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Hardtail from the back door after a day of heavy downpours, turned into a nice evening.
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Good pics those. 2nd one especially.
Somehow heavy rain and cold winds left us with hero dirt
Fantastic ride. Still too damn cold to go to the pub tho!
Got out for an hour locally on the Tripster in Gravel mode last night.
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Local ride around the Edglands...found a slope. Soon to be a factory or warehose or such like 🙁
First time this year that weather and length of daylight has enabled us to do a big Beacons ride on a Wednesday evening. The light this evening was sublime. Shame I only had a (poor quality) phone with me to capture any shots.
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Couple of rides out this week so far in the beautiful weather we've had.
Twisted Oaks Session
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Lovely ride along the river with Mrs Ready
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Dry, Sunny, riding in Shorts & T shirt until 10pm with no lights, Kom’s, cups and Beer. Nice Wednesday night trail club over the Purbecks last night.
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Cycled out to Loch of Skene on Tuesday night.
Was a lovely ride but a bit too much of it was on road for my liking. I'll have to check some maps for next time to seek out more gravel routes/farm tracks.
Also fell into a cattle grid whilst trying to get my bike under a gate 😀
Tuesday morning a few laps on the local hill with Mrsstu.
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Overnight at Whitby YHA then a ride on the beach on the way back to Pickering
Need to learn to post pics!!! LOL
Got the 4 corners of Dunkeld done finally.
Most high points are still in trees so views not as good as they could be but you get the idea.
Should probably have done Cairn to Cottage for the cairn pic but fancied the other side of Craigvinean while it's dry.
Out on Wednesday testing a Fearless Warlock for ukgravelco.com
New tyres on and a quick lowers service at lunchtime and a few damp miles, tyres are not as draggy as I expected, but the grip is impressive already.
Over the Purbecks last night, riding down to Old Harry there was a Marines Helicopter out on manoeuvres, as we we’re about to entertain Garlic woods, it came over landed next to us, then buggered off again.
No pictures from last nights ride, but it was nice to not have to clean mud off everything. Hopefully it will stay like that for a while.
Quick morning ride on the local trails for us yesterday.
Surprisingly dry.
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Night ride tonight with mates at Glentress.
It’s coming! Managed an hour post work riding tonight before turning the lights on, and the best sunset of the year so far.
Tuesday morning checking out the trails opening up again in Yair.
Heading back across the old golf course towards home this avo.
Had to take the completed Iroko for a test spin, despite the fact I should be resting my knackered leg.
Popped the summer clothes on the Pickenflick. Trails drying nicely in Leeds.
Very rare, kid-free, mid-week ride on the Chase with Mrs LJ. Even better, it was her suggestion.
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Sky was too blue to stay inside
Do like that digger. Those new Wizard Works bags recommended by @rocketdog are brilliant as well.
If Monday counts as midweek. Snuck out to look at the Daffs, then went exploring in the woods and found lots of interesting trails. mostly under horse-indented clag!
Tuesday evening must be mid week right.
GT night ride.
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Woke up early and it was a beautiful sunrise so I thought I'd get up and take the hardtail for a jaunt down the valley. It's set up as with slicks as a commuter at the moment and hasn't been out for ages, because who commutes any more? It's just, like, sooooooo 2019, yeah?
I stuck to tarmac today, but I'm shoving the Small Block 8's on it at lunchtime so I can take some local bridleway detours for morning spins in this forecast decent weather
A nice start to the apex of the week though...
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40 miler up through the Dales from home, first ride with summer tyres, and conditions nigh-on perfect for them. Dust!
Rewarded with an Apache flyby waiting for my train back at the highest mainline station in England.
On its way to Poland?
Lovely evening for it, had a quick local blast and found this slightly hairy looking tree.
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On its way to Poland?
No, just circling around for a bit on Whernside, presumably practicing his 'popping up from a few miles away and killing folk' technique on day-trippers near Horton-in-Ribblesdale. Or idiots filming him from railway platforms. 🙂
My second night ride this week. 😀
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Riding until dark, finished with a burger and coffee at Dores Inn.
No Nessie to be seen.
Light free and a beautiful evening over the Purbecks tonight.
Oh RIDE picture. I thought it said Rude picture.
Still disappointed to some degree 🙁 But some lovely pics all the same.
Thursday is mid-week, right?
Damn Straight.
like those pics @jimmy748 🙂
This pic is very boring.
However it does mean 2 things
1) silverfish have warrantied/fixed my very squishy / noisy X2
2) we went to the pub and sat in the beer garden for the first time in 2022. Outside post ride beer is an important box ticked.
Roll on the weekend 🙂
All riding is great, right. But sometimes you get those rides that just hook up to perfection. Just 80 minutes last night. Local trails. Fast and dry and grippy, not yet too dusty. Twisty rooty singletrack. Gravel bike just riding really well. Me feeling great. Gorgeous early evening sun. Trees starting to burst with green. Bluebells out.
Beautiful evening over the Purbecks last night.
Just a pootle along the banks of the Thames from the caravan site today, to here....
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Some cracking photos on here.
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I normally just ride the gravel bike on the flatlands of East Yorkshire but visiting family in Lancashire so took the hardtail and realised how much I miss the mtb!
Dusty trails and Bluebells last night, Spring is my favorite riding season.
Here's a few from Tuesday and Wednesday. Too windy to ride outside today!
Here's one from last Thursday, one of esselgrunfuttock's toothpicks, aka the devil's arrows. Second tallest standing stone in Britain.
And since I like that sort of thing, thought I had better tick off the tallest this week.
Bright but breezy after work pootle
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Last night, straight out the front door, across the road and up the river. It's barely 7km out and back, but quite tricky in bits. Had to laugh at the teenage kids egging each other on into jumping into the river at Fankerton. It was sunny....but it's still only April in Stirlingshire!!
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Eeber ride at Inners today.
Managed to talk Mrsstu into trying Prospacker.
Went well with no tantrums.
Result.
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Does commuting count?
(It does when the commute is on sublime, dry, singkwtrwxk on the SS Hardtail ...)
On the way in ...
And home again ...
Bloody lovely over the Golfie this morning.
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Working away this week and didn’t bring the bike, so had to use local transport instead.
Molly playing peekaboo
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I was "forced" into an improptu trip up Glen Feshie yesterday - a recent landslip has caused a wee bit of an issue and I wanted to see how bad it was before the Cairngorms Loop Group Start on Saturday.
I had plans to bivvy a wee bit further afield for a change but needs must eh?
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Local local tonight.
First time I've ridden one of the trails and it's actually been dry.
Even dust hanging in the air at some points.
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had to use local transport instead.
Did you wear your Camelbak while you were on camel-back?
@scotroutes - once again I am reminded why I keep speaking to mrs_oab about moving to Speyside at some point in the future...
*goes off to browse self-build plots*
Same spot as the first photo on the thread
Scorched Heath
Portland last night, always a favourite little route.
Yesterday, borrowed my brother’s old hardtail and went for a quick explore around his villa in Spain
Today, up the mountain, this photo at 1240m, with brothers friend on his spare Orbea Wild. OMG this is an ebike in it’s element. Such a great ride. Another on Saturday. Looking directly towards Gibralta and Morocco
First one must remove the sleeping spider.
I'd go for a run and hope the house had finished burning down by the time I got back
Went to watch some riding last night instead of going riding myself.
Not really a roady type of person but it was actually pretty intense racing until the field got split by a crash.
Plenty of bar banging/brushing the barriers and pedal strikes going on.
First lap was pretty calm.
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6am dog biking
Last night with a couple of mates. Trails are in sublime condition.
Took my Pact out for a spin round some local woods after doing a full fork service. Quite amazing how lovely it all feels again. I guess I just gradually get used to decreasing performance.
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Another of last nights adventures, wee local loop,
Then up the back of gala hill, don't think it'll ever recover from the storms
Then, like singlespeed went into town to watch a bit of the racing