Todays ride

Share your rides with us.

Moderators: Bearbonesnorm, Taylor, Chew

User avatar
whitestone
Posts: 7847
Joined: Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:20 am
Location: Skipton(ish)
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by whitestone »

Went for a ride in the south Dales. Basically: into Skipton, along the canal to Gargrave, over to Bell Busk, up to Airton then Calton and up to Weets Top, onto Mastiles Lane to head west to Stret Gate then the BW over to Arncliffe Cote (trying in vain to tick off two Veloviewer squares a little way off the BW), Kilnsey, over the top to Hetton, Gargrave again then back home. Everything is incredibly dry, if you've ever ridden across Boss Moor (it's on the YD300 route) then you'll know that there's a boggy bit http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=39 ... &ay=462220 even that was bone dry, not seen that in the 15 years we've been here.
Better weight than wisdom, a traveller cannot carry
User avatar
RIP
Posts: 9008
Joined: Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:24 pm
Location: Surfing The Shores Of Sanity Since 1959
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by RIP »

All very civilised here in the 'dining car' on Milton Keynes - Penrith. Well, gotta get match fit for Penrith - Durham via Waskerley Way. £40 return, yet another bargain.

Image
"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP

The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....

"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
User avatar
RIP
Posts: 9008
Joined: Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:24 pm
Location: Surfing The Shores Of Sanity Since 1959
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by RIP »

Hmm. Well that was slightly hillier than expected to Weardale. Not helped by the severely mis-sold hire bike at Alston...

Image
"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP

The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....

"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
User avatar
RIP
Posts: 9008
Joined: Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:24 pm
Location: Surfing The Shores Of Sanity Since 1959
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by RIP »

Surprisingly remote near Waskerley but the bonus of possibly the longest freewheeling I've ever done I think..

Image
"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP

The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....

"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
User avatar
MuddyPete
Posts: 815
Joined: Thu May 21, 2015 9:47 am
Location: Beds/Bucks border

Re: Todays ride

Post by MuddyPete »

Looks nice & dry up there Reg; it's gopping down here.
Have you made any more "special friends"? :wink:
May you always have tail wind.
User avatar
RIP
Posts: 9008
Joined: Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:24 pm
Location: Surfing The Shores Of Sanity Since 1959
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by RIP »

Hi Pete, yep it was dry which was lucky since I was in superlight mode. Special friends? Funny you should mention that, the looker in the photo above (the one in the middle obviously) invited me back to her place but I had to crack on as it was a long day. Lot of handy barns round there though I must say....
"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP

The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....

"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
User avatar
Zippy
Posts: 3059
Joined: Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:43 pm
Location: Suffolk
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by Zippy »

Nothing interesting about this mornings ride into work, other than at 16 miles in, I reached my magic number of 1,000 miles in May which I had in the back of my mind. Quite pleased I managed to fit squeeze that in amongst other life bits and pieces. :cool:
durhambiker
Posts: 117
Joined: Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:21 am
Location: Durham

Re: Todays ride

Post by durhambiker »

That stretch from Waskerley down to Lanchester is superb, as long as it isn't snowing sideways, which it was the last time I did it...
User avatar
RIP
Posts: 9008
Joined: Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:24 pm
Location: Surfing The Shores Of Sanity Since 1959
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by RIP »

We don't seem to have had a "Today's Ride" for a while (since my last one in fact :smile: (oh sorry Zip, and yours of course)) so may as well chip something in. Nowt out of the ordinary or particularly interesting or memorable but a ride nonetheless. Leighton Buzzard to Dunstable to deliver some Bikeability at a school. Part of the route up NCN 6 and the Sewell Greenway, the old railway between LB and Dunstable. I believe the Sewell Incline was one of the steepest on the network until closure. 1 in 40 rings a slight bell. Anyway it's couple of miles long and dead straight so you're more or less at warp speed by the bottom of it. A slight hump half way down adds to the frisson of fear and an option for "air time" as STW would have it.

Image
"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP

The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....

"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
User avatar
ctznsmith
Posts: 1030
Joined: Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:09 pm
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by ctznsmith »

86 miles Bristol to Goring. Made up of NCN 4, some off road to get from Devizes to Overton Hill and then approx. half the Ridgeway. My longest ride this year by a large margin! :-bd

The Ridgeway is currently dry and dusty!

Image
ianfitz
Posts: 3642
Joined: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:33 pm

Re: Todays ride

Post by ianfitz »

A very different ride today. A leisurely and sociable 200km audax with Jo and Ange (who is off to race the TCR soon)

Never ridden one before but enjoyed it. Well planned route on mainly back roads. Had a fair bit of climbing in - 4500m recorded! Which is far more than the official stats claim.

Masses of soup, sarnies, cake and tea in a village hall afterwards.

It was this one - http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/17-208/

While not the easiest intro is recommend it if you are tempted to sample the dark side.
Image
User avatar
RIP
Posts: 9008
Joined: Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:24 pm
Location: Surfing The Shores Of Sanity Since 1959
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by RIP »

Talking of Dark Side, one has just partaken of an emergency day out round Cannock trailcentre. I know, I know, but I figured it was best just to fess up and take my medicine as it gets justifiably dished out. It's the honourable thing to do. £20 return from Leighton Buzzard if you get the 07.09. If you're going to forsake your principles and do something like that, best to go midweek - it's like having your own personal facility. Three spins down Lower Cliff, over to the empty caff for a toastie and a kale smoothie (now THAT's hairshirted for you), couple of goes down from Tackeroo for cappucino (of course!), then three more Lower Cliffs and 17.05 home. If I was of a religious bent I'd now say 30 Hail Marys and possibly flail myself with twigs too. My excuse is it was a bivi reccying trip anyway :-P.
Last edited by RIP on Sun Jul 16, 2017 1:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.
"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP

The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....

"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
ScotRoutes
Posts: 8144
Joined: Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:56 am

Re: Todays ride

Post by ScotRoutes »

Image
Food! by Colin Cadden - Flickr2BBcode LITE




Image
Food! by Colin Cadden - Flickr2BBcode LITE



Some will find it easy to work.out where I am based on those two photos
User avatar
Mariner
Posts: 1793
Joined: Fri Feb 06, 2015 2:37 pm
Location: East Devon

Re: Todays ride

Post by Mariner »

Riverside Fort A?
Zazen - nothing happens next this is it.
User avatar
whitestone
Posts: 7847
Joined: Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:20 am
Location: Skipton(ish)
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by whitestone »

Mr Happy Pizza in Fort A :-bd
Better weight than wisdom, a traveller cannot carry
User avatar
fatbikephil
Posts: 6511
Joined: Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:51 pm
Location: Fife
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by fatbikephil »

Mmmm 12" meat feast.... =P~ I had one of them on visit number 2. The vege ones are good too.
User avatar
MuddyPete
Posts: 815
Joined: Thu May 21, 2015 9:47 am
Location: Beds/Bucks border

Re: Todays ride

Post by MuddyPete »

A very civilised 20-mile pootle to Dunstable & back, courtesy of Reg's Rural Rambles plc.

View from Totternhoe Knolls.
Image

Good choice of cafe: I had the healthy-option cake (only half-dipped in chocolate :wink: ). Then found this "bubblegum"-themed car outside the cafe. It's a Metropolitan, apparently.
Image

Of course being Dunstable, someone's nicked the spare wheel. Although a turquoise wheel with a whitewall tyre would probably be easy to spot.
Image

Down Sewell cutting...
Image

...then back past the farms. Proper rustic! :-bd
Image

Now; if only I can get my bikes to look that authentic... :ugeek:
May you always have tail wind.
User avatar
RIP
Posts: 9008
Joined: Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:24 pm
Location: Surfing The Shores Of Sanity Since 1959
Contact:

Re: Todays ride

Post by RIP »

Thanks for the ride out Pete, very pleasant. Being Dunstable, someone's nicked your images as well! Or is it just my browser? (EDIT: blast, yes it was my browser, sorry for half-cockedness)

R
"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP

The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....

"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
User avatar
PaulE
Posts: 746
Joined: Fri Sep 02, 2016 9:05 am
Location: Sheffield

Re: Todays ride

Post by PaulE »

Wettest, filthiest ride in ages on Thursday. Leading a school group of 31 y7&y8 kids and 6 staff at Sherwood Pines.

Puddles up to the bb at times, think I used most of a set of pads in 12miles! Kids a bit grumpy at times, but yesterday were finding me in school and raving about own great it was! Type 2 fun is a thing at their age too...
ScotRoutes
Posts: 8144
Joined: Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:56 am

Re: Todays ride

Post by ScotRoutes »

Inspired by Stus post on n-1, I took my Ragley for a wee spin round the woods for the first time in ages. My reckoning is that it's no longer required now I have my Orbea Occam

Image

But it was lovely!!! Feels really snappy and direct, masses of grip from the XR4s. I think I might have to keep it after all :grin:
ianfitz
Posts: 3642
Joined: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:33 pm

Re: Todays ride

Post by ianfitz »

A quick trip up the Col du Forclaz from Talloire, lake Annecy. Dip in the lake afterwards.

Not bad. Not bad at all.
Image
User avatar
FLV
Posts: 4245
Joined: Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:12 am
Location: Northern Edge of the Peak - Mostly

Re: Todays ride

Post by FLV »

I think it's winter in the peak. The trails are soaked.

Grim.

Need to assemble a winterproof bike anf fit some mudgaurds
User avatar
Scattamah
Posts: 2007
Joined: Tue Oct 21, 2014 4:18 pm
Location: Beyond The Black Stump

Re: Todays ride

Post by Scattamah »

First ride in 2 weeks after dealing with a weird neck problem. Note to self: don't try riding 44Kms on empty stomach and expect to come home feeling spritely when you've been a lazy bastard.

Greetz

S.
Alan63
Posts: 146
Joined: Sun Jun 19, 2016 9:43 am

Re: Todays ride

Post by Alan63 »

Spent the weekend at Glentress with junior recce'ing the Peebles stage race course and generally riding about. Great wee trip.
BaM 2021
User avatar
In Reverse
Posts: 1819
Joined: Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:08 pm
Location: Manchester

Re: Todays ride

Post by In Reverse »

FLV wrote:I think it's winter in the peak. The trails are soaked.

Grim.

Need to assemble a winterproof bike anf fit some mudgaurds
Did a loop round Hayfield on Friday night on summer XC tyres. Hammered it down all the time we were out. No grip. Fell off LOTS of times.
Post Reply