Your ride today.... (part 1)

[BigonaBianchi]

18 miles into a planned 55 miler I break a rear spoke...so I turn around and head to the nearest bike shop...where they fix it...so I head out again...but came over very dizzy...so I pulled up and rested....then headed out again, this time back towards home...very windy from the west...coastal road like a wind tunnel again....not my finest hour

 

[Saluki]

Quickie tonight as I wasn't feeling very happy today, a bike ride really cheers me up.
I headed towards Wattlefield but past the Spooner Row turning as there was a road that I had spotted the other night and I wondered where it went so I rode down it tonight to explore. It goes towards Ashwellthorpe as it happened. I got nearly to the end when I started getting a pain just above my left knee so I dropped down to little ring and took a gentle spin home with no deviations. Its got a bag of frozen peas on the ouchy area as I type. Just over 7.5 miles in just over 30 minutes so not so bad and I feel much happier now (except for when I got home the lodger dog had done a giant poo and a pee in my bedroom )

 

[Glow worm]

A couple of shortish rides here in the last day or so. First a circuit of Vancouvers Stanley park. About 5 miles on a ped/ cycle path beside the harbour and then the sea.

Managed to persuade mrs g to join me- a nice flat route in hot sunshine.

Near the end of the ride I spotted the best road sign I've ever seen

Then today, a longer 10 or so mile pootle around the whole Vancouver peninsular.


There's a ped cycle path most of the way, though the last bit through the city cutting back to Gas Town along cambie street could have been a but hairy were it not for the unbelievably patient and cycle friendly drivers.
This is definitely one great country to cycle in.

 

[Old Plodder]

Near the end of the ride I spotted the best road sign I've ever seen
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Now that I like......could do with it over here.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Car's MOT today so I slung the bike on the roof so I could drop the car off at the garage and cycle the mile(ish) back home.
That plan quickly changed and the quick one mile trip ended up as leisurely 26 mile and 2 hours .

Not the faster ride in the world, but MTBs with balloon slicks are such wonderfully comfy things to ride

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

The last few days I have been down in Bournemouth getting my husband's touring wheel rebuilt and a T3 forum memeber had offered to take me out on a ride, so this 'my ride today' is more a 'my rides on Wednesday;...

Wednesday was a case of a drop off the wheel to be rebuilt, get over to the campsite (£6 a night on the edge of the New Forest), tent up and get out for a bike ride to check the Triban 3 had survived the journey down (my OH refused to put the towbar mounted bike rack on for me, so she had to go in the boot of our saloon...) So a sedate ride around the New Forest from the campsite seemed like a good idea...it was a touch more windy than I had hoped for with some seriously hard work at times fighting the head wind. Various cattle grids needed to be negiotated, but that was not a problem. Navigation was a case of roughly this way because although I had 'planned' a route, I had not double checked the route actually stayed on tarmac... garmin connect is notorious for this, but I never seem to learn... www.strava.com/activities/74642512 26.6km (16.5 miles). Bike OK, me is another matter.

Then it was a mad dash back to the campsite & food... The T3forum member had kindly arranged to take me on an evening ride after (his) work and I needed to get over to where he lives.. After being ill for so long (since 1st May, I have hardly been out on my bike because my asthma has been really bad and I have had chest infection after chest infection) the 2nd ride of Wedensday was harder than I had hoped. At first I was fine on the ride over to Swanage, but the moment we hit some hills, my lack of fitness (and recent illness) showed and I was holding him back - but I didn't get off to walk any hills, I did manage to cycle all of them... a quick drink at the pub in Swanage and we headed back (thank you). going back was easier - I am fine with long slow gradients: it is the short sharp ones that kill me at the moment, I simply have no power or muscle in those legs of mine... and somehow we managed to get a headwind in both directions along the promonade. Not playing fair that is not. www.strava.com/activities/74814037 43.2km (27 miles)

(piccies to follow when I can get them off the phone/camera)

Edit: Pictures added.

Exceptionally busy campsite

Over kill for British weather, but great for hiding a bike in! My Triban 3 fits width ways in the extension. New tent has yet to arrive (Finger's crossed it arrives soon... 3 weeks time it should be in use.)

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

(continued)...Thursday saw me cycling back into Christchurch to meet up with the T3forum member's partner for a meander around the country lanes and back to the campsite for lunch. In true style I think we spent more time gossiping than riding seriously, but it was good fun and very pleasant, if again rather windy. www.strava.com/activities/74980035 another 43.7km (27 miles)

Then the afternoon, the sun came out, I got sunburnt and for some mad reason I decided on another bike ride and not having learnt the lesson of my first ride, headed back out into the New Forest when the wind was even blusterier. This time there were even more cattle grids to negiotated but also miles and miles of empty single track lanes with no vehicles around for well over 5 miles at a time. But once back out on the 'bigger' (read B roads) the routes were busy and exposed and very windy. making progress was seriously hard work at times and I knew I was going to be very slow getting back to the campsite. Plenty of New Forest ponys were around, along with some roaming cattle as well but none were bothered by cyclists or cars thankfully. www.strava.com/activities/74980033 43km (26.5 miles).

A slower ride but over 100 miles in the last 2 days when I have been off the bike since the beginning of May, was probably doing a touch too much too soon, but I need to get the miles in, in the next 3 weeks because our summer holiday is a cycle tour...

Photos to follow at the weekend... if the camera/phone releases them too me.

EDIT: pictures added.
Very busy roads in the New Forest and a nice house at a convienient rest point out of the wind and out of the sun.

 

[Old Plodder]

You only get one 'like', even if you post twice!!!!

Edit: I misread one of the posts & thought it was the same, apology in order.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

You only get one 'like', even if you post twice!!!!

different day, different rides though...

Editted to make it clearer... for some reason I get a script error if I 'write' too much in one posting on this thread (and this thread only)... it then crashes the webpage so I have had to divide the posting into 2 posts, one for each day...

 

[Old Plodder]

My apologies, I saw what looked like the same ride being posted twice, my fault for not reading properly.
(Have another 'like'.)

 

[Spartak]

Not so much my ride today, but my riding this week.

We had a cottage booked in Dorset & I was able to ride for an hour in the evening most nights

Stayed in the quiet village of Throop approx. 4 miles south of Bere Regis.
Some great country lanes to explore with some challenging hills.
Even managed to enter a Time Trial on the Tuesday night, CC Weymouth's R459/10

My bikes home for the week

 

[Hill Wimp]

Not so much my ride today, but my riding this week.

We had a cottage booked in Dorset & I was able to ride for an hour in the evening most nights

Stayed in the quiet village of Throop approx. 4 miles south of Bere Regis.
Some great country lanes to explore with some challenging hills.
Even managed to enter a Time Trial on the Tuesday night, CC Weymouth's R459/10

My steed's home for the week

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Love the Aga

 

[arranandy]

46 miles this afternoon after work. Up to East Kilbride then through the lanes and back roads to Strathaven then back home. Forecast looks a bit grim so it might be an outing for the winter bike tomorrow morning

 

[Spoked Wheels]

The last few days I have been down in Bournemouth getting my husband's touring wheel rebuilt and a T3 forum memeber had offered to take me out on a ride, so this 'my ride today' is more a 'my rides on Wednesday;...

Wednesday was a case of a drop off the wheel to be rebuilt, get over to the campsite (£6 a night on the edge of the New Forest), tent up and get out for a bike ride to check the Triban 3 had survived the journey down (my OH refused to put the towbar mounted bike rack on for me, so she had to go in the boot of our saloon...) So a sedate ride around the New Forest from the campsite seemed like a good idea...it was a touch more windy than I had hoped for with some seriously hard work at times fighting the head wind. Various cattle grids needed to be negiotated, but that was not a problem. Navigation was a case of roughly this way because although I had 'planned' a route, I had not double checked the route actually stayed on tarmac... garmin connect is notorious for this, but I never seem to learn... www.strava.com/activities/74642512 26.6km (16.5 miles). Bike OK, me is another matter.

Then it was a mad dash back to the campsite & food... The T3forum member had kindly arranged to take me on an evening ride after (his) work and I needed to get over to where he lives.. After being ill for so long (since 1st May, I have hardly been out on my bike because my asthma has been really bad and I have had chest infection after chest infection) the 2nd ride of Wedensday was harder than I had hoped. At first I was fine on the ride over to Swanage, but the moment we hit some hills, my lack of fitness (and recent illness) showed and I was holding him back - but I didn't get off to walk any hills, I did manage to cycle all of them... a quick drink at the pub in Swanage and we headed back (thank you). going back was easier - I am fine with long slow gradients: it is the short sharp ones that kill me at the moment, I simply have no power or muscle in those legs of mine... and somehow we managed to get a headwind in both directions along the promonade. Not playing fair that is not. www.strava.com/activities/74814037 43.2km (27 miles)

(piccies to follow when I can get them off the phone/camera)

(continued)...Thursday saw me cycling back into Christchurch to meet up with the T3forum member's partner for a meander around the country lanes and back to the campsite for lunch. In true style I think we spent more time gossiping than riding seriously, but it was good fun and very pleasant, if again rather windy. www.strava.com/activities/74980035 another 43.7km (27 miles)

Then the afternoon, the sun came out, I got sunburnt and for some mad reason I decided on another bike ride and not having learnt the lesson of my first ride, headed back out into the New Forest when the wind was even blusterier. This time there were even more cattle grids to negiotated but also miles and miles of empty single track lanes with no vehicles around for well over 5 miles at a time. But once back out on the 'bigger' (read B roads) the routes were busy and exposed and very windy. making progress was seriously hard work at times and I knew I was going to be very slow getting back to the campsite. Plenty of New Forest ponys were around, along with some roaming cattle as well but none were bothered by cyclists or cars thankfully. www.strava.com/activities/74980033 43km (26.5 miles).

A slower ride but over 100 miles in the last 2 days when I have been off the bike since the beginning of May, was probably doing a touch too much too soon, but I need to get the miles in, in the next 3 weeks because our summer holiday is a cycle tour...

Photos to follow at the weekend... if the camera/phone releases them too me.

Emma, I ride the routes you did all the time but you describe them much better than I ever could. I enjoyed reading your posts.

I know all too well getting a headwind on the way out and also on the way back. And those hills on the way too Swanage can really test your legs.

 

[Seamab]

46 miles this afternoon after work. Up to East Kilbride then through the lanes and back roads to Strathaven then back home. Forecast looks a bit grim so it might be an outing for the winter bike tomorrow morning

I was brought up in EK and know the roads you cycled. Been some years since i was last up that way. The forecast for tomorrow looks like a non cycling day!