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Not sure if someone normally starts these, but given I've just got back from a cheeky Friday day-off-work-ride., I thought I'd start it 🙂
First ride in about 3 months.....
I got dropped off in the middle of nowhere*
Stopped to tweak a couple of bits
Spot of smog from the Staffs moors fires
Never seen it so dry up above Castleton
Made it down Cave Dale in one piece without stopping 🙂
Steady up
Sun holding out still!
Smoke from Staffs fires & clouds getting angry before final descent, bimble back to Hathersage and coffee whilst waiting my pick up 🙂 No way was I riding back over to Sheffield - was absolutely smashed after 4+ hours
Try again with the pics cp they no work for me 😩
heavy smoke i guess..... 😉
Third evening ride of the week for me ..I've dipped out of tomorrow to watch the toon on the telly ..
My favourite area of Kielder Forest ...Sidwood .
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Lovin it at the moment ..
Change of scenery for me
Came up to see the Newcastle Spurs game tomorrow so had a chance for a quick hour out on the roads between some nasty looking showers!!
About the least segmented big of strava I've found!!
https://www.strava.com/activities/1763184396
Annoying re pics.. they might show now as I've set them to shared. Might have to look into alternative hosting as it's getting more of a pain to post from Google photos.
No problems seeing your pics CP ..very nice too!
Recognised most of the spots from our trip down there a few years back..
If it hasn't been sanitised recently then hats off for doing Cavedale in a one-er!
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Chagny.
5 hrs singlespeeding from the house today grind & spin spin & grind lovely weather thought 🙂

i was wishing I brought something to eat by this stage

some get me home sustenance 🙂

final climb

quick spin hard tail hack round the local park with Samuel and Bro in law.



Classic gap ride. We do this 27th December every year and it’s always a bit of a death march through the snow/ice/hail/wind.
Today it was just lovely 🙂
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Didn’t take many pics as forgot my camera and couldn’t be bothered to get the phone out. But we got round a lot quicker than winter and had no ice to worry about riding down the gap. And for the first time ever, we managed a pint in the pub by the canal on the way back to Tal-Y-Bont.
As we packed the van, the forecasted rain came down. So a good day all round 🙂
New Bike First Ride Day
Blue and Tarw Du at Coed Y Brenin

No pics but another amazing day out in The Lakes with great cheeky loop up Garburn, Yoke, Il Bell, Foswick and the steps staircase off Wansfell Pike.
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40 miles on the Derbyshire back roads today.
<h4>Relive 'Morning Ride'</h4>
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2 for me
Friday avo around the South Lakes
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and a quick CX loop on the Tripster, with this funny brown sticky stuff, I think it's called mud 🙁
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Mucky Staffs lanes at twilight.

Some lovely and varied bikes and pics.. isn't biking great 🙂
Finished my weekend off yesterday evening with a bit of trail pruning ..
It wasn't meant to be so..with the planned ride from Kielder Dam car park to do a circular up to Monkside aborted due to monsoon conditions as soon as I got there ..unbelievable !
I turned around and headed back south towards Bellingham and then over to Dunterley Fell into a section of forest near to Watson's Walls ..where I had a good session with my Bacho Freelander hand saw trimming some overgrown branches ..
You've got to give a little back every now and then ...timed to perfection when I got back to the car with the first drops just starting to fall ..
Dundee > Loch Earn > Dundee, about the flattest route I could think of for a century but still really struggled.


No pics sadly.
Eldest_OAB spent Saturday lapping the uplift at Innerliethan with a pal; mrs_OAB and middle_OAB a local roady/track ride at Inners.
I spent the weekend tearing the house apart following our plumbing leak a couple of months back, so pulling ceilings down and ripping up floorboards to get at electrics and plumbing... 🙁
3d flyover with geotagged images throughout. soggy quantocks on familiar trails. (bincombe/seven wells wood/slaughterhouse combe)
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