Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Say goodbye to any loved ones, you have now come over to the dark side.
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Say goodbye to any loved ones, you have now come over to the dark side.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
If you use a garmin, get yourself this
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/e53331b6-55db-475a-99e9-3f567327e7ce#0
Never miss a tile again with it
Search party for @lazybloke last seen heading up a dead end bridlepath that turns into a rutted muddy path muttering "I need this square ,I may be sometime "
UphillSlowly
Making my way slowly uphill
I have a Wahoo and GLW bought me a Karoo 2. Don't subscribe to strava as use intervals and the app for tiles on android doesn't work on my phone. So planning is time consuming. May do it on GLWs Strava account...
Tbh was a bit disheartened recently when I thought I had joined two areas but my numbers hardly changed...
PapaZita
Guru
- Location
- St. Albans
I know that feeling too. 
A few days in Whaley Bridge which I rode to back from Leicester a 1 ride while I was there saw me add 36 new squares total now 6097 and added 33 to max cluster total now 36 , Managed to add a couple of layers over my max squares top left corner which is just above Ashbourne so quite at bit of elevation was gained
lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
Sat down about 6:45pm tonight and planned a route purely for gaining veloviewer squares; the first time I have done so. What have you lot started?
I thought evening traffic might be bad, so I used a shared path to get to Guildford, then the Downslink to get further south before heading west into unexplored lands.
Hmmm. I was really enjoying the tiny lanes through fields as the last daylight faded and the stars began to dot the sky. Then the garmin mentioned "Bridleway".
It started off like this, which was acceptable:
Then it turned much more narrow as it wound it's way between trees down a hillside. Firmly packed mud gave way to liquid mud, churned up by hooves until it was a wheel-sucking and foot-sucking nightmare. The path also narrowed, nettles closing in both sides, which I could feel on my legs (through my lycra).
It went on a few miles before emerging onto a private road then onto a mystery A road. Didn't have a clue where I was, but the Garmin was telling me to turn left into an alley. "What alley, I'm in the middle of woodland and farmland!". God help me!
Thankfully it was a fairly solid farm track which took me back to the Downslink. Headed north and reached the village where I'd turned west earlier. This time I turned east, filling in two squares on the map, then onto much more familiar roads and home by about 11:15pm. Quick bath, then sat down on the sofa with a mug of coffee and the laptop. Fell asleep for a while, so the coffee's cold.
Extended my veloviewer max square from 11x11 to 13x13.
Don't know what state the bike's in, but my cycling shoes are covered in mud. Apart from that, quite an enjoyable ride of 41 miles or so.
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lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
The bike is a bit muddy after last night's fun in the mud.
And my shoes... They usually look immaculate, and i'd even polished them a few days earlier... (Whaddaya mean it's pu leather?)
And my shoes... They usually look immaculate, and i'd even polished them a few days earlier... (Whaddaya mean it's pu leather?)
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
A new commute for me today picked up 22 more tiles,
From this
To this
From this
To this
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Knocked off 14 new squares on the south east edge of my max square. 48 miles for the first square, all done by mile 60 followed by 43 more miles to get home.
Pgd
Veteran
- Location
- East Grinstead
Yesterday's ride was a first for "tile regret". Great ride in general, out to the edge of my max cluster, ticking off several tiles needed for my next max-square increase, plus successfully tackled a new climb (York's Hill, Kent). But after I'd got home and updated VV, I noticed that if I'd gone half-a-mile or so off-route at one point, I'd have ticked off a further square that would've come in very handy for a *future* max-square increase, IYSWIM. Oh well -- will just have to go back when the time comes 
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Yesterday's ride was a first for "tile regret". Great ride in general, out to the edge of my max cluster, ticking off several tiles needed for my next max-square increase, plus successfully tackled a new climb (York's Hill, Kent). But after I'd got home and updated VV, I noticed that if I'd gone half-a-mile or so off-route at one point, I'd have ticked off a further square that would've come in very handy for a *future* max-square increase, IYSWIM. Oh well -- will just have to go back when the time comes
We've all been there
