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My shock started leaking last week while in Italy, So I drove up to Mojo Monday morning and they rebuilt it with a new shaft while I waited around, quick test ride today around Portland and it’s feeling lovely and plush again, and everything is running well, leaving for the EWS tomorrow.
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Took the gravel bike and the drone on the road up to Stwlan Dam this morning. Had the whole place to myself.
No Riding today.
But marshalling at EWS E.
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Some impressive riding from the top guys.
I'll remember to take some pics tomorrow when they're racing.
Finally got around to taking my son's mates scrambling on the Esk Gorge. Group of 9 was a tad unweidly but we made it up with no issues. Brilliant place.
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Up on the Ridgeway this afternoon before it gets busier this weekend. Just me and the skylarks.
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Always love your posts on these threads. Always a proper inspiration.
For the first time in 9 years, on Saturday I will be contributing to this thread. My first new bike in 12+ years (?) arrived today, my pedals and other bits and pieces arrive tomorrow and I am beyond excited.
First time on a bike (apart from a very occasional commute) in nearly a decade.
Just got in from the Wednesday evening weekly.
Up at Inners for the long weekend.
First ride of the day. Trails are drying out fast.
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0700 this morning I risked crossing the border to that strange land for four laps of the Bodmin beast trail - it was totally deserted except for deer & rabbits
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Kept it local and tried to find some trails I can ride from the door, to add to the loop I always end up doing. I failed.
A bit of this
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That's a byway by the way. Not even a bridleway!
Used the South Downs Way to link up some old Skool singletrack. Really enjoying 29” wheels (i know, a bit late to the party!)
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Local walk along the Dart this afternoon 🙂
End of a week in Snowdonia for us. Harlech beach earlier in the week, some sneaky gravel rides and some family/dog walks. Don't want to go home.
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3 hour road ride today and I'm exhausted. I've fallen into the same trap I do every year of not making myself go out and get fit until summer's already here. Hoping I'm up to an mtb ride tomorrow before the rain ruins everyone's street parties at the weekend.
@n0b0dy0ftheg0at - I've walked up that road before. Definitely not going near it on a bike!
@thegeneralist and @sandboy - thank you.
As per another thread, I've been somewhat lacking in motivation recently, I think a result of the shit weather. I had put off my monthly "bivvy" and was beginning to feel it was just a box-ticking exercise. Once out, I really enjoyed it and, as usual, found it a nice reset button. While I'm not doing it for the Likes, it helps knowing it's also giving some pleasure to someone else
Going away with the family this weekend so had to get the ride in this morning. Hot n'dusty! Plenty of other riders around enjoying the weather.
Pitlochru for all mountain, xc and enduro riding in the sun yesterday. Narrow singletrack, big views, lovely riverside and steep and sweet to finish. Lunch was good too 🙂
Had to work yesterday mainly using this
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Managed a few hours at Cranham this morning
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Inners is starting to fill up with loads about ready for the weekends racing. Suprizingly the trails that aren't been raced on are empty of riders.
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South Downs was gorgeous this morning - hot and dry!
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A nice spin in the Trossachs.
Some repeats here (since the other thread got shut down), but this week's riding so far.
Wales.
Club ride (but solo leg home).
Bank Holiday day 2 local ride to do a spot of trail tidying.
Dusted off the mountain bike (literally). Had a fun ride but no confidence to take on any of the trail features.
Started getting chilly half way, here's a nice view of the motorway.
The back road to Whitelee
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Moody grey skies over Sunderland this morning.
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Nice loop on Thursday from Middleton to Bowes and back over the PW, then over to Holwick Scars.
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Holwick Scars:
Went to Macc Forest, up to Dane Bower Hollow and back through the forest. First ride on the Fireline with decent tyres.Mary and Nic do not like the road!
Still messing with the fork but it seems great. Slowly getting my fitness back too. Happy long weekend STW
Getting in front of the incoming inclement weather with a ride to check my new XT mech / GX mix (all good). Lovely and warm and rode off a hangover from last night.
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Short local road and gravel loop today.
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Done a bit of riding, bit of spectating and and a wander round the race village. Been sunny and hot all day
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Bit of a different, old's cool, cross-country exploration ride today. Picked some red dotted lines on the OS map and headed off. Found some interesting (and not so interesting) stuff but overall a decent XC 'training' loop for future reference. Had to resort to silly post processing stuff to get any kind of reasonable riding photo though...
Yair on Friday.
GT on Saturday.
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Nice ride on the bouncy bike up to Twmbarlwm on Thursday.
The views were magnificent.
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Corn Du and Pen Y Fan are just visible on the horizon, 23 miles away as the crow flies:
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Bit of an urban pootle on the gravel thing on Friday.
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Fridays spin out
This morning.
Quick hour ride from the door today, summer didn't last long... 13 degrees, damp, misty & murky.
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We rode to watch all the EWS stages and took in a couple of trails on the way round. Finished off at the bottom of the last stage just below the ramp into the finish and then hung around to watch the podiums
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Was that the Green Loch @scotroutes? Just a stunning part of the world and the Highlands is my fave spot. Just come back from a week's family holiday in Grantown and rather deflated.
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Loving the pics.
@fazzini - got it in one. Local for me. It's easy to overlook what you have on your doorstep though.
What a weekend, EWS was awesome, perfect weather on both days, tracks were all running great, and other than a queue to start stage 1, the rest of the route and timings, were spot on, the runs are definitely long! and the standard of riders was extremely high, I finished 80th in the 35+ class out of 90 starters, but no crashes and though I wouldn’t have gone much quicker I was riding sensibly with no intention of crashing, then after the race, we drove Penrith and rode up above Coniston from Grizedale today. With 15,500 ft of elevation in the last 5 days, I’m ready for a day off tomorrow.
It’s easy to overlook what you have on your doorstep though.
100% @scotroutes. You don't have the North Sea coast up there 😜 nor the cultural delights of Whitley Bay 😬
Chasing DofE groups and sunburn.
Camping surrounded by bluebells. Ace.
Took the eeb for its second outing - this time up into the Lowther Hills
Early morning road ride, under the A9:
And then a trip to the always stunning Glen Affric:
Is it still the weekend? (It is for me)
I completed my assigned Scotways route surveys today on a new-to-me track between Inver and Loch Builg. I've ridden enough of these to expect the worst so I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was all rideable. A white-tailed eagle passed at eye level, about 20 metres away. Fairly made my day.
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A white-tailed eagle passed at eye level, about 20 metres away. Fairly made my day.
Reconnaissance run. Next time it will have you....
Worked Thurs-Sun, so Monday and Tuesday are my weekend. I'm typing this in the bivi bag...
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Enjoy! And bail before tomorrows rain....
Condensationtastic, mate, but I got an inversion and made it off the hill before the rain (inevitably) hit...
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