Today's Ride

[PhillB]

A less eventful ride this evening on a typical British Summer day 17C, chilly, overcast, threatening rain.
Again the park deserted, even with a squeaky brake (that I need to adjust) the deer seemed surprised to see me - I should fix a GoPro to my handlebars..



The swans and cygnets were preening and getting ready to roost...Ducks already asleep...lightweights!

 

[bikeworkshop]

 

[Gtpulse]

Keep leaving my bike out of the photo as I’m usually sat on it!

Some Rutland/Leicestershire today.

 

[fennec]

finally bought a smoke and dart combo, put them on the melon marin and sent it through the local mtb park

They’re dope, I see why these were/are the dream combo, the dart grips the sides and the smoke is like a paddled tire, I never lost traction or couldn’t get enough torque down

I need different pedals, the trek system 3’s are THE pedal for this bike, straight out of 1990
But I need to be able to take my foot off the pedals and caged pedals are not what I want to be rolling for actual off-road use
Too many situations where I had to just whip my foot out of the cage or eat dirt

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Steaming hot out, even though I waited until after 7 to ride.
Chasing whitetails and cottontails around the dirt and rocks and mud

Everything seems to run downhill to the river, so it's all uphill to get home from here, but I've got gears now, so it's all good

 

[doctor-bond]

Chilly start to the day (had to light the stove), but came good with impressive skies - so made hay. Nice to be on a fast bike too.

 

[PanoIgano]

This was a mixed rando - MTB retro ride with the local bike community. 70km in total but completely flat l. That ain’t that difficult in the lowlands…

 

[al-onestare]

Away at a conference in a dull, overcast and somewhat chilly Falmouth on Thursday and Friday last week...so pretty much the same as at HQ further west! I knew I'd have time for a decent ride, so I brought the single-speed A'ha and decided to hammer out some silly, short climbs with a 42*14 ratio Climbing out of Flushing (smirk) was a pleasure!

For our transatlantic cousins, please could you pull the gulf-stream south again because it's too far north

 

[thom04]

Away at a conference in a dull, overcast and somewhat chilly Falmouth on Thursday and Friday last week...so pretty much the same as at HQ further west! I knew I'd have time for a decent ride, so I brought the single-speed A'ha and decided to hammer out some silly, short climbs with a 42*14 ratio Climbing out of Flushing (smirk) was a pleasure!

For our transatlantic cousins, please could you pull the gulf-stream south again because it's too far north

Nice to see a bit of Cornwall on here! I used to live in Mylor so did that flushing climb fairly regularly. Good fun when you're not having to dodge 4x4s & boat trailers

 

[PhillB]

Falmouth/Flushing are lovely...happy memories of holidays there (although I only lived in Devon ) The Jetstream needs to go North though to pull up warm air from the continent . We have had above average rainfall in the UK for 11 months in a row now....with that average covering all years back to 1836...

Anyway , the forecast seemed dry for this evening so I took the opportunity to get out on a different route this evening. The sun actually came out, briefly....

It was nice along the Thames path, deserted too.

I've put touring pedals on my Gwerch and I am soooo much happier...I'm a terrible roadie that's for sure, I don't like drop bars or pedals that are always upside-down, but I do like the awesome steel frames and pantographed bits and I love this bike...


I did 18km along the Thames path and back again.