Your ride today....

[PatrickPending]

My ride Sunday....Longest ride since having a broken hip and right humerus (may 7th) - so getting better! Blaby- Ashby Magna - Frolesworth - Claybrooke Parva - Monks Kirby (a few loops round there) - Claybrooke Magna - Ullesthorpe - Ashby Parva - Dunton Bassett - Gilmorton - Arnesby - Peatling Magna - Countesthorpe - Blaby. Felt ok - even managed the short climb up to Ullesthorpe without any twinge of pain. Hoping I can get a 100K ride in before the new year!

Ok it rained a bit and no sunshine but was ace to be out and about . Photo on road from Ashby Parva to Dunton Bassett.....

 

[derrick]

Lovely Autumnal morning ride with two friends. 46 miles mostly nice country lanes. we where all on the clock had to be 12-30. All went well, it was a new route we where fine tuning, a couple of wrong turns but never to far of course.
https://www.strava.com/activities/756351397

 

[Donger]

How much longer can this lovely Autumn weather last? Just in case it changes any time soon I headed off out mid afternoon in glorious sunshine for a gentle bimble down the lanes to Arlingham and back. I ditched the lycra for this ride and wore my baggy shorts and my warmest long-sleeved shirt, and it was probably the right decision as it was cooler than it looked, and quite blustery out there.

Straight into a headwind all the way to Arlingham, the situation called for a middle chain ring, high cadence approach. Once there, I turned the bike around and immediately benefited from a helpful tail wind for most of the rest of the ride, back in the big ring. Instead of doing a straight return home, I reckoned I had just enough time before sunset to throw in a loop from Frampton to Whitminster and back. After that it was time to sprint like mad to get home before lights-on time.

30.3 miles of impromptu but very enjoyable cycling done. Loved it. The low sun at this time of year shows everything in a slightly different perspective and sort of refreshes the views everywhere, making it feel like a completely different ride. Even the leftover stalks in the fields look quite striking in that light, and the Severn was glistening. Only met three other cyclists, one of whom I ride along chatting with from time to time, but I didn't recognise him until just after we had crossed paths. He's the only black guy I ever see on a bike around there, but with the low sun in my eyes, I was even struggling to see the road ahead of me at the time. Sorry Rohan ... wasn't blanking you!

Cheers, Donger.

 

[Glow worm]

A lovely 13 miler here after work. I've realised this is the last week of the year for post work rides in the daylight.

Headed off up to Burwell Fen hoping to see the first short eared owls of the winter and wasn't disappointed with 4 showing beautifully in the late afternoon sun, hunting prey. Good to see them again.

Then off to nearby Tubney Fen to wait to for the starlings to come into roost in the reeds. A remarkably late swallow flew over as I arrived. Pretty soon, thousands of starlings turned up. Amazing to be among them as they come in.

A sparrowhawk was having a right old go but with no luck, though it made the starlings panic somewhat. Must have been quite dispiriting for it to roar through thousands of dinners and not manage to eat a thing!

A beautiful evening and superb ride out here in the flatlands today.

 

[cosmicbike]

Rode to work late morning in daylight, which wasn't hugely exciting. Found a nice 105 equipped Ribble in the bike shed, not locked up in any way, so hope for the owners sake it was there at hometime.
Rode home in the dark, which was equally unexciting.
On the plus side, saved another £2.50 in diesel by cycling, so must be about £600 saved so far in the past year

 

[Stonechat]

Still struggling to get a decent 'me' ride in, today ended up as a 4.5 mile visit to the doctor and shops for medication. On the plus side the Roubaix build has started, on of the 'pleasures' of buying used means finding little bits to finish off, todays mission was a cassette spacer which was nicely sorted by Bikes & Buddies in Chertsey.
Mission for the rest of the week is a set of Specialized ICR stops, which they never made as a spare for the SL4 frame. Spoke to the Spesh shop in Ruislip who said bring the frame in and we'll find some from the workshop to fit, so off there later in the week.
Back on the commute tomorrow.

I was thinking about the Spesh Roubaix. Current thoughts are for a Titanium frame. All on hold at the moment, just managed a turbo session, but need to recover. May have to see the Dr.

 

[Elybazza61]

A lovely 13 miler here after work. I've realised this is the last week of the year for post work rides in the daylight.

Headed off up to Burwell Fen hoping to see the first short eared owls of the winter and wasn't disappointed with 4 showing beautifully in the late afternoon sun, hunting prey. Good to see them again.

Then off to nearby Tubney Fen to wait to for the starlings to come into roost in the reeds. A remarkably late swallow flew over as I arrived. Pretty soon, thousands of starlings turned up. Amazing to be among them as they come in.

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A sparrowhawk was having a right old go but with no luck, though it made the starlings panic somewhat. Must have been quite dispiriting for it to roar through thousands of dinners and not manage to eat a thing!

A beautiful evening and superb ride out here in the flatlands today.

There were still some Swallows about when we were out Sunday at Upware,also saw some out Welney way Saturday;suppose it's not been cold enough for them to go yet?

 

[Elybazza61]

Did a different commute today and headed out to Soham and then in to Cambridge via Burwell and the Swaffhams;bit tougher with the wind but a good Zone 3 workout I suppose.

Still not as quiet as I thought it would be but not a bad commute and no mist either.

https://www.strava.com/activities/757181227

Might throw a skive this afternoon and leave early to ride home(usually get the train),then it may be a ride with the other half tomorrow(if not then Sunday) and club ride Saturday which should nearly bring up the total for this months Strava distance challenge.

 

[Katherine]

[QUOTE 4528716, member: 9609"]what does that mean ?[/QUOTE]

Probably :

"We were all on the clock and had to be home by 12.30."

 

[Old jon]

Oh dear me! I accidentally bought, nope, I bought some super aero ( used to be a chocolate bar ) wheels to replace the old ones. I think it is an understandable mistake, one Halfords wheel cost £30, two Shimanos cost £150. With a two year guarantee.

I also bought a chain, cassette, couple of tyres and four tubes, the wheels came with skewers said the website. What it did not tell me is that they came with rimtapes and also the fitted freehub. I wanted to listen to the freehub, so I reckoned one of the Leeds bike shops could have my money for that. Some freehubs I have heard are terribly loud. The new inner tubes I bought with 40mm long valves, assuming I was buying wheels with ordinary rims. They only just poked through far enough.

Today’s ride, at last. I decided on the flatter sort of ride for today, just in case. Everything stayed together, inflated, rotated, sigh of relief. Holbeck, Hunslet, John O’ Gaunts and Woodlesford, down the hill past the station, the road at the T junction was deep in autumn leaves. The joy of the changing seasons. Across canal and river Aire, climb up to and through Swillington. The drop to the Garforth roundabout was a bit a bit breezy, turn right there and climb the cliff, with a most welcome tailwind. Straight through Peckfield Bar and along the ( quiet ) A 63 to the Micklefield turn off, then through there and the right turn for Lotherton. Today I was going into the grounds, to renew my season ticket, until I saw the queue of traffic. Half term. OK, turn left for Aberford and squiggle to Barwick in Elmet.



Scholes, along to the A 64 and turn left, in a few hundred yards turn right onto Thorner Lane, ditto left onto Skeltons Lane and straight on Red Hall Lane for the A 58. The mad grinning gallop down Boot Hill follows and then wend my way past the Oakwood Clock and past Quarry Hill and home. 31.6 miles for the ride. Pretty good really.
The map. I wonder if there is a live one, to show the queue at Lotherton?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

A shorter version of my Hatton loop this morning. I was sorting out internet connections first thing so I was late out and decided on a fairly direct route to Hatton. Out of Coventry through Tile Hill to Balsall Common then picked up the main road past the Honiley Boot towards Shrewley then left on the roundabout to Hatton. I did my usual route back past Hatton Country World then right and through Lowsonford to pick up the route used on the Guy Salmon Ride, when I had crossed the main road in Chadwick End I took the first left towards the Balsall Common road, right through Temple Balsall to Balsall Common into Coventry through Tile Hill and across the city to home. 44 miles on an autumn day, the tree's are turning to some lovely autumn colours now, dry day, slightly breezy but a lovely day to be out on your bike.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I decided to do the longer commute in today and to use the Raleigh for it as the weather was dry if a little overcast and gloomy.

It was quite a pleasant trip in with only a set of roadworks where the lights changed against me just as I got to them and a couple of motorists making heavy weather of passing each other down a lane to report.

Work was the same old, same old. I started on the stock-take today and have discovered an error which appears to have been missed every year since 2002 . Unfortunately that also includes the last two years I've done it.

The ride home was into a bit of a headwind but I still managed a reasonable pace (the pleasures of using one of the better bikes). I felt a bit smug filtering past an unexpected traffic queue by Attingham Park then had a pretty clear run the rest of the way home.

27.25 miles for the round trip at 14.5 mph average. No photos today as I was concentrating on .

 

[Elybazza61]

Bored at work had some accumulated hours so used them to bunk off a bit early and ride home.

Took advantage of the tailwind to have an easier ride and kept my heart rate in zone 2(well apart from the one 'climb'),so a nice chilled out ride.

https://www.strava.com/activities/757559971

 

[hondated]

Rode to work late morning in daylight, which wasn't hugely exciting. Found a nice 105 equipped Ribble in the bike shed, not locked up in any way, so hope for the owners sake it was there at hometime.
Rode home in the dark, which was equally unexciting.
On the plus side, saved another £2.50 in diesel by cycling, so must be about £600 saved so far in the past year

CB I understand what you are saying but what I loved about it when I was working was the smugness I felt having done it whilst others had sat in traffic in their tin boxes. It was also great when I got back home knowing I had done my exercise for the day.
Blimey beginning to feel like its a pity I have retired, that cannot be good. Can it !

 

[cosmicbike]

CB I understand what you are saying but what I loved about it when I was working was the smugness I felt having done it whilst others had sat in traffic in their tin boxes. It was also great when I got back home knowing I had done my exercise for the day.
Blimey beginning to feel like its a pity I have retired, that cannot be good. Can it !

I felt smug tonight Away early and the traffic was dreadful. The feeling of going faster than cars in a 50 mph limit