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Early start for me today now the light is finally starting to getting a bit better in the mornings.
Solo ride and didn't see any other riders for the first hour and a half.
Not often you get the Golfie all to yourself.😁
Another 1000 Meters of descent clicked off before mid day.
Show us what you've been up to then.
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Local greasy woods this morning, 38km, 2.5 hours on the SS HT. My legs are getting tired riding SS, that's 4 SS rides in a week! But the FS frame has gone off to have a crack repaired (no, it's not a Giant!), and I wanted to ride MTB rather than gravel. Great fun though, twisty, rooty, rocky, ups & downs, big smiles!
Only signed up yesterday so only able to post today, Sunday just gone, since put my new tyres on and ready for another ride out tomorrow
@singlespeedstu - yeah I noticed it's getting lighter in the morning. When I was in the shed on the turbo 🙁 Your ride looks quite a lot better!
@eatmorepizza - where's that then?
Dug out the eBike yesterday. First time this year to ride to the pub (and lend it to a mate who is recovering from an op). What a fab thing it is. Also no longer embarrassed to park it next to the fence after the new one is nearly finished.
Two rides this weekend. Local one this afternoon and long ride to the Yat tomorrow. Going to ride my Giga for the first time since September last year. Still has Molini dust on it!
Not much going on at the moment, just getting over COVID but needed to get out. Just a local xc* nimble. Good to get out though.
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*Can I call it gravel now I've taken the curly bars off?
GT for the first time in a while. Great chat from everyone no matter what I was riding. Wanted to set a lap the redo it. First on Pace rc529 empty the legs then on kenevo sl to see if I had anything left. Full climb to top of spooky, spooky then the off piste, back on for the third part then out for double X, the bitch and ponduro.
Set 1hr15 on the Pace. Did the same on the kenevo sl. 15mins faster and half as many calories burnt and I could have pushed harder.
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Went for a solo ride early this morning round my local loop of Darwen Tower and Tockholes woods.
Local spin today on the fatty. Lovely to have a bit less mud.
Frightful new money? 😂
Morning jaunt on't eeb up to some woods in North Yorkshire. Started drizzling just as I was about to get there so I was a bit worried about greasy conditions. Needn't have. Conditions were absolutely fantastic. Dry but not too dry, REALLY grippy. Had a great time. 30Km 1700m climbing 1700m descending all on absolutely prime trails. It was quite hilly and very very good 🙂
Didn't get any particularly good photos but here are some nice berms:
And here's my bike:
Local solo ride after having endured my first ever Covid infection over the week. I could feel that it has taken a toll on my fitness; on a more positive note, the trails were running surprisingly well for the time of the year.
@Alex that's up at Guisborough forest before circling around the back of Highcliffe Nab.
One from today testing out the new tyres at the top of Soapwell Woods, which is the first peak on the right hand side in my last weeks ride photo
Dear lord, those cars @kayak23 ! A Rolls too, what a mess!!!
Solo north downs haunt me for me - was late, forgot half my kit and missed the group ride. Oh well, enjoyed myself in the end!
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@eatmorepizza - ta. Never actually ridden there. Probably should add it to to the never ending list!
I intended to take more photos on the trails but was just having too much fun. Coil sprung both ends, the giga just eats up roots/rocks/etc. After riding the hardtail for four months, this was a very different experience 🙂
Can you lot stop riding in such picturesque places please?? 😢🤣🤣
First time out properly in a while. 13 mile ebike loop to the top of Beeley and over to Chatsworth.
A cheeky (e)KOM without trying too
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had a crap week and then watched someone moaning on youtube that being a full time youtuber is hard work! so I went out for a ride to cheer myself up and it ended up in a right ranty video as I got things off my chest, I cheered up by the end especially after meeting this guy though
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found a new to me bridleway
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ended up doing 50 miles of just following the front wheel in no particular direction which is sometimes the best way to (not) plan a ride
after taking 4.5hrs to do 50 miles predominantly in the flattest county outside of Norfolk/Suffolk weighed down only with a gopro and a wool hat I've confirmed that I'm not cut out for ultra distance bike packing.
Gorgeous morning for a ride; it really feels like spring!
Yesterday was messing about in the woods with mates (Hemlock Trails).
Sherwood Pines this morning - the blue trail be becoming increasingly bermy and fun
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Dropping in above Fort Augustus, looking out towards Glengarry Hills and Ben Nevis. Set off from home into the sleet last night, rewarded with a fine clear night and a lovely morning to take the long way home 🙂
Glad I waited until Sunday morning for a ride. Hard frost, dry weather and no wind. They are the best days at this time of year
Looking down the M6 Dales to the left, Lakes to the right, at eBay and the Howgills to the front
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no pictures but there was dust! out today and next to no standing water :/ I'm going to jinx it with summer tyres 🙂 .
No Photos uploading
Romanes eunt domus
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Was going to gravel it up to the Roman signal station at Craik but gravel axs malfunction so Pace again.
Couple of post-Covid rides for me this weekend. I felt pretty rough three weeks ago so I’m pleased that I’ve not lost much of my fitness or strength. I actually think that a couple of weeks completely off the bike may have been good for me.
Friday was Dunkeld and today was above Aboyne. Personal bests on descents both days so pleased with that.
A very cold and slow local trundle for me this morning.
Canoe ride! 🤘
I see dead sheeple
My shed
Local bimble for me
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Rubbish picture, ace ride.
Let garmin connect choose my 20 mile weekend junk ride.
Took me up to maryhill via bells bridge then back along through the city centre back home.
city centre sucked but it took me places I hadn't ridden before which was interesting.
Quality cowage there @rocketdog. And excellent houndshots from @kayak23
Drove out to the Yat today and was glad I did. Not sure I had it in the legs to ride the 10km home! Rode loads of trails that we normally only do spring/summer. Definitely dry, sometimes dusty, always sunny but cold on one side of the hill. 1000m+ on the big bike after a week of a lot of riding. But you can't not keep going out when it's so good!
Photos taken from the pub. Really should have got the phone out while we were riding!
I was really hoping for more this weekend but I'm still buzzing on the new bike. I definitely made the right choice to have that last whiskey & coke and light up the new credit card.
Just managed a few spins around the block with some allen keys and a shock pump. Next weekend I'm home alone so it'll be domestic bliss and lots of riding.
Last day of a fab week of biking in Gran Canaria - it’s the first time we’ve done a winter sun trip and definitely going to do it again 😎👍
First proper trails on the G1 since I built it, nothing steep but plenty of rooty chattery bumps which are a test for any suspension.
No mud!! 😮
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Lovely Sunny ride out in the Surrey Hills
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A couple of hours on the gravel slag yesterday:
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A little bimble up to Cwmcarn this afternoon where I met a guy who had just been off-road unicycling, as you do:
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London Thames Path "gravel"
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Only a walk today, took the hound up to the moors where he loved going for a run and scattered his ashes at my favourite rock outcrop. It overlooks where we live and the fields he used to run in most often.
10 years since he passed, but we still shed some tears
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We had another cracking day at Twisted Oaks, trying out the new Mulch Jumps.
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The place is going from from strength to strength. Not the biggest gradient but what they have squeezed in to the flatlands of Suffolk is great fun!
Ruut + Stump
Monday is still the weekend isn't it.😉
XC ride out today on my hardtail.
Headed out away from the Tweed Valley for a change.
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Last picture is a bit sad but at least they've now finished working in there so stuff can be reinstated.
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Ah didn't this week but here's a watch tower from last weeks 
There was also a funny sign, TBH I didn't go up to the top the out of the sun it gets a little chilly and ITBH I'd left it a bit late in the day and wanted the light for home.
Funnily a car drove past as I was coming down, TBH I thought people would park at the bottom and have a nice walk up but nah they just drive up the crumbly road to the top 🙂
(also dont like shadows on crumbly roads around here as it hides massive potholes or er lack of road)
Just been out, for a couple of runs of a local track, it was riding perfectly yesterday and I set a new pr/kom, went back tonight to see the time difference in the dark, turned out to be 10 seconds slower in the dark over a 1.38(1.48) 0.36 mile, 279 ft run.
Top of the hill
Bottom of the hill
Video from last week (not yesterdays pr)
Tonight.
Last minute dash to ride a mix of bits at Dalby... Few of the better early red bits, some black, some old black and some off piste... Going careful as I was riding solo so didn't go too gnar...
Just a local run Sunday as the GF wanted to see how her dodgy shoulder is coming along
Ochils on the new bike for me. First a wee ride with the boy then off on something a bit bigger.
