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The little lady is away tonight, so I shall enjoy the quiet pleasures of bike-tinkering in the man cave with a beer, followed by Cirencester Best Kebab's finest shish/kofta mix and another beer or two in front of something on the telly .
Ride tomorrow morning from Castle Combe (joiners welcome), then do a bit of pre hollibobs shopping in the afternoon. out for a meal in the evening with friends
Ridiculous o'clock start on Sunday as she's doing a triathlon and I'm official coat-holder/cheerleader. Maybe another ride, very possibly a sunday roast.
Lovely.
Somewhere near Weymouth / Lyme Regis. Biking and Diving.
Drumlanrig on sunday, followed hopefully by watching the world champs replays. Saturday currently looks like I'm taking the cross bike round glentress red, for reasons I don't really quite understand
Working, and not even a good shift where i could ride either before or after work 🙁 currently 2 days into a 7 day stint after stupidly agreeing to do a shift swap!
Cos it's there Northwind, cos it's there.
Saturday will be a bad day for constant lamo "witty" comments tho, regarding your bike selection decision that morning. Better under cover of darkness when the Mincers won't spot you. Unless night-vision goggles are vital equipment for a red run these days.
DIY indoors on Saturday 😥
Laggan on Sunday 😀
Nice extended ride home tonight, finishing with meeting the better half and some mates for beers in t'pub. Then on for something to eat
Gisburn in the morning. Then being accosted by returning offspring. All in all, not a bad old line up 😀
Going to ride the Wiggle New Forest Sportive route in preparation for the actual event in October.
are you coat holding at Keynes Country Park on Sunday? I'm racing (may be an overstatement) there as well.
Tis the first day of summer today - Mendips should start drying out nicely, so will head there on Sunday.
[i]are you coat holding at Keynes Country Park on Sunday?[/i]
Indeed I am. Are you registering tomorrow? Stick your number on here, I'll cheerlead for you too if I spot you 🙂
After a week on holiday doing diy( stripping and painting windows) ..... Ill continue the theme with more diy. New boiler going in
Ride first thing sunday though before the plumber gets here.
Gonna be a warm winter this year after 2 years of eeking out the one tank of oil and limited wood i could get hold of ill have a decent boiler tht wont burn oil like an engine with knackered piston rings and ive got a reliable source of seasoned wood 🙂 and have proactively stocked my wood shed to the brim and filled 2 full size oil barrels of cut ready to burn wood!
hels - MemberSaturday will be a bad day for constant lamo "witty" comments tho, regarding your bike selection decision that morning.
Pff, what's the point in doing it, if there's no mincers to overtake, or witnesses to see me die?
Karate training tomorrow, then might get dragged round the flower and food festival in the afternoon.
Glentress on Sunday. Good times.
Quantocks. First time in about three years. Then beer with some old friends I haven't seen for ages. That's a bit 🙂 from me.
Mine started today so did 27 hilly roadie miles round Bollington, The Goyt, and back through Sutton. Out round The Peak tomorrow, don't know the route as its planned by Rob off here. I do know it starts and finishes at the pub, which isn't a bad thing.
Sunday is a day out with the Mrs somewhere if the weather holds then Pork roast dinner.
Building up my new X frame, or I would be if the parts had been dispatched yet. 😥
Got a marathon in s few weeks so it's all running, I'm afraid
Think we're over the jet lag. Kids party in Kings Park at 10am. Move into rental in Freo at 1400. Party at 1900. Collapse in a heap at 2000.
Sunday. BBQ and few pints at Little Creatures.
Lee Quarry or Hebden tomorrow afternoon if anyone fancies it?
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Doing a cheeky 50 on the road bike first thing tomorrow 🙂
Possibly penmachno on Sunday if I can sort my rear brake out 👿
Ironing tonight (non-extreme)
Tomorrow - clearing a dead man's house
Sunday - trying to find a dry trail
Out for food shortly, ride in the Peaks tomorrow on my onesie, followed by a quite night in, then Sunday I'll get a morning road ride in, not sure about the afternoon though!
Saturday - 100 miles on a Dual Carrigeway with skinsuit and pointy hat
Sunday - Suffering and wondering why I thought a 100TT was a good idea?
Shopping for holiday clothes tomorrow, Dalby on Sunday.
Can't wait til Sunday 😀
[i]Saturday currently looks like I'm taking the cross bike round glentress red, for reasons I don't really quite understand [/i]
That'll be fun, pack plenty of patches/tubes...
Sat: Chores in the morning. Road spin afternoon, packing for work trip, Ceilidh evening
Sun: Local riding in morning, local riding in afternoon, finish packing for work trip, meal at friends evening
Tomorrow is an off road love fest' ride around the delights of Lyme Park, Hayfield and Marple with my wife.
Sunday is Tour De North West. My own personal suffer fest' which is a Stockport, Stoke on Trent, Warrington, Rochdale, Stockport road ride.
In between bits will be shepparding a teenage daughter and mates around.
Have a nice weekend y'all.
Lee Quarry tomorrow with a group and then Llangdegla on Sunday PM, stern chat from Doctor this week so need to up my exercise work rate, and get back to double rides at the weekend come what may!!
[i]Stockport, Stoke on Trent, Warrington, Rochdale, Stockport road ride.[/i]
Wow, that's some scenic wonder right there.
Working tomorrow.
Collecting machinery Sunday AM from Monmouth.
Out on road Sunday PM, as trail infested with ramblers in afternoon
Out with the road boys tomorrow for 70+ miles then MTB in the afternoon followed by a good old fashioned pissup.
tomorrow morning doing the loop taking in various stepping stones crossings on Dartmoor, starting Postbridge car park.
Tomorrow evening - neighbours' bbq.
Sunday long walk on the moor with Mrs HTC (daughters surfing/walking elsewhere so some peaceful time to ourselves) 🙂
Maybe a short spin tomorrow. Then watching the 2012 UCI DH world championships on Sunday until 3:00 and then out on the bike in the evening for 2-3 hours 😀
getting some miles in for MTL Challenge - Edale tomorrow morning 8.30am - Starting with jacobs ladder loop, then over towards Lockerbrook, Hagg Farm etc and then I might do another 2 loops up and around Mam tor time permitting.
Hope it stops raining tonight 🙁
Gisburn today with my daughter on the tagalong so taking it easy on hopefully a mile munching ride out of Staveley 😀 on Saturday followed by a road ride (easy miles) on Sunday
Buzz Lighyear - Sun: Local riding in morning, local riding in afternoon
What state are your local trails in at the mo?
Today was spent at the zoo.. 😀
Tomorrow will be delivering 3 wedding cakes, a christening cake and a birthday cake to opposite sides of Devon in the morning, followed by a kids party, then some well earned miles on East Dartmoor's finest bridleways in the afternoon/evening..
Sunday is a trip to the circus..
Probably not amazing state but it had not rained for three days so maybe not too bad if trails are selected carefully.
Groovy, thanks. Worth a muddy punt then.
coaching then riding herts all weekend, live music and beers 🙂
Dunno, if I ride it'll end in tears ... again. 🙁
Tomorrow: Still undecided between long-ish drive to free-draining quantocks or more local, but potentially gloopy urchfont/ erlestoke or castle coombe. Should really go to bed though...
work sat and sun 🙁 Road ride sun afternoon down Conwy Valley. Walk some welsh mountain with some mates on mon then some beers 🙂
Dusted off the mtb after having been riding the roadie in deepest Tuscany for the last couple of weeks. Hoping my SouTh Downs trails are dry dusty fast ribbons of fun......wot?
Bottom bracket change on the roadie reqd so that's the extent of fettling.
Opening a fruity red and sipping throughout the weekend, washing clothes from hollibobs, skyping MrsBouy.
Saturday will be spent watching these and many others at the Shoreham air show.
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Then a biggish ride Sunday morning followed by watching the airshow again but this time from the comfort of the Red Lion.
At home the kids all day as the wife's out with her mum. Then hitting the quantocks tomorrow for the first time after getting my acl fixed. Can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!
lazy Saturday - but gotta take the lady baby clothes shopping. I'll take the dog for a long walk later in the forests
Sunday - a 2 hour loop round the local trails is planned, with cake
😀
First and only triathlon of the year tomorrow (now I'm old and semi-retired), hope it warms up, it's an outdoor pool.
Road ride with the girls today - in the sun and heading over the hills to the Chocolate House cafe stop at Pentrefoelas in North Wales 🙂
Taking my OH on a high speed rib boat ride round Anglesey on Sunday as a surprise for his birthday.
Oh, and have next week off to go riding bikes and hiking in the mountains - life is good!
(Slight thread highjack) Bikebouy - whereabouts in Tuscany did you go road riding? Independent trip or with a company / group?
Work today.
Marshalling @ Brownbacks on Sunday morn.
Hope to get an hour on the bike on Sunday aft.
Catch up with mates Sunday teatime.
Sitting at home in Birmingham wishing I'd not spent every last penny I have on my bike so that I had a tenner to put in the car to get me to Cannock.
hels - MemberSaturday will be a bad day for constant lamo "witty" comments tho, regarding your bike selection decision that morning.
It turns out, doing mtb trails on cross bikes makes random strangers very happy! There was honest to god hooting and hollering. Even did some 1337 sessioningz on spooky woods and got cheers every time I got an inch off the ground. Top day.
Though the bloody thing could do with some lower gears though!
Had to work this morning but made it out this afternoon for a jaunt around Llanberis slate mines, some trails around Mynydd Llandygai and then back home. So far it's looking like a run around Penmachno tomorrow. First time in a while so looking forward to it.
Realised the Newport Nocturne is on so watching some racing tonight and now allowed biking tomorrow, Result!
IHN - Member
are you coat holding at Keynes Country Park on Sunday?Indeed I am. Are you registering tomorrow? Stick your number on here, I'll cheerlead for you too if I spot you
Racing as 363 - going of at 8.20 and aiming for 1h15m to finish.
See you tomorrow!
Conditions were great today (QECP). So good I went there twice 🙂
Second time got my first tubeless puncture in about 3 years, which was a bit irritating! Spare tube sorted it.
Bloke on an amazingly retro Orange (thumbies, narrow flat bars, the lot) stopped to chat while I was fixing it, which was nice.
Got dragged off to Birkenhead to Lawtons furniture outlet oday and we bought a love seat & armchair and saved 1K then came home and did some gardening and rewarded my efforts with a few pints of Jaipur IPA followed by a curry. Hope to finally try my new skills tomorrow that I learnt from Jedi!
Thanks for the support IHN - I think that was you shouting as I started the run. Got 1H15m as per target.
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[i]Thanks for the support IHN - I think that was you shouting as I started the run[/i]
My pleasure 🙂
How did your other half do?
1h30m, which she was really chuffed with.