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55 miles for
up Kirkstone pass, into Ambleside, down to Newby Bridge, then over to Grange and finished at the Strickland Arms for a pint and chips 🍟 🍺🌞🚲
it was great, this summer is great 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞😎😎😎😎😎😎
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I've been in Wales with the gravelly bike.
Right then!
Out of DH retirement 😉 first race for 4/5 years and back to Shropshire, last time I raced here a young fella from sheffield was World Champion on the same weekend.
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Warm weekend there!! Didn't finish last and nothing more than a bit of a knee scrape 🙂
Cadair Idris this morning and a lap of (well most of it ) The Beast @ Coed y Brenin this afternoon
Just sat chillin with Beers after Pizza 👍day out
Roadride doing Birker Fell, Hardknott, Wrynose and Kirkstone (via the struggle) Pooley bridge then over to Great Dunn fell) then back home. 204miles at 17.2 av. safe to say I'm knackard tonight !
Hats off doing Kirkstone up that way. 👍👍👍👍
and over 200 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😳😳😳😳 chapeau
Didn't take any pictures, but the abiding memory of the ride today was riding past one of the local lavender farms as they were harvesting.
The smell...
Round and about in summer you can always spot cyclists, not cycling, by the SiS bottles. I have 2 we take on picnics. I've been in Dorset all week mostly on the beach, I did take my big wheeled bike but only managed 2 rides 😩. We're doing another break from Wednesday till Sunday... trying to persuade the wife that Nth Wales is a good idea...😎😁👍
This weather is ace.
Weekend off for us to do some upgrades and fettling after our Alps trip. Decided to go into the Peak with the camper and do a bit of walking. Still managed to fit in a pre breakfast blast this morning.
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Eldest_oab spent a week riding Fort William, Glencoe and Laggan being coached by a certain Mr Cathro...
He is third in this train...
We spent week canoeing, climbing Munro's, MTb and gravel riding around Fort Augustus.
Just got back from a quick blast on the roadie to make sure my tubeless is OK; I’ve not ridden for a week so needed to do something. This weather is crap for me (UV intolerance!) so I’m praying for it to be overcast and gloomy soon.
Nice Sunday blast, got up early in an attempt to beat the hot HK summer weather, failed, but still managed to get in a 40km ride in the 30 degree, 90% humidity. After recently being back in the in the UK I forgot what actual hot weather was like.
One from yesterday.
Annual uplift weekend; BPW Saturday, FoD Sunday.
BPW included a trail feature I'd never experienced there before...DUST!
Had an early 6.00am ride at Kielder on Saturday ..doing a mix-up of Lonesome Pine ( top work Russell on the Bewshaugh section ) and Deadwater ..before spending time with the family ..which ended with a couple of pints in The Narrow Nick in Rothbury while the Mrs.took over driving duties .
First time in there ....what a fantastic little bar .
Half way up three dog climb with lots of midgeriegars for company ..and me forgetting my repellent ..hence only one pic !
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Sat am bimble with the good lady along Thames from Maidenhead to Eton/Windsor, then back via Jubilee River Way (with some detours), sunny, lots of shiny happy people (*excluding one lady who loudly told her colleagues that bikes were definitely not allowed on the towpath), great coffee van at the (? Dorney) rowing lake centre (bloke had all the patter and some good banter with him and a couple of punters), sandwiches in a shady spot watching dragonflies, swimmers and paddleboarders , coffee at a watersports centre and then back to Maidenhead before it got really hot. Not bad atall.
41miles on my singlespeed linking a few new paths with some I already knew - made my map bigger
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Some great summer pics in this thread. We had a long ride out in the FoD
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3 of us on Solaris’s. One MK1, two MK2s.
Blurry pic of me on a fab trail not long re-opened, there are rocks in the forest if you know where to look...
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Haven't got any pics, sorry, but I was down in the Lakes this weekend and rode from Keswick, up Latrigg and through Lonscale Fell to Skiddaw House. We then headed west along the foot of Blencathra until we popped out at the Quaker tea room in Mosedale. Here, I parted company with my mate and his son as they were starting to struggle in the heat. they headed back along the road towards Keswick, while I headed west again and started climbing up onto the Caldbeck fells. It was around about this point that I started to think I'd maybe bitten off more than I could chew....
However, idiot that I am, I thought "Hey, I'm an unfit, overweight Scotsman out on a baking hot day in the Lakes, what could possibly go wrong?"
Once I got to the highest point of the Caldbeck track, the descent was quite good fun as I was able to pop my Orange Four off the water bar ramps and get wee bits of high speed air. Unfortunately every little descent seemed to be immediately followed by another tough climb. The drop down Longlands Fell was the fastest and funnest, but by this point I was really starting to struggle to turn the pedals and my plan to return to Keswick via Whitewater Dash - Skiddaw House and Threlkeld was quietly shelved.
I finished off by taking the road back to Keswick, but by Christ, that was the longest 9 miles I've ever ridden on the road. I was shattered, sunburnt and dehydrated by the time I got back to Oddfellows beer garden. It was a great ride, but way to much for my fitness levels and I'm still paying for it now, two days later with aching legs, delayed exercise induced diabetic hypoglycemia and absolutely no sympathy from the wife!
Lakeland riding with a bunch of new mates and first time I've followed someone on a full-sus E-Bike - impressed in how it climbed on really techy rocky stuff. I can see myself getting one in 5 years time (for my 60th).
Blurry pic of me on a fab trail not long re-opened, there are rocks in the forest if you know where to look…
Regular FOD rider but I don't recognise that, can you point me in the right direction?
Alex I think we may have seen you on Saturday morning, was one of your party riding a Liteville? I certainly recognise that pub garden & you're right about the rocks, we found a few too with some local guidance.
My weekend was the opposite to timmys, FOD on Saturday followed by BPW yesterday.
@mark90 - drop me an email (on my profile) and I’ll let you know the location. It’s not really secret (as it’s on Strava I think) but I’m wary of just chucking stuff up about trails I’ve been shown by others.
@simwit. You did indeed. That’s matt with his massive XL 601. Pub is the White Hart at Staunton. Local knowledge pretty much mandatory over that side. Was were you riding/where did you see us?
@Alex, Thanks. I couldn't see email address in your profile so have PM'd you. Understandable you don't want to publicise the location on open forum.
Took the family to glentress. Wife not been on a bike for a while Sophie face planted on Blue velvet and Lewis crashed right at the end of Good game (penultimate corner).
Found that quite a few of my nipples are either cracked or broken 🙁 They are DSN so at least have more of the spoke threaded. Excuse for new wheels though.
Bike I built up for Lynne to use.
2016 Dartmoor hornet
Fox 34 140mm (27.5) CRC bargin
Spank oozy trail 295 wheels (26) - huck norris in rear DHF 2,5 front, minnion SS rear.
Spank oozy vibrocore bar, ergon grips,
Spank spike stem
XT crank + 30t oval ring, SLX mech, XT 11-46 cassette
Brand X 125mm dropper, WTB Koda pro saddle
DNM vault pedals
Zee brakes 203 F 180 R RT76 rotors
Alex, we were just emerging from the top of an old road that links across from Redbrook direction & joins up with a lane below Staunton. I mentioned the Liteville as you don't see many but seconds after you all passed my friend emerged from the lane on his.
It was our first time over there & is a cracking area to ride, the trails were in absolutely prime condition but I'd imagine it's a bit slippery in the wet?
Poah - that's one ace pic of your family!
Ah right-o. Funnily enough we were saying exactly the same about Litevilles!
I’m not a fan of it in the wet. It has that soil structure that tends to be soft for an inch and then firm underneath. Basically fills the tyre but doesn’t allow them to cut through. It’s a bit steeper and harder than a lot of the stuff on the other side so we don’t tend to ride it that much when it’s gopping wet.
I rode the Bunker once in the wet. I still wake up screaming sometimes at the memory 😉
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Not sure if that pic worked. Saturday took my kids up snowdon on foot. They did brilliantly. My daughter is only 5 and she nailed it. My 8 year old son was running downhill at a few points. They loved it as well. Proud dad.
Sunday had a short ride in the ceiriog valley. Love it there.
Jasper, Canada, ok not quite the weekend but near enough!