Today's Ride

[MattiThundrrr]

Once upon a time when MattiThundrrr was just a little rumbler, maybe around age 6 or 7, we were driving through some pretty remote wilderness in the heart of Algonquin Park. Matti needed to relieve, so we stop to water some trees beside the road. Zipper down, equipment prepared, and I hear rustling in the bushes. Aww,, how sweet, a lil baby moose comes out of the bush a few meters to my left. Oh, more rustling to my right? Hmmmmm, is that Mom coming out of the bush a few meters on the opposite side? Suddenly, finding myself between Mom and calf, the need dried up, I said "good evening" to the young family, and sloooowly made my way back to the car.

 

[dorset boy]

The sun decided to come out late afternoon so i went for a short ride,17 miles with 1,198 ft of going up.Sun was getting low but nice and bright.
Beacon put up for the millennium on the site of an old one,Hambledon hill is in the background.

 

[dorset boy]

Rest of the ride. The hill is Hod hill,picture taken from the trailway.

 

[Mark Manley]

A very nice day in East Devon/West Dorset yesterday so I took a spin up to Lamberts Castle to take in the view, I rode my Roberts which after several months of running around on a 3 speed was a revelation, the right gear for every occasion and disc brakes, although I do think there is a mark on my camera lens.

 

[nic0]

back home this morning, sunny but cold weather

 

[reindeer]

Nice detour to Alsace today, les vosges at the horizon

Half the way I noticed a slow puncture in the rear, I wasn't able to locate. Unfortunately it showed that there was a big hole in my spare tube as well which I fixed, storks watching me from the roof

But it didn't last long and I put the other tube back in again and pumped my way with a Lidl mini pump to a Decathlon which was luckily only 10 kilometers away, vive la france!

I guess the whole action cost me at least 2 hours but on a Sunday I would have been totally f****d

 

[oligali]

2 hrs city-outskirt ride with the Mrs.

 

[al-onestare]

First MTB ride since October and what better way to kick of the season than enter my first proper XC race (mayhem doesn't count) in over 30 years That memory burnt a deep scar and I needed to make some new, more positive memories and try something different.

Que yesterday over at Grammercombe Woods for round 1 of the SWXC series. Open vets, I made sure I started right at the back and gave plenty of space for the whippets who were churning out 16 mins laps to my 25 Slow and steady was my mantra, and most of all finish. Which I did, so super stoked about that. 17/21 in the category. The only way is up!

The course was excellent, lovely single-track, lot's of features, not too much climbing....but dear lord...the weather. Soaking. Absolutely soaking. The woods sit on flint so thank goodness for that but the earth turned into liquid mud/slop. Big up my new tyres which are incredible, barely any slipping over wood, rock and the slop. The only downer was a crash on the final lap that wiped me out sideways thanks to a hidden log in the slop. At least I game out better than the chap who stacked it on the 4th corner of lap 1

A sign of things to come, this was after the practice lap, and it wasn't raining at this point...

At the back where I'd happily spend most of my time bimbling along

Destroyed (me, not the field )

 

[raidan73]

First MTB ride since October and what better way to kick of the season than enter my first proper XC race (mayhem doesn't count) in over 30 years That memory burnt a deep scar and I needed to make some new, more positive memories and try something different.

Que yesterday over at Grammercombe Woods for round 1 of the SWXC series. Open vets, I made sure I started right at the back and gave plenty of space for the whippets who were churning out 16 mins laps to my 25 Slow and steady was my mantra, and most of all finish. Which I did, so super stoked about that. 17/21 in the category. The only way is up!

The course was excellent, lovely single-track, lot's of features, not too much climbing....but dear lord...the weather. Soaking. Absolutely soaking. The woods sit on flint so thank goodness for that but the earth turned into liquid mud/slop. Big up my new tyres which are incredible, barely any slipping over wood, rock and the slop. The only downer was a crash on the final lap that wiped me out sideways thanks to a hidden log in the slop. At least I game out better than the chap who stacked it on the 4th corner of lap 1

A sign of things to come, this was after the practice lap, and it wasn't raining at this point...

At the back where I'd happily spend most of my time bimbling along

Destroyed (me, not the field )

That was a bit of a trek mate. I was in Tiverton until about 2pm yesterday and the weather was beautiful, though we did drive through the mother of all hail showers, just after Exeter, on the way home

 

[al-onestare]

That was a bit of a trek mate. I was in Tiverton until about 2pm yesterday and the weather was beautiful, though we did drive through the mother of all hail showers, just after Exeter, on the way home

Yep, it's the furthest away of the locations but I'm up in Exeter for work 2 or 3 times a month so used to it now. I even drove through all the rain on the way up, so I'm double stupid for cycling through it again