Your ride today.... (part 1)

[skudupnorth]

Went to Manchester airport in the hope of seeing the worlds largest transport aircraft take off but sadly the Russians decided they did not want the aircraft they built flying over their airspace so it stayed firmly on the ground and is due to leave tomorrow when i cannot see it On a plus note i did discover and nice new trail and some very close up views from a nice field at the end of Manchesters second runway and i covered a fair 47 miles on the MTB with camera kit.Just a few pics to give you an idea.At least i got a 400bhp sighting
Bike with some weight !

My new favorit bridle path

Looking down the runway


Path that runs under the flight path

Yours truly with real film camera

My Nikon F.3

Runway lights

 

[derrick]

22 mile evening ride, usual route nice and warm, plenty of roadies out tonight, i slammed the stem a couple of weeks ago to see how it felt, but before this evenings ride i put a couple of spacers back in, felt more comfortable so that's where it is staying, feels like i now have the bike set up right.

 

[Saluki]

Last night (Tues) I tried the route that I had ridden on Monday but took the correct turning this time so it was shorter. I didn't want to go too far as I am supposedly tapering for Sunday, but I had had a bit of a day and was feeling very glum. I know that a bit of glumness can turn into depression very quickly so I needed to get my bum in gear and get it before it got me - if you know what I mean.
I kept in little ring and just let my legs spin, which was nice. I didn't see Mr Owl tonight but never mind. I did see a family of young stoats, playing in the road. I thought that they were squirrels for a sec, until I got closer. They stopped playing and looked at me, scampered to the side of the verge and watched my go past. I glanced around after I had passed and they were back playing in the middle of the road. It reminded me of playing tennis down our road when I was a kid. The wee stoats were very cute.

Once round the ride I decided to meet hubby from dialysis and rode off up the Norwich Road where I could see a chap and a small lad on a seat. When the lad saw me he jumped up on the seat and was clapping and waving very excitedly at me. As I passed I waved at him and he was yelling 'allez allez allez' at me and looking really happy. I wondered if he had been there a while to wave at the cyclists with, what looked to be, his Grandad.

A couple of miles on, I overtook the newbie lad on a bike, in the same place that I overtook him on Saturday night. I slowed down as he seemed to be struggling and I noticed that he was in big ring on a very small sprocket. Standing on his (flat) pedals to try to get up the hill. Its not much of a hill but he was really working hard and moving very slowly. I said 'hi' and suggested changing down but apparently low gears are for 'queers and girls', so that's me told then. I said 'nice bike' and left him to it, zipping off up the hill in small ring and on a sensible sprocket like a girl (or a queer). OH Lordy Lord, I am a girl!!! Where did those boobs come from. Oh, hold on, I've had them since I hit puberty. Panic over. As you were. Onwards.

I got to the hospital about 10 minutes before Hubby came out so sheltered between the double doors with my bike. A doctor chap came along for change, I though that he was going to tell me off but he asked if it was chilly out. I said that it was now that I had stopped riding. Then the change machine broke and ate his fiver. It all happens at the N&N!

14.56 miles in the end at a steady average of 15.2mph so I was happy. I meant to do a steady 12mph so not sure what happened. My legs are not stiff this morning at all and I felt great during and after. I really will have a little 5 miler tonight. Might do that little route on the MTBs as that is easy peasy and lots of fun too.

 

[john59]

A morning ride before work, 71 km. The weather was dull but warm, the forecast said the sun would be out later in the day.

http://app.strava.com/activities/62938765

Hadlow road ticket office.


Hadlow road station.


John

 

[BigonaBianchi]

39 miles loop today, first ride after the le jog adventure...strong wind, but I flew round...felt good to be rucksack free as well!
also i'd given the bike a total clean and lots of tlc and it just seemed to glide..

 

[Old Plodder]

Got out again, & did a 40 mile ride taking in some lanes/hills that I haven't done for a few years, & a couple of new bits.
Only climbed 2000ft this time, so one of the flatter routes.

 

[Peteaud]

1st time out for a while so a nice little 37 mile loop into Taunton and back via the outlaying villages was called for.

The Somerset road fund budget has been slashed.....

Really nice ride. a few people about and the warm day made a nice ride.

 

[Brandane]

A 50 mile loop today. Largs to Fairlie, over Fairlie Moor to Dalry; NCN route to Johnstone and Kilmacolm; then over Garshangan track to Loch Thom and the 6 mile descent back to Largs. A pleasant enough day with a bit of a chilly NW wind, and no sign of the wall to wall sunshine forecast for today.

Was on the Secteur so no photos today; not enough storage space to carry the camera!

.....but here's one I took earlier of the Secteur at Loch Thom (pre Tiagra shifters conversion)........

 

[mooseracer]

Nice 48 mile loop around Malmesbury, Tetbury and Wotton Under Edge. Managed to get a 2nd overall on a Strava sprint after 40 miles so think I'll be going back to have a go at that with fresher legs

Hardly saw anyone out, I guess not everyone has this week off......

 

[derrick]

Another 22 miles tonight, did a different route tonight ,took in Mott st and High beech, roads reasonably quiet, possibility of rain tomorrow evening so thought i would get in while the weather is good, i think i need a few more tops, i have to keep washing the ones i have every night.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I've just got in from a nice evening ride to Oaks, Pulverbatch and along the foot of the Long Mynd.

It was really nice out there , although a little cooler than I'd like. There has been lots of hay cutting going on so the smell of grass up at Oaks was lovely.

The full route was; over Lyth Hill, and along a couple of bridleways to Exfords Green, then up to Oaks. From there I took the back road to Pulverbatch (a couple of short steep climbs going that way) before heading through Wilderley and dropping down into Dorrington (275 feet of descent in about 2.25 miles). Finally I headed for Condover and the last leg to home.

18.3 miles covered at 12mph average. Happy with that for a hilly route.

Looking towards Church Stretton from the top of Lyth Hill. For you literary types, this was the view that inspired Mary Webb (Author of Precious Bane and Gone to Earth) as her house is a short distance away.

Up at Oaks and looking back the way I've just climbed.

A little way past Wilderley now. The shadows are getting quite long....

......and it promises to be a good sunset

On the road between Condover and Bayston Hill. Sadly the camera hasn't really done the sunset justice.

 

[EltonFrog]

Just 9 miles today. Car needed a service, so chucked the bike in the back, dropped car off cycled home did a days decorating, cycled back to collect the car. £300 lighter. Sorted. Bosh. Tuesday.

 

[Trickedem]

Kent field full of Poppies.
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That's a cracking photo.

 

[Saluki]

Today I have spent the day cracking on with my accounts ready to do the online tax return thing. Just getting it all into a better, more meaningful (to me) order. I promised myself that when I got to the end of December 2012 that I would go for a bike ride in the sunshine.
I got to December (and sorted out my NI on the phone), grabbed my lovely new Endura Mitts and nice Velo bike computer thingy bought yesterday and got out on my bike. I have lovely new bar tape too, dark blue. I tried to remember that this is my last proper ride before the Cycletta on Sunday and that tomorrow is a rest day and saturday is going to be a nice little leg-turner so I need to be sensible. This in mind I rode to Wattlefield, Spooner Row and back to Wymondham. Its a flattish route with 79 whole feet of climbing - I do live in Norfolk after all - and averaged about 15.5mph over it.

Over the next couple of days I will clean the Giant, give the chain a good clean and lube and move the cleats on my road shoes. They seem to have drifted back a bit. They feel odd anyway.

Back to the accounts. Boo hiss

 

[BigonaBianchi]

only had time for twice around the smaller local loop in Worthing and lancing...too much traffick