Your ride today....

[colly]

Boxing Bah Humbug Day. And it started well. Decided to head off in the rough direction of Wetherby, took the geared bike and pedalled towards Holbeck.

Not much changes there, along Water Lane and onto Great Wilson Street towards Crown Point Bridge. Quiet, to be expected I suppose, and all the traffic lights were green until the turn onto Roseville Road. Then Roundhay Road, which is up in this direction and by the time I reached the clock at Oakwood I seemed to run out of legs. Stopped for a couple of minutes, then continued for more up on Boot Hill. Which went fairly well. Cross the Ring Road and carry on along the A58 for a while then turn left onto Whin Moor Lane.



Felt a bit of a wobble just before Shadwell Main Street, put it down to road surface and turned left to carry on to Slaid Hill. Turn right at the lights onto Wike Ridge Road, down the dip then up. Wobble again. Stopped. Some time ago a spoke in the back wheel had broken, and I replaced it. But I wondered, as you do. Anyway, the back wheel was spinning true, I looked around the rest of the bike and saw nothing wrong so continued. Through Wike, take the right turn for Scarcroft and could have been in a lower gear for that first rise. Next rise, correct gear but all over the road. Stopped and looked, broken frame.

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That is a bit of a facer. Not exactly what I said at the time, but close. Almost twelve miles to walk home, which gave me plenty of time to recover, and think about stuff. It was good to reach my front door though. And I still have the fixed to ride.

Crikey Jon. Glad you didn't come a cropper. Better a 12 mile walk home than a 12 mile trip to A&E, or worse.
Bob Jackson's and Woodrup's are both handy for you and in fact Ellis Briggs isn't so far off. Even so, a repair isn't going to be a giveaway.

 

[cyberknight]

1st club ride in ages and i wish i had stayed at home as im still recovering from man flu and not much sleep mebbe 3 hours last night

https://www.strava.com/activities/2960743410

 

[pjd57]

Had a couple of hours to spare today , but didn't want to wander far from home.
So I opted for a easy going local loop , mostly traffic free and the rain stayed off

 

[JPBoothy]

Not a massive ride today but lots of gloop along bridleways. I keep some old clothing especially for winter riding and always find it a great stress reliever to have a blast through the mud on a dull damp day. Weird I know, but it takes all sort I suppose.. I regretted stopping for a hot drink at an outdoor cafe though as I was freezing cold in no time at all. To make matters worse (and embarrassing too) was the fact that I'd managed to negotiate about 25miles of tricky terrain only to come a cropper as I rolled to a stop across the wet mossy flagstones as I entered the cafe stop. What a dobber

 

[colly]

Another early morning jaunt for me. Cool and damp but no rain. Dark all the way round.

17.9 miles and 1250ft of up.

View: https://ridewithgps.com/trips/43135890

 

[13 rider]

Good choice of GPS @footloose crow I love my Wahoo it will change you riding and send you new places

 

[derrick]

A little pootle today 24 miles, felt hard. It's been a really busy Christmas to much time in the pub and eating, Really need to get back to a proper bit of training, But can't see that happening till after the new year, It was good to be out though.
https://www.strava.com/activities/2962130319

 

[Old jon]

Crikey Jon. Glad you didn't come a cropper. Better a 12 mile walk home than a 12 mile trip to A&E, or worse.
Bob Jackson's and Woodrup's are both handy for you and in fact Ellis Briggs isn't so far off. Even so, a repair isn't going to be a giveaway.

A reply to all who have posted on this. First, thanks for all the attention and concern. As in one of my replies, I have seen breaks in that area of the frame, on other people's bikes. Repaired two, that I can recall, but that was in the days when I had a machine shop available.

@colly yup, the bike came from one of the three you mention. My thoughts are to have a new frame, don't think I would be confident with a replaced down tube only. That alone is quoted at £85 or more then the respray and . . . and . . . and. Will be talking to each of the three next week. Until the replacement I have the fixed to ride, the poor bike has just suffered an hour of intense scrutiny from me, hope I did not miss anything!

 

[EltonFrog]

Needed milk, a quick ride to the nearest shop and back, exactly four miles on the hybrid. Another trip not done in the car.

 

[Noodle Legs]

(Copied and edited from Metric Century a Month Chatzone)

The annual Saga CC festive fifty today (plus extras) got me over the line for 2019’s Metric Century a Month challenge which, admittedly, was seemingly becoming a step too far with the combination of work commitments and endless rubbish weather this past 3 months completely destroying my motivation to do anything outdoors!

The plan with this ride is always a fifty miler with pub stops so I had to factor in grabbing an extra few miles to get the distance I needed. As we meet at the same place every time and usually drive to this point, simply riding instead was more than enough to get the job done.
That said, it meant leaving the house at about 0740 in order to get there. But having not ridden outdoors for a month and it being dark and cold at that time with wet, claggy roads, this took a lot of mental effort for me to achieve! But I did it, and even got to the meeting point early in the process, the empty roads and lack of wind making this so. I even managed to nab another veloviewer square on route to meet the lads!
It was largely familiar roads for the entirety of the ride with only a couple of newer ones but it didn’t really matter- I was grateful to just get out!
The cafe stop at Woodhouse Eaves was a new one, just shy of 50 miles in but actually local to home. One hour, a smoked salmon and scrambled egg bagel, two bottles of Prosecco (shared among the six of us obviously) and a sherry later, we set off and immediately made our way up beacon hill, a mile long slog at 8% average that steps up in stages which makes getting into a rhythm very difficult.
Factor in a belly full of food and drink and it didn’t make for the most comfortable of climbs! But we eventually made it up, no records broken, and pressed on to Belton some six miles down the road for “festive stop” number 2- the Queens Head in Belton. At this point I was nearly 58 miles in and all I had to do was simply ride home from here, just five miles away. Of course, before I did so, I felt it only right to partake in a couple of pints of the black stuff and discuss plans for the forthcoming year’s rides which, if they pan out, will be epic.

I peeled off from the rest of the lads at this stage and made my way back home, 62.9 miles to the good. A great ride out, much needed and a great end to the year. I’ll take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year and all the best for 2020!

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[Mrs M]

Just had to get out today even though it was very windy.
A wee 2 hour jaunt that would have taken a lot less time if hadn’t battled a headwind all the way home
Glad I was wrapped up and took the mini flask of coffee instead of a water bottle
Also took 2 front and rear lights just in case.
Nothing much to report, saw a lovely bird of prey flying overhead, then land on a “tree”
Took a pic but not very clear

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[Mike_P]

Shake down of a 11:34 cassette on the Defy this afternoon, in the hope it was okay I headed down Penny Pot to the bridge that 3 months ago had high boarding on it to stop UCI riders flying into the beck (apparently the original plan had been to erect netting but then they figured that might scare the riders)

Further on the Dutch fans had plainly not used chalk on the road

Quickly transpired not all was well with the chain slipping and a constant rattling. Also hampered by a cleat and pedal refusing to interlock. Eventually fiddled enough with the cable adjustor to resolve the gearing matters, only then to have to stop because the front derailleur refused to shift. Not sure what the problem was, moved it by hand and thereafter behaved itself.
16.15miles 1086ft climbed 12.1mph avg

 

[Dave 123]

Another short one...

spring's springing round here

https://www.strava.com/activities/2962036604

 

[gavgav]

I was kindly invited up to @Rickshaw Phil ‘s house, for dinner with him and the family, and with it only being a couple of miles away, decided to use the bike.

Rode a slightly extended route, over there, by looping around the village and up to a few places I’d not been for a while, like the football pitches where I first played Junior League Football, 30 years ago😲!

4.84 miles at 10.2 mph avg.

Enjoyed a lovely roast beef lunch and then a good game of the new Shrewsbury version of Monopoly, which @Rickshaw Phil won!

Headed back, this evening, in the dark, taking the direct and mostly downhill route home.

2.16 miles at 13.0 mph avg, making it a nice round 7 miles for the day

 

[Levo-Lon]

Nice little 14 miles mainly tracks and woodland.
Drying out around the ferry meadows area none valley.

Gone back to a Samsung phone,strava works perfectly...bloody nokia5 was shyte