Your ride today.... (part 1)

[BigonaBianchi]

View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HxSgT44Jero

 

[skudupnorth]

Not a super exciting ride but i completed 84 miles on the fixie doing the college run to Reaseheath in Nantwich.Got let out with good behaviour at lunch time so i stopped on the canal between Nantwich and Church Minshull for my dinner and then carried on home where i found to my disgust someone had ordered the wind again ! No fun on a fixie running giddy track gear setup (85" ! ) Here's the usual photo story,enjoy !

Lunch made by my own tender hands

My route is part of NCN 75

Church Minshull


Nice sign at the village of Byley,need to find out the aviation connection


And the wonderful M.6 what i would normally commute along if i had the car today

 

[Venod]

The winds back from the SW today so headed in that direction out through Featherstone & through Walton, Walton Hall just of the route was the birthplace of naturalist Charles Waterton, I turned left & continued past Newmillerdam http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/ParksAndOpenSpaces/Newmillerdam/default.htm and up onto Wooley Edge they are good views from here looking west towards the Pennines, A quick freewheel down to the roundabout at Junction 38 of the M1 then up Jebb Lane to High Hoyland.
I haven't cycled up Jebb Lane for at least 30 years and I remember it it being a hard slog. I would have been on 42 -24 then, today I was on 36 - 30 and it was equally as hard !
Passing the Cherry Tree at High Hoyland brought back memories of a Christmas club run to the pub, having slogged our guts out coming uphill I produced from my jersey back pocket some mushed up black pudding which did look as if I had really slogged my guts out !
I had a Latte & a piece of nut & fruit cake baked with chocolate, but it wasn't as nice as last weeks caramel shortbread.
The wind behind me on the homeward leg was much appreciated, I caught a rider on the hill going through Mapplewell, he was doing a 60mile loop from Wakefield & was on the return leg, every time I pass through Mapplewell I think of the name Mapplebeck, Johny Mapplebeck was a founder of Pennine Cycles Bradford, http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/WhitakerandMapplebeck.html
The ride home was probably done twice as fast as the outward journey with the help of the wind.

http://www.bikemap.net/route/209878...-1.4093308251952&zoom=12&maptype=opencyclemap

 

[cyberknight]

Beware !
the puncture fairy knows when your about to set a PB on a strava section and causes you to have a blowout about 300 yards to go

 

[skudupnorth]

Found the link to the aircraft at Byley,it turns out there was a base called RAF Cranage built before the war .........i can sleep now !

 

[Stringy Bob]

18 miles to work this AM. 35 miles back home. The wind picked up somewhat. Nice way to start a long weekend

 

[flatflr]

Quick 10 miles today to test out the new bike (Look 586) so much more comfortable that the previous alu bike and very fast

 

[EltonFrog]

A leisurely 16 miles today, along side the Hudson river, on a segregated cycle path from w57 st down to Battery Park and onto pier 37 near the Twin Bridges area in between Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge, to the New York bike expo to sign on and collect our ride numbers for the five Boro's ride on Sunday.

I have photos but can't seem to upload them from an iPad.

Edit: Here's a FB link to a photo if it works.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...446.1073741834.100005279983625&type=3&theater

 

[derrick]

Another evening ride with the other half, she is getting faster say's it's nothing to do with strava she just want's to loose weight.

 

[potsy]

A nice leisurely 45 miles today, including my first ride up 'The Brickworks'
Stopped off in Romiley and had a very nice coffee & cake @Polocini cafe, will defo go back for another visit soon
Could have done with a bit of but it was not to be.

 

[Hacienda71]

A nice leisurely 45 miles today, including my first ride up 'The Brickworks'
Stopped off in Romiley and had a very nice coffee & cake @Polocini cafe, will defo go back for another visit soon
Could have done with a bit of but it was not to be.

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Nice cake shot

 

[skudupnorth]

A nice leisurely 45 miles today, including my first ride up 'The Brickworks'
Stopped off in Romiley and had a very nice coffee & cake @Polocini cafe, will defo go back for another visit soon
Could have done with a bit of but it was not to be.

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Makes my salad look very healthy...............................and boring

 

[postman]

42 miles on the mtb went to Bingley five rise locks,my word the tow path was busy.Brought my mate home via Leeds city centre that explains the higher mileage.got to say i am sat here cream crackered but happy.You see i got a bargain from ELLIS BRIGGS one of my toeclips got squashed and snapped.he had one pair left at £9-99 so i bought them, on the net they are £12- £15.Nice one Postie.

 

[Fnaar]

Can I have some of that stripey cake, please?

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[numbnuts]

Not today, but last night rode 16 miles in the dark it was
but my Cree lights were very good