Your ride today.... (part 1)

[Geoff Crowther]

Today I rode nowhere ... it's bin pishing it down all flippin' day!
Got well an' truly soaked walkin' the hounds.
Mutter, mutter, grumble ...

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

51 miles and 4955ft of climbing, missed out on the golden 5000 in 50! The weather was awful, the weatherman lied when he said it would improve as the day went on - it didn't.
Anyone know where these photos were taken? @ColinJ will probably recognise the place.

So I finished off the Route 91 in reverse and it was probably the hardest 51 miles of fixed riding I've ever done. I should have gone with 66" instead of 71".

However, I did find the holy grail of single track, newly tarmac-ed B road with gates and 10 miles long with not a car in sight. From Barlick to the A59 via Twiston Rd - amazing hidden gem.

 

[ColinJ]

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51 miles and 4955ft of climbing, missed out on the golden 5000 in 50! The weather was awful, the weatherman lied when he said it would improve as the day went on - it didn't.
Anyone know where these photos were taken? @ColinJ will probably recognise the place.

So I finished off the Route 91 in reverse and it was probably the hardest 51 miles of fixed riding I've ever done. I should have gone with 66" instead of 71".

However, I did find the holy grail of single track, newly tarmac-ed B road with gates and 10 miles long with not a car in sight. From Barlick to the A59 via Twiston Rd - amazing hidden gem.

I certainly do know where those pictures were taken - just down the road from where this one of mine was! (The road from Coldwell Activity Centre round towards Haggate.)

I know that little road from Barlick (Barnoldswick, for non-locals!) - they used it on the Pendle Pedal/Bowland Beast/Pendle Predator sportives, Yes - very nice!

 

[ColinJ]

PS A great effort, on fixed, in bad weather, on a tough route ... you madman!

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

PS A great effort, on fixed, in bad weather, on a tough route ... you madman!

Not really, it was more of a stroll than a ride...9.2 mph average moving speed.

 

[cosmicbike]

Windy out there this morning. The bread run started well, interrupted briefly by a cock in a Corsa, then a visit from the fairy on my lads bike. Never take any repair kit etc on the bread run, so emergency Mum came and picked up boy & bike, whilst Dad continued. Only a few miles covered, proper ride is due this afternoon. Supposed to be according to the MET office, they really need to look out the window because it's currently ....

 

[djb1971]

I was up and out by 3.30am this morning. Couldn't sleep so got up and went out for a few road miles on the fatbike. My furthest road trip on it yet, 54 miles. It's not too bad with the larrys pumped up to 12-14 psi.

And

I DONT BELEIEVE IT!
Someone has got their bloody Christmas tree and lights up in their front window!!!
ITS ONLY NOVEMBER YOU TITS!

 

[Jon George]

went out for a few road miles on the fatbike. My furthest road trip on it yet, 54 miles.

I nominate you for today's biggest understatement.

 

[djb1971]

I nominate you for today's biggest understatement.

Compared to my road distances, that was a few on the fat. Felt like more though

 

[ScotiaLass]

I had a lovely 14 miles this morning in the
No photos today as I forgot to take my phone and probably would have ridden further if I had remembered to take it off the charger, as it was so nice.
It was out but I was comfortable in longs, a long sleeve base top, a short sleeved top and my Altura jacket (with the vents left open!)

 

[Saluki]

Just in from a slow 10.5 in a mahoosive 58 minutes. The cycle-paths were teeming with kids on bikes, scooters and pulling their my-little-pony things. There were dog walkers galore and someone trying to do a 33 point turn in the entrance to a car-park where the cycleway gets joined by the road to the car-park. 310' of climbing, which is a lot for us Norfolk-ites. Hubster came with me, so I thought that I really wouldn't rush as it's his first ride for ages, not including to the city and back the other day.

I did type a nice ride report out but windows suddenly deleted it. Basically I took the route to the hospital that I took yesterday and then rode home via the UEA and up godforesaken Chancellor Avenue that I'd forgotten was so uppy. I am sure it was flatter when I was 20 years younger and 3 stone lighter.
We didn't get wet, run off the road or anything horrible. Nor did we get an ice-cream as the man wasn't there today

I had better go and fix the shed roof with Hubster now.
Hubster flipped the stem on the Defy while I was at guitar last night and it is so much better now. Needs re-taping though as the tape is really flat.

 

[mooseracer]

Wet and muddy 20 miles on the mountain bike this morning

 

[LarryDuff]

Very disappointed. No cycling today . BBC weather forecast totally wrong last night. It said there was a slight possibility of the Ards peninsula having some drizzle. Instead it has been hosing it down over all of county down since 9am.

 

[Brandane]

Fitted a new set of suspension forks to my MTB during the week (RockShox 30 Gold TK Solo Air), so today I just had to get out to play!
First part of the plan was find something off road, but not too technical as it's been a few years since I did any proper MTB'ing. So I headed off from home, for the 6 mile climb up the Brisbane Glen. A very quiet single track road with virtually nothing in the way of traffic. I went to Loch Thom, then over a Land Rover type track past the local TV/radio transmitter at Scroggie Bank. From there it was downhill to the east side of the Greenock Cut. A path follows the cut (which is a 5.5 mile long aqueduct built by Robert Thom in 1827 to supply water and hydro electric power to the industrial town of Greenock) all the way to Cornalees visitor centre. From there it is a short hop back to Loch Thom, then a bit of a climb back to the top of Brisbane Glen, followed by the 6 mile descent . The new forks are great; must get down to the 7 Stanes soon to test them for real!
Strava here.

The nice clean bike (at the start of the ride!) with new forks:

As close as you ever want to get to Greenock (only kidding @Bobby Mhor ) with Helensburgh across the Clyde:

The overflow from Loch Thom was working hard after recent wet weather:

 

[djb1971]

Wet and muddy 20 miles on the mountain bike this morning

20 minutes riding

2 hours cleaning