vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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There's not that many hills....
Your ride today.... (part 1)
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There's not that many hills....
matthat
Über Member
- Location
- South Liverpool
Rohloff_Brompton_Rider
Formerly just_fixed
'twas snowing when I got to bispham (after getting lost due to m55 being closed off). I didn't fancy getting stuck over the higher ground on a Brompton, so I opted for circuits.
Nor beck castle where I parked, bispham, fleetwood,bispham, past the car, Blackpool, Lytham st Anne's, fair view lake(?), Lytham st Anne's, Blackpool, past the car, bispham, fleetwood, bispham, past the car, Blackpool, Lytham st Anne's, fair view lake(?), Lytham st Anne's, Blackpool, past the car etc etc.
Blackpool promenade is 95% open and is brilliant, I like the quotes and jokes on the floor near the town centre. The perfect wind...steady headwind with no gusting and a brilliant tailwind.
61/2 hours including breaks, I'm a bit stiff tho from sitting in the same position with it being pretty much flat, almost like rollers.
Another really enjoyable ride.
Nor beck castle where I parked, bispham, fleetwood,bispham, past the car, Blackpool, Lytham st Anne's, fair view lake(?), Lytham st Anne's, Blackpool, past the car, bispham, fleetwood, bispham, past the car, Blackpool, Lytham st Anne's, fair view lake(?), Lytham st Anne's, Blackpool, past the car etc etc.
Blackpool promenade is 95% open and is brilliant, I like the quotes and jokes on the floor near the town centre. The perfect wind...steady headwind with no gusting and a brilliant tailwind.
61/2 hours including breaks, I'm a bit stiff tho from sitting in the same position with it being pretty much flat, almost like rollers.
Another really enjoyable ride.
Spent last week in Blackpool, wish I had been able to take my bike with me. Blue skies all week - a 20 mile ride up and down the coast would have been a nice way to wake up of a morning!
G3CWI
Veteran
- Location
- Macclesfield
33 miles, 3,000ft ascent. Light snow at times.
Very pleasant ride with work colleague round Rudyard and surrounding villages. Both of us had cold feet but apart from that a really great ride. I can see riding together on Sunday mornings catching on.
Very pleasant ride with work colleague round Rudyard and surrounding villages. Both of us had cold feet but apart from that a really great ride. I can see riding together on Sunday mornings catching on.
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
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- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
I think I may need to offer an apology to the fully kitted out roadie I scalped on an uphill today. Don't think from his response that he appreciated being overtaken by a woman wearing hiking boots riding a Triban 3 on an uphill section of the A49...
Set me up for a nice 55km before lunch this morning, managing to squeeze the ride inbetween snow flurries. 2hrs 34mins, but I think I may need to work on my routing - there were only 4 strava sections in that 55km, so only 3 trophies today!
So apologies offered to whoever you where.. (but it did feel good)
http://app.strava.com/activities/42074393
Set me up for a nice 55km before lunch this morning, managing to squeeze the ride inbetween snow flurries. 2hrs 34mins, but I think I may need to work on my routing - there were only 4 strava sections in that 55km, so only 3 trophies today!
So apologies offered to whoever you where.. (but it did feel good)
http://app.strava.com/activities/42074393
Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
- Location
- Prestatyn, North Wales
Club ride today. Just over 50 miles (very tired) it was a relatively normal tempo but the weather made it a whole lot worse.
Going up a hill called The Shelf, it started snowing (heavily) when we go to the top, it was -2 degrees and the snow had turned icy. We were very cautious going back down the hill and then joined a route I knew.
It was just me and someone else on the ride so noone was pushing too hard (Alan went for it on a segment and got second place). Still very tired though.
Going up a hill called The Shelf, it started snowing (heavily) when we go to the top, it was -2 degrees and the snow had turned icy. We were very cautious going back down the hill and then joined a route I knew.
It was just me and someone else on the ride so noone was pushing too hard (Alan went for it on a segment and got second place). Still very tired though.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Some big rides today, but not by me. Did 16.4 miles with our lass, got her to do three rides now in the last week, each longer than the last.
Rohloff_Brompton_Rider
Formerly just_fixed
It really is a good ride on the front now the promenade at Blackpool if near enough fully open. 38 miles circuit all flat and 90% is off the road, I'll probably take my wife up there for a long twin Brompton ride she'll be able to ride a circuit now.
The promenade is really good now with sculptures, massive wide open spaces, you can do the upper promenade on one leg and laugh at the drunks arguing, falling and fighting...then do the lower promenade and watch the fisherman night fishing and listen to the tide coming and crashing onto the shore...rhythmic and peaceful.
For a night ride it really was interesting and feels safe for a solo rider.
46 miles and 3,017 feet climbing to Chedworth and back today with the club. A very nice route that I hadn't been on before, with a stop at an excellent little farm shop cafe. Had a nice encounter with two group of deer and got to watch them run alongside us in the fields. Also got up close with an unidentified bird of prey when it almost flew into me on the way home! 
It was flippin' cold though! It was snowing most of the ride and we had a few icy sections, thankfully no one came off.
It was flippin' cold though! It was snowing most of the ride and we had a few icy sections, thankfully no one came off.
MisterStan
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- Location
- Out there somewhere
I wasn't planning a ride this morning, then when I spotted a message from Fluff asking about cake shops in my own town, I decided I'd ride out to meet her and then have a coffee and head home. In the end we didn't come back to St Ives, I had a very nice bacon sarnie at Waresley though and ended up doing my first 50 miler!
A cold 34 miles around North London, Barnet, Hampstead, a few laps of Regents park, and the up through Primrose Hill, Gospel Oak, Highgate, Crouch hill and to the cafe at Alexandra Palace for coffee. Then back through Bounds Green, New Southgate, Whetstone and home.
Marshmallow_Fluff
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- Beds
At this point I would like to clarify that I hardly touched anything at WP cafe..
OK, maybe a scone with jam and clotted cream.. That's it!!!
(40.5 miles for me, as initially planned, only a lot more pleasant thanks to MrStan's company..
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outlash
also available in orange
- Location
- ice station zebra
Out for a ride with my CC today, hung back on a slower group but still did 45 miles including the Oakington to St. Ives stretch of the guided busway. Flooded past Swavesey for about 100 metres or so but other than that an enjoyable ride .
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