Today's Ride

[MattiThundrrr]

30° out there, too hot for a serious ride, so I took the most serious bike of all
Managed to find some shade by the river, but it was packed with people everywhere. And TRUCKS. Yaaaaay trucks
Getting harder and harder to find empty space. My little town is becoming a city

 

[KayOs]

30° out there, too hot for a serious ride, so I took the most serious bike of allView attachment 871528
Managed to find some shade by the river, but it was packed with people everywhere.View attachment 871527And TRUCKS. Yaaaaay trucksView attachment 871529
Getting harder and harder to find empty space. My little town is becoming a city

But Duck Norris remains awesome.
I'd prefer him to any pickup any day. (no, I will never call them trucks)

 

[KayOs]

@MattiThundrrr that's what I would call a truck. Love those old Unimogs

The road is closed to cars on Sundays, best idea ever!

Now enjoying a nice cold beer with some life music.

Have a nice sunday everyone!

 

[Iwasgoodonce]

The wife headed off early to drive to the start of another walk. “I’ll meet you at the end,” says me. I still haven’t done my tour but decided this could be yet another warm up for it.
New roads to me out in the Staffordshire farm lands. The first thing to catch my attention were two or three large fields of poppies.


I’m not sure whether they’re growing them for the petals (eco confetti), the seeds for cooking or to make heroin? It was one of those rides where every corner seemed to bring a new headwind. They didn’t bother me too much. They helped cool me down and I wasn’t going very fast.
Lilleshall Abbey was quickly investigated and very nice it was too. These places aren’t too far from me, how come I have never been before? The planned tour is supposed to address this.


The miles were slowly accumulating and I was beginning to slow even more. The Garmin was indicating the next road on the right would take me in the right direction. Trouble was it wasn’t looking too much like a road. There was also a lack of signs telling me to not go down there so off I bumped. Some time later I did see a Private Access sign. Try putting the thing at the start! Committed now, I wasn’t about to turn around and add 5 more miles to my route. Saw a bloke and a couple of horse riders and all they said was, “Hi.”


It went up quite a lot and I could feel the trailer hold me back. It was soon done and I found the car park where the wife was waiting. She had only been back for five minutes so my timing was good!

 

[dorset boy]

30 miles out in the sunshine
And back home for Coffee.

 

[2manyoranges]

Strictly non retro. Arrived Alps Friday eve. Little room on ferry and no room at the inns due to Olympic business. Or busyness. Yesterday serviced Canyon Sender for Grom and polished the Transition Patrol. Managed to find new sintered pads for the Hope E4s after a bit of a panic - in amongst the DH shirts, obviously. Today leisurely breakfast - yum coffee and croissants - then locate all the body armour in the cupboards and try to make sure we have everything. Of course we get to the car park and unload and I remember that I am simply wearing a cotton T shirt - which will be a wet rag by the end of the day. Oh well … everything else in order. Then up to Cry D’er on the lift for three DH runs - down, repeat. Then the back brake siezes on the Patrol - grrrrr - that’s the brake which I had ticked off as fine two months ago but actually is almost down to the metal. Much dust and the pistons out so far that they are Very Unhappy. So a front-brake-only to Montana for the last two pairs of Hope E4 pads in the locality and an industrial aerosol of Muc-off brake cleaner…Grom does bread run downhill home while I sweep up the rear….

Paksu the mascot dog en route Alps. Nice anus.

By contrast nicer jumpiness.

 

[2manyoranges]

WARNING - NON-RETRO CONTENT

Well, up early and clean out rear E4 caliper with toothbrush and brake cleaner. Use small stick with kitchen roll on end as substitute for cotton wool bud to really clean pistons. Final squirt of mucoff cleaner and wipe clean. Pistons pressed back in with a tyre lever and new pads straight in.

All good.

Gather up water, helmets, gloves, packs, weird gel stuff, torso armour, leg armour, shoes and sun cream.

Up to Crans and many many dusty runs.

Bike gets very tired (not me, no way) so we call it a day at 4pm.

A Tired Transition

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Hang on - in the distance I can hear a beer calling…….

 

[al-onestare]

Two weeks of a staycation are complete. Out and about almost every day meant riding took a little breather but I did get a few in early doors before scooting about the county with my PIC and 4 legged beast on adventures.

This morning (and yesterday, which is directly above), it was 12-13 degrees, wall to wall blue sky and glorious sunshine. A very light SW breeze. Absolutely perfect conditions. Summer has arrived but as ever, she'll be scooting off elsewhere later this week. Days like these make up for the 6 months of rain!

I met this fella on the blast back. As a fellow beagle owner, I was a touch worried he'd bolted off and was miles from home, but he promptly told me in no uncertain Beagle-speak, that this field, and the farm next to it, were his home and that I should bugger off pronto!

 

[2manyoranges]

Cornwall
Blue skies
Dry ground
Crunch crunch goes the granite gravel

P E R F E C T

 

[nic0]

first ride with the Breezer Lightning : what a bike! pure bliss