Your ride today....

[Saluki]

Today I rode Here.

We wanted to go out and the forecast said that it wasn't monsoon season until 1600 hours in Norwich. I had a couple of errands to run in the morning so We didn't get out until just gone 12.15 or so.
We rode down to the N&N hospital to try to see our transplant co-ordination but she was at lunch so we headed to Wymondham for a cuppa. We got to Waitrose and we could see black clouds arriving at a pace so we stuffed our bit of bun while ringing the co-ord again and then riding hell for leather homeward.
We went out at a leisurely 11 mph and 50 mins and got back home a bit quicker in 30 mins. We didn't hang about.
We just got it when the heavens opened. I grabbed my laundry off the line in the nick of time.
18.09 in an hour and 20.

 

[cosmicbike]

Discovered that the p fairy had visited my CX yesterday evening so a relatively quick spin out on the winter road bike, much lighter and has the benefit of mudguards which was nice due to all the standing water. 11 miles, I extended my usual half hour a bit as it was nice and cool.

 

[surfdude]

my ride yesterday was 41 miles off road from Gartmore to Inversnaid and back through some lovely Scottish mountains and around beautiful lochs . one problem doing this is the stopping and starting all the time to enjoy the lovely views . got to say was a killer of a ride as not been on my mtb since February . legs where dead by 30 miles but had no phone signal to get a lift home so had to keep going and going and something happened to my front brake that made it stick on . hard ride but enjoyable to say the least and one my legs will remember for a long time .

 

[GrumpyGregry]

No ride for me today. My commute was by taxi and then one of those new fangled flying machines to the aerodrome at Arlanda, Stockholm.

 

[EltonFrog]

A little blast up to the shops on the hybrid today, along the N544 to Didcot and back, a grey and wet day, 5.71 miles, some of my runs are becoming longer than my bike rides.

A dull we day over towards The Ridgway.

No many folk out today, this path is usually very busy.

Blue sky threatening to come over, as I type the sun is out and the drying everything off. Typical!

 

[Massivecompacthalo]

Today I rode here....

 

[Dave 123]

A quick 14 mile loop with the boy wonder this evening, a bit blowy here!
Once again I'm just coming out of another cold so I was blowing out of my arse a bit tonight. The lad let me do all the work for the first half which was kind of him... "I've not been on my bike for ages apart from commuting Monday and Tuesday...."
With that he shot off up the hill to Kingston, he nailed me! I went to my jersey pocket to get my phone to take a picture... But I'd left it at home!
Coming in to Toft the traffic was stopped and a cyclist was trying to herd a stationary muntjac of the road to no avail!
The hill in Toft Thomas was up it like a shot, I could just about keep with him, little git!

On the drag up to Hardwick he kept dropping off my wheel, so I held on for him again and again, then he sprinted! Child.

On the turn in to our road I took the inside line......... And sprinted. Competitive dad? Maybe!

14 fun miles.

 

[Donger]

34.8 miles and one big hill today. Had my saddle sniffed by a llama .... as you do. (See below). Took advantage of the sunshine to head over from Gloucester to Nailsworth and back, via my main training climb, Frocester Hill. Here it is looming up in front of me, as seen from the top of a smaller hill at Stanley Downton:

Was pleased to feel my fitness coming back just in time for my hols, and got up it without stopping once again. At the top, the view from the edge is reward enough for all the effort. (You can see the road below, winding its way up to the Coaley Peak viewpoint). You could also see the Severn shining in the background, and all the way into Wales, but unfortunately that was straight into the sun, so no photo. In the background you can see the unnaturally flat top of a pre-historic long barrow known locally as Hetty Pegler's Tump.

The most rewarding thing about Coaley peak, however, is always this:

I pushed on further to take a look at the National Trust's Woodchester Park, but was deterred by the dreadful road surface, so I carried on down through Nympsfield to Nailsworth instead. On the way down I took this shot across the fields, with lovely views to Amberley (left) and Box (right):

I carried on down the single-track lane as far as the roundabout in the Forest Green district at the very edge of Nailsworth. Although I'm a Brummie and a dyed-in-the-wool Birmingham City supporter, I do like to follow my nearest local team too, and this is the home of the mighty Forest Green Rovers. (Big enough now to be knocking on the doors of the football league, but still small enough to have llamas grazing next door! Quite unique). This fella took a great interest in my bike:

Aww! I want one!
With one eye on the clock, I climbed back up to Coaley Peak via Nympsfield, and had two brilliant minutes of 30mph+ freewheeling back down to Frocester, before heading for home via Frampton on Severn. What a great ride. Hope many of you managed to get out during the window in the weather, too. Cheers, Donger.

 

[Saluki]

Hubster said that, as the sun had deigned to shine, getting out for a quick ride would be good. I was thinking 7 - 10 miles as it's a dialysis day for him. He said something about a windmill near Barford. There is a windmill near Barford? Who knew. He meant the Watermill at Marlingford. Close - only 4 miles away.
We headed off to Bowthorpe, then Bawburgh and then Marlingford then over the B1108 and on towards Little Melton and then went the wrong way at the war monument. We turned and retraced our steps (wheel tracks) and to Great Melton and Hethersett. Dash home up the cyclepath, through the A47/A11 junction on to Cringleford and home via Bluebell as we did yesterday.

At the Cringleford end of Bluebell, the P fairy visited and it took 30 minutes to get the tyre off , change the tube and get the bloody thing back on again. I'm going to start a thread about easy on and offable tyres I think. I have deepish rims on my bike and we broke 2 tyre levers, so now I have none. We could no find any trace of a hole in the old tube but Hubster is going to check it over with the aid of the washing up bowl, while I am at the gym (or so he says).
We counted 15 cyclists going past us on the cyclepath, this evening, and not one of them asked if we were OK and needed help. We either looked very capable or urban cyclists are not as nice as rural ones.

15.37 miles in 1:20:35 so pleased with that, with Hubster in tow. He's definitely getting fitter.
https://www.strava.com/activities/378075458

 

[sarahale]

I did my 14 mile round commute. Then I did a 7 mile round trip to the shops/post office. All in the pouring rain.

Fitted a new bike computer and wanted to take it out for a spin, figured I was already soaked so a bit more wouldn't matter. Then the sunshine came out and it was a beautiful short ride round bushy park, so many baby deer out and not many people!

So a very easy/ flat 28 miles today all on the mtb

 

[Goonerobes]

After three days of near continuous rain, including some downpours of biblical proportion this morning, it finally stopped at 1pm today so just in time to get a ride in.

Just one of my regular midweek 30 mile sorties into the New Forest on the number 2 bike which is was white, taking in Minstead, Bolderwood, Nomansland & Furzley on a mix of soggy wet roads under the tree cover & some which had dried out a bit in the breeze & broken sunshine.

https://www.strava.com/activities/377852045

In the three years I've cycled this route I've never seen so much as a puddle at this ford, today however was a different story!

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

Commute in and got badly verbally abused by a d*ckhead in a van for riding where I was supposed to be because he didn't want to brake for an obstruction on his side of the road. I know the managing director of the company the only thing I didn't get was the reg number but it is only a conversation over a coffee when I next see him......
Then on the commute home whilst riding along side Buckingham Palace I picked up a poppy complete with pin in the front tyre. The pin went in a long way. Left it in in the hope it would stay up which it did long enough for me to get to Fenchurch Street, unfortunately it didn't stay up long enough for me to get home so had a nice 7 mile walk.
I carry some tools and a p*nct*re repair kit but didn't have a pump!
Guess I will be buying a small HP one to go in my rucksack tomorrow.
All sorted when I finally got home.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Well I haven't been out any day this week so far, so with another nice morning and no physio this morning, I decided to get out on my trike. I'll let the pictures talk.

One taken on a ride last week, but somehow oddly appropriate!

Anyhow, a pleasant 21 miles this morning.
https://www.strava.com/activities/378552316

 

[Racing roadkill]

https://www.strava.com/activities/378618002

53 miles in the (damp start) windy British Summer weather (just).

 

[13 rider]

Today was my first Imperial century 100.7 miles at 14.9 mph
See thread. first imperial centuryhttp://www.cyclechat.net/posts/3877695/