Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]

[Goonerobes]

That looks like a nice route through the forest. Beautiful part of the world you live in.

Sometimes I wish the hilly bits here were as low as that though!

We are a bit spoilt here with the beautiful New Forest on our doorstep but the downside (if it is a downside!) is having to travel to find any hills.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Erm...........5 2 roadies, 2 hybrids and 1mtb and I enjoy riding them all, even although I can barely afford to keep them on the road. Lol

we have enough problems storing 6 bikes. I can not imagine my OH's face if I suggested more bike.... err OK I can, I have pointed out that a commuting bike would be useful, a best weekend bike, a 2nd mtb bike for pannier rack & mudguards, a cyclocross bike and not to mention a lightweight touring bike would all be really useful. And of course if I have one, he has to have one as well.... so I have to stop at 3 each... shame really I could have done with a .... never mind

 

[RWright]

Well what can I say, overwhelmed springs to mind, @SpokeyDokey I knew what was meant and how it was meant and @Coggy I wasn't offended in anyway (just in case anyone thinks I was), as I said in a previous post I am not super fit just lots of miles and determination even when the weather is a bit inclement, and that even once you have been riding a short while even though fitness falls off ( I do notice it as usually my H.R. is higher), it takes a while for it to go completely.

I am afraid to use my Heart Rate Monitor at the moment. I may even put flat pedals on my Synapse for a little while. I am going to get back to shorter rides for a while and try to do them more frequently.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

We are a bit spoilt here with the beautiful New Forest on our doorstep but the downside (if it is a downside!) is having to travel to find any hills.

I'll swap you a few hills for some flats!

Even our house is buried in the side of a hill at 278m above sea level - at least we are safe from rising sea levels!

All my routes start either going further up the hill on the road at the back of the house - not good as my legs are not keen. Or down the rough track at the front of the house which is nice but then I have to usually grind back up it at the end of my ride.

To make a circle of the down and up bit makes for a long ride which would almost certainly exceed my boredom threshold!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I'll swap you a few hills for some flats!

Even our house is buried in the side of a hill at 278m above sea level - at least we are safe from rising sea levels!

All my routes start either going further up the hill on the road at the back of the house - not good as my legs are not keen. Or down the rough track at the front of the house which is nice but then I have to usually grind back up it at the end of my ride.

To make a circle of the down and up bit makes for a long ride which would almost certainly exceed my boredom threshold!

I used to have that problem when I lived in the lakes as well. 8 miles of single track dead end road before you could even look at anything else and you always had the Hawes to climb on the way back... the dot - unnamed road, was where I used to live for a short period of time many, many years ago

 

[Trevor_P]

Anyone asks my age, I'm twenty one (years).



Plus three hundred and seventy five months and counting.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I used to have that problem when I lived in the lakes as well. 8 miles of single track dead end road before you could even look at anything else and you always had the Hawes to climb on the way back... the dot - unnamed road, was where I used to live for a short period of time many, many years ago

Bet that was lovely when it snowed!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Anyone asks my age, I'm twenty one (years).



Plus three hundred and seventy five months and counting.

Sadly - I worked your age out!

 

[Stonechat]

Wll no cycling tomorrow, and very little for tomorrow I think
I started a job to replace a door lock
Done it before and it's normally not so hard

Problem is
1) I am not at home and so got to rely on the tools of my late dad
2) THe front door is a big solid door made of hard wood
3) I am probably not so expert as I seem,

The old lock almost worked but was inclined not to let you have your key back after using it!
After some fiddling could not fix it
I have done a lot of the work, but chiseling out this door is mega hard work.
Drills don't much like drilling into either

Oh well, put it down to experience
Sunday should have a ride

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@Trevor_P 23 months older than me.

 

[Trevor_P]

Bet you'd be good in a quiz team.

Sadly - I worked your age out!

 

[Trevor_P]

@Nigelnaturist There's just enough time Left for me to catch you up then.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Bet that was lovely when it snowed!

fantastic... but you had to learn to live with electricity that was only 22 hours a day (nothing between 4-6am when the farms took it all), no TV signal, private water supply, no gas or mains sewage and random lost walkers needing rescuing... they were the most annoying. Didn't mind it when it was genuine, it was the persons who had set off from Glenridding or Patterdale for a casual day walk with nothing more than what they were wearing, perhaps a 500ml bottle of coke and no map who at 9pm at night would knock on the door asking for directions.... what can you do - its a 6-8 mile and 3,000 foot climb before they are back in safety... still it was a beautiful place to live and we were exceptionally lucky to have been able to rent the place at all. I think it was turned into an outward bound school after we left (after many years of being derelict again).

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Hope you've decided to stay @Nigelnaturist or we would have to hunt you down on other threads and that'd take forever!

Good rides recently folks. I did think about going out this afternoon after an earlier-than-usual finish, but I decided catching up on here was much better use of the time. Might get a ride in in the morning before work.

Happy sunshine peoples

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn a little like the village I lived in on Skye, though not quite so remote and snow wasn't really much of a problem.
@Phoenix Lincs i never said i was leaving just not being here so often.
@Stonechat I have been putting up a new shelf in the bike shed.
@Trevor_P anyone can catch me just need to do the miles