Your best ride of 2025

[Animo]

Shame, it is like Soria but better. 👍

I had a good ride anyway, stayed on the GC200 which was another road I hadn't ridden.

 

[dan_bo]

C2C across the Cumbria and Northumberland with Nicky boy and I Like Skol of this parish on a very hot weekend in July. Partially loaded with an overnight in Alston.
We were due to meet @dan_bo for lunch on Saturday, but he did an over the bars going down Kirkstone Pass refused a chopper ride and ended up in Carlisle Hospital in an ambulance 😳 bike survived so that was ok 😁, so didn't make the rendezvous.
Day one was hilly and very hot. Day two was even hillier for the first thirty miles with steep climb after climb. I blame Skolly for plotting the route. 😜 Then we had a nice flatter mostly off road dash to Newcastle via old railway tracks and on to Whitley Bay for a night on the tiles. Had 5 punctures which was a record for me.
About 140 miles across the two days.
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Here's my favourite pic from that particular day

 

[oxoman]

Here's my favourite pic from that particular day

Fantastic C2C routes up there which ive done several of.

 

[dan_bo]

Fantastic C2C routes up there which ive done several of. You obviously survived, trust it didn't hurt to much.

Yeah I'm ok. Neck's still stiff at times but the 3 broken ribs are a distant memory now.

The leg was great picking.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Col du Tourmalet

I rode on the day of the Montée du Géant when they take "Octave" the statue up to the top of the col from its winter storage.

Here's Octave on his lorry with his brass band going up

Much jollity and a brass band at the top.

 

[bluenotebob]

A few highlights this year: discovering the beautiful chapelle St-Barthélemy (set in woodland on the southern flank of the river Claie, a few kilometres west of Pleucadeuc – first visited in the summer and I’ve been back there twice since), reaching the barrage at Guerlédan (I still haven’t made it to the lake itself but hopefully I will get there in 2026) and a west/east traverse of the land between Ploërmel and Maure-de-Bretagne (@roubaixtuesday - this ride was a few kms south of St-Malon-sur-Mel/la Fontaine de Juvence and you would have crossed my route last year - perhaps around Guer or a bit further east around les Brulais - en route to Redon).

I seem to have spent more time in 2025 planning new rides that I have done executing them – but at least they are there on the shelf when I need them.

la chapelle St-Barthélemy

Approaching Guerlédan from the south

At la Métarie des Vaux, looking E towards Maure-de-Bretagne

le Moulin du Cul Blanc on the same ride (the name caused my neighbour to explode with laughter: it means the "white-ars*d mill)

 

[roubaixtuesday]

(@roubaixtuesday - this ride was a few kms south of St-Malon-sur-Mel/la Fontaine de Juvence and you would have crossed my route last year - perhaps around Guer or a bit further east around les Brulais - en route to Redon).

Well remembered! Looking at our route we did indeed go through les Brulais, then stopped for lunch in Pipriac. Happy days.

 

[Hacienda71]

I had a good ride anyway, stayed on the GC200 which was another road I hadn't ridden.

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Will have to do that one when I am back in May.

 

[geocycle]

Nothing exotic but had a great trip to Teesdale. Here’s one on the way home.

Another great ride was a day ride home from Penrith via Asby and Ravenstonedale.

 

[steverob]

it’s been a great year for cycling and I’m hoping 2026 will be better with a LEJOG in June.

When are you thinking of starting? Want to see if you'll be done before or after me!