Today's Ride
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What's that? It's Friday? And it's almost 10 degrees this morning?
THE STOKE IS REAL :mrgreen:
THE STOKE IS REAL :mrgreen:
Warm day today, no breeze so a bit extreme out in the open. Found myself resting in shade as opposed to the other day resting in the sun out the wind.
Ended up just deciding direction as it presented itself, slightly long ride especially in the heat but was at a leisurley pace so not too bad. Strange coming to the fishing lake and no one was there, the fish were happy though i should imagine. Uphill all the way back and ended up cutting across fields to avoid riding around in the sun.
Great ride, hard work in the heat but really enjoyable none the less...
Ended up just deciding direction as it presented itself, slightly long ride especially in the heat but was at a leisurley pace so not too bad. Strange coming to the fishing lake and no one was there, the fish were happy though i should imagine. Uphill all the way back and ended up cutting across fields to avoid riding around in the sun.
Great ride, hard work in the heat but really enjoyable none the less...
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Relegated to the mongrel at the moment, but been putting in quite a bit of mileage. Some of that mileage has been over very chewed up and harsh bridleways that haven't yet been flattened since all the wet weather earlier in the year. With only a flexstem for comfort there's been a lot of riding with gritted teeth.
On one particularly fast and bumpy downhill section caught the back of the seat a hefty whack with the family jewels, made my eyes stream and my lower lip tremble. So much so it took quite an effort not to bin it. It's all good fun though.
Today was about 23 or so miles across farmland, pasture, through small coppices and on quiet lanes. Beautiful sunshine, light breeze, birdsong dominating the soundscape. And I forgot to change the settings on the camera yet again...
Relegated to the mongrel at the moment, but been putting in quite a bit of mileage. Some of that mileage has been over very chewed up and harsh bridleways that haven't yet been flattened since all the wet weather earlier in the year. With only a flexstem for comfort there's been a lot of riding with gritted teeth.
On one particularly fast and bumpy downhill section caught the back of the seat a hefty whack with the family jewels, made my eyes stream and my lower lip tremble. So much so it took quite an effort not to bin it. It's all good fun though.
Today was about 23 or so miles across farmland, pasture, through small coppices and on quiet lanes. Beautiful sunshine, light breeze, birdsong dominating the soundscape. And I forgot to change the settings on the camera yet again...
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So today was a special ride. A good friend and cycling inspiration was recently diagnosed with incurable brain cancer and only has about 3 months left. He was supposed to do Lands End to John O Groats in September for charity but since he can't it was decided that to raise money for him, an event would be set up. Basically the aim was to get people out riding over this weekend in isolation and combine the mileage to make up the 1000 miles he would have ridden. Well turns out it went global and combined mileage is now over 10,000 miles and a lot of money has been raised for him. I met Fran at the Twenty four 12, a complete stranger but he supported me when I was on my own to keep me going. So I wanted to get involved with the challenge to show support for him through this.
He rode for a road cycling club and the team colours are pink so I thought it only fair that I use the one pink bike I have, my 1988 Raleigh Mustang. I bought this about 6 months ago and had never ridden it as a) it weighed the same as the titanic and b) I was off the bike because of my injury so couldn't ride anything. It needed a lot of work so in typical me fashion I bodged it together yesterday in the hope that I'd be able to get at least 20 miles out of it. You know I've been struggling with injury after an accident and since then the longest ride I did (on a modern lightweight bike) was 15 miles and that was a struggle. But wanted to do at least 20 to really push myself, especially with a bike of this 'character'
I don't know how but 33.6 miles later she's still in good working order, same can't be said about me
.1.25 skinny slicks on rocky paths are interesting to say the least but she made it. I'm definitely going to be sore tomorrow but it's worth it, I've needed something like this for a long time to really push myself again and prove what I can do so this really was a special ride.
So today was a special ride. A good friend and cycling inspiration was recently diagnosed with incurable brain cancer and only has about 3 months left. He was supposed to do Lands End to John O Groats in September for charity but since he can't it was decided that to raise money for him, an event would be set up. Basically the aim was to get people out riding over this weekend in isolation and combine the mileage to make up the 1000 miles he would have ridden. Well turns out it went global and combined mileage is now over 10,000 miles and a lot of money has been raised for him. I met Fran at the Twenty four 12, a complete stranger but he supported me when I was on my own to keep me going. So I wanted to get involved with the challenge to show support for him through this.
He rode for a road cycling club and the team colours are pink so I thought it only fair that I use the one pink bike I have, my 1988 Raleigh Mustang. I bought this about 6 months ago and had never ridden it as a) it weighed the same as the titanic and b) I was off the bike because of my injury so couldn't ride anything. It needed a lot of work so in typical me fashion I bodged it together yesterday in the hope that I'd be able to get at least 20 miles out of it. You know I've been struggling with injury after an accident and since then the longest ride I did (on a modern lightweight bike) was 15 miles and that was a struggle. But wanted to do at least 20 to really push myself, especially with a bike of this 'character'
I don't know how but 33.6 miles later she's still in good working order, same can't be said about me
.1.25 skinny slicks on rocky paths are interesting to say the least but she made it. I'm definitely going to be sore tomorrow but it's worth it, I've needed something like this for a long time to really push myself again and prove what I can do so this really was a special ride.Attachments
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All retro mountain bikes are in storage >60miles away so don’t fit into “essential” travel range. :cry:
So Freddie (5
and I went out for 26km of glorious sunshine for my socially distanced ride today.
All retro mountain bikes are in storage >60miles away so don’t fit into “essential” travel range. :cry:
So Freddie (5
and I went out for 26km of glorious sunshine for my socially distanced ride today.Attachments
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Well done!
MarinMartin":21ajtq9h said:I don't know how but 33.6 miles later she's still in good working order, same can't be said about me
Well done!
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