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I'm currently sat here having a few minute's on my ride home from work. I ended up working 5 more hours than I intended and its been a tough day. So I've extended my usual ride home with a few more gentle trails and decided on some classic Spar shop refreshments, and actually the world is a better place.
Made me think about other rides I've had that have been more epic, more adverse, adrenaline filled or just perfect for that time rides I've had. The rides that have delivered way more than a bike ride ever should. Anyone else have those rides?
The ride to work that I do very infrequently. 23 miles, mostly along the A5. But I always enjoy it
Did a cheeky little 11 mile loop around Marwell Zoo (not in it) at the weekend nothing special just to check out new kick.
Weather was grand, bike flawless, new shoes perfect, scenery pleasant and loop of new to me trails from the new Wahoo Elemnt was perfect - much much nicer than it had any right to be and huge cheesy grin.
James
There's a local 10 mile loop which has a bit of everything - road, gravel, loam, roots, beach, rocks, grass.
It isn't an adrenaline filled gnar fest, but it always makes me smile.
Yesterday we had a ride down to our local garage to book the van in for its MOT. It's the first time I've been out in a week and a bit because of a knackered shoulder and then a knackered calf. 7 miles, that was it, but it was smashing to be on my bike again 🙂
Last weekend My son, his friend /dad & I rode to Finsbury park along an old railway line. Not my kind of thing but hey ho.
We rode around Finsbury park and discovered numerous bikes kindly provided by http://www.pedalpowercc.org
We had an ice cream and lots of fun. Apart from a few grumpy folk on the path who we told we were teaching the kids to deliver drugs....ha(just joking)
Usually the unplanned rides are, I did exactly the same the other month, was commuting back home on my mtb (11 miler each way), 2 hours later I got home lol just got carried away and checked out some other routes. Same again yesterday, ended up doing a 30 mile ride exploring woods and tracks, totally chilled out ride, no rushing about, it was quite nice to take a steady jaunt and nosey about.
Apart from... Louise?
Most of my local rides. I don't ride locally so much these days, over familiarity, busy family life etc. When I do I remember how great they are, not drive for hours to ride them good but really good to have 5 minutes from your door and I wonder why I don't ride them more often.
Blue tier to Derby this time last year.
An inch of rain over the course of the ride didn't dampen spirits one bit.
We went to Aviemore a few years back- did a day at nevis range, a day at laggan, and a day... um, riding featureless footpaths and dirt roads in rothiemurchus for miles. Rode right past the lairig ghru, ignored it so we could do some more forest roads. And it was basically lovely- we looked at the views, we stopped and smelled the trees, we went to a visitor's centre and we ended up in the loch. At the time I was really #enduro and I'd totally forgotten that bimbling is lovely.I remember nothing about the visit to Nevis, and hardly anything about Laggan...
I think that ride is more or less why I got a fatbike, even though it took a couple of years
I just took my adventure/allroad/roadbike-with-big-tyres out for a sneaky 30km lunch ride from the office. Took in tarmac, dirt, rocky, rooty singletrack. Had a blast, far more enjoyable than a usual time-crunched lunch ride.
Louise.
I 'ad 'er first.
The one time I rode Carn Ban Mor after it had been sanitised - it's now smooth and gravel, where it used to be one of the top descents in the UK. It should be rubbish. But it was flipping loads of fun.
@Senor J - i quite like that Parkland Walk. Agree a little straight and boring, but it's often nicer than the road. I've been using that on my commute home recently
I always enjoy my riders on the Byways of Wiltshire far more than I should just because its nice open spaces and great views and piece and quiet the trails are nothing like the Forest of Dean but enjoy the change of scene same goes for when I ride on the Purbecks.
BB200
Road bike, minimal kit and pissing rain. Ride hard for 1 hour.
Always end up grinning like a loon.
Hello Ben. its a hidden gem but I would have preferred to do it not on a Sunday lunchtime! It was a little busy, but I had my orders to have a sociable ride. The other dad was route master.....:-)
I’m about to join the peleton(s) through your manor in a bit!!!
Went out yesterday with my nephew on the bro-in-law's £300 mtb-cum-shopping bike. Went to some woods we used to ride 20+ years ago and found some singletrack which was way more enjoyable than it should have been. Lots of fun chucking that bike around meandering trails, I was smiling - the nephew was "meh". Footballer, int he.
No in depth details ..but that would be a ride near to St Cuthberts cave with my missus ..about 19 years ago shortly after we first met ..
National 12hr TT. Should be grim, hard and generally soul-sapping. I seem built for this and absolutely loved every single minute and was sad it ended. Already entered the 24hr and looking at two more 12s.
Contrast that with a 10, I loathe them.
I think it 's called the Minotaur trail at Coedy . Did it as a warm up before the main event and liked it so much we did it twice then once more when we got back .