Your ride today.... (part 1)

[vernon]

Pootled to Vienna where the first part of the return train journey was purchased from the Austrian railway company add I had great difficulty booking tickets for people and bikes from Budapest to Vienna. Visited the Prater and then got lost adding further miles but we saw a lot of the major sights. Took in a cake stop too.

Did a total of twenty one miles plus two miles pushing the bike when I got a puncture when impress and spare tube less. No worries though, it was a cool evening at twenty one degrees.

Bratislava is the target tomorrow.

 

[Scotmitchy]

i did a thoroughly uneventful 15 mile round trip to the shops, but it was very blowy and a bit rainy, so I am proud to say I didn't take the easy option and jump in the car.

 

[skudupnorth]

The bikes look like there leaning against the Pantry Bach in Pensarn near Abergele....I like a bag of chips from there

It was ! Just had an ice cream there though !

 

[MrJamie]

I went out on Saturday to see how long it takes me to complete a 10 mile loop I used to ride and suprised myself 38mins averaging 16.1mph according to Strava. For the past year my faster rides have all been 15mph or under, so recent efforts seem to be working. I know its not especially fast to most, but im on a front suspension hybrid weighing 20kg, im 19 stone myself atm and the route was mostly on cyclepaths, so a number of stops and slows for road crossings/intersections. So the motivation is there to lose a few more stone and buy a faster bike with drops

 

[BigonaBianchi]

92 miles in 42c in the shade..not that there is any shade here in Kansas lol!

 

[vernon]

Fifty four miles to Bratislava and cans of Staropramen beer. Tediously ride along a dike and the boredom was relieved by the numerous,sightings of deer.

 

[vernon]

A further five miles to Zlety Piesky campsite where I ate something I couldn't pronounce. It turned out to be a variant.

 

[Sandra6]

Just had time to whiz down the river calder cycle path to Dalston today. 4 miles each way.
Lots of pootling "looking at the river" cyclists out. Got stuck behind a bloke doing 7mph and wobbling about a lot on a narrow path, no room to overtake, passed him as soon as I could and "shot" off, averaging 13mph, although I pushed myself to 18 on an open stretch. I know it's nothing compared to some of you but I felt it was a workout.
Reached the end of the path, took a drink and turned round, and here's the chap catching me up. Was he trying to race me?! I don't know. We had a little chat, he clearly thought I was bonkers for just turning round to go back though.
Made it home in a record time (for me!) of 15minutes, it usually takes me closer to 20.
Between the weather and demands of children I'm grabbing every chance of a cycle I get, no matter how small.

 

[potsy]

35 miles on the Trans Pennine Trail, slow and leisurely, very quiet on there today.
Fed the ducks and checked out the progress of the Metrolink extension over Sale water park, bit wet and muddy in places but mostly fine.

 

[JohnClimber]

Beat my PB around Llandegla's full 11.4miles, 1,599ft of ups & downs in 1hr 05 mins & 55secs setting the 7th best Strava time out of 396riders.

Quite chuffed but aiming higher & faster

 

[Cheshire Celt]

Done my first /30 miler today 40 next

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Got out for a hilly ride today, over Lyth Hill then up to Oaks and Pulverbatch before returning via Wilderley, Dorrington and Condover. I like the bit between Wilderley and Condover as it starts out with great views towards Shrewsbury, the Shropshire plain and the Wrekin, then you have a descent of more than 380 feet over the next 4 miles or so.

18.3 miles in just under an hour and a half which is okay on the knockabout bike.

I got back in time to see Wiggins winning the time trial which was thrilling.

 

[MrJamie]

I find some routes just seem fated to have issues..

I went out to do the 10 mile route I got a puncture on last week in an M+ without my repair kit. I was testing out my new pedals (Wellgo MG1 magnesium flats) which are awesome. A mile in my chain slipped pulling away from a junction out of the saddle and fortunately my feet stayed firmly on the pedals or it may have hurt. Not much further along, it started raining and my brakes started screaming.

I decided id go for a 1km strava trail that id checked out a couple of weeks ago, bombing along it like a nutter (whole trail has hundreds of metres visability all around), approaching a bend really quickly on smooth compacted earth onto grass, i see a woman not too far ahead and stupidly my brain reverts back to rear braking to avoid squeal forgetting that this time the grass is now wet and im using M+ roadish tyres. It went dramatically sideways, without thinking id got off the brakes and caught it and had somehow managed to skid wildly round the corner in the process without slowing down, strava has me at a flat 21mph through there although i slowed down after and was nowhere near the segment time anyway. Gonna have to dig out my old MTB for some trails

 

[Sandra6]

Just utility cycling today, first a mile to the retail park, then into the town centre.
Was very nearly uneventful until the last few minutes as I crossed a main junction after lights and the traffic splits into two lanes. I was on the left, going straight on, I was just starting to dominate the lane so I couldn't be cut in on when a lady driver decides to do a very close pass, I hadn't even recovered from the resulting wobble when the car behind goes for it too! eejits!
Probably just as well neither of them was stopping by the shops or I would have lost my cool!

 

[grumpyoldgit]

Be another 12 miler tonight,circuit from Hampton Court to Walton bridge,over the river & back,trying to do this every night.Seeing as I am late fifties,overweight & heavy smoker & only been back on a bike a few weeks,not too shabby.Next week I will extend this by a few miles.