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Nowhere for me as working later and been out walking with the Mrs this morning, did get in 26 mile yesterday though and everywhere is still riding great, even deep in the forest on the cheeky bits its dry and dusty.
Its a fantastic day, clear blue skies, cool and fresh.
Hope it lasts till Monday at least as thats next riding day for me 🙂
The Chase. Awesome. Dry as a bone and perfect temp.
Bwlch Nant-yr-arian, dry and dusty trails and nice and warm 🙂
Still cold and grey down here. Trails are not as muddy as a few weeks ago - still wet though.
Along the canal and disused railway, then up through Whippendell woods and back home for me.
Kinver, Enville, The Million
Awesome day. Plus I was meant to be in work, got sent home after 10mins this morning but still get paid! Win!
Been out from home this afternoon, Bingley, Shipley Glen, Baildon, Esholt,and back via Gilstead. Bit tired now.
Swaledale - bit claggy and soft, but great fun.
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Just back from nearly 30 miles around Marsden. Trails almost dry, not many people about and fantastic weather 🙂
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1.5 k in the pool while iainc youngest was in his lesson this morn and a balmy 20 miler over the eaglesham moor this afternoon. Curry and beer with downshep of this parish in a few hrs 🙂
Must be nearly time to get the good road bike out.....
Took the stumpy down to the river for a shake down ride, bounced around for a bit in sale water park and back across the river and home via the park. Not exactly hardcore but needed to check the bike over after a complete rebuild....it had be hanging in the cellar for nearly 3years 😮
Had to dust it off when I got home!
South Downs -not muddy 🙂 - heading out for a curry soon - woot !
15ish miles in the Peaks from Hope over to Ladybower and back via the Beast and Lockerbrook, back via Hagg Farm and Hope Brink. Crashed on Hagg farm and ripped a hole in my knee warmers and my knee though. All made better when I got home and found out I had a Scholarship for Uni 😀
Work and back .... Birmingham to Coventry and back with a hard days graft in the middle ... 38 miles in total 😀
Two laps of a dry and dusty cwmcarn with some good friends and the sun was shining to make a perfect day 🙂
MarkLg - How dry is that decent in to Marsden? Is it still boggy in places?
45K ride, great trails drying nicely.
The spare bedroom fettling whilst waiting for my broken finger to mend 🙂
Quick bimble around the shire as pushed for time. First ride in shorts this year 8)
16 mile nightride around Woodbury Common last night.
Just done 19 miles around Haldon this afternoon.
Meeting some mates up on Dartmoor tomorrow for a 15/16 mile bimble.
Good weekend's riding by my reckoning 😀
Likewise round the Chase
Dry dusty and sunny. Very nice indeed
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I have a pile of marking to be doing, but couldn't let today's weather pass, so went out for a [url= http://app.strava.com/activities/42781958 ]local spin[/url]. Mix of cheeky singletrack, kid-built jumps, council-built 4x and pump tracks, gravel farm tracks and bike tracks. Dappled sunlight and crunchy leaves.
Just to town. Mendip delights tomorrow early.
castleton - mam tor - somewhere over the back - etc.
mud, snow, more mud, cow-shit, snow, and deep deep puddles.
cracking day for it though... 🙂
A local loop for me:-
http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/163421080/8739621
Although i'm a bit miffed endomomdo missed off the first 6 miles! (although i think it was my stubby fingers that pressed the wrong button)
MarkLG - how was that trail? Was tempted to do that today but was worried the boggy bit in the lower section (before the 2nd stream crossing) was still going to be bad.
MarkLg - How dry is that decent in to Marsden? Is it still boggy in places?
I've been over Wessenden Moor to Standedge and upto Castleshaw moor where the picture was taken, then down into Marsden. The trails are nice at the moment - a bit damp, but other than around a few stream crossings coming over Castleshaw Moor there weren't any boggy bits. I guess the lack of rain and the slow thaw has helped.
1hr quick lap around The Chase today 🙂 lovely and dry no need to clean anything afterwards
Glasgow Velodrome, seriously good fun
FoD and its riding superb 😀
Cheers Mark - think i'll give that one a spin tomorrow! 🙂
I was riding at Chicksands - perfect conditions.
Tomorrow will be the Chilterns then the FoD Tuesday.
I reckon we need to make the most of the current good conditions.
Found my inner 14 year old and kicked in some well sketchy flat corners up the back of Dundee Law this afternoon. Surprisingly addictive and nice to be riding within 10 minutes of the house.
Off to reclaim some Strava KOMs at Comrie Croft tomorrow.
Surrey Hills for me today.
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Disappointed the Audi count was lower than the BMW count in Peaslake - Walking Bottom Carpark.
Macc Forest today. Excellent but a bit icy in places. Had a very nearly nasty off on wildboarclough. Not much damage apart from my pride though 🙂
On the road bike around the holme valley and over holme moss.
A loop of the green route at Sherwood Pines with the kids.
Sherwood Pines up to Clumber Park and back. Pretty sure there was some dust kicked up and bike came home clean. Peaks tomorrow then......and maybe a curry tonight. wasn't going to have one til I looked on ST Forum 🙂
Not much today. Nipped round the local woods with my son and his pal and showed off. Managed to do that without falling off too!
Did my local loop up the Kilpatricks last night though. It was excellent. Dry trails, just starting to frost over as the temp dropped. Beautiful night.
26 miles on the road bike today. Didn't want to do too much as I'm running the Silverstone half tomorrow.
It was such a nice day, I had to get out for a bit. I've also had a week off because of a dodgy knee so felt like I needed a run out.
Was such a cracking day, I wished I was able to get out on the mountain bike. Just hoping the weather holds out as I have a free weekend next weekend.
A road ride up Glen Clova, 65 miles
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Left the house very early, did a lovely couple of hours on the Tripster and headed up behind Croker Hill just after dawn. The water bottle froze but it was glorious when the sun came up.
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Quick 14 miler along the coast from Blyth to Whitley Bay and back, mostly sealed surface but some singletrack.
A rare trip to the north island, to QECP and a wee bit of exploring of the South Downs. Excellent. Well worth a trip if you haven't been for a while - there's loads more betterer stuff there now than there was the last time I tried it a couple of years ago. Trail conditions, contrary to certain misleadingly named threads you may have seen on here, were ideal.
I uplifted a load of awesome, really steep Downhill tracks and then Moelfre with the rest of Team MDE Bikes in a brilliant old VW Transporter Pickup. What a van! Even the sun was shining! Top day. Team XC day tomorrow too.
Yup frightening on the Chase today it was like the first day of Spring. Amazing what a difference a bit of sun and dry conditions makes after months of pratting about in the cold and wet. Double orsum.
Friston singletrack, more of which tomorrow!
36 mile road ride round the trough of bowland, Lancashire today. Bloody hard work but I've only got myself to blame, getting pissed the night before and riding with a thick head is not a good idea 😳 Was hoping to get up to the lakes for some mtb'ing but family duties means it'll be a flying lap of gisburn first thing in the morning instead.
Awzumnez sofa surfing. Crooked back from too many days in the saddle. Shall be back in anger when I can stand up straight. 😆
rode to work. rode back. yahoo! Same tomorrow. MUST GET NEW JOB!
Phillip's Park. HTN revisited (we gave MTFU Hill a swerve).
Rode all of the new trails. Love the section that runs alongside the motorway.
Sun shining, dry trails. Good day
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Antur Stiniog yesterday, Penmachno 1&2 today. Awesome weather. 😀
Castlewellan forest park. new 'trailcentre' trails are just nearing completion, 19 km i think ! but today i stayed on the old singletracks,over the back of slievenaslat, the xc race circuit etc. after a winter of rain and wet the natural trails have dried up and are riding brilliantly. last week i spent 2 hours clearing windfall trees and rhododendrons etc from the climb behind the castle to the dark lake, well worth it today !
Parkwood Springs (Sheffield's very, very short urban trail). Dry and dusty trails, 4 laps and fun on the berms and jumps. Less fun avoiding the attention of the local scrotes in the carpark ... They were "admiring" my bike and car a bit closely :-/
local NWAlps for me
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Cwmcarn uplift day with mates I've not seen in about 6 years. Tracks running amazingly fast and grippy, sunny and quite warm too! Awesome day 🙂
that's a wicked shot RD.. any chance of a download as that's the first MTB pic I've seen that I'd have on my wall..
It would look ace in our new sitting room
Great photo Mr Dog.
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26 miles around Ashover,white peak.Trails were nearly dry!
25 miles in moors valley and Ringwood forest.
Lovely and fast dry trail.
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QE Country Park, Hampshire.
Wharncliffe doing skids - plus it was dry!
RopeyReignRider....diest surprise me.
I've only been once and really enjoyed it but did wonder how long it would take before the local scum bags realised that there were lots of posh bikes 'available'. Guess it'll be badin the summer, which is a shame.
Decent loop round the Surrey Hills.
Just me and one friend, minimal faff and talking stops, just loads of trails & lots of trying to go as fast as possible before the Enduro races start.
The WB car park was rammed & the trails were running great.
Also confirmed my feelings that a Schwalbe Hans Dampf really doesn't grip even close to a Minion when pushing on.
QEP. I was rubbish, hard week had left me in tatters so short ride today. Trails were ok though. Relaxing with a bottle of red for the first time in what seems ages.
Quick bimble around the shire as pushed for time. First ride in shorts this year
Man up 😀
Sunday cut gate ride.
Took the little un for her 1st lap of the [s]croft trail[/s] woods behind Nationwide, she loved it, I was very proud. Temp tomorrow looks like it's gonna hit double figures so I'm getting out on the downs to recce a bivvy spot for next month.
Glad you all enjoyed being out there whilst some of us were working, I'll be thinking of you on Monday when I'm out on the bike and most of you will be settling in for a day at work.
Banks - Thats a low blow, I bet Cutgate is riding amazing at the moment and of everywhere mentioned I know, thats where I'd rather ride tomorrow. Enjoy 😀
Me and my partner in crime riding silly things around Hebden and doing a bit of exploring...
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Racing, rather badly, at innerleithen 
Good times! Well, bad [i]times[/i], but good times! Beautiful day, which is obviously why we raced at night.
I had a ride down to kinver via canals from stourbridge and back. Nearly got knocked in by an effing big dog at one point. Nice day out for it today!
Fun little spin round the Kitchener with a mate. The new 'downhill' sections are actually really rather fun.
Cutgate for us today, plenty of snow and clagg - ended up ripping my rear mech off - good ride all the same
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Woburn again for me.
Was good yesterday, but even better today. Dry and quick.
Found a few more new trails again.
Forest of Dean today, the trails were great 😀
Standard Surrey Hills Sunday mtb epic - 81 miles, 6.5hrs. Dusted off the bike when I got home 🙂 First clean epic of the year 🙂
Was quite busy until about 3pm then the hills just emptied...
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Blairadam, utterly brilliant it was too. Was getting a bit sick of slogging through a ton of mud, but the recent dry spell made for nice flowy trails.
You must live in better draining areas than me. Local soil is chalky clay. Even the local rivers are still in flood and will be for a good few months yet.
It was our clubs reliability ride today. 50 miles @20.1 mph average. I know it's "roadie talk" but I am absolutely shattered. I am smiling though. 😀
Caught up with a mate off here for a road ride, lulled into a false sense of security by his "I haven't been out much this year" claim!
We ended up riding round the Derbyshire Dales riding up all the hills we haven't previously tried to ride up. Sadly, two of them I still haven't managed to ride ALL the way up 😳
And the cheekly blighter rocked up at Matlock Meadows Ice Cream Farm for the tea stop and announced he hadn't brought any money. 👿
You know who you are!
Just the usual early flick round Haldon, which was a chilly minus 1 at 7.30 this morning! The mud froze on the downtube.. No time for more than 12 miles sadly.