Your ride today.... (part 1)

[Rickshaw Phil]

Just a short ride today as a shakedown for the bike after servicing the wheel bearings yesterday. Into town, round The Quarry, and out to Uffington via the old canal path before heading to Atcham, Condover and home.

The Quarry was very pleasant as always, with quite a few people out enjoying the but the road from Uffington to Atcham was rather busier than I'm used to as there had been "a police incident" which had closed the A5 and a lot of people were using the Atcham road as a rat run to avoid the queues. I felt slightly smug when I was able to filter past everyone who'd overtaken me in the queue at the end of the road. Less smug when I found out someone had died in the "incident".

The rest of the trip was uneventful and I finished up with a tally of 18.7 miles at 14.7mph average.

Enjoying the sun in The Quarry.

Work is underway fixing the towpath that collapsed during floods over a year ago.

It's a wee bit busy at Atcham.

Drinkies by the river at the Mytton & Mermaid. I expect the place will be pretty crowded later.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

approx 85 Km today, all was going well then i came to a long and winding hill I must admit to walking a couple as i got nearer to home, bum was begining to hurt on way home, so ho how will i ever manage to hit the 100 Km

It doesn't sound like you're doing too bad to me. If you can manage 85km it's not a massive step up to 100km.

Well done doing the 85 and keep at it.

 

[coffeejo]

It doesn't sound like you're doing too bad to me. If you can manage 85km it's not a massive step up to 100km.

⇧ This

 

[Old Plodder]

.....& you'll soon bash the saddle into submission.

 

[gbb]

approx 85 Km today, all was going well then i came to a long and winding hill I must admit to walking a couple as i got nearer to home, bum was begining to hurt on way home, so ho how will i ever manage to hit the 100 Km

Well done on 85...the easiest way to up the mileage is to knock 1mph off your normal cruising speed. I usually clock along at circa 15 or 16 mph, on a day where i'm going to do some mileage i will clock along at 14 or 15. Its amazing the difference it makes, its so much easier...just back off a little and you can go all day.

 

[Hip Priest]

Did a 25 miler. Had a puncture in the first mile, and a very near miss with an SUV in the last. Not my finest hour!

 

[Hacienda71]

10 miles along the Middlewood Way with 14 cubs including H71 junior, an assortment of other dads and a couple of cub leaders. I was the broom wagon following the slowest at the back and by the half way point had come across a number of semi catastrophic incidents including three or four crashes and a near head on when our lot came face to face with 1st Bramhall going at speed in the other direction. My suggestion of riding in a straight line and shouting out if you were going to stop seemed to be ignored by the kids and the dads for that matter . Two or three crashes later and we made back to the meeting point, where I had to wait for an hour as the cub we were running home had decided to crash and couldn't ride his bike and walked 2 miles back with the scout master.
All in all not a bad ride, no hospitalisations and H71 junior kept up a damn good pace for a little un on the return leg.

 

[derrick]

Easy 20 miles with the other half, best ride she has done for a few weeks, got her mo jo sorted at last.

 

[LarryDuff]

Lovely sunny 15 miles this evening through some green countryside. Very pleasant.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Another 55 miles..similar route to yesterday only I went round the loop backwards.
Lovely lanes, blue skies, sunshine, warm wind, low traffic levels, followed by 40 minutes swim on in the sea in my.wetsuit.

Bloody marvelous.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I grabbed the knockabout bike for another evening ride to Oaks and Pulverbatch. Really nice out there again - proper summer weather.

On the way out I was overtaken by what I can only describe as a boy racer with a must-get-in-front mentality. Shame that in his desperation to pass me before a parked car he completely failed to notice the other car, with lights on, coming in the opposite direction.

Crossing Lyth Hill on the gravel track that @gavgav recently likened to a set of moguls on a ski run, it was me doing the overtaking. I caught up with another boy-racerish vehicle, but he was going very slow to avoid ripping his exhaust off and waved me through with an apology for holding me up.

The rest of the ride was pleasantly uneventful leaving me to enjoy the surroundings.

18.37 miles covered at 12.3mph which is alright for the knockabout bike on a hilly ride.

On Lyth Hill.

An illuminated canopy on the bridleway at Exfords Green. On this route I'm off tarmac for about 3 miles.

On the road to Oaks there has been more hay cutting going on.

A short pause at Oaks

How now brown cow? (Yes I know they're bullocks really. )

Homeward bound as the sun drops behind Lyth Hill. (Why do so many great views have blasted power lines running across?)

 

[Cubist]

.....& you'll soon bash the saddle into submission. turn your perineum to leather

FTFY and @s7ephanie

 

[Cubist]

10 miles along the Middlewood Way with 14 cubs including H71 junior, an assortment of other dads and a couple of cub leaders. I was the broom wagon following the slowest at the back and by the half way point had come across a number of semi catastrophic incidents including three or four crashes and a near head on when our lot came face to face with 1st Bramhall going at speed in the other direction. My suggestion of riding in a straight line and shouting out if you were going to stop seemed to be ignored by the kids and the dads for that matter . Two or three crashes later and we made back to the meeting point, where I had to wait for an hour as the cub we were running home had decided to crash and couldn't ride his bike and walked 2 miles back with the scout master.
All in all not a bad ride, no hospitalisations and H71 junior kept up a damn good pace for a little un on the return leg.

Silver of this parish will tell you about the time he and I took some scouts on a ride. One trapped his hand in the front wheel trying to shift a piece of grass on the move, and another rode into a river. Happy days!

 

[Cubist]

My ride today was an extension of my exploratory loop the other night. I went along a bridleway I only ever rode past to discover an absolute belter, plus about half a mile of ridge top cheeky trail that had all the elements you could ask for. That could be incorporated into a figure of 8 or a there and back again just for the sake of it stretch. Total distance now up to 12 miles of single and doubeltrack bridleways where I used to ride 5 miles up and along the A640 just to get to what I thought was a good bit of trail. Not all of it is bridleway, but as there weren't any footpath signs or even keep out signs, and they looked like cart tracks from the satellite view........ ain't Garmins wonderful!
All options herehttp://www.mapometer.com/mountain_biking/route_3365443.html

 

[flatflr]

Todays ride was supposed to be a relaxed spin as doing the Magnificat sportive on Sunday, but just got into the goove and ended up with a 20 mile ride in about 1 hr 5 mins (would have to set up my own segment of Strava to confirm it), because it just felt right, then ended up with a bit of hill training which felt so good