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Out on the hardtail for easy miles instead of elevation last night.
A two ride day today.
Pre breakfast gravel loop… found a step up jump en route.
Then an evening retrace of the morning walk to try and find Reeksy Jr2’s lost sunglasses. Found somebody else’s instead 😣
After two long days on the trails we stayed on this side of the mountain. Still hot and dry but forcast is for rain
Having a wander around the lower reservoir at Rivington
Went off the track a bit on some known/unknown trails. Mostly found bracken, nettles and brambles. Enjoyable though and dodged the rain with the excuse of a mid-ride pint
And who knew one could sweat so much on an eeb - humid hell
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So many places to post photos now!
Had a great ride with the boys at Jack’s Ridge today. First time there, lots of fun ‘Woodstacles’ and a really nicely maintained few loops in forestry just outside Nambucca Heads.
Quick spin round this morning trying to miss the rain.
I failed. 😂
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Overcast, but nice temperatures. Still heavily overgrown, but it seems to have reached its peak at least.
Quick spin before the rain came in.
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Quick spin after the rain ..
Another 1500 meters of Golfie fun this morning.
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Moved on from Leogang and now just over the boarder in Italy. Spent the day on the trails in Livigno with just under 5000 metres of descent
First #coosday of the school holidays. Have a wee calf.
And the blaeberry are out early. Not perfectly juicy yet though.
Moved on from Livigno and now had a few days in Lenzerheide.
Today was a big one up both sides of the mountains and finished off with a couple of laps of the bike park
Nothing even approaching Tracey's pics.
Quick impromtu local blast last night
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Another great day out for us today.
****ing hot in the valley bottom but a lot more pleasant once over 2000 meters.
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Managed to get out for a ride yesterday am - loop from Kirkby Stephen to Ravenstonedale via Smardale, then Pennine Bridleway over to Mallerstang, followed by a loop to take in Abbotside Common and The Water Cut sculpture. All in all quite enjoyable, made more interesting by the occasional sharp shower.
A couple of gentle days' riding keeping an eye on our bronze D of E students. Getting paid for riding my bike. Sweet.
Back to the hardship of one of my local spots after a week away.😁
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Leisurely ride round my local. Even found some stocks for Boris.
On the Moray Coast Trail between Findochty and Portknockie.
Weather was decent last night. 19 miles around Beeley/Chatsworth/Stanton and another KOM. Average pics though
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Ride onto Norland Moor, just short of 30 miles after riding home from the pub.
Cracking evening, saw several other bikers and unusually no e-bikes !
Monday Night Pub Ride took advantage of a brief gap in the deluges, but we did a normal winter route - the Tour de Reservoirs - to stay on the hardpack as the moors are a quagmire
A quick spin round the local local this morning.
Nearly eaten alive by flies.
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Steady one last night and the only time we stopped for pics was on a road section. 3 emtb's, 1 HT, 1 fatbike - gues what. We all rode at the same pace 😉
Looking down over Matlock
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rode the seven summits trail in rossland, bc today. it was a proper old fashioned alpine xc ride. amazing day
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I’ve been to Verbier 😎
Verbier looks good. Only managed one run before Kevin's incident
It almost felt like summer last night
Apart from the mud
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A quick loop of the Viking Trail in Tunstall with the Mrs, before the rain came in.
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Been showing some mates from south of the border round for a few days.
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A bit of trail clearing with the Laplander and trying out the new forks. Mulleted my ebike and it flies
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Last minute decision to catch the Sunset - it was a good choice!
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⬆⬆ Cool Fungi! 🍄
Went to do Fox House, Cannings, Stanage, Burbage
Punctures in Cannings and tubes that wouldn't inflate aborted the mission. Gutted, not done that classic for some years
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Went to the pub
Top of Blackford Hill in Edinburgh.
Took the 'big dog'' out for the first time in a while. It has a posh new damper in the Zebs and I was keen to try it out. Conditions locally are puddly but grippy. Blooming humid though. Luckily a suitable re-hydration point was located at the end of the ride 🙂
Went back to do the Fox House loop this afternoonv after yesterday's failed attempt. Mint ride
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A few more I've just dragged off my GoPro
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No pics last night but got a few tonight, conditions are pretty good and was perfect riding weather in the Derbyshire Dales
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A sunrise ride this morning was a great way to start the end of the week.
Saw probably the largest echidna I’ve ever seen… though it tried to make sure I didn’t see it.
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Fake internet points for anyone who can guess correctly which lift....
Clue: I think that's Mont Blanc framed in the front triangle.
Took the eldest and youngest on the cockpit - howtown decent
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more commuting…
Morning loop around the nearest hill.
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36 miles - a mix of singletrack, fire road, road, farm track, rock tech and everything inbetween. Blummin size of a Magnum these days 🙁
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Local loop, first ride back after broken bones in foot. Managed to go over the bars about 5 mins after taking this photo 😂
Rare Wednesday night club ride outing for me (during term time it's tough to get home and out in time). Back to needing lights for the end of the ride, but allowed me to test the low light video capabilities of the Insta360 for the first time.
Last day working near this spot so had a good hit out before work.
Always meant to get a photo of this rotten pine stump.
Early morning Gravel commute.
Magnolia Trails, Nederland
Beautiful outing on the gravel bike yesterday from Auchterarder to Dundee (carefully planned route to take full advantage of westerly wind!).
Lots of dusty dry farm gravel, then the Fife Coastal Path from Lindorres Distillery with several lovely sections of singletrack through old growth forest.
More fast farm tracks then the icing on the cake was a full gas hoon along the stunning sand dune/coastal pine forest singletrack in Tentsmuir. It's perfect for a gravel or CX bike as very few roots or rocks and basically flat with lots of little rollers and sand traps and endless fast corners and drifting back wheels. A fact not lost on me as I went chasing KOMs but closest I got was second by 2 seconds, d'oh!
Got a bit of catching up to do here. Some midweek rides from our summer road trip this year.
First up, a Tuesday in August.
Got home and managed to get out on a couple of Wednesday evening club rides, which is a nice rarity for me when school's in.
Quiet ride over Long Mynd.
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So grateful that I can ride round the Derbyshire Dales from my doorstep on a Wednesday night
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Final Wednesday club ride until the Christmas holidays now.
Last nights hack around the tops of Rossendale.
one of those evenings when I just clicks and the troubles of the day melt away.
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Bit of a climb for us lowlanders... took over 4 hours of continuous climbing to reach the Devils Slide trestle at 11600ft on the old Rollins Pass railroad.
Try again
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Plan was to head up Colorado highest 14er, Mt Elbert, but both suffering colds ended that idea so we biked up the trail until it got more hike-a-bike than fun, turned around and whizzed back down. Then went exploring Leadvilles "rich" history.
South Pennine roads, tracks and stuff round Luddenden, Haworth, Wycollar, Colden etc. - bloody hot but hell of a head wind coming back over the Watershed from Colne.
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Much needed reward.....
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