How has your 2020 cycling year been?

[Iainj837]

2'833 will add a few more miles as hopefully out boxing day

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just 10 miles short of hitting 1,000 miles in Dec. Another good month this year.

 

[gbb]

2020 was the year the realisation set in I'm nearly finished with cycling as a passion.
2019 I did manage to resume commuting for a while, albeit nothing like I used to.
Arthritis just makes it too painful, I do what I do now, generally 10 miles once a week and I'm fine with that. It's no good harking back to my best times, I can't do it any more, I need to make sure I look after myself physically to reach retirement still working.
It's fine, I've reconciled myself to it, its actually a bit of a release.

 

[gbb]

2020 has been my best year ever. Lot's of miles on a road bike I got going after it collected dust for years while the mountain bike was my vehicle. Love riding on super hot days when it cools off in the evening. I can just keep going and going.

I used to love those super hit days, 30 degrees, I'd be out there, sweating and grinning like a mad thing, the temps seemed to suit me, it seemed effortless, albeit hot.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

I reckon I could be close to 2,500 miles by the outturn of the year - which will be my highest amount of riding for decades. I can't be exact about the total since my hack bikes don't have computers on them, but I know roughly how far it is from A to B when I ride somewhere and all the 3 miles here and 5 miles there errands adds up. April and May had the best weather of the whole year for me, hardly any wet windy days, warm but not sweltering - and I wasn't working any overtime so I had a lot more free time to ride and did so most days.
The weather will largely determine my mileage in 2021. If its crap, like half of this year has been, my miles will be down on 2020. I'm not going out on any day it's pissing down with rain or blowing a gale - that's not what I call enjoyable cycling. If we get a decent summer, my mileage might hold up.

 

[cosmicbike]

Shocking. Not even 4000 miles and the metric half has been a real challenge this year, how things have changed from 2018. Less commuting didn't help, along with lots of work on the house eating up my time.
Haven't managed a single 100km ride and my Eddington is the same as it was this time last year. Not good enough really.

 

[Stephenite]

Absolutely shocking tbh.

 

[Blue Hills]

Living in California under a Democrat Governor who holds the mistaken idea that masks have any effect whatsoever due to a Center for Disease Control infectious disease head who cannot even read the research of his own government agency showing the exact opposite, we have had our economy ruined. Most of my normal rides have been ruined since the coffee shops etc. which were normally turn-arounds were closed and perhaps for good by lock-down orders that have no effect on spread of a disease that are spread at any publicly open areas that are unavoidable such as supermarkets.

This has forced me at 76 into shorter out and backs in the San Francisco bay area. But I still managed to turn in 3,600 miles and 120,000 ft of climbing (5,800 km and 38,000 meters) I only include climbing that is over 5% over most of the climb but most of them contain up to 12% or more. It would be easier if I wasn't getting old.

What a peculiar post.
I can honestly say that boris, though a complete twat, has had no impact on my cycling one way or the other.
Nor has trump, though he'd doubtless benefit from a daily bike ride.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

What a peculiar post.
I can honestly say that boris, though a complete twat, has had no impact on my cycling one way or the other.

Boris isn't trying to make you wear a mask all the time though. If I was a CA resident I'd be out there getting signatures for the recall petition to get rid of that idiot Newsom. I think about a million have signed it so far, so he could be on his way out.

 

[Lovacott]

I was furloughed for six weeks and started cycling again for something to do.

Sixty or so miles per week on flat cycle path. Then, I started to cycle commute over hill and vale.

I need to do fifty more miles this year to hit 3,000.

 

[Blue Hills]

Not mine but the bloke i got nattering to outside saint pauls london on christmas day. Said it was the first time he'd been out on his bike for 20 years. An old FW Evans. 77 he said. I encouraged him to get some LED lights then left him to his day.
So a good year for him.
Ride on into 2021.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Not mine but the bloke i got nattering to outside saint pauls london on christmas day. Said it was the first time he'd been out on his bike for 20 years. An old FW Evans. 77 he said.

Christmas Day was an ideal riding day this year, decent weather. I went out for a couple of hours to offset some of the food & beer! The City would have made sense in one way, since it was be exceptionally quiet out on the roads - before lunchtime anyway.
I'm assuming the old boy had a vintage Evans tourer, made of 531. If so, I've seen one in the flesh in a nice Royal Blue colour and was rather impressed with the finish. I wonder who they used to source their frames from?
Got five consecutive days off work, starting on the 25th, have ridden every day so far. Let's see if I can ride on the remaining two - if the weather doesn't put the kybosh on it.

 

[Mandobob]

2,214 up to Christmas. Lots of exercise rides during lockdown and opportunities to try out the latest vintage bike rebuild.

 

[Blue Hills]

Christmas Day was an ideal riding day this year, decent weather. I went out for a couple of hours to offset some of the food & beer! The City would have made sense in one way, since it was be exceptionally quiet out on the roads - before lunchtime anyway.
I'm assuming the old boy had a vintage Evans tourer, made of 531. If so, I've seen one in the flesh in a nice Royal Blue colour and was rather impressed with the finish. I wonder who they used to source their frames from?
Got five consecutive days off work, starting on the 25th, have ridden every day so far. Let's see if I can ride on the remaining two - if the weather doesn't put the kybosh on it.

So you were out and about in the centre? If so our paths may have crossed? - I did a couple of hours or so,maybe a bit more - City (yes quiet but then it's quiet or normal sundays anyway and also through most of this hell anytime - the money shufflers/launderers can work their wonders from home easily enough), then along Fleet Street, Trafalgar Square, Westminster and back over Vauxhall Bridge to the safety of south London. If anything I had the idea that there were maybe more folk around in the centre than there would be on a normal Christmas day. Yes it was a nice day - cold but bright. I was out just before lunch - most of the churches, even the big ones seemed to be shut/locked - folk scuttled off home to stuff themselves maybe before I had a chance to ask them where their god and saviour was on the holy day.
Christmas Eve was also nice - some families out riding round a quiet city.

I think the gent's Evans may have been greenish. Maybe a five speed block on the back. He was having a nice chilled day as I was. Hope he keeps up his cycling in the new year - didn't ask where he'd cycled from.

 

[craigwend]

Another strange / different year.
2019 was one of my best until I got some 'flu' like virus (no not Covid) in late November lasting until around January & visit to GP and some antibiotics to take the worst of whatever it was...
So recovery began & I take winter miles as bonus miles...
Then Covid... As a positive I nore anyone close personally to me got it leading to hospitalisation, though a few people got it seriously and a few less close friends / acquaintances lost loved ones.

Around spring when I tend to up my rides / join club rides (winter is taking son to football on a Sunday) the world closed down, advised to do rides but shorter and local, and cafe stops closed...

So later as 'guidance' changed limited number club rides began, some (cafe) stayed closed... My mileage particularly long Saturday / Sunday /club runs / Sportives didn't.

Still some nice rides
Some highlights, my longest ride about 130 miles completed, my time riding with one of my daughters who is cycling as part of her Duke of Edinburgh award, riding with a neighbour who took up cycling during Covid, still managed 4k miles, and the long abused (winter bike) Galaxy has had a good overhaul, and enjoying riding it even if slower than the Van Nich.

So here's to 2021 - booked a 2 day, coast to coast for July to focus on, chapeau to one and all