Today's Ride
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The season is slowly changing. Funking wet but a mild day today following a cool spell, with just enough light at 07:00 to get onto the unlit country roads without the risk of hitting unseen pot-holes. So my first ride outside the M25 (don't tell the COVID po-po) and the soul feels much better for it. Really mucky, proper dank with the conditions sapping all the colour, but the time I got back to HQ the sky was clearing. A solid 23 miles of up and down.
The Darrent was looking pretty full at Shoreham. It was a ghost village with no-one about.
The season is slowly changing. Funking wet but a mild day today following a cool spell, with just enough light at 07:00 to get onto the unlit country roads without the risk of hitting unseen pot-holes. So my first ride outside the M25 (don't tell the COVID po-po) and the soul feels much better for it. Really mucky, proper dank with the conditions sapping all the colour, but the time I got back to HQ the sky was clearing. A solid 23 miles of up and down.
The Darrent was looking pretty full at Shoreham. It was a ghost village with no-one about.
Cold, dank and miserable: as British as it gets.
Of course I'm stoked it's light enough to scoot over the M25 and leave plague suburbia for plague country
I haven't fiddled with the saturation either. It really was that grey!
Of course I'm stoked it's light enough to scoot over the M25 and leave plague suburbia for plague country
I haven't fiddled with the saturation either. It really was that grey!
rwm1962":19m1if6z said:
Yep, full to the brim and running fast
Another sunny and warm day today.
Went for a longer ride, not sure where i was going to start but ended up going a route i usually do more in summer in the end. It made a really nice change, some scenery i havent seen for a while. Some of the trails were hard going due to still being waterlogged but mostly they were fast rolling. The route goes by a bike trail, built in a really out of the way, no one goes to, type place. Though i have never seen any other bikes there, or any where near there, and never seen any other bike tyre tracks, today i did, some one else had ridden it recently, but also some one had been and done a bit of maintenance, i guess they then rode it, though only once by the looks of it. Short but great fun.
The rest of the ride takes in some nice woodland and open country with some nice lakes and wildlife reserves. Lots of birds, not many people, great times.
Very mud splattered when home but feeling great.
Went for a longer ride, not sure where i was going to start but ended up going a route i usually do more in summer in the end. It made a really nice change, some scenery i havent seen for a while. Some of the trails were hard going due to still being waterlogged but mostly they were fast rolling. The route goes by a bike trail, built in a really out of the way, no one goes to, type place. Though i have never seen any other bikes there, or any where near there, and never seen any other bike tyre tracks, today i did, some one else had ridden it recently, but also some one had been and done a bit of maintenance, i guess they then rode it, though only once by the looks of it. Short but great fun.
The rest of the ride takes in some nice woodland and open country with some nice lakes and wildlife reserves. Lots of birds, not many people, great times.
Very mud splattered when home but feeling great.
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Well it stopped raining thankfully but the higher I climbed this morning, the more mist I encountered. It certainly wasn't 7 degrees as stated in the hopeless BBC weather app so the legs were feeling the cold. Just an excuse to keep peddling to keep warm!
Still it was a cracking Friday morning ride with a quick stop on the blast down off Biggin Hill. This is the view just off the runway showing the pretty severe drop-off (severe for around here I hasten to add).
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Well it stopped raining thankfully but the higher I climbed this morning, the more mist I encountered. It certainly wasn't 7 degrees as stated in the hopeless BBC weather app so the legs were feeling the cold. Just an excuse to keep peddling to keep warm!
Still it was a cracking Friday morning ride with a quick stop on the blast down off Biggin Hill. This is the view just off the runway showing the pretty severe drop-off (severe for around here I hasten to add).
PeterPerfect
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I use the yr weather app. Far superior to the BBC one.
I use the yr weather app. Far superior to the BBC one.
