Ride your bike on Christmas Day challenge

[Ming the Merciless]

A simple challenge, get out on your bike today and post a picture here once done.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I’m on a rostered weekend off, but always rode in before

I am working the Bank Holidays though, so will be riding in!!

Then, finish on Friday(30th), and have a mixture of leave & days-off, returning on Wed 11th!!
In for 3 days, then off again from Sat 14th, back in on Thur 19th

Another week in February, one in March

Plus!, another 10 days annual-leave to fit in before end of March

 

[steveindenmark]

Its thick fog and belting with rain. No chance. 😁

 

[Jenkins]

Why wait until I get home. This from about 1/3 way round.

 

[13 rider]

No photos but 50km done on quiet roads ,caught a shower not to bad sunny now
Merry xmas

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Well I was planningon a short ride as this morning as been postponed to this afternoon due to "family politics"

but it has been p*****g down all morning so stuff that

I'll get the veg peeled and chopped instead!


Anyway - Merry Christmas to everyone

and Well Done to everyone who gets out there today!!

 

[chriswoody]

A leisurely 37 km through the forests on the Mountain bike this morning.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Back from a 1.5 hour ride this morning. Festive post box covers in villages along the route.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A leisurely 37 km through the forests on the Mountain bike this morning.

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The solitude must have been lovely.

 

[sevenfourate]

A leisurely 37 km through the forests on the Mountain bike this morning.

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Merry Xmas 🎅🏻 Looks ace !

Where was this……..?

 

[chriswoody]

The solitude must have been lovely.

It was.

I really need these moments of calm of serenity. I feel ready now to spend the rest of the day with my family and play with the children.

Merry Xmas 🎅🏻 Looks ace !

Where was this……..?

Thank you. I live in Northern Germany on the edge of the Lüneberg Heide, a mix of forests and heathland which stretch on for hundreds of kilometres. I can normally stitch together rides of between 20 - 100 kilometres and spend less than 10 km riding on roads. The landscape here doesn't have the wow factor of many places, but it is great for gravel riding and provides lots of interesting variety.

 

[Bollo]

No proper riding due to a pokey back but I picked out a softball workout on Zwift.

 

[Bollo]

And would you Adam and believe it! While I was typing the above I noticed a weird smell in the garage unrelated to sprouts. 5 minutes later the turbo gave out with a wisp of smoke coming from the unit where the electronics live. The side of the unit was too hot to touch.

I’m not even going to go there with the immense power jokes because this really was just a leg turn to keep a run going. I’ll see what Garmin say but it’s a couple of years old and has a good few virtual miles on it so I think the best I’ll do is a discount on a new one.

 

[Saluki]

Nice little 24 miles on Quentin the Viking Tandem. Not my idea to park him in a puddle, by the way. Had rather a lovely ride. Lots of stops for drinking vimto, eating a flapjack and looking for kingfishers (last pic of the bridge over the river is a prime spot). I think that I have earned my mince puff-a-luffs.

 

[cyberknight]

No chance we have the extended family here all day , i will be on zwift this evening when they have all ate all the free nosh