I'll kick things off with a family Munro day. Two walkers and three bikers, with youngest_oab's first biking Munro.
His description of the top singletrack is 'fruity', the flat out (52kph!) track as 'a fair giggle'.
We even beat the rain, arriving back at car with only a few minutes drizzle.
Been out today as I won't get chance tomorrow, 27 miles from home onto the edge of the Pennines, it was glorious out there really felt like Spring was here !
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Felt good to get back to the Lakes again. Don't think my arse has ever been as wet, though...
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Out walking in the Peak this weekend for us. Hot for the time of year. Loads out on bikes and walking. More like a summers day. May get a local ride in when we get home tomorrow
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Me & my lad went to Swaledale. 19 miles with 2,300 ft chucked in.
Can't be arsed to download the photos from the phone to the laptop to Flickr to here though, & I don't know how else to do it.
Flickr 2bb app on the phone and then its easy straight from the phone
Out to Uffington on the road SS.
Tomorrow off road the same but with a phone at least.
Ben Chonzie?
Ben Vorlich just along the road is another good one, a bit more technical in places though!
So feking jealous...
Best weather weekend so far this yer and I'm sat at home with cold, flue and godknow whatelse...
Cheers!
I.
Like Ivan ^^ there, I was struck down Thursday. So missed an amazing all day ride in the FoD yesterday where the boys ended up sitting outside the pub drinking beer in the sunshine.
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Made it out today to local trails. Trails brilliant for end feb, rider rasping like a 20 a day man and at least 20% of my body is phlegm and snot :(. Still it was worth it to see the sun chasing the fog away.
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My mate David putting up with my whinging..
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Another shot in B&W as it was such awesome light.
I’m off for a lie down, a Lemsip and a long talking to from the better half along the lines of ‘I told you so’. Yeah, but it was worth it 🙂
Flaming February !!!!!
grey start yesterday but trails are like the end of march, macwinter !
road miles friday and today
beautiful pint of ghostship on the way home, being warm enough to sit out in the garden all sweaty is wonderful 🙂
Lovely spring morning. Pines was busy, so we went off piste a fair bit. Took a tumble hitting a hidden stump coming down a steep bank and my bike landed like this:
I now have a bit of a shiner and a tear in my five tens. Lovely ride overall though.
Couple of hours South Downs and Friston. Glorious. New bike still mostly clean. In February. Bonkers!
Had an 80km West Yorkshire club road ride planned for today, but the retaining screw at both ends on my disc brakes were stuck fast and I needed to put new pads in. I managed to sort the front but the rear is in the LBS.
So I did some actual mountain biking, taking the plus hard tail up around Blackstone Edge and rode Mordor, which is running great and ends in one of my favourite descents.
Cracking day to be out on the bike. Even saw my shadow at one point 😄
After falling off an spannering my self last spring, and then work went completely mental (i'm self employed so it's hard to turn down lots of nice paying customers!) i'm ashamed to say i've not really had a proper ride on a mountain bike for, well, nearly 11 months!
So today, i dusted off my kit, sanded the rust off the discs on my bike and headed to Woburn (my local) for a bit of R&R!
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The sun shone, the sky was blue, and the trails were fast and buff! Unfortunately, after all that time away from the saddle, i was neither fast, nor buff!! 😉
it was so glorious after eating lunch in the garden we went for a walk, someone needs to tell this blackthorn it's not the end of march
Demoing a SolarisMAX at Rivington. Sold!
80 miles up and down the Downs for me on the gravel bike - last bit of training before Strade Bianche (the SDW is pretty much a 'white road'). Beautifully sunny and one of those days where you feel like you could ride forever.
After a cracking walking weekend in the Peak it would have been a shame not to have fitted a ride in when we got back. Trails were fast and dry
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The sun was out at Haldon so got out and made the most it. I like that I can claim "playing about on my bike" counts as training!
So far this has been a cracking weekend for the STW massive. 😎
Really nice 45 mile round trip out to Mum and Ken's grave at Goosey. Lovely day.
Great weather in the Lakes
Local running like it's June
I rode to screwfix...
Elan valley rocketdog?
Road to aboyne over the monument for breakfast yesterday on the speed machine . 85k in glorious sun
Turbo for an hour on Friday, Road bike for a quick local this morning, but managed a great afternoon in the Trough of Bowland yesterday, with some CC under me 🙂
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Saturday - Had a quick hour on my singlespeed as it was so nice
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Sunday - couple of hours this afternoon in the Peak District - amazing conditions for the time of year and pretty quiet late on
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Busy weekend planned this week but this weather plus my new bike arriving midweek meant I was riding no matter what.
I was out at first light on Saturday just around familiar trails at Cannock so a quick lap of the dog with a stop off at Stile cop for a trip around the red route. I evidently hadn't got enough pressure in the rear and it bottomed out and blew my feet off the pedals on one of the bigger small drops, I pushed the seatpost right up to the collar just using my bodyweight on my balls. What fun.
Still managed to finish the run without even stopping.
Bike is great, weather was lovely. Then I got home and took the kids to watch the Lego movie. Had a nice snooze on the Odeon leather recliners.
Nice walk over the chase today
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Mum and Ken’s grave at Goosey
As in Goosey that's near Stanford in the Vale?
Where I grew up, and my dad still lives there.
Lovely little church with a great view of the downs.
Lovely ride up to Haldon starting at Kenn.
Rode up Holloway lane, mucked about on the café side trails, did some cheeky singletrack out the back of the racecourse, a couple of long off-piste trails at Haldon proper, and then bumped into some mates, and we headed back via the café side and St Andrews lane.
Lovely weather, and almost dusty in places 😎
Heavy legs after a week of walking and riding in The Lakes, so quite gently round the woods this morning. Amazing weather for February and even the Northants clay was mostly dry.
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Hip soreness (itb) has been putting me off riding for a while but today's weather was jut too good. A blue/ black mashup at Brechfa was great.
As in Goosey that’s near Stanford in the Vale?
Thats the one. My stepdad spent a lot of his life there, your dad may have heard his name - Ken Woodward. He was buried there 4 years ago.
I used to know Goosey a long time ago when the Pound was still open.
Saturday afternoon after work 22 miler followed by Alpkit opening party/talk In Keswick which ended with a camp beside Derwen****er.
Sunday ride up Skiddaw with a bit of Ullock Pike Lonscale Fell and Latrigg to finish quality weekend and the Evol is an amazing bike got it set up perfectly 🙂
Beers in Threkeld
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24 miles on the Quantocks, 3500ft of climbing, coffee and cake. Lovely weather once the sun burnt through. Trails really dry for the time of the year, felt like I was cheating the seasons.
Thats the one. My stepdad spent a lot of his life there, your dad may have heard his name – Ken Woodward. He was buried there 4 years ago.
I used to know Goosey a long time ago when the Pound was still open
I imagine he would, we moved there in 1980.
The pound was a great pub. Closed when I was about 15/16 I think. I may have had the occasional pint there. Ahem.
75km from South East London to North Downs and back...proper summer riding
We moved to Wantage in 63 so my first (illegal) drinks were in the Shoulder of Mutton a few years later when I was revising for O Levels. The Pound was a place for many late night lock ins as the police never bothered coming out that far (they had a decent social club of their own) then a careful ride back via the lanes to Hanney or Grove.
Bad old days.
Mate has just sent me this from todays ride
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Picnic in the glorious sunshine then 10 km round swinley-
but had the twins in the trailer for a few km, then mrs took them off to the play area & I did the blue with the older 2, followed by Ice lollies in february!
top day
my daughter isnt such a fan of the descents as her brother!
I went for a ride on my local lake - my house is just in front (sadly not lake fronting!)
Kimbers wins the thread...
Kids on bikes Rocks....
Seathwaite and Walna. Old classic never fails to deliver smiles.
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Rubbish photo, but I dont care. After 2 hrs of riding my bike was still clean.
Great little session at Cannock despite most of the country being there. I've never seen it so busy. Or had so many knobbers running down the trails.
Our weekend was in a Kimbers style. Trailer ordered Thursday, arrived Friday afternoon. built up, 9 month old boy in, instant smiles! Good start!
14 miles on Saturday, up to the Punchbowl, coffee, swimming class, pub lunch, met a mate and his eldest at another pub on the way home.
12 miles yesterday, Punchbowl, 3 Horseshoes (lunch again, get us - high rollers!) up a bit, down to the stream and up again.
After a couple of years of bike rides done separately - two pregnancies, one ending early, one ending brilliantly, and looking after a tiny one - this was like old times, just out on the bikes, following our noses, everything we need with us And now we've got a happy little chappy in tow, burbling and blowing raspberries and watching the world go by.
Absolutely delightful weekend. The weather being lovely was the icing on the cake. Felt like a holiday!
Rolling back down Hindhead Common. Stopped to enjoy the last of the sunshine.
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kimbers, just watched your video, lovely!
Can I ask how you get on with dirt in the kiddies faces when you've go the front open?
I was a bit disappointed to see flecks of dirt on his face when we got him out. I had the mesh down but the plastic up. Later I put the plastic down when we headed down hill.
Ever had this problem? You've clearly been doing it longer than us!
Where is that ridgeline, Postierich?
Ullock Pike Keswick way its a must do ride
Had to cut our road ride short.
Bugger
You're off centre with your drilling...
Elan valley rocketdog?
yep
Such great photos,not many rolling mountainous views in Kent where I was riding though .
Would welcome a gpx of a 15-20miler that includes that Postierich? Thanks in advance 🙂
It's an eternal problem
I've seen a plastic screen to bolt on the front that someone has made & was selling on eBay or possibly on here.
The kids don't like the mesh screen that much but it does help.
Sunglasses are very good but they tend to take them off.
If you could get them to wear goggles that'd be great !
My commuter has full guards on the rear & that really helps . We did a 40k coast to coast in Cornwall last summer & they were fine.
Our trailer is probably 6 years old now it was used for the older 2 daily to take them 2 and from nursery.
cheers Kimbers, Early indications are that we'll get a lot of use out of ours!
From reading around forums etc, it seems that rear guards is the only good answer, whether you like it or not! I've been thinking about how to cobble together an easy on/off half guard like you see on big adventure trail bikes. I've got a couple of possibilities in mind, but nothing promising enough to get the tools out and try.
it was a day for the tarmac here :
Grizedale and around on Sunday, very very good ride...
@nedrapier something like this looked very good
sorry will stop hijacking the thread now
No pictures till I get home (in Helsinki airport at the moment) but did the Rovaniemi 150 fat bike race on Saturday - came seventh in 19:54. Conditions were barmy (and balmy) being above freezing for most of the route.
Five Brits in the top ten. My wife was second lady on fat bike in 18th, (first lady was 5th).
Much harder than two years ago with lots of overflow on the lakes. Lots of comedy snow angels by everyone
A mate showed me some of the off-piste stuff at Cannock, pleasantly suprised, very foggy for a start but then warmed up nicely, had to hire a bike as my new steed hasn't arrived yet, 16 miles and an awful pace showed that I haven't been on a bike in a few months, but totally enjoyed it and can't wait for the new arrival.
We enjoyed a ride with Chainline and his daughterin the sunshine at Cannock, Jacob was ripping and Dylan got round Monkey for the first time.
Had the Woburn woods completely to myself this afternoon in glorious sunshine and nearly 20 degC temps!
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Just me, the squirrels and dusty trails! Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner 😉
Mad conditions for February in the Lakes today. Thought I was getting heatstroke at one point. 🙂
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Stunning pics Martin. Although rubbing it in somewhat when I'm stuck in an office
Sorry about that! Take comfort from the fact that my damper packed in somewhere around Seathwaite and I got to ride WS and Church Beck with an old school 40mm of bounce.
