[Closed] Weekend Riding Plans & Pics...

Ok, Okay. I know, I should be working right?
Wrong.
I am riding.
I am also not responsible for broken monitors, keyboards or angry words you speak to your fellow work colleagues.
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And a painting..
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Its friday, its been dry all week and a quick trail check yesterday morning revealed minimal mud. Can't wait for tomorrow 😀

I have agreed to go to Ikea on sunday and will be particpating in meatballs for tea before heading to .... Cannock in the evening for a twilight ride. My Soul will be sporting a new thomson stem, new much wider carbon handlebars, new xtr rear shifter and new to me Reba Forks (which are a full lb lighter than the Toras they are replacing) Hoping this will make it much easier to manual 😀

Yes, not a weekend shot.

Did my first local loop yesterday evening since last year. It's almost impassible in winter as the muddy is so claggy.

Lovely ride. Strange weather though. It was really hazy and the sunset ended up red. The darkest red I've ever seen, like something from the savanna.
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Being an OAP means everyday is a weekend for me 🙂

Judging by the picture, you don't seem to need a mudguard

Heading back down to Loch Doon at the north of Galloway Forest again on Saturday, wee bit of exploring methinks.

Me and my Club are doing our inaugural LDNMSR tribute ride tomorrow morning.
Heading out of Town at 0900 and aiming to hit Hayling Island by 1330 in time for lunch and afternoon of watching the real thing on Eurosport.

I will be posting photos, I've booked the Sun and Sandwiches..

😀

Big FoD off-piste club ride Sunday morning 🙂 Can't bloomin wait

Why wait til the weekend when it's so lovely and dry right now...
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Might be able to find a gap in my schedule to get out there again this arvo.

shakedown ride on new Defy today, MTB tomorrow 🙂

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millstone , bennachie and pitfichie loop for us.

bit misty and windy on the tops .... then as putting the bikes away in the van the sun came out ... DOH.

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up blackhill lookin for narnia.

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pitfichie rock feature.

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heading for cairn william.

great loop and pretty good ground conditions for it.

There's loads of pics on this thread with trails that just scream "ride me, ride me"! excellent!

Been out and about on the new bike, massively overbiked of course, can you guess where:

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ok, try this one:

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(sorry, it's a tad cheeky....... 😉

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Quick local loop;I bloody love this bike!

Aye, nice day for it

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https://www.strava.com/activities/520311856

"Enduro training" aka still being shit on freshcut. Good job the race is a whole month away. :/

Borrowed a mate's Strava today and smashed it round Cannock 26 miles 2:20

46 pbs
1 kom admittedly a niche segment
Half a dozen 2nds
20 or so top 10s

lol

Working all weekend and some family dramas have limited me to an hour here and there on the Turbo. Zwifts new mountain stage is good though.

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Another attempt at cracking a local loop challenge, failed again, I just don't have those XC legs (or possibly skill, fitness etc).
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Looking forward to some more gravity orientated riding next Easter weekend in Chiang Mai.

Great local ride yesterday, no pics, but dusty trails and lots of wild garlic 🙂

Peaslake, leaving in forty minutes. Best get out of bed....

Our inaugural LDNMSR Tribute. 160k Town to Coast, just like the real boys.. but slower.

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50 miles in the beautiful sunshine over to Wharncliffe -I'm amazed how dry the trails are. Great ride. 😛

Quick blast this morning testing the Search out on my old MTB loop.

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Was over in Aviemore with family and a friend, but managed to grab a few hours to have a play on one of these:

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Saturday, chilly century (metric) on the road bike. Was very satisfying to take off the full guards at long last.
https://www.strava.com/activities/521230678

Sunday, went out for a local loop to see if things were dry yet.

https://www.strava.com/activities/522285004

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Last weekend ride was an introduction to the amber valley with a few new riders. Pictures and work on my bike blog in this linky https://tinapedalturner.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/church-of-gnarl/

C'mon Rich, put some effort in!

My rather paltry offering.

Crashed, (front wheel washout on gravel) because it was too dry. [b]TOO DRY[/b]!!!!

https://www.strava.com/activities/522218044/overview

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Dusty trails. How I have missed Dusty Trails.

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Cool bike rp what is it

@Lowey, where the middle pic? Can see the Langdales, Loughrigg-ish? Claiffe.

Another pic from yesterday. Think I probably passed you on the road Rich, just as you'd come out Grizedale forest near Esthwaite.

FML; just clicked the Strava link; fair effort!

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totes prime condish

@Lowey, where the middle pic? Can see the Langdales, Loughrigg-ish? Claiffe.

Spot on. Wise Een Tarn.

I got dragged to Ikea warrington sunday afternoon but managed a dark loop of Cannock later and had a great time. On my new wider bars and finished with the outside of the my left wrist aching a bit, maybe they are a little too wide.

Cool bike rp what is it

Surly Ice Cream Truck. Full rambling thoughts to follow soon 🙂

Saturday was the Scout's maiden voyage around the Chase with the wife:

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Sunday headed to the Peak to give it a proper thrash with dannyh & fatbob44 off here, it's freaking awesome apart from a bit of cable rattle! Oh and the weather forecast was for cloud all day:

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Shibden. Friday and Sunday. Almost dry....
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Two mates and myself trying out Swinley for the first time, should be fun!

This was last weekend:

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Really need to remember to clean the lens after storing the phone in a sweaty back pocket.

Next weekend is 10 days in the Lakes with vast amounts of family. Hopefully I'll get a day pass, toying with Skiddaw/Ullock & Helvellyn/Sticks in one go. Other plan is to ride a lap or two of Whinlatter with jr_bandito#1

Well it's not the weekend but I'm on hols so every days the weekend! Qecp yesterday for the first time in over 15 years (see my gushing post in qecp thread) and then round a wood near my folks I hadn't ridden for a similar amount of time. So good. When I was a teenager it was mostly double track and wide paths like this:
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But in the intervening decades lots more single track has appeared, some of it really good. Classic, south east, heathy woodlandy, xc racy style single track, so much fun when ridden fast:
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And the beer, bikebuoys favourite:
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My weekend finally arrived yesterday so I managed a few miles on the newly acquired fat bike. Still playing around with tyre pressures but it's definitely fun.

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Beer-fueled midnight trip to the BOTB beach with the tripod:

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where's everyone riding in their glorious 4 days off granted by the lord himself?
I was out yesterday at Cannock and will probably go out local on Monday and that's it for me. My mrs is due no2 in early may so my rides will have to lessen in number very soon. 🙁

Awe... spectacular day! To all those that can't make it out today, heres a pic of what it's like.

CXer on the loamy singletrack of the South Downs...

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Still great here. Storm is coming so we sneaked out this morning. Perfect conditions. Even if I did save a front end slide by jamming a pedal into my shin. Better than crashing tho.... blue skies... not seen enough of those this year.

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Walna Scar was da awsumz.

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15 miles around the Downs after a days gardening and pre Bank Holiday rainmageddon.
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Cake, we had CAKE!!

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Oh, and we pedaled some bikes around for a bit too...... 😆

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Last nights beer, no reading material required too busy chatting

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And today, marked difference in the weather but still warm enough for short bibs..

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Forest of Dean today, first proper day out on the hardtail and its epic. Proper hooligan to ride.

Good Friday
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Did 48 miles from stourbridge through Highley, Jack mytton way to stoddesdon then into Cleobury Mortimer and back through the wyre forest.
Not another mtb seen all day.

Windy Gravel Hack...

Phew.

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Wind was strong (and cold) enough to discourage me from going too high, so instead I stuck to the forest and tried to check out some new route options. Could have done with the fatbike I was testing out last week really.

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Project 417 yesterday.
Lucky enough to get a nice bit of sunshine in the morning followed by a lovely rain storm to cool us off in the afternoon.

It's a nice little place and although the tracks need work and we left feeling a little underwhelmed by how the tracks rode, it has plenty of potential.

We rode from the first uplift to the last so had plenty of fun there. Will definitely be going back.

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I love where we live. Inches of rain last night, trails still pretty dry in the 'Glacial Sponge' Malverns

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My mate Rob rocking his RonHill's 🙂

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It was Friday but here's my solo 40 mjle-er

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http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/ben-a-glow-solo-ride-report#post-7600168

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30 wet and muddy miles on the Fatty!

10 miles of axle deep mud. 2 punctures, 1 broken saddle, and a shortcut home...

@h4muf... Where is that? There are some sandstone caves near where I grew up (bewdley) and looking at your photo stream, I see a river and a steam train, but it doesn't look right. It has been 25 years since I have been back though.

Four of us left snowy Fairhomes this morning at 9am , 3 returned at 1pm some 20 k short of what we planned after swimming down Spud alley and up Hagg Farm , god it was aweful

The other returned to the car park an hour before us after his pivot bearing collapsed , be a crap weekend tbh ,

Friday big off
Saturday wind cancelled ride and blowout that wouldn't seal
Monday the above

BHM and its beer o'clock !

Yay!

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Helvellyn wintery conditions very strong wind!
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4 days in Calderdale. Sunshine, rain, wind, thunderstorms, hail and some ace riding 🙂

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Wish I could have made it Simon but had the outlaws up for Easter 🙁

Great pics those Simon!

Great pics!

Great weekend all round, bit windy I'll admit but on the whole what pushed us, faced us on the way back 😕

Well I generally enjoyed my weekend

Had a solo ride in the Peak on Friday in glorious weather, went to the Chase early doors on Saturday with the wife and a shortish local road ride on Sunday & Monday.

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Had a great Easter weekend (well sat, Sun and Mon) tearing around the lovely dry and dusty Chiang Mai trails. Sadly no real art pics...
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four days off but i only managed a local saturday morning spin with the dog. I was itching to get out after following the updates from EWS Chile, but slogging it over moorland bogs in 30mph winds didnt really live up to it....

I had a great local ride out last night with my mate, in the dark. Started in the light at 7.30 for the first time since Sept/Oct so it's all good. The trails were trashed after several days of hard rain, rather annoying just as they were drying out.

Friday early morning road ride around Dartmoor

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Saturday WDMBC 3rd Cat Circuit Race at Hillingdon. Attacked a bit, missed the break, chased a fair bit and was generally worn out by the end (see above). Windy.

Monday first off-road ride for almost a year around Swinley. The wrist and shoulder held up fine, but the hail and rain made for an interesting ride.

Bike Park Wales.
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Not really my thing but was a good change.

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A very mixed weather road ride for me, suffered a hail storm (sore face!) then bright sunshine, then more rain and finally dried out a bit. A good ride, 40 miles or so and I dried out in the end...

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