Your ride today.... (part 1)

[sgl5gjr]

Not much cycling done this past week, with Mum & Dad's funeral to take place and associated stuff.......BUT..... the teen & I got out for another 9 miler on Sunday morning, Third time out for her on her new Triban and we are still fettling it up with minor seat adjustments......
7c and clear conditions, slight headwind on the first part of the ride, a stop for adjustment after a mile then another at 6 miles....... 11.3 mph average speed today so 1 mph up on the last ride out. Bike wash on return owing to Cambs County Councils relentless wasting of road salt when no sign of frost is forecast, which makes the roads filthy and destroys them even more than they currently are.....
Off to Southampton soon and stopping off at Oxford with the Campervan tonight....... Go Outdoors and Decathlon beckon for me on Tuesday morning.....
Should manage riding on Wednesday and Thursday ride with the Wheelers...... Teen isn't looking forward to my planned " Christmas Day Keep Up Lass" ride.....lol
I already have 3 ladies wanting to slip away from the festivities for a couple of hours......leaving dad's to entertain family....

 

[PeteXXX]

First ride out on the new bike today. It rides really nicely, and once the discs bed in a bit, the stopping power increased to where it should be!

I was going to head towards Pitsford, but then veered of right to Holcot and Harrington for a change.

Mostly I kept to the roads, not wanting any dirt to get near it, but had to pop round one of my fishing lakes to see what could be seen. (Several big carp nosing at the surface today, but no one fishing to chat to)

Not having all day to spend out today due to w*rk this afternoon, I headed vaguely homewards via Orlingburry.

The Village Green is quite pretty, but too chilly to sit around for long!

Back home to wipe and polish the flecks of muck that dared to attach itself to my bike

21 miles in lovely, but slightly chilly, weather.
First impressions? I'm going to love this bike! Just need to roll the bars back a degree or two and raise the saddle by a Cm and it should be spot on.

.http://www.strava.com/activities/229633313

 

[Saluki]

I have just been for my last ride on my Spesh Hardrock. It's being bought tonight, collected at 6. I really really fancy a Norco Threshold. Very loud in colour and I might stand a fighting chance on a bike so vivid a colour that it can be seen from space. When the Spesh goes, I will only need another £300 (My defy is being sold if anyone is interested).

I rode from home today, along Bluebell, past the UEA and then across the crossroads at Eaton and then onto the cyclepath by the golf club and then up the neverending hill to the Ipswich Road where it comes out opposite the Holiday Inn. I then turned up the Ipswich Road towards the City and carried on until I got to my customer's turning and then locked my bike up to the lamp-post in her garden.

Having walked her Lhasa, that really didn't want to be turfed out of his basket, I then unlocked the bike and headed back. I decided not to go the same way but to be brave and head further along the Ipswich Road, past the City College and down into the City Centre (which was heaving). I had to walk along the pedestrian bit as it was rammed. There were a few cyclists cycling but I like living so decided not to.. Once past the pedestrian bit I was back on my bike and on my way to Duke Street and the cycle path to the bottom of the Marriotts Way.

The 2 miles along the Marriotts were great. There were a few dog walkers but I just call out "ding ding, passing on your right" and slow down. Never had an issue except for one old guy, ages ago who took exception to my calling 'ding ding' instead of ringing my bell, which I don't have. At the end of the first bit of the Marriotts, I would normally turn up Marlpit Lane but I was not feeling like the climb today so carried on a bit further onto the next bit of the Marriotts and then picked up the road through the housing estate there to come out on the Norwich Road and then crossed the main A47 to carry along the cyclepath home.

4.6 miles there, 5.5 miles back and all done in a smidge less than an hour's riding time. Weather was fine and I had a good time.
When I got in and tried to log in to Garmin Connect it had totally forgotten me. I tried all my email addresses to log in, even though I knew which email address that I use for it. In the end, I gave up and have opened a new flipping account. I am now in the process of manually moving across every ride that I've done, one at a time as it won't let me do them as a big block. Boring boring boring.

 

[ColinJ]

First ride out on the new bike today. It rides really nicely, and once the discs bed in a bit, the stopping power increased to where it should be!

I was going to head towards Pitsford, but then veered of right to Holcot and Harrington for a change.

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Mostly I kept to the roads, not wanting any dirt to get near it, but had to pop round one of my fishing lakes to see what could be seen. (Several big carp nosing at the surface today, but no one fishing to chat to)

Not having all day to spend out today due to w*rk this afternoon, I headed vaguely homewards via Orlingburry.

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The Vilage Green is quite pretty, but too chilly to sit around for long!

Back home to wipe and polish the flecks of muck that dared to attach itself to my bike

21 miles in lovely, but slightly chilly, weather.

Nice ... What model is it? I'm looking to buy a CX bike in the NY.

First impressions? I'm going to love this bike! Just need to roll the bars back a degree or two and raise the saddle by a Cm and it should be spot on.

.http://www.strava.com/activities/229633313

I was just about to say that the bars look very high relative to the saddle!

 

[PeteXXX]

Nice ... What model is it? I'm looking to buy a CX bike in the NY.


I was just about to say that the bars look very high relative to the saddle!

It's an Inflite 8 2015
This was a fettling ride today..

 

[Gareth C]

Dirty Disco gets extremely dirty with its new tubeless cross tyres…
As summer fades I’ve been looking for some new tyres for my Dirty Disco. After much research, I plumped for some Specialized Trigger tyres, (tubeless ready and quite wide at 38mm). I had some trouble initially getting the front one to blow onto the rim, but eventually it went with the hand-pump. To get the tubeless sealant distributed, I decided to take it for a spin on Sunday in Hamsterley Forest.

(Video a bit long – should have done more editing down – feel free to skip ahead…)

The ride was a mixture of road, forest tracks, and singletrack (black and blue). Weather was cold(ish), wet and windy. I’m loving the tyres, and looking forward to putting some on/off-road miles on them this winter.



Still getting up-to-speed with my GoPro, as the editing needs more work (sound missing early on).

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Boris Bike from Victoria to Gower Street. For no good reason I could discern a woman chucked her Piaggio MP3 up the road in front of me. Just outside RADA. Which I didn't even think was possible. She was shaken but unhurt. Her bike was shaken and slightly hurt. And, blimey, doesn't the London No. 24 bus have a loud horn and a foul-mouthed driver?

 

[PeteXXX]

Dirty Disco gets extremely dirty with its new tubeless cross tyres…
As summer fades I’ve been looking for some new tyres for my Dirty Disco. After much research, I plumped for some Specialized Trigger tyres, (tubeless ready and quite wide at 38mm). I had some trouble initially getting the front one to blow onto the rim, but eventually it went with the hand-pump. To get the tubeless sealant distributed, I decided to take it for a spin on Sunday in Hamsterley Forest.

(Video a bit long – should have done more editing down – feel free to skip ahead…)

The ride was a mixture of road, forest tracks, and singletrack (black and blue). Weather was cold(ish), wet and windy. I’m loving the tyres, and looking forward to putting some on/off-road miles on them this winter.



Still getting up-to-speed with my GoPro, as the editing needs more work (sound missing early on).

Good move spotting that MTB heading t'other way at about 8:15!

 

[Spartak]

Rode a South Gloucestershire loop this morning delivering Christmas cards.

My normal route along the Westerleigh Greenway, came across two horse riders negotiating the level crossing !
Up Kidney Hill & into Yate before heading south & back towards Bristol via Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne.

 

[Jon George]

After Sunday's exertions (and Monday's supposed recovery ride) today was a bit of a grind. Still, the sun made up for it.

A tractor boy/girl hard at it near Foxhall :-

And a view from Levington of the Orwell and a seat my wife and I usually sit on after a drink and food at The Ship. (A bit sobering to think that my paternal great-grandmother would have probably recognised this vista from her childhood.)

 

[djb1971]

Not been out since Global Fatbike day on the 6th. I've got proper man flu

Doc has warned me to stay off the bikes until I'm recovered. Just praying it doesn't snow, I'll be out playing even if it kills me! Friends have just had a baby girl and I can't even visit.

Itching to get out and ride, fed up of lolloping around the house. I've got cabin fever

 

[coffeejo]

Not been out since Global Fatbike day on the 6th. I've got proper man flu

Doc has warned me to stay off the bikes until I'm recovered. Just praying it doesn't snow, I'll be out playing even if it kills me! Friends have just had a baby girl and I can't even visit.

Itching to get out and ride, fed up of lolloping around the house. I've got cabin fever

I hear you. I'm off my feet with sinusitis. Dog's utterly fed up with me. Been out for a walk nearly every day though as I can't bear being cooped up. Absolutely shattered now though.

 

[djb1971]

I hear you. I'm off my feet with sinusitis. Dog's utterly fed up with me. Been out for a walk nearly every day though as I can't bear being cooped up. Absolutely shattered now though.

After the rotting away at 40 thread, I think we should have a "what's wrong/what've you caught, contracted or dying from" thread.

Gws @coffeejo , have a virtual manhug, I won't get too close, just to be safe

 

[djb1971]

I hope you feel better as well djb.........although I've just remembered how rude you've been about my photography, so I've changed my mind

HOW DARE YOU!
I always comment how fantastic your feet photos are. I often compared your photographic skills to that of Lord Snowdon. Nobody else can utilise composition and lighting skills with their feet

 

[coffeejo]

After the rotting away at 40 thread, I think we should have a "what's wrong/what've you caught, contracted or dying from" thread.
Gws @coffeejo , have a virtual manhug, I won't get too close, just to be safe

Let me get a hazmat suit on first. If I get manflu (which, incidentally, my spellchecker recognises as a real word ) then I can wave goodbye to my daily stroll / crawl round the block*.

*Being a bumpkin, the block consists of fields, orchards and mud. Lots of.