for an MTB ride with a bike devoid of racing potential and power meters. Even then, motivation was so bad I struggle not to return after 30 mins. Anyway, 2.5hrs later:
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Of course I'm glad I went now, despite realising upon my return I'd forgotten to pick up any tools, tubes etc, so I'm glad there were no mechanicals or punctures.
Local ride for us today
Rain Hail and sunshine 🌞
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Lovely morning at Mugdock, and the mud was just about still frozen 🤪
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Icy and gravelly tracks in the Trossachs. MTB was a good choice.
The warmth of the sun was much appreciated.
Skipped up Colsnaur - and what a ride!
Frozen ground and had the hill to myself.
Superb fun - and I definitely needed that 🙂
Muddy round here, so mostly stuck to the forest roads and surfaced singletrack today, which sadly meant lots of muttering and shaking of the head at the ignorance and complete lack of awareness of a large proportion of forest users...
I'd liked to have taken a photo at the top of the techie wee climb up to a small castle on a local estate but I'd interrupted a couple enjoying the warmth of the sun... had I arrived a few moments later I suspect she'd have had her mouth full! Told them I'd let them get back to it after getting my breath back. Just as I left he said 'Careful on the way down!' - all I could come back with was 'And I hope she is too!'
So took a photo of some snowdrops a bit further down:
The borders are rubbish.
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Where's that pic of the Eildons taken from?
I can't quite place it.
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This should be Thread Of The Week every week. Great work everyone and thanks for sharing your ride pics. They're fantastic.
@singlespeedstu from mast above hell's hole. On the road between bonchester bridge and kielder.
Cheers.
That's why I can't place it then.
I've not been there before 🙂
Purbecks yesterday, blowing a hooley, but behind us when riding up from Old Harry Rocks and east to west up Ballard Down, Godlingston Hill was a slow grind though.
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@lowey - that first one is a cracking picture!
Went for a ride yesterday out to Cambusbarron with my son, but my mojo, even from the first pedal strokes in teh driveway, had just completely deserted me. Awful ride, that should have been great! Highlight was sitting in glorious, still, sunshine from a very quiet trig point of the North Third. Was so down in the dumps I couldn't even be arsed to take a picture!
So, here's one from this morning, a quick local blast up the Wally Monny and round the uni woods - mental/physical equilibrium now restored.
and from a couple of weeks ago that I forgot to post in stu's usual thread:
The old "paddy line" (Portpatrick and Wigtownshire railway) - another quiet part of the Galloways
Took the big lad for his first trip to Long Mynd!
@lowey, that looks amazing.
Nice few days of riding for me:
Thursday sunset homeward:
Friday morning early:
Saturday morning while kids at bike club:
Sunday early local before it got busy:
This morning pre-work, frozen toes ride:
Monday is still the weekend isn't it. 😀
As I had no pics from yesterdays ride here's a couple from this morning's trail clearing and fettling on my local local.
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Great pics as ever, but @househusband that's a hilarious story!! Lovely snowdrops...
Thanks @bigdaddy - I was tempted to remind him to return the favour after she was done... 😉
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Shi**y pi**y road ride on the gravel bike on Friday. No pics, but despite the weather, good to get out.
Lunch hour and a half today on the gravel bike, on improving trails. Against a deadline, so no pics.
Glorious late afternoon ride on the SS BigWig on Sunday. Lotsa pics ...
I give up! 😤
^ Where's that, Hopegill Head?
My 'weekend' is Monday and Tuesday; felt almost alpine dropping into the valleys yesterday.
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Bought a new bike, so booked a day off and booked a last minute Welsh Weekend with Mrs Ready. Rode Cwmcarn on Sunday, then BPW uplift yesterday. Weather was chilly, but dry and sunny for both days - almost perfect!
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And the new bike is a beast! 😎
First 'gravel' ride up in Hertfordshire on Sunday since I moved here a few weeks ago. My tyres were proved completely inadequate in the claggy mud you get round here, so there was a lot of slipping about. I'm kinda amazed I didn't end up in the mud face first. In any case, managed a a day in the sunshine up and around the north Chilterns.
Todays ride ended rather quickly on the first climb.
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