Friday morning Golfie blast with a few mates to kick the weekend off to a good start.
Show us your ride pics.
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We travelled 7 1/2 hours up North to pick something up in the morning. Been out walking since we arrived. Will get some riding in tomorrow. Great day to be out and about. Back at the van with a gin and tonic and the bed
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Skipped up Dumyat with Dana the horse and friends to help Equi-Power Central Scotland RDA crowd fund to build a new centre for RDA and disability services in Stirling.
A friend has already climbed the height of Everest, completed 36 climbs and raised over £600 towards the new centre but was resting her blistered feet today.
Please donate if you can: https://bit.ly/3JNUJ97
Friday spin after work, sun was out, daffodils were out, I was out! Just the job.
Well I've just had a top day out. Big ride over the peak. Thanks to everyone who posted up on the thread I started in the week who helped me to plan the route.
Train to Sheffield,
Up through Endcliffe park and along the valley up to porter clough and Redmires
Stanage plantation then stanage edge
Derwent Edge and a great new descent (to me) down off lost lad to Derwent Resr.
Up over cut gate and down to Penistone.
I'd aimed to get the train from Penistone but I would have had to wait around quite a while. Decided to carry on the ride down the transpennine trail to Barnsley instead. coming into Barnsley down the A road was a bit grim mind!
about 75Km and 1500m climbing. Not a cloud in the sky and everyone I met was in a really good mood.
Props out to the lass who was pushing the fully loaded touring bike up from Langsett over cut gate!
Massive chippy tea earlier and I'm pretty much ready for bed!
First ride on the Mullet Monster Truck tonight. 27.5+ rear and 29+ front. Difficult to properly judge on the tame local trails but I think I like it...
Leeds over to Ilkley Moor & back. Met a mate for a couple of dad-duro runs, had lunch, got chased down off Burley Moor by the bellend gamekeeper on his quad bike. Splendid day out.
I stopped at Swinley yesterday in the way to Reading for a night of “Bikes & Banter” with my childhood hero James Whitham & John McGuinnes. Good night, Swinleys still shit though.
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Starting slow. Cheapened up my Rune and tested it after a few months off the bike on the local loop.
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First big'ish ride in ages long loop nice potter in the sun until ran out of energy (not enough snacks), fortunately was close to a cafe that does a buffet breakfast where I thoroughly embarrassed myself.
Having a sit down after some sunny VO2max Intervals out in the Forest today:
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Rip round at GT this morning in the sun with a few mates.
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Local loop for me, first time out in ages.
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We travelled up to the Nevis Range carpark to collect a new to me bike. Rode all day in glorious weather. Trails were dry. What more could a girl want.
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Great pics Tracey, I’m always envious of your ability to ride seemingly every weekend, especially so today though! 👍🏻
Devils punchbowl and Frensham ponds for us today - stunning day, welcome back to the sunshine!
Suffering with a cold so cancelled the planned Welsh ride but too nice not to go out. Took the chance to test some kit Giant UK sent over
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Mid ride Recovery
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Amazing weather today for a nice local loop.
Out on the roadie this weekend, decided to head out west and see what it’s like around the Ashridge estate. Turns out, pretty scenic! Definitely want to explore it on the gravel bike once it gets a bit less soggy.
Had a brilliant day out riding round Puddletown Forest in the warm sunshine. A bit windy at times but mostly dry and dusty trails (with the odd muddy puddle to add to the fun!). So good to get out and just have fun with warm sunshine and lots of laughter from doing silly things. I may have gone through a rhododendron bush or two in my exuberance to have fun.
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60 miles around Yorkshire on the road bike for us and it was bloody windy ☹️
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and to finish
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Paddle on the Avon from Evesham.
4 and a bit miles upstream against a strong flow after some epic rain last week and a headwind was hard going!
Back downstream was rapid though!
Went for a wee camp out last night. Caught a great moon rise and beautiful morning to ride home
Riding tomorrow so went for a walk today to check the condition of the trails (PRIME 🙂 ). Snapped this shot. #StandWithUkraine
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Friday morning, impromptu day off, out the back door… Glorious.
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Sunny day so out on the road bike for the first time this year.
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Still bloody windy though and I was almost blown off on one corner
Aaahhhh...
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Bit on the bike need to really sort my shit out n drop some weight.
The beers not helping but damn it was good
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Dawn raid.
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A day in the Yat with a raging hangover 🙂
Trails are drying, but still very slick in places. After five hours in the sunshine, I was ready for another beer! Mate brought his 'rarely gets in the way' mutt. Pretty fast downhill but does take a lot of Strava lines 🙂
A breezy cold one this morning
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A spin round Thetford with my 5yo and @bigginge and the little ginges
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And 7 miles via icecream, cake and the park for the littlest scruffy twin.
Unfortunately my post "isn't jumpy, it's just grumpy!" Photo of the fly tipping we saw near Bockhampton on the way home from a 30 mile loop around the South Dorset Ridgeway and Puddletown Forest. Looks like some b*stard has cleared out a fast food shop and thought a passing place on this quiet country lane would be the ideal place to leave it!! 🙁
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Back in the FoD today, fair play to the trail fairies for all thier work after the storms and logging work
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Inners DH trails to start with this morning then over to Glenduro.
Fantastic company and conditions.
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70 miles in the New Forest in the glorious sunshine.
One of these days, I'm going to ride a bike again and post a picture. Maybe this year. Definitely.
Waterbike day.
Litter picking voyage on the locals.
Spotted a deer track heading in an interesting direction. 90 minutes later actually resumed my ride but with a new little trail section mapped out ready for a spade day in the Easter Break. Ride was therefore way shorter than planned but still felt like time well spent.
Brilliant photos and rides folks, the sun really does make the difference....
Okeford hill bike park reopened yesterday, so popped up for a few hours. 6 pedal ups and 3 uplifts.
and 3 uplifts.
If that's the uplift vehicle, I imagine it's quicker to ride up!
It’s an old Land Rover, so not much in it!
The uplift takes about 8 minutes, I normally pedal it in 11-14 minutes.
The new version of Devils Dyke is bedding in nicely.
A week in from first neg test. Went for a gentle pedal, lovely but COVID and a week of nothing mean I have nothing in my lungs.
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A 20km bimble from the doorstep, sunny but very windy. Some exploring here and there but best of all was finding that one long section was far, far better done in the reverse direction to that previously taken!
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Currently having breakfast after a bivvy trip, but here's the first sunrise of the Spring.
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More photos later.
One of those 'Right to Roam' rides yesterday - 1:25k had none of the useful dotted lines but the Satellite View showed feint marks that turned out to be sheep tracks and a quad tyres so the loop was completed.
I promised some more photos...
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I was on uplift duty, he was doing the proper riding.
Ridden last 7 out of 8 days. Fantastic conditions, enjoying them while they last. Coaching today with Katy Curd in the FoD. 3rd time in the last two years. She's a great teacher and we had prime conditions.
Average technique. World class gurning 🙂
Maybe this time I'll remember to actually practice, rather than just default to my old (and frankly a bit rubbish technique). For those of us of a certain age, it's not learning the best way to ride modern geo, it's unlearning the exact opposite approach we took riding steep, short bikes in the 90s!
A superb ride in the sunshine today - did the STW classic ride 137, a variation on my usual riding - absolute indulgent perfection of a ride!
I didn’t half pick a cracking week to be off work!
Totally rubbish pics, but I don't care as it signalled my first ride in the past couple of years - 18 miles, nothing techy and yes, it was an e-bike, but that was needed for the time constraints
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