Today it was very easy to decide which chain lube to apply....
I set off on the MTB in a light drizzle and breezy conditions, towards ever darkening skies, to a mates house for a quick coffee (or two) and some flapjacks before a ride up to the woods and trails behind Delapre Abbey. They were slippery as a slippery thing, with wet roots and mud! Still, I held on grimly and only had to put a foot down once!
From there, we cut through Hardingstone and Brackmills on a mix of roads and tracks to Salcey for half a circuit of the forest before using a rather moist and tricky bridleway alongside an electric fence. I shouted back to my mate, "If you fall off, make sure it's to the right, that's only brambles!!"
Never mind, we survived, and blasted down the side of a field and across towards Denton, by this time, we were on tarmac, with big globs of mud flying off the tyres.
Fortunately (
) it started to precipitate it down a lot at this point, so some of the remaining muck got washed off the bikes, and us, before the Northerly headwinds dried us out..
Once we reached the outskirts of town, we went our separate ways just as the sun was trying to beak though the clouds. I was only a mile from home, but my mate had to enjoy the headwinds I'd had on my way over to his place a few hours earlier.
Not many pics of the ride as it was too sh*te to get the phone out of its plastic bag.
As luck would have it, the sunshine burst out just as I propped the bike up in the garden to dry, after a hose down.
37 miles, in the usual inclement Spring weather, but most enjoyable nonetheless.
https://www.strava.com/activities/556345837
I set off on the MTB in a light drizzle and breezy conditions, towards ever darkening skies, to a mates house for a quick coffee (or two) and some flapjacks before a ride up to the woods and trails behind Delapre Abbey. They were slippery as a slippery thing, with wet roots and mud! Still, I held on grimly and only had to put a foot down once!
From there, we cut through Hardingstone and Brackmills on a mix of roads and tracks to Salcey for half a circuit of the forest before using a rather moist and tricky bridleway alongside an electric fence. I shouted back to my mate, "If you fall off, make sure it's to the right, that's only brambles!!"
Never mind, we survived, and blasted down the side of a field and across towards Denton, by this time, we were on tarmac, with big globs of mud flying off the tyres.
Fortunately (
) it started to precipitate it down a lot at this point, so some of the remaining muck got washed off the bikes, and us, before the Northerly headwinds dried us out..Once we reached the outskirts of town, we went our separate ways just as the sun was trying to beak though the clouds. I was only a mile from home, but my mate had to enjoy the headwinds I'd had on my way over to his place a few hours earlier.
Not many pics of the ride as it was too sh*te to get the phone out of its plastic bag.
As luck would have it, the sunshine burst out just as I propped the bike up in the garden to dry, after a hose down.
37 miles, in the usual inclement Spring weather, but most enjoyable nonetheless.
https://www.strava.com/activities/556345837
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