Your ride today....

[YMFB]

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First camping trip out post divorce.....

Bike was at me parents so didn't have much time to settle it (I didn't because I was distracted by the boot screen fiasco)

Nice trip down to Poole over the chain ferry, lunch at old harry rocks.

Rode through Swanage as seeing lots of families wasn't going to help me😢

Just outside Swanage I noticed a scraping noise. The brake pad was so low it was down to steel. Put front pads on back and brakes with rear only to Weymouth.

Past the firing ranges flags flying but signs saying open!🤔

Tall wind all the way to Weymouth but followed the signs to town centre, big mistake it was a large busy truck road and the cycle path was the other sized. Managed to get in it just before the town centre.

Speaking of which it's a dive! Really is the worst sea side resort I've been too recently Blackpool of the south!

Weatherspoons for pint and tea, a burger couldn't be bothered to move onto better or dish and chips!
Double cheese burger wasn't bad tbh.

Panic ensued as all the campsites were closed but one kind chap opened up early for me.

£20 but he did it for £15.

Pint of cider in the black dog nearby as a welcome reward. Cleat fell off on the walk to the pub! Will try and fix otherwise will ride home without cleats.

Note to self replace with dual spd flat pedals.

All in all a good day with a few teething issues!!

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Weybiza is a bit crumby, but I recently had one of my motorbikes repaired there and had lunch at Marlboro fish & chip shop, excellent and I couldnt finish it.

 

[Binky]

Nice and sunny although wind definitely wasn't as light as forecast, quite a slog outbound. 43miles and 3200ft climbing, found it tough today.

 

[PeteXXX]

Lovely weather, today, after yesterday's 🍃 🍃
I had a few things to do like drop a book off at a mates, drink espresso at a Brazilian friends new house & take some stuff to a charity shop..

It seemed rude to ride past my favourite ice cream factory parlour without testing the product!

10 easy miles on the first outing this year for my British Eagle Touristique 🦅

 

[wafter]

Today was supposed to be an enjoyable collection of utility quests on the Fuji, however pretty much the only actual achievement realised was just getting out on the bike.. The shopping list included:

1. Bother charity furniture shop(s) in Abingdon and Oxford - fail (nowt worth having)
2. Buy some incense off the market as it smelled good last time I passed - fail (too late / stall not there this week)
3. [Side quest] Buy sausages - fail (too late, sausage cupboard bare)
4. Buy spray bottles for household cleaning - win!

As usual it was good to get out but I was already pretty knackered, forsaked the usual caffeine and had low-level run-ins with an example of seemingly every other type of road user.

I did get in about 34.5 miles though which is a fair ride for me as things stand; placing me on about 95 miles for this week / 111 for the rolling seven days; which again is the most I've done for quite a while..

 

[sevenfourate]

Today I totally failed at Adulting. And boy it felt good !

 

[HLaB]

I had quite a fast ride with two mates yesterday

So today I joined another couple of mates for a bit of active recovery. We were supposed to be joined by one of the riders from last night but he had stiff legs

Edit: oh and I passed my 170,000th recorded mile, 30.6k miles done on the pictured bike :-)

 

[Jenkins]

Yesterday's outing was the first long ride out for a beer of the year - Felixstowe to Norwich and then train home

Now all I need to do is find Coffee Road...