Today's Ride

[reindeer]

Temperature drop from 30 to 20° over night and summer* seems to be over

*unbearable heat or heavy rain

Dear farmer, promise I will never do this again but was hypoglycemic

 

[2manyoranges]

Today's ride was highlands...
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...and jungle...
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...and pretty brutal
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blimey top photo...the long and not-very-winding-road....lovely

 

[2manyoranges]

Today Ride....was a bit: S L A M !!
Lovely weather.
Riding partner a bit tired from Sweden.
Me a bit buzzy from the Alps.
Thetford.
Overnight rain...going = good.
Remember comments on here about not using a (worn) Hans D on the front.
No time to change.
Pump up tyres and spend too much time talking...
Set off...after 30 mins enter the twisty rooty rooty single track section....
Thinks...pressure in front rather too high...chalky slidey sections (green mould alert)....loam grippy...roots a bit......S L A M !!!!
Knee pads worked. Hit deck after sharp up and onto slick roots.
Body OK. Ego very bruised.

Oh well. Brush myself down, fiddle with pressures and off we go....Ah that's better....around 23 PSI on front.....grippy grippy

 

[The History Man]

Today Ride....was a bit: S L A M !!
Lovely weather.
Riding partner a bit tired from Sweden.
Me a bit buzzy from the Alps.
Thetford.
Overnight rain...going = good.
Remember comments on here about not using a (worn) Hans D on the front.
No time to change.
Pump up tyres and spend too much time talking...
Set off...after 30 mins enter the twisty rooty rooty single track section....
Thinks...pressure in front rather too high...chalky slidey sections (green mould alert)....loam grippy...roots a bit......S L A M !!!!
Knee pads worked. Hit deck after sharp up and onto slick roots.
Body OK. Ego very bruised.

Oh well. Brush myself down, fiddle with pressures and off we go....Ah that's better....around 23 PSI on front.....grippy grippy

When you fell off…




Did your hands get damp?

 

[2manyoranges]

When you fell off…




Did your hands get damp?

Hurrr hurr
No pun left unpunned….
He he

 

[moonlite]

Quick lunchtime fire-road ride after three weeks away travelling (including an unpleasant bout of Delhi belly).
It's starting to feel a little like spring here at last, with temps at a pleasant 17C and gentle sunshine. Unfortunately also a stiff-ish 20kph wind from the north.

Finally resurrected my old GoPro before I went away and was playing with it as I rode. Unfortunately, what I thought was video mode was still photo mode, so instead of two heart-stopping vids of my descents, there are two rather banal pics -- one of which is too rubbish to share, and the other just passable despite the brake cables in shot. Will try alternative mounting positions in future. Any recommendations?

 

[al-onestare]

Time to dust off the lights for the early morning rides. I wouldn't mind so much were it not for the fact that summer never arrived. Bar 2 weeks in June when it warmed up a bit, long, warm, even hot days and nights never materialised. An endless cycle of rain, dank, or solid grey days. Just when you'd have a nice sunny day, the next would be overcast. The wind direction has been all over the place.

This morning, grey, overcast, a chilly 12 degrees, NW breeze 10-12mph. My legs are still shattered from 4 days of standing up at the Malverns Classic, so I took it relatively easy around to Sennen, St Buryan and Sancreed. I've HONC on Sunday so I need to keep things sensible.

The ridge in the distance, the left hand side is over at Redruth so whilst it was overcast, the air was very clear.

A great ride as ever, feeling transitional with autumn well underway.

 

[2manyoranges]

Time to dust off the lights for the early morning rides. I wouldn't mind so much were it not for the fact that summer never arrived. Bar 2 weeks in June when it warmed up a bit, long, warm, even hot days and nights never materialised. An endless cycle of rain, dank, or solid grey days. Just when you'd have a nice sunny day, the next would be overcast. The wind direction has been all over the place.

This morning, grey, overcast, a chilly 12 degrees, NW breeze 10-12mph. My legs are still shattered from 4 days of standing up at the Malverns Classic, so I took it relatively easy around to Sennen, St Buryan and Sancreed. I've HONC on Sunday so I need to keep things sensible.

The ridge in the distance, the left hand side is over at Redruth so whilst it was overcast, the air was very clear.

A great ride as ever, feeling transitional with autumn well underway.

Yep it felt autumnal in the forest at the weekend...transitional is a good word for it….

 

[Hombre]

 

[al-onestare]

Still, 14 degrees, slightly less in the valleys. Some very low cloud, mostly broken higher cloud, glimpses of blue skies and sunshine. Damp after yesterdays wet, dank write-off. Absolutely autumn, cracking morning ride to kick off Friday.