[Closed] What ride are you looking forward to after lock down ends

All of them . .
Bored oot ma nut here.

Any ride to a nice cafe, then finish with a few pints

BPW and Swinley skills for me.

Along with thrashing my KTM.... it needs it... So do I.

Outer Hebrides tour with Piemonster.

That one-day WHW I've been promising myself for the past 5 years (though doubt I'll be fit due to lock down).

Caithness gravel - undoubtedly just as we hit peak midge season.

But mainly just getting out with friends for rides, cafes and pubs.

Just life, really, although a trip to the lakes and Helvellyn/grizedale on a day like today would be the icing...

any longer than an hour.

Borrowdale Bash - been meaning to do it for ages

any longer than an hour.

Can we not go out for more than an hour now?

Had been looking forward to a holiday in Spain. Hoping to rearrange it for later in the year.

Can we not go out for more than an hour now?

COme on, really do we have to do these things in EVERY thread ?

Can we not go out for more than an hour now?

These four reasons are exceptions - even when doing these activities, you should be minimising time spent outside of the home and ensuring you are 2 metres apart from anyone outside of your household.

My choice for this is an hour max, you can pick 8 hours if you like.

The Caucasus crossing bikepacking trip I was supposed to be doing end of May.
Hopefully next year!

But probably even more so, just hitting local trails knowing hospitals are back to their normal levels.

I'm planning a Munro by bike and looking forward to the Argyll tour planned for October.

Caithness gravel – undoubtedly just as we hit peak midge season.

The main question is which midge season! Personally I'm putting mud tyres on to be ready for the lockdown being lifted mid December 2021.

Inner/Outer Hebrides cycle tour.
Was going to be winging it next month but at least I’ve now got time to plan a route.
More gravel riding, and canoeing, in Scotland and a cycle camping trip to somewhere in Europe.
Oh, and a week of circular day rides on my road bike in the west of Scotland.

<fingerscrossed>Passportes du Soleil</fingerscrossed>

Anything in Wales basically. Cwmcarn / BMCC / BPW / Brechfa.

We were planning a 3 day South Wales trip for late May. Will re-plan that when it’s allowed / safe to do so.

For now it’s just going to be short spins locally on my own on the road bike as far from other people as possible (once my chest infection clears up).

In the meantime I’m going to work on strength / core at home in the garage and use my cross trainer to keep the cardio fitness going.

Whistler

I don’t know what my budget is going to be so on a rising scale;

A ride that isn’t solo

A ride that has a coffee and cake stop

Maybe Surrey Hills with a stop at Peaslake Stores

Trip to BPW

Some coaching from Katy Curd in FoD (I really like FoD)

A week with Basque MTB

Social rides, Rogate, trips to the Tweed Valley, rides where I can push a bit harder.

Although it seems pretty unlikely right now, I'm still sort of hoping that my trip to Moab might be able to go ahead at the end of June.
Other than that I'd been waiting for conditions to dry up a bit before heading to Dunkeld and now would be perfect!!

Group ride on the Stanton I've been building up in my spare room.

Getting back into my workshop and getting a classic beetle or my VW T3 done.

Turning my VW T4 into a day van/bike transport camper of some sort.

A picnic with some friends in the grounds of my local stately home.

I'm limiting myself to safe riding so just looking forward to getting back on the local single-track sections first and foremost.

Riding the BMX track with my two kids.
Last summer, at 6 and 4 years old, I was running round with the littler one to pop him over the top of the biggest bumps. Daughter mostly had the leg strength to get round, mostly.
7 and 5 now, They've both had another year riding to school and the boy's completed a few laps of the track on his own ,back before the weekend storms blew in.
This was gonna be our spring riding together.

My local ride, but with friends and a BBQ after. Or a trip to the Alps, not been for a couple of years and we were talking about going this summer. Seems unlikely now

From home up to Argentière on the petit balcon nord and back on the petit balcon sud. It's my classic local loop and takes less than an hour but as max distance permitted from home is 1km at the moment it is not allowed. Lots of police patrolling (even on quad bikes on the trails) so chances of being caught and fined €275 if I attempted it would be high.
Doing that as a Wednesday night loop with a couple of others and a pint at the end would be great.

Riding the local trails in something that isn't a total bog with the Wednesday night gang, followed by a nice pint.

Also, our Alps trip starting 11th July, though not optimistic on that one. Oh and the Ard Rock, again, not optimistic.

So everything really!

Ive booked to do the Outer Heb Way in June. I'm fully expecting that to be cancelled. So hopefully that, but later.

I was planning on bikepacking round Mull and other islands in May, hopefully I might be able to do this in the two weeks I have booked off in September? I'm remaining optimistic, so please don't crush my dreams.

I'm only riding easy road/gravel at the moment, so a good mtb ride will be needed.

Just life, really, although a trip to the lakes and Helvellyn/grizedale on a day like today would be the icing…

I'm currently looking out the window with blue skies over the Lakes.

Is it wrong to say the woman I've been texting on Tinder?

Over the Ridgeway to The Bell and The Four Points at Aldworth.

Riding to the village with my children.

For ice cream.

The very bestest of best rides.

After all these years I'm finally going to make a point of checking out the woods behind Nationwide in Swindon.

Being able to plan something, or anything. A ride. Camping with friends. Seeing extended family again.

Had a trip to Le Mans planned and then to on to Southern Austria and Northern Italy. Soelden, Dolomitti Paganella, Livingno, & Pila.

Lemans has been postponed and maybe I'll get a week in Austria before that and meet my mates there. but I think the Italian Bike parks are doubtful this year.

I will be doing the same rides I have been doing for years and that will continue during during lockdown and after lockdown. None are more than 25 miles long and I always ride on my own. So no difference for me.

Somewhat perversely, a weekend away somewhere in the hills, isolated. But, with the freedom to roam as I wish, and have a cold cider in a beer garden at some point.

I'm going to strut down the road Staying Alive style.

Go on a massive group ride with my mates (I'm sure some of them will still say they're busy).

Take my family for a nice meal in the pub.

Go for a night out with my mates.

Enjoy not being scared anymore.

Give my colleagues who work on the IT helpdesk a bit (only a bit) more respect, trying to do their job this week has been hard.

Promise my wife, I'll do that job "when I have time" 😉

anything TBH. I was all set to go out last saturday for the first time in 10 months when Sophie came down with symptoms. Then the lock down occoured.

Looking forward to getting out on the mendips every thursday first of all with the lads, we have had a shocking winter but we have continued to get out every week and it was just starting to get dry. Second is I am supposed to be doing my first ever trip to Coed y brenin middle May but obviously thats in doubt now.

A ride in the Brecon Beacons just so I can experience wide open spaces again (although everyone else will have the same idea so it'll be rammed round the honeypots...) and a day at Tidworth/Windhill/Rogate with my riding mates from down south. This the most important one as a few of them are going through crap with the lockdown, one has a boss who is refusing to use the govt scheme and the other is self-employed and is possibly staring into the abyss. If they can get out on the bike socially it'll be a massive win for all of us.

@dezb pmsl

Any of them. But Lakes will be first on the list.

Girona road riding for me, was going the last weekend of April for a week. Also Calpe for a week in October.
May not happen this year but trying to think positively.

I know it's wishful thinking but am booked in Solden in August so fingers crossed

Still having a job to go back to ,so I can buy nice things for my bikes 😂😂

Have spent 6 long months recovering from a herniated disc and surgery, and have a brand new gravel bike sitting in the garage with a paltry 50km on the clock so far, so have/had a LOT of plans for this year

In ascending order of distance

75km Arrochar Gravel

https://www.strava.com/routes/22976356

105km Glen Coe Gravel

https://www.strava.com/routes/22600873

120km Loch Lomond and Aberfoyle Gravel (seeing a trend yet?)

https://www.strava.com/routes/22661870

5 Day Lochaber and Ardnamurchan Gravel tour

https://www.strava.com/routes/24086210

Will settle for slowly getting strength back on some early AM 1hr solo efforts and some quality time getting to know the rollers and turbo (again...)

Portimao on the Triumph 765 🙂

Driving somewhere remote with the mountain bike and spending hours on my own. I'm not entirely sure why I can't do that now, but I don't feel comfortable about it so will probably stick to gravel loops from home for the duration, even though I see a lot more people on those than I ever do in the hills. We live in strange times.

Bunch race or team chaingang. In fact any group ride.

That and commuting because It would be nice to start my new job at the end of this if it still exists.

A couple of years back I was going to head to Europe in my van and get a gravity card, a season pass for 21 lesser known bikeparks in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Slovenia and Italy.

But then the van failed the MOT (the start of all kinds of woe) and my cryptocurrency bombed.

Maybe with a bit of luck, one day it will be possible again, if Brexit allows.

13thfloormonk, great bunch of routes there, mind if I pinch one or two of them for later!?

Riding my new Whyte e180 I bought I week before I self locked down.

Working and riding on the super DH trail at Carron Valley.

Anything with my stepdad, as it'll (hopefully) mean my Mum and him are ok and have been allowed over from Australia. They were due in September but I'm not confident. Failing that, first ride out with my little girl. Nothing else matters.

Still holding off cancelling our Lake Garda and Italian Alps Trip at the end of June and then Sospel, San Remo and Finale at the end of September.
Part of me knows it probably won't happen this year but while its booked I can still dream.

I won't care where it is as long as it has hills and rocks - anywhere the new bike will be able to stretch his its legs.

On the other hand, lockdown means I now don't need to rush to finish the build on this, as it will be wasted on bimbles down the local woods...

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Road ride then pub with one set of mates.

Mtb ride then pub with another set of mates.

Anywhere I don't care, just as long as there are people involved.

Then maybe a trip to the Alps or Pyrenees in August....

Simple. With Pa Rider, down the railway cycle trail and around Talacre, maybe along the seafront at Kinmel or along the Clwyd. A pint. He’s 80 this year, and I can’t travel to visit the folks during lockdown. Wouldn’t wish to visit them without a test tbh. High anxiety at the mo, so got the turbo trainer fixed up at home today. Found that it helps massively to tinker with bikes, sheds, cleaning, sorting.

This Ikigai thing works! 生き甲斐

After that, looking forward to a (now twice-cancelled) FoD adventure with MTB friends. First the floods, now this. Onwards...

*colournoise that’s a proper beast 👍🏼👍🏼 In approved grey livery = even betterer 🙂

Well, I was planning on riding the calmino del norte this year.

That, basically (but not this year obvs).

But I’ll need to do some training first (I’m still not properly recovered from my norovirus back in January...)

Morzine last two weeks in August. Booked the chalet end of feb as we stayed there last year and it was great so wanted to get that sorted, but that’s all so far.

Hoping we can still go. Think it will be touch and go.

A dawn raid on the Quantocks.

13thfloormonk, great bunch of routes there, mind if I pinch one or two of them for later!?

Please do, I might have put a message up on forum to see if anyone wanted to join me anyway.

I usually ride the Gap in the Brecons in Spring, this week would have been absolutely perfect for it. So likely I will get out there when its possible.

I did have the West Highland way planned for the beginning of May but thats now on the back burner as hostels are all closed. Its still planned but to be fair any peaks or Lakes ride will do just as long as I come out of this unscathed I dont really care

Pre-C19 plans were the Highlands post-Easter and late summer several weeks in the Alps.
Right now i'll settle with a decently long Highlands trip getting up into Assynt etc for the first time... i hope that's a realistic proposition for this year sometime!
^colournoise - that's a lovely choice of machine, much approval...

Some sort of multi-day bikepacking, most likely up and down the Icknield Way and Peddars Way, with a kip on the beach. Or, as the Frontier 300 was cancelled, maybe try and turn any rescheduled Dirty Reiver into more of a multi-day affair.

First ride back in the Hills
Field of Dreams ;0)
Slovenia

My beloved Wyre Forest. It becomes a swamp between November and April, so I tend to stay away. With this current spell of spring weather I’m starting to yearn ☹️

Morzine in August for me as well @blitz who have you booked with? I'm with mtbbeds and have heard nothing from them corona related

Long overdue to do the whole of the South Downs Way - may even bivvy, in order to maximize the experience

@mehr and @blitz We too are keeping everything crossed for Morzine in August. 2 weeks of family riding and pizza eating.
We’re still hoping but know it’s unlikely.

Sat looking at the mountains of Morzine and Avoriaz, can't wait to get back out on them once this is all over. It's like being given your dream toy as a Christmas present and then being told it has to stay in the box. Stay safe everyone, this too shall pass.

So annoying that the trails are just drying out after a hard winter of slipping and sliding all over the place, getting soaked and SO MUCH MUD ON EVERYTHING.
And I can't go out on them.

Really looking forward to getting my eBike, riding from Glenridding up to the top of Hellvelyn then back down Sticks Pass all in one go as fast as I can.

Walked it a while back and thought it looked amazing.
Had to can a planned go at it due to some stupid 100mph wind storm.

Now I must wait, impatiently.

Someone in her mid forties, with a gsoh and an interest in cycling and/or sailing. Isn't the OP using the wrong thread!😏

@mher

Just an air bnb. But it worked really well and the owner was great. Managed to sort us with the multipass etc

Will be disappointed if it doesn’t happen!

At the moment I'm riding to Herts shore/field of dreams riding a couple of simple lines and riding home just to keep the black dog away

We've got a loop local to us that can get [i]properly[/i] sketchy if you're out playing, so that one probably. Oh, and Choppers, obvs.

Have two weeks in Lake Garda booked in August - pretty sure it's not going to happen now.
Heres a pic from last summer..