Your ride today....

[HarryTheDog]

Went for a ride around Hadleigh MTB Olympic Park with my daughter who was home from University. I managed to tick off 2 more obstacles on my previously unable to do/wimped out off list. Still plenty on that list. When we got to oak tree drop I wimped out as per usual so my daughter was determined to do it especially when I told her, her mother managed it in a coaching session. however a group of 3 other riders then gathered to watch the little blonde girl take it on. Too much pressure, she sensibly left it.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

14 bottles of spirits, two or three fortified wines, various packs of canned mixers, 48 bottles of beer...

...Christmas hard booze run done...

...I love my Big Dummy

 

[gavgav]

Willoughby the destination, 54 miles the journey. A fresh bright breezy day, the wind combined with the fact that this was my first Sunday ride in a month made for a slow hard morning in the saddle. Out through Baginton, Long Itchington broadway and Sawbridge to Willoughby. I was surprised to find the cafe busy, I didn't expect that on the Sunday before Xmas. On the way back I followed the same route I did on the way out, till I got to the Leamington Rd, I turned right onto the Leamington road through Bubinhall, Ryton and Wolston to come into Coventry past the speedway through Binley Woods across the TGI Fridays island and down the Binley Rd, I then turned right for home up Hipswell Highway and Sewall Highway. Dispite it being a hard old morning I enjoyed the ride, I'll have to get stuck in in the new year and get back in the habit of getting out on my bike. This was my last ride of the year and brings my mileage for the year to 4338 miles, not a lot of miles but it aint bad considering the crap cycling year I've had.

Mighty impressive total in my eyes!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Mighty impressive total in my eyes!

But well down on the 5500 I was doing most years a while back.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Warmed up a bit here, but still too windy. Today was 48F, but with 35-40 mph winds, a bit much for me, so I was on indoor trainer yesterday and today. Good efforts and strong training, just not very picturesque. Weather due to turn for the worse next week, but Wednesday, Christmas, and St Stephen look good for riding at the moment.

 

[Dave 123]

You ought to come over here @Gravity Aided , it's like the Bahamas at the minute....

 

[Oldfentiger]

Busy weekend, so went for a short ride (yesterday), round the local lanes. Sunshine was threatening so ditched the longs in favour of shorts, blummin windy in places.
Encountered a few Northern Softy's dressed up like Eskimos

https://www.strava.com/activities/453415794

 

[Gravity Aided]

You ought to come over here @Gravity Aided , it's like the Bahamas at the minute....

Probably get over there, and never wish to leave. Airplanes not really a mode of travel I tolerate at all well.

 

[Stonechat]

Short unremarkable turbo session today.
Couldn't start when I first went out to the garage as had a vist from the p***** fairy

Sharp pointy bit of stone

 

[Col5632]

11 miles to work this morning, might try for about 19 or so on the way home

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Well done everyone getting out today.

Just slinging it down today - huge rainfall overnight and *loody well fed up with it tbh.

Stay safe all.

 

[Dave 123]

Probably get over there, and never wish to leave. Airplanes not really a mode of travel I tolerate at all well.

Pedalo?

 

[Alex H]

Clear blue sky - 17°C on the veranda and no wind - but first I have to do a bit of shopping.

The French appear to be catching up to the British in the Christmas shopping stakes. The car park was half full at 09:30 - it's Monday, the banks are shut, most littler shops are shut and HyperU was open all day yesterday, so WHY? In the shop there were loads of people and when I got to the checkouts, well, there was
2 people in front of me.

So for the ride I repeated the route I did last time - St Cyr, St Auvent, Rochechouart and home.

No pics today as the countryside is all brown , so a nice map instead

 

[john59]

My wife was visiting family to drop of some presents so I seized the chance for a longer ride than usual. What a morning, blustery winds and rain. But it was good to be out and about, 70 km covered, http://www.strava.com/activities/453907532

 

[Old jon]

No ride yesterday, clean and maintain the bike, mess about with bread. The weather forecast fooled me again this morning, so off I went . . .



I have written about this but this is the first time I have posted a video. The terracotta building on the right at the beginning was once a library. The council replaced it with a prefab hut on Top Moor Side a number of years ago, this fine building has only occasionally been used since. The waste land immediately past that was once the headquarters of the Kay's catalogue empire. After I had ridden over some modern 'cobbles' there is a dilapidated, broken windowed building where the Hayne's repair manuals were once produced and printed, and then in the final few seconds you can see Bovis Towers, a symbol ( say the council ) of the regeneration of Holbeck.

Back to the ride, out through Hunslet, Thwaite Gate and Cinder Bridge and the climb up to John O' Gaunts. Drop to the roundabout at Oulton and the rain started. On to Swillington and Garforth, a wind and rain assisted ascent of the cliff and I realised I was going to cut this ride short. So, left at the next roundabout, to head towards Aberford, Barwick and Scholes, cross the A 64 aiming at Thorner, left on Skeltons Lane and finish the 29.4 miles down Boot Hill and home. No ride tomorrow, friends of ours are getting married, they have taken thirty five years to make their minds up, no escape now !