Today's Ride

[al-onestare]

Still as you like, 8 degrees, a touch lower up top, misty, quiet dense in places. It was a case of trying to dodge snails (win), bugs (fail, 2 in my left eye and 1 in the ear) and buzzards (win, they buggered off quick). The views were non-existent, but cycling with no wind resistance was wonderful.

 

[BerthaPog]

Cannock was damper than planned, but the new (to me anyway) blue “Perry’s Trail” was delightfully swoopy.

 

[K_50]

 

[Joe_Rides]

Managed to squeeze an hour in this evening. Suffering from a very persistent cough and snotty nose this week so thought I'd try and burn it out.

Literally didn't go further than a mile radius from home, but luckily there are some nice woodland trails and parks nearby. Cracking mild weather, and the perfect dusk moment for seeing wildlife. Watched a young stag for a while, saw a dipper (very common here) and grey wagtail on the river.

Some rooty, twisty single-track, and jumps built by local kids made it a lot of fun, combined with some stops to hear the river babble away.

Just what I needed.

The cough persists.

 

[Imlach]

Today's ride was a lovely mild one, barely a breeze with temps soaring up around 15c, basically summer! Was mostly on gravel/fire roads witb short periods of single track.

Was happy to get out so I could test my new tyres, I decided to put 2.0s on the cross check which has smoothened the ride substantially. Might go down to 1.9s in the future if I can find some with skin wall. Quite amazed by the cross checks tyre clearance, could easily fit a 2.2 up front.

 

[Joe_Rides]

That Surly looks rad!

 

[Imlach]

That Surly looks rad!

Thank you.

There's a few things that need to be fixed. I need to get rid of the tensioner, it didn't use to have one, but I had to use a tensioner for the ride as I didn't have any quick links laying about (where the hell did they go?) and I need to redo brake wires and perhaps throw a Brooks B17 on there. It rides amazingly well, my first 700c bike and probably the only one I'll ever have that's 700c. Love it.

 

[longun]

Longest ride this year at over 25 miles.....I know.... put tried to keep off roads much as possible soooooo......haha. even worse shorts and managed to not get stung which is always a bonus. Not sure if age, health or low ambition has kicked in, just didnt feel the need to push my speed or anything, nice to plod along though.

 

[slackboy]

Ferry to Hoy and then a ride to rackwick bay then a walk along to the old man of Hoy. Gorgeous sunny day.

 

[Imlach]

Today's ride was wetter, but still very mild. Bit of a breeze but nothing too substantial. Went through one of my local towns in this hilly, agricultural area. Midway there's a little bit of woodland which has a trail that goes round in a loop, did that and returned home to a dram of Caol Ila