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Finish at half 2 today, blue sky autumn day here in the shire, and I have a couple of hours spare before a leaving dinner this evening, so I'll get out into the mud up the River Ayr, mibbe a wee libation at the Stair Inn...
Tomorrow the good lady is out at the theatre, so I'll get stuff ready for a day at Inners on sunday, haven't been in a while and all this talk of Angry sheep and new trails has whetted my appetite...
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Little or none, sadly. Marathon taper is in full swing, 10 or so mile run tomorrow, which in theory means Sunday is a rest day. In practise, I may sneak a 20 miler on the road bike in but not much more than that.
Looking forward to 3 weeks time when I can start riding my bikes in anger again.
Going up to Comrie Croft tonight... Yay
For a wedding no bikes...fail
Good luck lunge i hate the taper.
Just perusing the forecast now. The mother in law is over again at chez jek so it's looking like a crack o dawn ride on Sunday. Probably a local XC bimble on the 29HT, woods, fields & dirt tracks with emphasis on speed rather than tech. Lovely time of the year to be outdoors.
Was for most of the day at a Cwmcarn tomorrow with a. Mate - but his wife has been admitted early for birth of their baby.
Thinking I'm still going to go on my own (sob sob) but looking at the weather forecast I may try to go Sunday instead. This all relies on retaining the pass from my wife to go biking.....
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This all relies on retaining the pass from my wife to go biking....
careful now. I was just told to "lose the tag "pass" and ride yer bike when you like" in another thread. Apparently i have a terrible wife too.
I like to think that it's not that our wives 'allow' us permisson to go cycling, it's just that we've found through past experience it makes for a much easier life if it is done in agreement with them. 🙂
^ exactly lol
Manchester to Blackpool BHF night ride. It's going to pee it down according to the forecasts, with about 15 - 20mph winds.
p.s. I'm only at 73% of my target so any help would be appreciated...
Free day tomorrow and, as per, the forecast is biblical.
Might do Fairfield, or might go and heckle the PMBA riders.
Hoping for a couple of night rides over the weekend. Was planning a cheeky bivvy, but looking unlikely 🙁
[url= http://www.cmbm.org.uk ]Calderdale Mountain Bike Marathon[/url] for us on Sunday and possibly a little road sneaky on Saturday afternoon if I can get away with it!
Bugger all for me due to my shoulder, taking Son No.1 CX racing again
Bugger all for me due to my shoulder, taking Son No.1 CX racing again
First one we're missing this season, but MTB comes before CX here 🙂
Road ride with friends in and around the Chase tomorrow, then mtb somewhere with the wife on Sunday, location will be weather dependent.
Oh nowhere special....
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2 days training course at Knockburn, near Aberdeen. Better pack my thermal methinks 🙂
Hoping to get out on my brand new karate monkey with my hammock and tarp on sat night, wife will be at work so I may as well get out.
Probably have to unpack the bikes from their bike bags and face this pishy weather sometime soon....
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Just a quick week over in slovenia.....
Taking my 14 year old son to see what the new stuff is like at Hamsterley on Sunday ..hope he waits for me 😀
Somewhere round the Hope valley on Sunday. Will prob make the route up as we go and finish in a cafe somewhere.
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Might sneak in a quick blast at Cwmcarn round the Cafall before they start felling it, depends how tired I am after working Saturday day and switching to nights on Sunday.
Leading an off road FLAB ride tomorrow for some gentle bridleway pootling and cake eating, and some of my local cycle club are planning on joining us.
Sunday will maybe involve a family pootle. Doing my first 100 miler in years a week tomorrow so having an easy week up to that to disguise the complete lack of training....
PMBA in grizedale, forecast not looking to bad, just a few showers tomorrow and dry sunday. probably means heavy rain all weekend.
My weekend started this afternoon and I went to Dalby with the Bird. Great conditions and a top afternoon.
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Into the forest tomorrow morning
Meeting up with gnusmas and a few others in Cwmrhaeadr. All welcome to come along and keep me company at the back.
Last bike park weekend of the season before the Snow comes. Heading there tomorrow, forecast for 2c and sleet. Can't wait!
Afan tomorrow in the rain (my first time there).
BPW Sunday (my first time there since fracturing my elbow there in May).
Glentress bound tomorrow for a much needed skills course then spend Sunday and Monday playing in glentress and possibly a trip to Golfie and inners for off piste stuff.
Taking my mate to Glentress for his second ever day of mountain biking. Was thinking Mud n' Roots and Ponduro to start?!
Glentress for me tomorrow too. Then Golfie & Innerleithen on Sunday
Family visit to Ilfracombe. Will escape on the road bike to tick off a few more hills from the 100 hills book. Decided not to pack mudguards as the weather report wasn't showing rain. But now it is. Bah!
Last minute 1st ever ride around ladybower in the lovely derbyshire mist and breeze with a mate. Wad much more preferable to a lap of cannock 🙂
Had my legs ripped off by Singlespeedstu and Mrs stu today , lovely loop around the Kinver area .
Just back from Hamsterley with my lad ..had to check out the new section ( K- line) down there after its official opening last week ..some great work done by the trailblazers..it rides so well .
Not so Transmission..which is completely shagged in comparison ..still fast though ..but I believe that it's due to close soon for maintenance ..
Cracking day though ..
Had a nice morning ride over Surrey Hills. Trails were in great condition for this time of year. 8)
Nice unexpected local ride to finish the weekend .
Mellow ride around some bits of Swaledale I'd not ridden before, courtesy of getting lost.
Hodgynd - is the best way of doing Hamsterley still a red/black combo, or have the new sections changed that? Is there an updated trail map around?
Tweed valley trails in primo condition today, short sleeves and pine needles, happy days.
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2 good rides this weekend, yesterday on the road, today pottering with the wife.
we saw a large amount of swan's. more than i have ever seen in on place.
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Finally managed to get out after lunch today, broke out the 29er ripping it up through the mud
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Martinhutch ..
You are really asking the wrong person when it comes to Hamsterley ..Im no expert.
We didn't do the full route today ..just sessioned certain sections a few times .
I have mostly started black then red and have never gone all the way around the full red to get to Transmission..but used the off-piste rooty climb to the fire road that climbs up to the mast ..Poulty's Last Blast is about 1.5k beyond this which then leads into K-line , Transmission etc.
Apologies if I haven't explained that too well.
Don't think there is a new map yet ..but looking on the website..the section I have just described is going to be closed to the public on 30th October for an "event" ..
Hopefully someone with more knowledge can fill in the gaps for you ..
Cheers. That makes sense. Haven't been to Hamsterley for yonks, fancied a trip up.
Martin ..the one thing I can say is that if it's been a while then you won't be disappointed ..they have done some fantastic work there ..hope you enjoy it .
Had a fun weekend up in the Tweed Valley.
Glentress yesterday, bits of Red and black and some off piste including Mast of Zorro, Five Year Plan, Mild Peril and Ponduro.
Today we had a ride up the Golfie and did New Wolf and the bottom of Repeat Offender before heading to Innerleithen for Angry Sheep Green Wing. We wanted to do more but we didn't have the legs or the time!
Simon, sad I missed you and mugboo, sounds like you had a good time though. Trails were in incredibly good nick.
Had a cracking 35km/1000m day out in FOD today. Lots of great trails in prime condition and sunshine. Some for the first time, some pushing my limits.
Sorry no pics.
Didn’t roam far this weekend as the Mrs was working.
That’s took a spin up the Ridge above Cardiff this afternoon.
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Simon, sad I missed you and mugboo, sounds like you had a good time though. Trails were in incredibly good nick
Yep, it would have been good to meet the man that sent us up Gasgale Crags 😆
Just a little trip to one of my fave camping spots to watch the meteor shower, but no meteor shower just lots of lights on the hills must have been an endurance event on. Gave her a baccy on the way back to the van 🙂
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Gave her a baccy on the way back to the van
Teaching your kids to smoke, Rich?
That is such a lovely wildcamp spot.
Wanted to ride up a handful of cat4s including Beacon, Old Winchester and Butser Hills, but I've been full of a head cold the last few days and had no idea what I could do.
Ended up doing ~4600 feet of hill reps over ~33 miles on Copsewood and Dell Roads, very close to home. Best workout in a while!
Club circuit race championship yesterday. M25 circumnavigation (224 km/2000 m of climbing) on the best bike. Four hours of sleep and an 05:35 start meant slower than my fixed wheel, but clockwise is harder. Needed to eat more.
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More S Wales back lanes (100k plus) with new to me Shand Stoater though a bit overdressed in our mudguards today.
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Didn't plan on it, I had interesting things like shopping and washing to do! But my kid said he wanted to do a ride with his little mate, so how could I refuse. Took em on a South Downs loop which was a bit disappointing, but didn't know what the boys were capable of. Still we were out for 4 hours in the afternoon, and what a lovely afternoon it was 🙂
Kid's ride, nice to have at 15 y.o.!
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Yep kids are lucky these days ..my boy (14) inherited my Nomad and is the envy of his mates ..
For reasons even I can't comprehend I built up my old Surly ICT frame to make a "winter fatbike", so I took that for a shakedown ride in Saturday.
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Then back on the Five today for a bit of exploring up on Ben Aigan.
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Tweed Valley is on the list for next year, must go.
Last weekend of the bike park so I went there on Saturday. 10cm of snow had fallen at the top so the top lift was shut but it made for some fun riding. got very muddy later on
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XC bimble on sunday. Light is fading fast now
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Managed a mile before a tree interface stopped play on scorpion at yair.
Was really happy as I managed the freaky drop.
Hospital was quite and all my bones are intact so hopefully fix the BB on the ss and go for a teeth gritter.
Something of a turning point this weekend
Friday I pretended it was still the back end of summer
Saturday here we go again a couple of hours splashing around in between the rain
Sunday first ride for many months with no agenda and no segments. I'll have to get used to it.
Eventful BHF Manchester to Blackpool night ride for me. Hauled my 120kg around in well under 4 hours (3:55 but that included a 10 minute break). However a friend of a friend who was riding with us came off riding to the start and has broken bones in his leg.
Not ideal for him, of course, but made me a bit more cautious.
Good event and well organised though. Couple of people I saw on fat bikes and one lad on a Nukeproof Scalp in a full face helmet deserve some, erm, respect.