Your ride today....

[GrumpyGregry]

Canted over at what felt like about 20 degrees on Rhubarb the Brompton. Sidewind. Good job it was only a mile each way...

 

[Saluki]

2 rides today https://www.strava.com/activities/454176566

Home to Slimming World and the Christmas Party (I won a choccy bar). We had a great time.
Then home the pretty route as I just didn't want to go home, so I stayed out and did a brisk 10 miles - with rucksack with last week's raffle prize in, choccy bar, couple of Christmas Pressies (fruit). The discomfort of the rucksack didn't outweigh the not wanting to go home thing so I ignored the funny feeling of it and went out for a little ride.
I rode past my turning and towards the Felixstowe Foot Ferry, up Ferry Road and looped round to the left and back to Walton. I then rode up the prom to the theatre and then back home via the prom. I got a 10th place on a segment that I didn't know existed. I'll give it another go at somepoint and make an effort.
https://www.strava.com/activities/454176762/segments/10915979575

I have reset my annual target as I've gone past it so I've added 100 miles. I might add another 50 yet.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Pedalo?

Might take a while, almost as long as flying.

 

[Dave 123]

Might take a while, almost as long as flying.

But you get to produce your own in flight movie....

 

[Jon George]

I then rode up the prom to the theatre and then back home via the prom.

Have you had a go at Bent Hill yet?

 

[hedder2212]

Up at 4am today to fit in a birthday ride. 40 miler, Rugeley and back the longish way round.
Had a puncture. Almost ran a Amagoon (amazon) worker over and got stuck in some mud
Now to work all day. Laverly.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Insomniac?

Yank.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Up at 4am today to fit in a birthday ride. 40 miler, Rugeley and back the longish way round.
Had a puncture. Almost ran a Amagoon (amazon) worker over and got stuck in some mud
Now to work all day. Laverly.

Amazon worker?

 

[hedder2212]

Amazon worker?

yer, the type that doesnt look when they are crossing the road, then shouts obscenities at you when you swerve to avoid them because its your fault they are too stupid to look when they cross the road. I cant wait for dec 26th, Theyll lay off the extra staff and the problem of extra traffic in the area wont be so bad.

 

[Gravity Aided]

yer, the type that doesnt look when they are crossing the road, then shouts obscenities at you when you swerve to avoid them because its your fault they are too stupid to look when they cross the road. I cant wait for dec 26th, Theyll lay off the extra staff and the problem of extra traffic in the area wont be so bad.

Mine always comes in the postal cart, never seen an Amazon Worker. Except:

 

[Saluki]

Have you had a go at Bent Hill yet?

Convalesce Hill yes. Bent Hill no. It did cross my mind last night but I think I will have a go on the CX

 

[Saluki]

https://www.strava.com/activities/454544093

It was a bit interesting out there today. We were planning on a cake run from Freelands Corner to Whitwell and back but the dogs we were grooming hadn't seen a brush for about 8 weeks and they were a bloomin' mess. The deal is that they are bathed and dried for the price I groom them for. Both wet and a soggy, heigh ho. A Labradoodle takes some drying. I left Hubster drying while I worked on the small dog. We were only an hour behind I got a short ride from Attlebridge to the city - beat Hubster there too

The state of Eric I must have just taken a couple of kilos of mud off him in the shower. It was muddy, slippery, windy as hell and generally terriffic fun. I took the bike, up the office in the lift. I got a few odd looks. Leigh, the boss, said "do you know you are covered in mud?" I said that I did (tempted to say 'you hum it, I'll play it') but managed to resist. He asked if I'd seen my face (I hadn't) and passed me a wetwipe, followed by a couple more. Hmmm muddy

9.52 miles in a bit under 46 minutes, through the mud, which wasn't too shoddy for me. 46m of climing? Seriously? God knows where, I thought it was all downhill from Attlebrige. Well, you live and learn.

I'll be out meeting Hubster from dialysis later, probably the direct route. Asda shopping tonight, around 11pm cos I ain't going out tomorrow to the supermarket.

 

[gaz71]

My ride home tonight was a lot smoother due to the bike being serviced at the weekend(thanks Moores!).It was also wet and windy but still so much better than being on a crowded bus.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

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 !

Water Lane (from 1:16 in the vid) has a Strava segment called Lady of the Night Road named after the one time frequenters of that stretch. These days they don't fit in with the "Urban Village" vibe so have been moved on to Holbeck Lane to the south. They're there when I ride home after 9pm and sometimes when I'm riding in at 5.30am. Undesirable they may be (in a community sense) but it hasn't stopped Holbeck looking like a complete sh*thole. I don't care how many gastropubs you throw at it.

Just thought I'd add a little local flavour

 

[Maverick Goose]

Freaking windy today!