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Just grabbed the ebike and chucked a quick couple of hours in before the rain descends. Only the one pic
Tried to ride the Afan Skyline trail today, there were lots of diversions and lots of fire road without much reward but it was a good day out until the hail started 🤣
Trying to get fitter so left the e-bike at home and the Bird got an outing 🙂
The delights of the Mary Towneley Loop today. Well, Widdop to Walsden, then decided I fancied an ice cream and a pootle back along the canal instead.
Spin out last night before the rain arrived to turn everything to slop again, gorgeous evening for it!
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Monday evening at Black Rocks.
Unfortunately, Tuesday evening didn’t go as planned as my front brake decided to disappear while in the car. I tried a shop in Matlock but as I didn’t buy the bike from them there was a two week wait for the workshop.
In and around Eartham Woods and up to Whiteways Cafe. 36.7 miles, 2350 ft elevation. Sheep shit in all the hard to clean bits.
Well i guess the nice weather had to come to an end sometime! Last night's ride across the top of the Bannau Brecheiniog turned a little damp halfway round. Still a great evening ride mind, but wetter than an otters pocket. At least the rain was a bit less cold than in winter.
Sendz on Tuesday night before the rain arrived. Fantastic evening for it
Somewhere on Dartmoor.
Amazed at what a leccy bike can climb up. Riding bits it's was difficult to walk up.
Like many others, I headed out for a spin earlier in the week before the rain started coming down! North Third reservoir, looking over towards the Trossachs.
Cheeky trails evening 🥷
Slops back so the hardtail was out again
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Beautiful night for a spin in Lapland. Just in from a relaxed 50k around this lake in pretty much perfect conditions. Cycling is ace👌
Balmoral today
Fab ride out on the 'Doward' side of the Yat. Ticked off our favourite trails and added a new spicy one to finish. Riding brilliantly just in time for the rain to ruin it. Chose to ride tonight rather than stay in a soulless hotel some 180 miles away. That means a 5am wake up call, but I definitely chose well 🙂
Cut gate plus extras from last night 👌
Cut Gate video from last Friday, thanks to @el_boufador for the info.
Quick blast after work, sadly cut short by the rain and my poor choice of clothing...
No rain forecast, but possibility of a storm, so took a coat in my bag
Wanted to get one last run on a certain section before the bracken completely takes over. Was just passable 🤣
Absolutely biblical with rumbles of thunder for most of the return leg - much of which was across a very exposed field and then a descent with a river running down it.
I was still soaked when I got back, but glad of the coat nonetheless
Almost mid-summer, longer than usual weekday nightride.
Purbecks this morning.
Not midweek either, but yesterday.
After spending a few days riding in Verbier it was up and over the Grand St Bernard's pass and down into the Aosta Valley.
Spent the day up above Pila before the long descent back into the Valley
Went from having a lazy, unmotivated day in garden to a quick 20 mile bimble on the single speed
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Couple of nice rides with my boys on our holidays this week.
Nice after work Woburn ride yesterday. The trails could do with a bit of wet tbh, very sandy and loose in a lot of places!
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One of those rides where everyone I met was happy (except one guy, but, whatever) because the sun was out and it was still very warm late into the evening
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Probably swallowed 12 bugs, snorted another 5 and my arms now looks like I've been fighting with 15 kittens because everywhere was very very overgrown.
But, a most enjoyable 32km was had! Long may it continue 😎
Summer. Well, i would post a pic of my muddy ride. You'll have to wait until it's fixed.
More high Alpine singletrack today.
Nice.
Went for a ride around a mountain.... 56km, 1240m of climbing.
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Thumbs up to RocketDog...or at least youngster 🙂
Found sections of the Berlin Wall and anti aircraft gun towers in some local woodland.
More backcountry Alpine fun today.
A simple local gravel lap. Didn't see a soul. But perfect weather made it really quite brilliant.
Still not working then...
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Took my new bargain Langster out for a quick spin, I've got really unfit! Still managed to get up the steepest climb on my usual loop with the singlespeed though, used to crawl up it in the granny ring on my CAAD. Need some SPD pedals asap so I can get more power uphill, keep lifting my feet off! Even took it on some gravel, 23c slicks feel very sketchy but it was quite fun. Want to get some wider tyres on it but not sure how wide I can go on normal road rims which I assume are designed for 23c?
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Got the "holiday" bike (and holiday shorts) out the Evoc and dusted off ready for duty later this year. Always interesting jumping back on a 27.5.
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Love a summer evening road ride with a bit of gravel thrown in on the way back.
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Riding the steep trails off the Kymin. We don't do this enough (maybe as climb to get back to the top is brutal!)
The face of a man who knows he's come in a bit hot 🙂
Pint in the Boat, lovely 🙂
Monday I endured a very hot five hour teams meeting, so snuck out after for a couple of solo hours on the Digger
A Tuesday afternoon run up the Great Dun Fell road set me up for a high bivi and a big morning yesterday prior to the afternoon train home.
Used the good weather over the past few days for a quick dabble with the Traws Eyri route from Machynlleth to (supposedly) Conwy. Mixed views on the quality of the riding and the route (it's not really an off-road route, and taking a mountain bike wouldn't be my recommendation), but it doesn't half go through some beautiful scenery.
Very much enjoying having a bike I can go for a quick spin on in the evening without having to slog away on the MTB! The state of some of our roads is making me wish I'd got a gravel bike though.
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Took my son to Leamington today for his first taste of "proper" trails, he went down everything in the skills area with only one little off! He's now asking if we can go every weekend, fine by me 🙂 now need to get him a new bike with better brakes as his is definitely not fit for purpose. bonus is I now have my own videographer so here's a crappy video still of me trying and failing miserably at getting some steeze in my jumping. I'm now able to clear the lot in the skills area though so good to see some improvement!
Made it from Insh over to Glen Feshie, then up the land-rover track to Carn Ban Mor, but had to cut the day short due to knee trouble. Returned via the walkers path down to Achlean.
