Your ride today.... (part 1)

[coffeejo]

1st time out on the new bike today. Been on the turbo trainer for the last few months and it was so nice to get out for real.

Until a visit from the pu**ture gremlins

So the bike is great, the discs are great in the wet, the tyres are cr@p and will be binned asap.

Welcome back to the real world.

(PS your avatar is giving me motion sickness )

 

[skudupnorth]

Back to the National Trust site at Styal for a "shorter" 41 miler ride to carry out my second day of chainsaw training. Felled two trees that were not in the best of health and I am pleased with gaining these new skills.The only downside with doing such hard and difficult work like that is I am so knackered riding home !

 

[GrasB]

I haven't been riding lately. in fact I've been MIA for a while now. took a bad tumble off my bike about 11 days ago and apart from cuts & bruises, broke a couple of teeth so I've been home mostly. today's my first day back at work and feeling up to a ride tonite..... but i'm guessing i'm gonna be riding pretty sloooooooooooow lol wish me luck peeps... hopefully no more tumbles in the near future, in fact, no more tumbles ever

Ouch & GWS. I share your pain, quite literally as I lost an argument with a tree

 

[Martin McNeely]

Back from me hols in Fuerteventura, and now able to upload some photo's (sorry) The holiday went well with about 250 miles covered on the hired bike (mainly in the mornings due to the heat) the roads were a mixture of very good to bl**dy awful some finishing abruptly. I did not cover the entire island due to the heat to get to the south side I would have had to stay there for the day before the return journey and I think my beloved may have objected. The drivers have to be the most courteous I have ever met whilst on a bike. I only had 1 puncture which wasn't much of a surprise considering the road I was on at the time but thankfully I was supplied with spare tube and puncture kit. I can recommend Easyriders to anyone thinking of hiring a bike over there. View attachment 26343 View attachment 26344

Hi, I know this is an old post but I'm cycling in fuerteventura shortly and was wondering where in the island you went.
I'm going to corralejo and taking my own bike, disappointed with easy riders lack of communication via emails. I'm intending to do about 150 mile with some more TT Training in late afternoon,longer rides early in the morning. What did you think of the main roads?
Cheers

 

[Justiffa]

Ouch ! Hope you have recovered......breaking teeth is not good .......the thought just goes through me

While the splints are still on to hold the rest of my teeth in place, I'm mending nicely, tq 'skudupnorth' and after the initial hesitation going downhill, last nite's ride (my first after the fall) was quite alright wheeeeeeeeeeee

 

[Justiffa]

Ouch & GWS. I share your pain, quite literally as I lost an argument with a tree

Lordy, a tree? couldn't u pick someone ur own size 'GrasB' hehehehe (j/k) i'm much better now tqvm although i'm still going round with only half of my front teeth..its gonna be some time before the roots are all nice & stable

 

[Justiffa]

@Justiffa
Sorry to see you had a fall, hope you feel better, & that your confidence returns quickly, all the best.

Tq 'Fatmac' I don't look too bad now that the cuts hv healed & the strange swollen lips are now my own again lol... but the teeth, still needs some work

 

[Justiffa]

GWS @Justiffa.... just take it slow

Thx 'theloafer', will try my best... in fact i'm guessing I will be pretty darn slow after this heh2

 

[Justiffa]

GWS @Justiffa

Thx 'coffeejo'

 

[GrasB]

Lordy, a tree? couldn't u pick someone ur own size 'GrasB' hehehehe (j/k)

What could I do, it decided to take a rest & lay down in the road ... obviously thought been standing up too long, that's just lazy if you ask me.

 

[Justiffa]

What could I do, it decided to take a rest & lay down in the road ... obviously though been standing up too long, that's just lazy if you ask me.

LOL trees these days... and to think they used to be strong, sturdy & quite dependable

 

[thegravestoneman]

Hi, I know this is an old post but I'm cycling in fuerteventura shortly and was wondering where in the island you went.
I'm going to corralejo and taking my own bike, disappointed with easy riders lack of communication via emails. I'm intending to do about 150 mile with some more TT Training in late afternoon,longer rides early in the morning. What did you think of the main roads?
Cheers

sorry for any delay in getting back, I am away from the site a bit too frequently at the mo, I stayed in Correlejo and can say that the main roads are for the most part superb and the free island map is just about all you need. I am surprised that easyriders are slack with the replys because they were on the ball with mine but we all have different experiences. If you are on strava and want to see my rides on the island, I am' Gaz Wright 4TCC' and I was there from about the 5th July 2013. I would say stay away from the smaller coast roads but you will work that out when you get there. I never got to the south of the island as it would have meant being out at midday and that would have been far to hot at that time of year. Enjoy yourself and don't forget to keep up the fluids when out there.

Gaz

 

[GrasB]

LOL trees these days... and to think they used to be strong, sturdy & quite dependable

You mean like this:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D90v23QP5Ik

A shiny example of a tough tree (though it's a young whipper snapper)

 

[Martin McNeely]

sorry for any delay in getting back, I am away from the site a bit too frequently at the mo, I stayed in Correlejo and can say that the main roads are for the most part superb and the free island map is just about all you need. I am surprised that easyriders are slack with the replys because they were on the ball with mine but we all have different experiences. If you are on strava and want to see my rides on the island, I am' Gaz Wright 4TCC' and I was there from about the 5th July 2013. I would say stay away from the smaller coast roads but you will work that out when you get there. I never got to the south of the island as it would have meant being out at midday and that would have been far to hot at that time of year. Enjoy yourself and don't forget to keep up the fluids when out there.

Gaz

Thanks for the advice, I've added you on strava. It wouldn't let me view your fuerteventura rides. I did a bit of googling and seen some of the coast roads looked rough. How busy did you find the two main roads into corralejo?

 

[Wayne Tully]

Had the afternoon off work, ended up taking the MTB out,

Started in Faversham headed through Seasalter,down to Whitstable into Tankerton, had a guy try to overtake me whilst a car was going around a parked on the otherside of the road TWICE I pulled over and let him past, better safe than sorry, the rain was chucking it down so I stopped at Tankerton for a coffee:

Headed off to the Crab and Winkle Way which is an old railway line between Canterbury and Whitstable that has been converted into a bike trail, the weather stated to brighten up at this point.

Climb into Blean Woods

Blean Woods

Some of the terrain was a bit hard going:

Church on the way into Canterbury

I then continued into Harbledown along the A2 into Boughton and back to Faversham at this point I decided as the weather was picking up I would continue so I headed up through Painters Forstal through Eastling towrads Lenham, the weather had picked up by this point.

I then dropped down into Doddington, through Newnham upto Bysing Wood down into Oare and home, a nice bimble.

70.8KM