[Closed] Weekend riding pics thread

Road ride up the Col d'allos.
It was absolutely horrible on the way up. 39° and we were plagued by huge horseflies which the scare the shit out of me.
I was knackered and didn't have the power or stamina to keep continuously accelerating away from them. I have rarely been more miserable on a bike.

On the way down, it cooled down and they all vanished. The view was stunning, so here are some 'roady' photos of the tarmac and a very small Mr TW.

Mr TW on a bridge.

My bike

Mr TW and some tarmac.

Where's Wally?

Where's Wally 2.

Stunning scenery but why do people leave scrap bikes all over the place.LOL.

Great ride report tallPaul👍

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Out in the Peak for the weekend in the camper. Did a loop over from Castleton to Derwent and back. Just got back as the rain came. Its great to be using the van again

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Teith to Forth, happy Osprey fishing and proper grumpy other fisherman.

I hope you shifted the gravel first 😉

No piccies I'm afraid, 'twas a bit dreich. Did the North Peak 100km loop https://my.viewranger.com/route/details/MzA5NTk1Ng== starting and finishing at Castle Hill near Huddersfield. Total distance - 104km , 2250m of climbing. Took 6hrs51mins including one deliberate detour to pick up a VV explorer square and a few nav errors.

The vast majority of this was new riding to me, just done the Don Valley Trail before.

anyone else really want a sausage roll now?

I thought I’d be itching to get back on the MTB once lockdown was relaxed, but I still keep opting for the gravel thing for some reason. At least this time I drove to start somewhere different, so I’m getting there 😀

A gentle loop from Craigellachie. Along the Speyside way then up to the wind farm and back though the now deforested forest.

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Technically this was Thursday night, but what the heck. I won't be out again till Sunday night at the earliest.

anyone else really want a sausage roll now?

It did not touch the sides, I tell ya. All manner of peanut butter sandwiches, flapjacks, cookies and bananas were also consumed that day, along with 3l of water, a large coffee and 2 bottles of orange lucozade. Scoffed down a massive haddock and chips when I got back too. I still reckon I was a few thousand calories down over the course of the 2 days.

@Tracey that looks like Lockerbrook descent down onto the road that runs alongside derwent? That was my final descent of the ride, just after the soul sapping hike up from the bottom of the beast...

Although it also looks like about 5 or 6 other climbs/descents I did yesterday...

Cutthroat ridge is probably one of the best bits of descending I've ever done, followed by the chunky descent which spits you out at the ladybower inn much to the amusement off all the people sitting there having a drink 😀

Around the East Neuk today

Crail Harbour

Yes its near the bottom,last lefthander.
Only photo of today as we were late setting off out and on a mission to miss the rain

Spent today at Tidworth Freeride with two riding mates, making the most of it being dry and being allowed out of Wales to go play! Was tiring but fun jumping over and whizzing past all of these little guys:
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There used to be loads more of them but I guess some have been victims of crossing the trail incidents over the years.

Working weekends coz of covid so making the most of the commute

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A ride ending in the pub!

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A proper 4 pint celebration of our triumphant return 🙂 Amazing day in the Yat. Rode all our favourite trails and they were mint. 60km, 1200m of climbing, post ride beers in the pub. Simple things done well 🙂

I've been playing with the 360 gopro

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No cycles. But Mrs Weeksy being stalked by me.

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Like that Tony but that 360 footage hurts my head 🙂

I've finally 'finished' my Ripley after about a 1000km. When I get a sec, I'm going to start a thread entitled 'Beware the perils of the budget build' 🙂

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Anyway it's done now and it's fab.

A full Lap of Balqhidder to inspect all trails. Youngest_oab ripped my legs off.

I always blame the bike when I cant keep up. 😅

A wee push/carry up Sgor Gaoith, weather was interesting.....

Great view!

Oh dear @nstpaul ...

Mini Rippers! Impressive stuff...

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A nice loop of the forth taking in some minor roads above Linlithgow and Falkirk before crossing over to Denny and descending/time-trialling down through Plean to Airth. Just really really really... nice roads for the most part, and the winding minor road climb out of Denny has been relaid to a bizarrely high standard, wished I was descending it as it has a great surface, great visibility and even a mini Laguna SECA style corkscrew set of corners, lovely!

Coming back along the well beaten route from Kincardine to the Forth Road Bridge but detoured up some lovely looking cobbles in Culross, reminded me of a description I'd read of the Arenberg Trench 'like riding over broken halves of bowling balls'. Was too early to give it beans (would have woken residents on street) so tried to ride up it quietly whilst not losing traction, tricky!

Pictures stolen from google, I can never be bothered digging my phone out, need to fix it to bars in future...

Headed out past Braemar and did the out and back up Beinn a Bhuird’s North Top. A wee note to myself, the thinnest of summer gloves are not much use at nearly 4000ft 😳
Things were much more pleasant down in Glen Quoich.

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Getting out and about in Stirlingshire and the Ochils, great to have a biking neighbour though its hard when he's on a Levo, and I'm fat and definitely only self powered.

First ride up and down Dumyat, then touring around uni woods, Mine woods, stuff above Dunblane - I was knackered, and most of the time had absolutely no idea where I was.

Superb fun!

Also, after various question on here, first time out to use my new Dominion A4s properly. Glorious!

Cracking ride there big_scott_nanny...

Out o Curber Edge this afternoon.
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Cracking xc ride today including cafe stop and pint at the end ☀️🍻😀

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What a superb weekend we're having! Really enjoying the pics this weekend.

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Another one from this weekends trip to the Peak. Can't remember a time when it was so busy. Not sure where everyone was managing to park.

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Another one from this weekends trip to the Peak. Can’t remember a time when it was so busy. Not sure where everyone was managing to park

Agreed Tracey. It was absolutely heaving today. Huge numbers parked along edale road. And other side of mam tor towards the cavern. Will it be like this all summer?

 

Thursday/Friday wasn't too bad, but I can imagine the weekend was heaving - lots of twitchers parked up en masse in laybys too when I was up, hoping for a glimpse of the bearded vulture...

Oh and good to see I rode some of the decent trails, rode that one too! That's the roman road which leads onto a tarmac road then eventually into Hope? That's a brilliant descent from the tree line with the sharp left taking you onto that trail.
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Matt - yes, it was fab, lots and lots of excellent singletrack. Have put Balquihdder on the list. See you soon!

@IainC - where was that? looks amazing!

I must start riding a bit further from home, some great pics. Lockdown has got me into a habit of only riding locally. Stuck on my old hardtail for a while now, other bike being sold, new bike ordered (yay).

Oxfordshire Ridgeway...

Another one from this weekends trip to the Peak. Can’t remember a time when it was so busy. Not sure where everyone was managing to park

It was mental, the twitchers didn't help with their stupid parking on Strines road but the sheer volume of people in the Peaks was crazy even at 8am.

Wonder if its the start of the staycation and a sign of the summer to come, if so great for the economy as the pubs etc were nice and busy too.

I must start riding a bit further from home

I live in Ramsbottom lancs, Saturday night i packed up the van then Sunday Morning was up and on the road at 05:30 heading for Keswick. Had a plan to ride the bash but with the Honister, Dale Head, Copper mines extension, 25miles ish.

I made it as far as the Grane Road (10 minutes) i thought wtf am i doing and turned back. stunning scenery round here and wall to wall blue skies, why spend 4hrs of my day driving... struggling to park and dodging footbandits all day - i got home, grabbed my bike straight out of the van and headed out. obviously i was out before all the crowds and had a glorious ride. explored a bit, got lost a bit, and still rode all my faves and even dug for a bit. managed a similar 25miles ish, but maybe not as much elevation...

i was home for dinner* and spent the afternoon outside the pub!

(*dinner not tea)

Just back from a long weekend in Yorkshire, celebrating 30 years since the first meeting of Mrs Ready.
Couple of pics - 1 from a very pleasant Cinder track pootle, and the other from a good days riding at Dalby Forest.

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