[Closed] Weekend riding pics.... let's cheer ourselves up on a Monday morning.

Lots of riding this weekend it got off to a good start on Friday
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Started with some fixing Saturday morning
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Then a mate decided to go over the bars in the wrong place and luckily escaped with very minor damage
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Then Saturday was a solo midwinter ride
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Took my youngest (aged 6) to Sherwood Pines for the first time.
He smashed round the Kitchener Trail at Sherwood Pines with no whinging, one minor crash and only the smallest amount of pushing.

Very proud of the little chap!

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Built one and fixed two others at the weekend

Warm fuzzy feeling, but no riding grrr

Rode along the ridge and down rather than the landrover track past the reservoir.

Cider Cycle for me.
Great route but rather moist.

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Nice long (for me) South Lakes loop on Friday. Too lazy to take pics, so here's a couple from a Skipton to Kirkby Stephen ride from the previous weekend.

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Blimey where did you find all that mud? It's dusty-dry here in Malverns/FoD and we only found a couple of patches on that black mountains route. And that's normally at least a bit underwater!

The easiest way to describe the path is to the trig point after climbing up Y Das to the fence line. Then immediate right onto a reasonably well defined path of rutted peat that slowly descends for a couple of km. It quite hard work tho. Then up the next rise, drop right off the top of there down a very fast grassy path which if you keep heading left towards the trees will end up at a gate. Over that, proper streambed/rocky gulley through the trees out onto fire-road, one turn on there and into 45 seconds of even rockier singletrack that is a starve segment. Ends up at the CP at the bottom of GF descent. A lot shorter but loads of fun.

Warning tho - only if it's bone dry. That peat-y path is a bog even when the rest of the route is dry. It'll suck the joy out of you - ask me how I know 😉

GPX if you want it - email in profile.

That toast pic has made me hungry 🙂

Cheers Alex just mailed you.
The Crychan Forest never seems to dry out in the bottom of the valleys.
There are however trails everywhere. 😀

🙂 Never ridden there. I'll put in on the list. Email received and GPX's sent back. Have a good one if you get up there next weekend. Never been better in the ten years I've been riding that route.

Nice pics. Went for a ride locally then heading back caught this amazing sunset one way and then a bit further on, the moon the other

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I rode that ridge for the first time yesterday. It was lovely and dry, I imagine it would be a nightmare when wet. I went further along the ridge to Bal-Mawr. That's quite a nice run and a bit rockier than the peaty upper section.

Great pics Alex, I'm hoping to do the standard route from the VPub book on Friday but it looks like the weather will be against me unfortunately. Don't fancy being on exposed hills I don't know on my own in bad weather 🙁

Anyway, meet up with another forumite for the first time and did just shy of 30miles around the Dark Peak. Sun didn't shine till just as I pulled off in the car but had a cracking ride!

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Nice pics, all! Black mountains look ace. And bucksters sunset!

Pre-wedding bimble through the heather on Saturday morning. My first ride after doing my shoulder in - not counting the one a couple of weeks ago when I had to turn back - too soon!

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Moody skies... yeah looks like the weather is going to break. Shame as we're at Antur on Sat and Lakes on Sun for my birthday. And doing the cotic demo on Friday in the FoD. Ah well it'll be warm rain

I went further along the ridge to Bal-Mawr.

wanted to go to the pub

As good a [s]excuse[/s] reason as any 😉

soggy spin round Ardgarten Peninsula 🙂

Nice to get the CDF onto some rougher stuff for a change though !

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I was feeling guilty about the fact that I've not ridden my full suss (Smuggler) since getting the fatbike, so decided to take it out for a bimble along a trail that I've only ever ridden in winter before.

I thought, being a full-sus, it would be a lot more comfortable than the fatbike, but in fact it was a lot less comfortable. Still a pleasant ride though and quite a change from winter to summer 🙂

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Great thread - some nice photos there.

Had a superb BIG day out in the Peak on Saturday - perfect weather for it 🙂

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Happy Days Chaps!!! 😀

Ok, wasnt [i]actually[/i] the weekend, but was the last time I went out...

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Exploring my own back yard.
Pre 7am start to get back for 10(ish).

7:10am at the highest point but cheating as I parked up as high as I could.
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Nice morning shame about the wind.
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Lovin' the chubb 🙂

That is a big day out. 2000m+ climbing in the peaks? I doff my virtual hat to you sir!

I look at these pics and think we just have the best hobby! Especially in summer.

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Not the most exciting from me but as it was the first proper mountain bike ride I've done in about 5 years I quite enjoyed it!

No pics I'm afraid, but did Hopton Woods for the first time since "racing" there back in the 90's, absolutely loved it.

Slowly getting back up to speed after breaking the collar bone on June 1st and after last weekends 39 degree murder session it was nice to get back to normal temperatures i.e 32 degrees, for a quick 24km leg spin.
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I only take pics when out on family rides. She's quite happy with this one 🙂

Jimster what bike were you on, the car park wasn't very busy there's yesterday.

Not a photo but a short vid shot on my phone of radgnar fat xc shredding

drop the s from HPPTS normally

I thought the fat bike was going off the big stone 🙂

Horton isn't far from me, alway drive past it on the way to somewhere else. Really should go ride in those woods rather than just do the Long Mynd.

So many places to ride, I need to retire!

Oh and (epic)steve - can't see from the photo but I think my mate sold you a brown Santa Cruz many, many years ago. Is that it? !

Not a photo but a short vid shot on my phone of radgnar fat xc shredding

Alex - Member
I thought the fat bike was going off the big stone

We were over there on Saturday, I was on a Giant NRS.

Oh and (epic)steve - can't see from the photo but I think my mate sold you a brown Santa Cruz many, many years ago. Is that it?

Never had a Santa Cruz myself - the bike in the photo is my ancient Epic.

After a great time in the Alps our garage was broke into last week with Kevins and Katies bikes been taken so we were and still are on a bit of downer. Went up onto Cutgate yesterday and did some shuffling of bikes so we could celebrate Katies 21st birthday with a ride and a pie afterwards.

Birthday girl on her sisters bike.

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Abigale on a 29r, decisions to be made for next bike, 29r or 650b.

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Me and Fin

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Short cut home.

Drop bar but 1.75 29r tyres!

Gutting to hear about the bikes Tracey, to many thieving scrotes about, hope you get it sorted soon. Looks like you managed to celebrate the bday pretty well regardless 😀

Thanks, getting out on the bikes managed to take it off my mind for a while

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Well, on Friday I was riding on Vancouver North Shore, now I'm back in Lincolnshire. Struggling to see the up side tbh.

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Great photo Tang - good job you weren't on wide bars! You've have been harvesting that..

Tracey - saw that thread, really sad. Mate had his nicked a while ago and it's just horrible. Hope you get it sorted soon. I reckon you should leave that mutt in the garage, he looks game to take on a burglar !

Andy - is that the little roll-in at the top of Crummackdale?

Not strickly the weekend, as it's last week really.
Still first time my son has been above the clouds, but not in an aeroplane. Thanks to AQR for some guiding round the beginner trails for the little man. He loved his new XS sus bike with 24" wheels.

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Guess where? 🙄

Alex, great wide bar name: The Harvester.

Could decide which bike to take on the family holiday so ended up putting some Big Apples on the Rumble. So wrong but it rolls really easily.

Yesterday saw an flyer for the Rando de Huitres (The Oster Rally) - 6€ entry including refreshment before and after and as many oysters as you can eat!

25km of flowing singletracjk through the woods and then a bimble around the oyster beds over near Royan in Western France. A proper French family day out.!

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nathb - Member

Guess where?

Strava Central?

Oh and (epic)steve - can't see from the photo but I think my mate sold you a brown Santa Cruz many, many years ago. Is that it? !

I think one of the guys I used to ride with, John, who also had an Epic, mmoved to a Santa Cruz so might have been him.

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@tang - excellent. We'll go halves on the royalties. This time, next year, we'll be millionaires 🙂

@epic-steve. Could well be. IT was a long time ago...

Golspie up in the Highlands.

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Can't say it was from this weekend but recently come back from greece and hired a bike for 3 days cheeky riding 🙂

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Took my Singular Osprey road bike out Saturday evening when it cooled down, and stretched the definition of 'road' a bit.

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Dynamo lighting FTW too - this has really opened up the times I can ride.

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Had a cracking day at FOD on Saturday.

Ride to red and blue trails in the morning and spent the afternoon mucking about on the DH trials which were quite different on the hardtail! Managed six and a half DH runs which was ace.

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Last weekend
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[b]ChunkyMTB[/b]

[b]nathb[/b]
Guess where?

Strava Central?

Yep, with all the other weekend warriors.. Can't wait to get my nav back! 😐

Plain old Llandegla for me. First clear day I've had there.

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First photo from the other week but matching sunflower photo! Had an epic weekend with Drumlanrig Thursday, Fri morning Gypsy Glen (happy with only two dabs considering the bog and the wind) from GT parking, then the red route at GT in the soaking rain, Yair forest saturday and GT with some off piste including Broon Troot on the sunday!

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Some pics from a week ago before i left for work. Bike into Val Veny above Courmayeur, carry/push up to the ridge then all down hill back to Courmayeur through the ski centre.

The push/carry up

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Looking over at Monte Bianco

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The run home. 1250m of decent.

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Niall

Didnt manage to get out this last weekend but had a cracker the Saturday before.

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Rather than the usual 1.5-2hr blast, had a ride to Bakewell over Chatsworth and Edensor one day last week. Stopped for a pint, a mate saw me on Facebook and came down on his Harley, so had another pint. Rode back to Rowsley up a farm track. Had another pint and some snap, then rode along the old railway to my local and had more pints. Set off a 1.30, got home at 10.30 😀

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ooh, I forgot to share mine.
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