Today's Ride

[mk one]

Now that looks ace. Take me there now!

To offset the wilderness, here's some urbanisation from this mornings ride. A very mild 15 degrees, stiff breeze and about half way through a random full face shower. The sun rise started to reflect off the buildings creating some great colours that sadly the camera couldn't pick up. Very quiet in places, the city is barely awake these days. Fine with me!

you know, i have seen the views up here soo many times over the years i have to really force myself to stop and take them in. Different scenery is definitely a human need to help stay awake as it were.

I really like your cityscape views, growing up i did see them a lot, its been a while though and they have changed quite a bit. The most surprising image there though is the one of the cable cars, i had to google that one, never knew they existed, do they operate at night? i should imagine some great views from them

 

[al-onestare]

I really like your cityscape views, growing up i did see them a lot, its been a while though and they have changed quite a bit. The most surprising image there though is the one of the cable cars, i had to google that one, never knew they existed, do they operate at night? i should imagine some great views from them

Nice one cheers.

The cable cars are ace and a really handy link between the O2 and Excel centre, or more practically, "Greenwich" (in terms of transport hub, not the actual place) and the Excel centre. They are like any other mountain resort type gondola and are pretty quick. The views are unique; you can see clearly to and over the QEII bridge and looking west a great view of the city with the bends in the Thames. Oh and the price is reasonable, you can touch in and out with your Oyster card/CC. It doesn't run all night.

 

[al-onestare]

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Friday! Much chillier than Thursday, 7 and sticking around 8 by 08:15. Mercifully dry so headed back to the Thames just because.

Here's a pic from much earlier in the ride heading in the ghetto of Mottingham That mist was proper chilly by the way :shock:

 

[Markybeau]

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Not been getting out much during the week as the forecasts have been mainly bleak.
I'm now spending weekends in Yorkshire and managed to squeeze in another ride this morning. I needed it just for the distraction. My home life has been as poor as the weather lately.

This morning I followed the TPT in the opposite direction. This way it leads to Barnsley, or Sheffield if you leave NCR62 and take NCR67 somewhere near Hoyland. I went as far as Wentworth and then retraced most of the way back. It was muddy, in places very, but stayed dry. The trail was very busy, particularly on the way back.

Sunny for most of the ride, but only 9°c. Didn't take many photos as my mind is on other things. Covered a fraction under 30 miles

 

[reindeer]

A lot of rain today and I had to take cover for half an hour. Killing time with the mobile camera.

Initially I wanted to build up the bike with rigid forks, 9-speed, microshift thumbies, mechanical discs and so on. Some kind of neo retro build. Then I thought that at least one bike with suspension wouldn't be bad, maybe one bike with hydraulic brakes would be good and favored a Shimano build instead of another mishmash of parts.

What's left of the original idea is the crankset which looks out of place now and I'm going to replace with a silver 785 XT.

Plus a Nitto S65 seatpost. End of the story.

 

[mk one]

A lot of rain today and I had to take cover for half an hour. Killing time with the mobile camera.
Initially I wanted to build up the bike with rigid forks, 9-speed, microshift thumbies, mechanical discs and so on. Some kind of neo retro build. Then I thought that at least one bike with suspension wouldn't be bad, maybe one bike with hydraulic brakes would be good and favored a Shimano build instead of another mishmash of parts.

Lovely bike.

 

[reindeer]

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Thanks

 

[al-onestare]

Way too modern for around here

<nah, it's cool>

Thankfully dry but darker start to the week's riding. Still but slightly chilly 7 rising to about 8 around 08:15. With a mainly dry weekend I headed back to the local trails and thoroughly enjoyed the dawn riding experience. A bit muddy in places but nothing crazy other than 1 of 2 people I saw the entire time tell me there was no riding allowed because of the by-law. True but I told him to cheer up :facepalm:

 

[mk one]

Had a bit of time to kill this evening so went for a quick ride in the Peak.

It is a short loop, though with the leaf cover and very wet roots it was very absorbing. The rain was persistent though hardly noticeable due to the terrain. Once in the woods it was very eerie with all the mist and made for an almost magical ride. After the waterfall the memory card in the camera was full, though most of the way back is uphill so just got my head down and battled through the rain and pain without much thought of my surroundings

Short but fun ride.

 

[al-onestare]

Murky.

Yesterday was another right-off and once again the weather forecast was totally wrong, with the rain starting about 07:00 and staying for the rest of the day.

This morning, apparently, it was 9 degrees. Rubbish, more like 7 down to 6 in patches even in the city. Still very damp and wet in places but nothing falling from the sky.

That's Shooters Hill in the centre, not a cloud The road on the left is the start of the London marathon so I have some great memories of that. There's no way you can run down there in the morning, it's choc-a-block, like all the roads around Blackheath at this time of day.