Today's Ride

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Ooh I know that route well, ride quite a few different routes / directions down there. I sometimes follow 'your' route down down to Philips Park for the bike trails, then ride home via the "outwood trail" all the way to Radcliffe before threading back to my place.

Although the surroundings are pretty 'urban', various country parks link up and you can get pretty far without riding on a road. I start at Longsight Park (Bolton), on to Sevenacres, then leverhulme Park, then darcy lever gravel pits, moses gate country Park and Nob end onwards to Manchester or Bury. Some good trails!


Nob end is a SSSI and also the point where the river Croal merges with the Irwell. Quite an interesting spot.

... im just scratching the surface by the sounds of it. Like you say urban life is a mere half mile away (mostly) but it feels like you are miles away from anywhere ... so peaceful

 

[al-onestare]

Cosy 19/20 degrees, nice E breeze, blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way. Absolutely perfect conditions. Dusty trails and very overgrown in spots. So just for James:

If you subscribe to my Only Fans page, I'll show you my fantastic yellow/blue bruise on my inner right thigh - it's a beauty!

Experimented with a few paths / trails to get to Carn Brea without taking the road. As per the above, they didn't really work out so well but the horse path around said Brea is a nice short loop before the real fun across the moor to Sancreed.

This is on Brea, 2 thirds up on the horse path looking over to St Buryan. Smiles for miles on the big beast!

 

[longun]

Early morning head clearing ride, loved the colours and dryness but didnt enjoy falling round the corner from home trying g to be a nice person.......

 

[reindeer]

Up to 34° but the cool breeze in the uplands was a relief

 

[Hombre]

Up to 34° but the cool breeze in the uplands was a relief
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may I ask you what bars are those?

 

[BerthaPog]

Lovely spin out this morning before the heat got too high (bike not retro, but rider was).

 

[Iwasgoodonce]

I have been trying to get out more often. I don't seem to go so well in heat these days! Also have a painful ankle. Yesterday I decided to go on a slightly longer road loop of around 35 miles. As usual, plans to get up and miss the heat failed to materialise and it was last midday by the time I headed out. For the last couple of weeks the wild flowers have been superb. Kudos to the farmer for letting nature back in to fallow fields. Wild red poppies were amazing a week ago. I'm not sure if the blue cornflowers were natural. There was a solid field of them. I also noticed a block of yellow flowers behind them. Probably a salute to Ukraine as the two colours are very close to their flag. Again, I doff my bandana to the farmer for the thought and execution of the plan.
Haven't seen it on the local news but with Cosford and the Air Ambulance just down the road, I wouldn't be surprised if it had been.



Also spotted hares enjoying the fields.

The first 20 or so miles were fine. The final ten into a brisk and very hot headwind weren't so great and my average speed dropped below my target. Still an enjoyable ride and I got back in time to watch the Codsall first XI win to keep up their promotion push. They hit the target with a LOT of overs to spare.

 

[longun]

Good times as ever riding in the warmth of sunhine

 

[reindeer]

may I ask you what bars are those?

Ritchey Kyote

 

[Hombre]

Ritchey Kyote

thank you!



...and to stay on-topic, a few pics from my latest rides.

sorry for the crap quality... :/