Tales from today's commute....
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Do I brave normal cycling shoes and shorts tomorrow. Still in MTB longs and winter boots.
Marrying a spouse who enjoys the same outdoor activity as oneself is the perfect recipe for a livelong companionship spent rolling around the world together.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
The LNER fast trains were messed up for some reason so tonight's semi fast train was totally packed. Which left me wishing I had planned an off road route at that end. When I got off though it was still light and I had a off road route on more familiar tracks in my head. Lol, when the light faded I probably should have went home rather than going for one more bridleway through a wooded area. It comes out a gap in a fence and crosses a haul road and there's a gap in a slatted fence again on the other side of the haul road. Just as I was about to go through the gap a little dog squeezed under the slatted fence on the far side. That caused me to pause and lean the wrong way. Cue a clip less moment 🙊🙈🫠 I got up and cycled round the lake in the dark though as it was so nice a night.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
You can't 'off road' without a little lie down. That is the rules.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
What a glorious morning. Legs out and summer shoes on. Ditched the windproof gloves for standard MTB summer full finger ones.
Light wind, solar powered and set my fastest time to work on this bike, under 40 minutes.
Light wind, solar powered and set my fastest time to work on this bike, under 40 minutes.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Same here, but it warmed up really quickly.
biking_fox
Legendary Member
- Location
- Manchester
Absolutely glorious morning. I'm still in longs but only 1 layer... will see how much I melt on the way home. If it's still feeling grand I might take a detour.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I'm sure I am solar powered.
Seems this morning's sun is universal 
Out for the first time this year in just the long-sleeved base layer having woken early again but actually managed about 8hrs for once as I got to sleep early last night.
A nice mosey in with little to report; a few low-rent knobheads but nothing that threatened to end my life... which was nice.
As usual the sun made everything great; smiles from a few ladies, greetings exchanged with my new sour-faced covered-market best mate, had exact change for my breakfast in the butchers - which incidentally were utterly sublime again this morning:
The tow path was unsurprisingly pleasant too and while taking photos I had a nice exchange with a chap who apparently walks it every day and expressed similar gratitude for being lucky enough to live in such a nice part of the world
Out for the first time this year in just the long-sleeved base layer having woken early again but actually managed about 8hrs for once as I got to sleep early last night.
A nice mosey in with little to report; a few low-rent knobheads but nothing that threatened to end my life... which was nice.
As usual the sun made everything great; smiles from a few ladies, greetings exchanged with my new sour-faced covered-market best mate, had exact change for my breakfast in the butchers - which incidentally were utterly sublime again this morning:
The tow path was unsurprisingly pleasant too and while taking photos I had a nice exchange with a chap who apparently walks it every day and expressed similar gratitude for being lucky enough to live in such a nice part of the world
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