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Go for it !
Your ride today....
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Go for it !
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Took the CDF out last night for a spin , ended up doing a 25 mile spin
Cross country to Old then back homeward via Holcot , Sywell ,Mears Ashby and Wilby ,
bike was going well first time on this one when its not been raining so nice to able to press on a bit more although roads were still damp underfoot , loads of other cyclist's out on the lanes which is nice to see .
Cross country to Old then back homeward via Holcot , Sywell ,Mears Ashby and Wilby ,
bike was going well first time on this one when its not been raining so nice to able to press on a bit more although roads were still damp underfoot , loads of other cyclist's out on the lanes which is nice to see .
Biff600
Veteran
Nothing terribly exciting, I bought a Garmin yesterday and I have been itching to try it out. Unfortunately yesterday the weather was persistent to say the least !
So today I strapped it to the fixie and rattled off for a sedate 10 miler.
From using a Cateye Strada to using this is like the difference between night and day
Anyway, todays pootle....
https://www.relive.cc/view/783396981
So today I strapped it to the fixie and rattled off for a sedate 10 miler.
From using a Cateye Strada to using this is like the difference between night and day
Anyway, todays pootle....
https://www.relive.cc/view/783396981
burndust
Parts unknown...baby
i've never heard of anyone cycling round arran in november tbh, but looks like you got a good day for it, good effort
Another long gap between rides. A while back, my sister had asked me to photograph a performance by the Nidderdale Messiah Singers, last Saturday until yesterday was spent dealing with that. I do like to take photographs. And thank you the Singers, ‘twas wonderful. I also had other plans for today, but they were altered and YIPPEEEE!!! I could go for a ride.
After all the build up, it should have been something tremendous, but you all know how brass monkey cold it is, and I decided on one of my well worn trundles, around the flatter bits of country outside Leeds. Might be flat but Garmin tells me it was a thousand feet of up, 319 metres and 28.3 miles. And it ought to be a similar amount of down as well or I finished on the roof. For a start, I visited Holbeck. The river is up and strangely so is the Beck of Hol. Once on the road to Cinder Bridge through Hunslet the wind sort of intruded a bit. Seemed to be from an odd direction. Through John o’ Gaunts and Woodlesford, and especially after crossing the waterways and riding up through Swillington the wind seemed somewhere between north and north east. OK that makes the final eight miles a tailwind then. Garforth, ride round the north of the town, over the M 1, along a bit towards Lotherton Gates and under the M 1 and A 1M. Resisted the first left to Aberford and at Lotherton took that left. Which made the rest of the ride through Barwick, Scholes, a bit of A64 and turn right onto Thorner Lane. Which runs pretty close to due north. Straight into the teeth of the wind. Pedal away time. Skeltons Lane and Red Hall Lane gave a little shelter and the left turn onto the A 58 gave a helping shove down Boot Hill.
Even with the wind assistance, I only managed 32 and a bit MPH down there.
This map may have been ridden before. Many times
After all the build up, it should have been something tremendous, but you all know how brass monkey cold it is, and I decided on one of my well worn trundles, around the flatter bits of country outside Leeds. Might be flat but Garmin tells me it was a thousand feet of up, 319 metres and 28.3 miles. And it ought to be a similar amount of down as well or I finished on the roof. For a start, I visited Holbeck. The river is up and strangely so is the Beck of Hol. Once on the road to Cinder Bridge through Hunslet the wind sort of intruded a bit. Seemed to be from an odd direction. Through John o’ Gaunts and Woodlesford, and especially after crossing the waterways and riding up through Swillington the wind seemed somewhere between north and north east. OK that makes the final eight miles a tailwind then. Garforth, ride round the north of the town, over the M 1, along a bit towards Lotherton Gates and under the M 1 and A 1M. Resisted the first left to Aberford and at Lotherton took that left. Which made the rest of the ride through Barwick, Scholes, a bit of A64 and turn right onto Thorner Lane. Which runs pretty close to due north. Straight into the teeth of the wind. Pedal away time. Skeltons Lane and Red Hall Lane gave a little shelter and the left turn onto the A 58 gave a helping shove down Boot Hill.
Even with the wind assistance, I only managed 32 and a bit MPH down there.
This map may have been ridden before. Many times
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Nice little 27 miles today with a mate, Weather was good came across a couple of leafy country lanes, Was one of those rides where we thought we could go down a few roads and see where they bring us out,
Managed a couple of PRs on a couple of hills, that's always good. Really nice to get out midweek.
https://www.strava.com/activities/783408024
Managed a couple of PRs on a couple of hills, that's always good. Really nice to get out midweek.https://www.strava.com/activities/783408024
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Mrs 26 started out with me and Pete M. Her plan was to ride so far but return early. So out to Alfrick Pound saw us warming up quite well on one or two little hillocks. Mrs 26 swung away at Longley Green to ride a lumpy but shorter route while Pete and I headed down the western side of the hills for Coddington and Peg's Farm. The ride over Munsley was next and the cafe loomed large on our radar soon after.
After some lovely comestibles our return took us along the eastern side of the Marcles with the Malverns, Wellington Heath and a few other lumps and bumps showing well to our left. We swung back eastwards for Broom's Green and the run north through the Castlemorton lanes. I decided to take Pete back through Madresfield to Newland where he had parked his car. That last bit had us dealing with school mums on the school run
. Nevertheless it added another 6 to my total.
A nice enjoyable outing today for sure. It was a tad grey and chilly but pedalling kept us warm and the leaf colour on the trees is still quite varied and cheery. 56 smiles today
After some lovely comestibles our return took us along the eastern side of the Marcles with the Malverns, Wellington Heath and a few other lumps and bumps showing well to our left. We swung back eastwards for Broom's Green and the run north through the Castlemorton lanes. I decided to take Pete back through Madresfield to Newland where he had parked his car. That last bit had us dealing with school mums on the school run
. Nevertheless it added another 6 to my total.A nice enjoyable outing today for sure. It was a tad grey and chilly but pedalling kept us warm and the leaf colour on the trees is still quite varied and cheery. 56 smiles today
Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
Coming down with a chest infection, so thought I'd get a handful of miles in before I'm laid up. Did a gentle ten mile bimble around the muddy country lanes South of Gloucester..... just enough to bring up 2,908 miles for the year. The significance? That's my biggest ever total for a calendar year, with over a month left to go. Overall it has been a good year so far. Three Welsh mountains and three French Alpine cols climbed, and closing in on my first 3,000 mile year. There's now just the matter of getting my December Metric Century Challenge ride in as soon as my chest clears up and before the winter weather makes it too much of an ordeal.
Cheers, Donger.
Cheers, Donger.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I got a very good deal on a Fizik Arione saddle from @Andrew_P, and the saddle arrived yesterday. I fitted it to my Cannondale CAAD5 and went out today to test it.
I had to stop less than half a mile after setting off. The saddle was slightly too high and I needed to tilt its nose down ever so slightly. I am very sensitive to having saddle noses thrust up my undercarriage! I can go numb within 2 or 3 miles if I ignore the warning signs, so I DON'T!
It was a nice sunny afternoon but I had left it fairly late setting off. I didn't want to be riding after dark and meet the evening rush hour traffic so I decided to just do my 21 mile Cragg Vale loop.
I took the precaution of checking the wind forecast before setting off. The loop involves a climb to about 1,300 ft and wind is normally a factor up there. The prevailing wind usually favours the anti-clockwise loop, to give wind assistance on the climb up to Blackstone Edge from Littleborough. Today, however, was one of those rare days with a more northerly wind, which favoured a clockwise loop, with a climb from Mytholmroyd up through Cragg Vale, as featured in the 2014 Tour de France stage which passed this way.
I arrived in Mytholmroyd and was about to begin the climb when I noticed that the diversion signs had been removed from the bottom of Scout Rd. Scout Rd is an alternative climb out of Mytholmroyd and is one of my favourites. Unfortunately, when devastating floods hit this area on Boxing Day last year part of the hillside above Scout Rd broke loose and came down onto the road, blocking it. That would probably have been cleared up fairly quickly, but the hillside also needed to be stabilised. The big GOTCHA is that somebody in their wisdom had decided to use a landfill tip on that hillside as the place in which to bury asbestos waste from Acre Mill (a local asbestos mill which caused many hundreds of deaths) and the landslip was starting to uncover that waste!
As a result of this, the road has been closed for over 10 months and locals (including me!) have been waiting patiently for it to reopen. The road sign at the bottom of the road still says 'No Through Road' but the diversion signs had gone, so I thought I would divert from my original route and go up to take a look ...
This was Scout Road in January:
(That's my blue Basso leaning on the fence.)
This was the same scene today;
You can see that the road is now open, but you can also see that the work to patch up the hillside is ongoing.
You can catch a glimpse of the new saddle on my Cannondale on the left of the picture. Here is a better picture of the bike:
That bungalow behind the wall is STILL unoccupied. At the time of the floods, I thought it had escaped damage, but clearly not because it is empty and restoration work is going on inside.
I decided that it would make a change to continue up that road because I have not been able to do it for nearly a year and it is a very pleasant route. Some of the climbing is pretty steep, but I must be getting fitter because I didn't notice it. (I was distracted thinking about other things and suddenly found myself above the steep stuff, which was nice!)
I rejoined the main road above Cragg Vale and continued to Blackstone Edge. As planned, I benefited from a favourable wind helping me towards the summit.
I'd got pretty warm on the climb, but the 40+ mph descent to Littleborough introduced enough windchill to dispel thoughts I'd had of extending my route. I did have lights on the bike but it gets cold pretty quickly after sunset. I'd added 2 miles to my loop - that would do.
It didn't take me long to get back to Todmorden, where I called in at a bike shop to get some bar plugs for my singlespeed bike project.
I got home just before sunset.
The new saddle will take some getting used to. It is much firmer than the old design and is also flatter both from side to side, and from end to end. It was fine for 23 hilly miles but I do sometimes do hilly rides of 100+ miles, and they are a much sterner test. Hopefully it will be good for the longer rides too. Normally I would just swap it to another bike if it were only good for shorter rides but that Cannondale is the only bike I own which matches its red and white colour scheme!
I had to stop less than half a mile after setting off. The saddle was slightly too high and I needed to tilt its nose down ever so slightly. I am very sensitive to having saddle noses thrust up my undercarriage! I can go numb within 2 or 3 miles if I ignore the warning signs, so I DON'T!
It was a nice sunny afternoon but I had left it fairly late setting off. I didn't want to be riding after dark and meet the evening rush hour traffic so I decided to just do my 21 mile Cragg Vale loop.
I took the precaution of checking the wind forecast before setting off. The loop involves a climb to about 1,300 ft and wind is normally a factor up there. The prevailing wind usually favours the anti-clockwise loop, to give wind assistance on the climb up to Blackstone Edge from Littleborough. Today, however, was one of those rare days with a more northerly wind, which favoured a clockwise loop, with a climb from Mytholmroyd up through Cragg Vale, as featured in the 2014 Tour de France stage which passed this way.
I arrived in Mytholmroyd and was about to begin the climb when I noticed that the diversion signs had been removed from the bottom of Scout Rd. Scout Rd is an alternative climb out of Mytholmroyd and is one of my favourites. Unfortunately, when devastating floods hit this area on Boxing Day last year part of the hillside above Scout Rd broke loose and came down onto the road, blocking it. That would probably have been cleared up fairly quickly, but the hillside also needed to be stabilised. The big GOTCHA is that somebody in their wisdom had decided to use a landfill tip on that hillside as the place in which to bury asbestos waste from Acre Mill (a local asbestos mill which caused many hundreds of deaths) and the landslip was starting to uncover that waste!
As a result of this, the road has been closed for over 10 months and locals (including me!) have been waiting patiently for it to reopen. The road sign at the bottom of the road still says 'No Through Road' but the diversion signs had gone, so I thought I would divert from my original route and go up to take a look ...
This was Scout Road in January:
(That's my blue Basso leaning on the fence.)
This was the same scene today;
You can see that the road is now open, but you can also see that the work to patch up the hillside is ongoing.
You can catch a glimpse of the new saddle on my Cannondale on the left of the picture. Here is a better picture of the bike:
That bungalow behind the wall is STILL unoccupied. At the time of the floods, I thought it had escaped damage, but clearly not because it is empty and restoration work is going on inside.
I decided that it would make a change to continue up that road because I have not been able to do it for nearly a year and it is a very pleasant route. Some of the climbing is pretty steep, but I must be getting fitter because I didn't notice it. (I was distracted thinking about other things and suddenly found myself above the steep stuff, which was nice!)
I rejoined the main road above Cragg Vale and continued to Blackstone Edge. As planned, I benefited from a favourable wind helping me towards the summit.
I'd got pretty warm on the climb, but the 40+ mph descent to Littleborough introduced enough windchill to dispel thoughts I'd had of extending my route. I did have lights on the bike but it gets cold pretty quickly after sunset. I'd added 2 miles to my loop - that would do.
It didn't take me long to get back to Todmorden, where I called in at a bike shop to get some bar plugs for my singlespeed bike project.
I got home just before sunset.
The new saddle will take some getting used to. It is much firmer than the old design and is also flatter both from side to side, and from end to end. It was fine for 23 hilly miles but I do sometimes do hilly rides of 100+ miles, and they are a much sterner test. Hopefully it will be good for the longer rides too. Normally I would just swap it to another bike if it were only good for shorter rides but that Cannondale is the only bike I own which matches its red and white colour scheme!
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- Location
- Egham
On nights tonight, so took the opportunity for a quick spin out to Walton Bridge and back this morning. Was quick for me too, averaged 16.9mph until my last mile cool down, even then it was still 16.3 so good for me. Really nice calm morning.
Unlike my commute tonight, the headwind from Staines to Heathrow was nasty up between the reservoirs, no idea if @Tin Pot was in front or behind me on the adventure to the Airport. Looking forward to a fast run home with the wind behind me
Unlike my commute tonight, the headwind from Staines to Heathrow was nasty up between the reservoirs, no idea if @Tin Pot was in front or behind me on the adventure to the Airport. Looking forward to a fast run home with the wind behind me
Diggs
Veteran
- Location
- Billericay, Essex
When that phone call finishes quicker than you thought it would and you get out for a hour.......
Definitely autumn
On the drops
Definitely autumn
On the drops
Stonechat
Guru
- Location
- Staines, Middlesex
YEs your route was very familiar roads to me. Makes me itch to get out again. Very good speed @cosmicbikeOn nights tonight, so took the opportunity for a quick spin out to Walton Bridge and back this morning. Was quick for me too, averaged 16.9mph until my last mile cool down, even then it was still 16.3 so good for me. Really nice calm morning.
Unlike my commute tonight, the headwind from Staines to Heathrow was nasty up between the reservoirs, no idea if @Tin Pot was in front or behind me on the adventure to the Airport. Looking forward to a fast run home with the wind behind me
I am still recovering and waiting to get back on the road. The New Year is most likely I think
Elybazza61
Guru
Nice a10 commute this morning with a nice Northerly blowing me along;got to that Cambridge a bit early so did a little loop through Cherry Hinton and up Cherry Hinton Rd to Hills Rd and then to the station and the usual run down Mill Rd to work.
https://www.strava.com/activities/784044369
Forgot yesterday's ride;just a normal run down the Twenty Pence although it was livened up by some roadworks so the first bit was spent carefully negotiating the dug up road and avoiding the now raised man-hole covers.
Otherwise a standard ride in.
https://www.strava.com/activities/783174255
https://www.strava.com/activities/784044369
Forgot yesterday's ride;just a normal run down the Twenty Pence although it was livened up by some roadworks so the first bit was spent carefully negotiating the dug up road and avoiding the now raised man-hole covers.
Otherwise a standard ride in.
https://www.strava.com/activities/783174255
- Location
- Egham
Slow and steady wins the race and all that. How's the shoulder recovering?
burndust
Parts unknown...baby
damn, some lovely tarmacWhen that phone call finishes quicker than you thought it would and you get out for a hour.......
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On the drops
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