Your ride today.... (part 1)

[HLaB]

Windy about best sums up my ride today, a couple of loops adding up to 110.5 miles; thats my century done this month, I can rest now

Get rid of the first two 5mile laps (the slow bimble in the dark to Yaxley) its 16.1mph average for the ton

 

[Monsieur Remings]

68 miles as ride leader for fast group of the Clevedon and District today. Herding comes to mind, as there were over 30 of us and a few misunderstandings arose, as they normally do. Lots of climbing and a fast pace on the flat but spent too long on the front, but a great day out and nice to get some proper mileage in on the road bike.

0`0 > > >

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Just took a ride up along a nicer coast road than usual .

 

[BigonaBianchi]

That looks nice but I don't recognise it - where were you Rolf?

I'm in Cyprus...the Turkish bit

 

[craigwend]

After a few days (well quite a few) out at last, 10 miles in the dark & the VERY windy...

Thouroughly enjoyed it & by the blessing of the norse god of the wind 'Velowindicus' the wind was with me in 96% (estimated) of the ride!

It was a very dark, dark night, truely lovely with good starlight, the wind has dried most of the roads (& fields) apart from the little puddle that I caught whilst admiring the stars, turned out to be a sneaky deep pothole - the good old mavic T221's took yet another hit and carried on regardless, unlike my head which was ringing for a good 5 minutes...

cycling the best things since ...

 

[totallyfixed]

Your ride today, or can I revise the title to "someone up there is out to get me today". Set off out to meet dr_pink on her long commute, [this after fixing saddle rail clamp and bolt and regreasing bottom bracket shell] so all ticking along nicely. Step outside, open the garage door which the wind helped to open it at supersonic speed and chinning me on the way up. Oh well these things happen [quite a lot to me], but the stars are out even if I have a headwind and a mile long climb to look forward to. 3 miles done, pitch black but my Supernova Airstream throws a beam like a dipped car headlight and it's a pleasure to ride with, I digress. I know this road well and I am just into the climb when the heavens opened. I gave up, turned tail and with the wind did a mile back to the previous village and a bus shelter in a little over 2 minutes. It slackened off a bit so made a dash for home to pick up a waterproof but by then the stars were out so off I went again after topping up my rear tyre as it felt a bit soft.
Out of Oakham up the steepest hill, still into the wind, me weaving up it like a snake on cannabis hoping any cars coming up behind will make allowances as I can't hear anything as my rasping breath combined with the howling wind meant a battle tank could have been on my wheel and I would have been oblivious.
To cut a wine fuelled story relatively short, I met dr_pink, discovered I have a slow puncture [bloody useless tyres, 35000 miles and 3 punctures now] so I ride back like my a**e is on fire and make it just as my tyre gets too squidgy to put any further weight on.
Tomorrows another day, just can someone turn off the wind please.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

On the way to the Turkish.supermarket...the one that has a chicken today.

 

[totallyfixed]

On the way to the Turkish.supermarket...the one that has a chicken today.

You would have got another "like" for this but now I'm getting a teeny eeny bit jealous, however if you take one up in the Troodos.........

 

[BigonaBianchi]

..it's actually really cold here today...th ewind is blowing strong from the east ...I asked th eturkish guy in th eshop when th ewind would stop..he answered in a south london accent...when the rain starts mate!

 

[Deleted member 23692]

71.61 miles today and very easy it was too I never left my desk, and stayed dry and warm in doing so

How come? I was plotting a new long distance/challenge route that I'm currently helping to develop at work, along with a suite of 5 day rides/loops. At some point they'll all have to get ridden as part of the process, so I'm chomping for better weather.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Cold night ride. Bury, Rochdale, littleborough, walsden, todmorden, cliviger gorge, burnley, rossendale, home. Only 27 miles but chuffed, felt slow and sluggish for some reason, the cold I think. I do like night rides, very little traffic, makes braving the cold worth it.

 

[coffeejo]

Hardly touched the bike at all this past week but did 19 miles today, somehow managing to avoid any headwinds apart from the last couple of miles home. The low lying afternoon sunshine caught me by surprise - it's normally dark at this time of day but lights don't help when you're riding against the sun!

 

[EltonFrog]

26.1 today, my regular cycle loop, but the wrong way round to make the most of the wind. Bloodytittychrist, it was cold though today. I took my roady out today as the roads were dry, my goodness that bike flies, a pure joy to ride.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Had to take shelter from a huge thunderstorm in this old ruined church in the hills today..the rain was like ice...

 

[Psycolist]

Ashamed to say, not even got into double figures since last saturday, wind on the coast here has been wicked. Its blown me to a standstill more than once this week. I've stayed close to home as a result. Hopeful for tommorow though, fingers crossed i will go