Your ride today....
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HertzvanRental
Veteran
So, it was a sort of Biathlon?
Yesterday, the three doing the Norwich 100 went out for a few miles around the local lanes. I headed over to the top of the town to meet up with t'other two, then we set off after a coffee.
No great dramas on the circuit, but strangely, a chap on a BSO and his lady friend harangued us for being on a bike path and told us to use the road
It was on a busy stretch of 'A' road, and adequately wide for all to pass without any problem... Oh well, it's a funny ol' world we live in!
We popped back into my place for a bit of cake, another coffee, and to admire my old helmet, before they headed home, and I headed off to w*rk.
A pleasant 27 miles in warm and breezy weather.
https://www.strava.com/activities/312055371
No great dramas on the circuit, but strangely, a chap on a BSO and his lady friend harangued us for being on a bike path and told us to use the road
It was on a busy stretch of 'A' road, and adequately wide for all to pass without any problem... Oh well, it's a funny ol' world we live in!
We popped back into my place for a bit of cake, another coffee, and to admire my old helmet, before they headed home, and I headed off to w*rk.
A pleasant 27 miles in warm and breezy weather.
https://www.strava.com/activities/312055371
Goonerobes
Its okay to be white
- Location
- Wiltshire
A two hour window of opportunity this afternoon meant I just had enough time to ride one of my recently discovered loops around the slightly lumpier northern edge of the New Forest & for some reason I decided to do it in a clockwise direction which meant a headwind across the most opens parts! (why?)
In reasonably warm conditions it was up through Furzley before taking Roger Penny Way across to Godshill & joining the single track road that goes up through Woodgreen & Hale to Woodfalls. From there the return journey takes in Redlynch, Hampworth & Landford on quietish forest roads for a pleasant 35 mile round trip
https://www.strava.com/activities/312842226
There was nothing new picture wise but there is some new life blossoming on the wildlife front.
In reasonably warm conditions it was up through Furzley before taking Roger Penny Way across to Godshill & joining the single track road that goes up through Woodgreen & Hale to Woodfalls. From there the return journey takes in Redlynch, Hampworth & Landford on quietish forest roads for a pleasant 35 mile round trip
https://www.strava.com/activities/312842226
There was nothing new picture wise but there is some new life blossoming on the wildlife front.
- Location
- Manchester
Staying with friends in sunny Suffolk, Miss K and I were offered bikes so we rode from Walberswick to Dunwich and back along roads and trails, through forest, heathland and marshland.
Attachments
- Location
- Manchester
It was a bit strange on a different kind of bike and without my lycra, helmet, glasses and water bottle!
Racing roadkill
Guru
Two rides today commute to work and back again .This morning 6.9 miles at 16mph .Anstey ,Cropston,Rothley and Quorn .Lovely morning if a bit chilly but short sleeves and long bottoms .Nice quiet roads plenty of cyclists out and about . This is my first commute and really enjoyed it starting off one day a week . Ride home this evening almost reverse of morning commute but total distance of 7.22 miles at 12 mph ( its uphill towards home) this time in shorts and shorts sleeved just catching the last of the sunshine.Glad I joined the cycle commuters
Spartak
Powered by M&M's
- Location
- Bristolian
Another very pleasant day, mate texted me lunchtime about riding so it would be rude not to ride ;-)
We met in Old Sodbury & attempted the Dodington Climb which is our club Strava segment of the month !
A headwind slowed our ascent & no records were broken :-(
Back via Chipping Sodbury & Coalpit Heath.
I then refuelled at The Folly pub with a bag of nuts & a pint of Thatchers Gold
https://www.strava.com/activities/312842615
We met in Old Sodbury & attempted the Dodington Climb which is our club Strava segment of the month !
A headwind slowed our ascent & no records were broken :-(
Back via Chipping Sodbury & Coalpit Heath.
I then refuelled at The Folly pub with a bag of nuts & a pint of Thatchers Gold
https://www.strava.com/activities/312842615
Arjimlad
Tights of Cydonia
- Location
- South Glos
Not my ride but I'm very proud of my 14 yr old son.
Nothing to do during school holidays so he upped and rode his Giant MTB 43 miles from Winterbourne to the Two Tunnels and back this afternoon. Four hours. His longest ride yet!
Nothing to do during school holidays so he upped and rode his Giant MTB 43 miles from Winterbourne to the Two Tunnels and back this afternoon. Four hours. His longest ride yet!
mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
- Location
- Not 'emel 'empstead
Wednesday is the day for OH to do the shopping and normally we look after G'children from 11. Today, however is half term and daughter has taken time off, so decided to try out my new ST-EF51s. Slight adjustment on front derailer but otherwise fine. Started out quite cool and quiet, despite the Sun with very few people about.
One of the delights of riding along the towpath is that you can go from country inn,
to industrial site,
to idylic country cottages within the space of less than a mile
And then you see the wildlife
So used to people that it knows exactly when to take off. I was walking towards it with camera to eye taking photos every time it moved.
And of course, it landed further up, just out of range.
At one point an elderly gentleman was using a frame to walk along the towpath, which was too narrow to allow for passing him. There also happened to be an information board nearby, it was pleasantly sunny and I wasn't in a race. He did, however fill me in on any details I might have missed regarding his operations.
These cottages by a lock I hadn't reached before.
Having realised that there were steps just beyond this bridge I decided here was a good point to turn around. The stretch north of Berkhamstead is good riding, much better than the section south of the town and most through Hemel Hempstead.
On the way back the sunshine had clearly brought out plenty of people, but not so many that it was unpleasant. A group of ramblers had just arrived in Berkhamstead as I rode through, intent on lunch at the canalside pub and amusement was shared with a couple walking their dogs over the inability of dogs to understand that they are supposed to get out of the way of cyclists.
15.6 miles Max 15 Avg 6.5mph.
One of the delights of riding along the towpath is that you can go from country inn,
to industrial site,
to idylic country cottages within the space of less than a mile
And then you see the wildlife
So used to people that it knows exactly when to take off. I was walking towards it with camera to eye taking photos every time it moved.
And of course, it landed further up, just out of range.
At one point an elderly gentleman was using a frame to walk along the towpath, which was too narrow to allow for passing him. There also happened to be an information board nearby, it was pleasantly sunny and I wasn't in a race. He did, however fill me in on any details I might have missed regarding his operations.
These cottages by a lock I hadn't reached before.
Having realised that there were steps just beyond this bridge I decided here was a good point to turn around. The stretch north of Berkhamstead is good riding, much better than the section south of the town and most through Hemel Hempstead.
On the way back the sunshine had clearly brought out plenty of people, but not so many that it was unpleasant. A group of ramblers had just arrived in Berkhamstead as I rode through, intent on lunch at the canalside pub and amusement was shared with a couple walking their dogs over the inability of dogs to understand that they are supposed to get out of the way of cyclists.
15.6 miles Max 15 Avg 6.5mph.
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mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
- Location
- Not 'emel 'empstead
You mean you didn't take them with you. Clearly you were never a boy scout.
Looks like fun tho'.
- Location
- Manchester
You mean you didn't take them with you. Clearly you were never a boy scout.
Looks like fun tho'.
We managed with a bottle of water in my daughter's backpack. Jeans were more comfortable than I expected.
The flatness is a bit weird too.
Dave the Smeghead
Über Member
The ride home was very poor. Due to state opening of the loony asylum (sorry I meant Parliament) central London was so congested that it was literally hard to move more than a few yards without having to stop, and the pollution so bad that I must have sounded like a 40 a day smoker whilst trying to get past the Ritz (having never smoked in my life). Still feeling quite wheezy now from it.
May have to invest in an anti pollution filter mask. Just don't really want to look like an urban terrorist.....
May have to invest in an anti pollution filter mask. Just don't really want to look like an urban terrorist.....
