Your weekend ride...

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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,719
    markyboy2005 wrote:
    Sunday ride around the closed roads here (6am-9am) totally flat and not too fast - about 50 miles.
    Yet this was posted at 8am on Sunday... Interesting.
  • kell
    kell Posts: 32
    Whats the time difference in Jakarta?
  • markyboy2005
    markyboy2005 Posts: 465
    whyamihere wrote:
    markyboy2005 wrote:
    Sunday ride around the closed roads here (6am-9am) totally flat and not too fast - about 50 miles.
    Yet this was posted at 8am on Sunday... Interesting.

    Yeah, Interesting...cause I made it all up......7hours ahead at the moment, 6 when you move to summertime
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,719
    Gah, didn't check the location.

    *hangs head in shame*
  • markyboy2005
    markyboy2005 Posts: 465
    whyamihere wrote:
    Gah, didn't check the location.

    *hangs head in shame*

    All is forgiven..... :lol:
  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    did a fabulous 60 mile ride on the Northumberland coast yesterday, taking in some old pit villages, Ellington, Lynemouth, Cambois. Rain never stopped, but that just helped make the villages look even more depressing. Went to get the ferry at North Blythe but was a bit late for it, the last one went in 1997

    a cheap holiday in other peoples misery
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    About 4 miles yesterday because my mates all cancelled our ride and i got to the bottom of the second hill and thought 'b0llox to this i'm goin home to watch the rugger an sip a few ciders' :oops:

    Rode longer way to work today and saw loads of roadies and they all waved/nodded :D
    Will get in as much as possible when i finish at 5 before it gets to dark, bl00dy typical that i'm working on the best cycling day of teh year so far. Hope everyone else had a good blast :) 8)
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  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    My Allez is off the road - while I seek a replacement - so it was MTB yesterday in the p!$$!ng rain for a meagre 15 miles.
    Bumped into a mate out running so plodded along with him for a while. Also bloody freezing after the relative warmth of Friday.

    55 miles today on my good bike. Out for 8 and it was brilliant, thoroughly enjoyed it. It just kept getting warmer and warmer. Ditched my gloves by the end, jersey half unzipped and was tempted to lose the arm warmers too.
    I found some shocking new pot holes to report but on the plus side one I'd flagged up has been fixed.
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  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    I went out for 2.5 hrs yesterday. It was pouring with rain when I left and still pouring with rain when I got home. My feet were squelching in my shoes (I had overshoes on); I got lost 3 times; I ran out of gears going up a climb and wondered if it would be really embarrassing to get off and walk (I didn't); I contemplated phoning for someone to come and get me; my new, shiny white bike was covered in cow muck; my body was asking to go home and my legs were aching. After getting lost, I found myself closer to home than I had expected. Hooray. At which point, my brain decided it was too early to go home and that I should head off in the other direction so I could do a few more kms and another little climb.

    Why do we do this? I had already clocked up 10 good reasons to go home, was gifted a short cut, and then stayed out for reasons I do not understand! Can't wait to do it again tho :D (once my legs have stopped feeling so sore).
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  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    went out in pouring rain yesterday then today took my hybrid out for an hours pootle ......... then some old bloke overtook me going downhill on his £2K Trek, therefore I destroyed him on the next hill on my 20 year old Marin with mudguards and a rusty chain, using NAPD (C) trademarked Quad-power (TM)
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,693
    Home to new cycle track via all the hills/lanes.

    Bloody BBC weather, it said Dry/Bright, PAH!

    Headwind about 30 kph, totally hard work, then sidewards squalls...

    So, ride turned outta be a killa after 2.5hrs.

    BUT, post-ride Yorkshire Tea Marmalade cake made up for it!!
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Ands wrote:
    I went out for 2.5 hrs yesterday. It was pouring with rain when I left and still pouring with rain when I got home. My feet were squelching in my shoes (I had overshoes on); I got lost 3 times; I ran out of gears going up a climb and wondered if it would be really embarrassing to get off and walk (I didn't); I contemplated phoning for someone to come and get me; my new, shiny white bike was covered in cow muck; my body was asking to go home and my legs were aching. After getting lost, I found myself closer to home than I had expected. Hooray. At which point, my brain decided it was too early to go home and that I should head off in the other direction so I could do a few more kms and another little climb.

    Why do we do this? I had already clocked up 10 good reasons to go home, was gifted a short cut, and then stayed out for reasons I do not understand! Can't wait to do it again tho :D (once my legs have stopped feeling so sore).

    Why do we do this? you say.
    I had a similar thing on my ride today,no rain but i was out early and it was bloody cold,my legs were hurting and my will power was waning yet i pushed on and enjoyed myself,for me it's just part of cycling and life,recover push on and enjoy or go home early and wonder what could have been,just have to gauge it most of the time.
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    Check the elevation on this beast: 8)

    http://connect.garmin.com/activity/27637753

    Was a tough ride considering I was knackered from a race where I might as well have TT'd it round.
  • brakelever
    brakelever Posts: 158
    brillant ride this morning , weather very nice if a little chilly , soon warmed up though , took the pinarello out for its first outing this year , dry miles only for that , lots of riders out on the roads , nearly took a tumle out the back of selbourne due to a sucide pheasant , what is it with these bloody birds :? had been going at a fair old lick up to then , but that slowed me up for a while ! couple of large scones with jam at lasham gliding cafe soon put things right , hope this is the start of the better weather !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Bikerbaboon wrote:
    Doing the leeds Ride it on sunday. Heading out on the 50 miles will probabaly have to ride there and back so im hopeing it stays nice.

    Did you have a good run? I did the long route. I'm knackered now but glad I did as the scenery is far nicer on the extension. 5:20 pedal time for 80 miles and near 6000 feet climbing. Looks poor compared to Freehubs efforts though!
    Faster than a tent.......
  • holmeboy
    holmeboy Posts: 674
    70 miles today, Yipee, flat round the coast for 30 then up into the Lammermuirs back to Sunny Dunny. My knee's sore from trying to push bigger gears up them hills. Never rained and never got too cold, only two tops on and summer gloves, no overshoes, Brill! Stopped 3X to buy sustainence water etc, bloody good day, at last. :D
  • essexian
    essexian Posts: 187
    Sat around for ages on Saturday waiting for the rain to stop (hate cycling in the rain....yes, yes, need to MTFU) and when it seemed unlikely to do so, went out on my MTB for a 20 mile ride along a disused railway line path and then a very muddy canal towpath. Can't say I enjoyed it....especially as I got yet another visit from the PF 7 miles from home. Thankfully, it was a slow so with a top up every few miles, I made it home without having to change the innertube. One trip to Wiggle later, new PF proof tyres ordered!

    Today I did something I haven't done in 25 years..... did a 40 mile plus ride (42.6 miles). I know to some of you out there, that's hardly a warm up, but at 17 stone plus and 48 years old, I was happy.

    I went out on my road bike which hasnt been used much since I came off it on the ice on New Years day, and blimey, compared to my Boardman Hybrid and Giant Rock MTB, its a dream to ride. Looking forward to next time (tomorrow!) but I do wonder when I will get the feeling back in my soft bits!!!!
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    freehub wrote:
    Check the elevation on this beast: 8)

    http://connect.garmin.com/activity/27637753

    Was a tough ride considering I was knackered from a race where I might as well have TT'd it round.

    As if there is a street named "Mincing Street". Fantastic.
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • brin
    brin Posts: 1,122
    Done my local 36miles today, relatively flat which is what i wanted as getting new bike soon with compact g/set,so practised increasing my spinning/cadence...........bloody hell it hurts!!
  • Chicane-UK
    Chicane-UK Posts: 105
    Comparatively tame to some of you lot but enjoyed a nice early 22 mile ride through some local villages and some quiet country lanes with a friend on his fixie this morning.

    Only really got into cycling in the last couple of years.. never thought I'd find a form of exercise I'd enjoy, but lo and behold, there are few things better that gliding along at 20MPH on a nice new bit of smooth tarmac on a quiet road on a sunny Sunday morning.

    Treated the bike to a good clean when I got back!
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  • carl_p
    carl_p Posts: 989
    Well I've had a cracking long weekend starting with a an awesome Stranglers gig in Cambridge Thursday night. Hours and hours of car cleaning and waxing Friday and Saturday and a 40 miler on my new CAAD9 in glorious sunshine today :lol:
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  • Ronnieg
    Ronnieg Posts: 26
    Yeah it was a good weekend. 27 miles yesterday along the southend seafront into Leigh . Bloody windy so felt a lot longer. Got out today around 8am an completed 57 miles. From home out towards Chelmsford via Hanningfield. See quite a few groups and singles. The weather was quite good too. At one point (about 30 mins) the sun really broke through and i starte to take off layers. Down part was had a Puncture (hita few pot holes). Couple of riders stopped to ask ok.....even a car. Took opportunity to open Jam sandwiches ansd coffee whilst sitting on the grass changing the tube,


    as above ...that feeling of getting home to early and wishing you were still out there. (not today tho! was pretty finished when got in.

    Great start to what;s to come me hopes what with clocks going back next week.

    Got to find me a bright pink or yellow top for the summer. (It's the only opportunity a guy gets to wear such colours
    I look at my bike and I think.....wow! you are gorgeous (Boardman Urban Pro.........)
  • Ronnieg
    Ronnieg Posts: 26
    essexian wrote:
    I went out on my road bike which hasnt been used much since I came off it on the ice on New Years day, and blimey, compared to my Boardman Hybrid and Giant Rock MTB, its a dream to ride.


    Really ?

    I have the Bordman Pro Hybrid/ Urban. It's light , fast and a breeze to ride. Does the road bike feel that easier.

    Part of me hopes it does feel easier then i can get a road bike (boardman carbon) and sleep without all that guilt!
    I look at my bike and I think.....wow! you are gorgeous (Boardman Urban Pro.........)
  • brin
    brin Posts: 1,122
    Ronnieg wrote:

    Great start to what;s to come me hopes what with clocks going back next week.

    ermmmmm you might be a bit behind us all if you put your clocks BACK next week :?
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,693
    When I got to the cycle track - see earlier post - as yet not totally finished, the climb to the end took 31 mins.

    This was with a 27k plus headwind, hills.

    Back was 16 mins.

    God, I LOVE a Tailwind !
  • redddraggon
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  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    freehub wrote:
    Check the elevation on this beast: 8)

    http://connect.garmin.com/activity/27637753

    Was a tough ride considering I was knackered from a race where I might as well have TT'd it round.

    Christ man you got a little too close to Bolton there. I'd gom have a wash now and use wire wool to get the scally smell off ya :D
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  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    freehub wrote:
    Check the elevation on this beast: 8)

    http://connect.garmin.com/activity/27637753

    Was a tough ride considering I was knackered from a race where I might as well have TT'd it round.

    As if there is a street named "Mincing Street". Fantastic.

    I didnt know the centre of manchester is 800 feet below sea level
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    northernneil wrote:
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    freehub wrote:
    Check the elevation on this beast: 8)

    http://connect.garmin.com/activity/27637753

    Was a tough ride considering I was knackered from a race where I might as well have TT'd it round.

    As if there is a street named "Mincing Street". Fantastic.

    I didnt know the centre of manchester is 800 feet below sea level

    I knew it was something like 30 meters above, the elevation aint accurate, take 1000 odd ft off that.

    Either way, it was a hell of allot of elevation!

    Someone posted a vid on youtube of the decent, I was gone but the guy with the cam caught up, you can hear me yapping towards the end :lol:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Ri7Z9a2Qc
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Cor that looked good going down there Will,the road didn't look too great on those bends though,must be fun,there's nothing like that around here over that distance.

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