Today's Ride
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Saturday ride on Bee was warm, sweaty and epic. Solid 3 hours, and quickly learning how to get the best our of a 29er.
Sunday was meant to be dry and of course, it wasn't for the Kapu shakedown ride. You can read more about that here.
Monday and Tuesday were in the big smoke (got a sweaty run in around Gladstone Park / Dolis Hill). Back on the saddle this morning, very humid, 17 degrees, ground-level cloud so very damp. Luckily it broke about half way around, just before St Buryan. No breeze was a bonus. Much, much safer than Sunday's ride!
Sunday was meant to be dry and of course, it wasn't for the Kapu shakedown ride. You can read more about that here.
Monday and Tuesday were in the big smoke (got a sweaty run in around Gladstone Park / Dolis Hill). Back on the saddle this morning, very humid, 17 degrees, ground-level cloud so very damp. Luckily it broke about half way around, just before St Buryan. No breeze was a bonus. Much, much safer than Sunday's ride!
CassidyAce
Senior Retro Guru
After a hot day, with temperatures hitting 30°C, it was a beautiful evening for a ride. I did a 28 mile loop, which takes my mileage up to 100 in less than a week. That's one of the benefits of the summer; it won't be the same in the winter. Halfway through the ride, I got to the seafront and rode into the sunset. It doesn't get much better. Then it was up and over the Crab and Winkle Way back to base and dinner cooked by the equally beautiful Ace Missus. Sometimes, things just work out nicely.
Joe_Rides
Senior Retro Guru
A few hilly miles this evening. Up up onto the Moor above Holcombe firing ranges near Ramsbottom. Caught the sunset.
Incredibly quiet up top, not even a plane heard for a few moments, silence. Broken by a tawny owl a-hooting. Joy.
Exhilarating blast back down a steep single-track (but tarmac) road in the dark with no lights, then lit up and onto quiet roads back home.
I wish I could put the feeling into words, but then do I need to? This is a forum of bike nuts after all.
Incredibly quiet up top, not even a plane heard for a few moments, silence. Broken by a tawny owl a-hooting. Joy.
Exhilarating blast back down a steep single-track (but tarmac) road in the dark with no lights, then lit up and onto quiet roads back home.
I wish I could put the feeling into words, but then do I need to? This is a forum of bike nuts after all.
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Kona Fan
Pic 2 is epic
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Kona Fan
Mint
Managed another quick ride again this morning.
Nice fresh feeling in the air after the heavy showers yesterday making it perfect for riding. Nothing special again, just a short loop to keep the legs working. Hopefully if i keep it up it will mean i can start to get out into the woods again after the holidays.
Lots of people out walking today, with dogs, bikes and fruit picking, including a very elderly gent on a CX bike who i overtook on a rough dh section fully expecting him to come by me shortly after, which he did with a great smile on his face. I did think for a nano second about trying to keep pace with him, which i could have, but not for long as he wasn't hanging about
Another nice ride.
Nice fresh feeling in the air after the heavy showers yesterday making it perfect for riding. Nothing special again, just a short loop to keep the legs working. Hopefully if i keep it up it will mean i can start to get out into the woods again after the holidays.
Lots of people out walking today, with dogs, bikes and fruit picking, including a very elderly gent on a CX bike who i overtook on a rough dh section fully expecting him to come by me shortly after, which he did with a great smile on his face. I did think for a nano second about trying to keep pace with him, which i could have, but not for long as he wasn't hanging about
Another nice ride.
