Your ride today.... (part 1)

[mr Mag00]

1 hour yesterdya nothing today, too wet and cold for me, guess im not serious enough

 

[bobg]

Just back from 53 mile run on my fixed in near freezing weather, with damp roads and one rain shower. Ages to thaw out in the HOT shower at home. Felt good I did it though. Can I add on another virtual 25 miles due to the cold?

Respect Crock 25 this morning 4 layers, into a head wind ... glad when I'd finished.. bits still numb

 

[BigonaBianchi]

..wimped out on the sofa again...to wet cold and dark and horrid....besides my lights are broken....

 

[BigonaBianchi]

..but no wimping out today! Just did the usual 40km in freezing horrid stromg winds, driving rain and full winter waterproof kit including balaclava!

...by gum...put t'lead in me pencil lad aye!

 

[HLaB]

Really wet and mucky but really enjoyable club ride (I went out with the erc 9:40 again) according to my gps for the 1st three quarters (30mls) we were averaging 19.5mph until the warm down.

PS After cleaning the bike I looked in the mirror before jumping in the bath, I looked like a black & white minstrel or something.

 

[JtB]

I really enjoyed my ride yesterday, it was cold and raining all the way but there was no ice and little wind
Today though I've got a stinking cold

 

[djb1971]

Had a lovely 3hr moonlit ride this morning. Out at 5.30am and had the roads to myself. There was some very deep standing water on the country lanes I went down, one puddle on a bend went over the front hub and bb which soaked me because I had to keep turning the pedals to get back onto dry land Took ages to clean the bike when I got back

Nice to get out but it's better sitting here with a brew and a bit of warmth

 

[arranandy]

70 cold miles this morning. Roads were pretty quiet. Met another guy on a Ribble like mine and we cycled along together for about 25 miles before we went our separate ways. Bike took a bit of cleaning when I got home

 

[Young Un]

Cyclo-cross for me today. i did rubbish again, but at least it was better than last time.

Steve

 

[gbb]

Completely lethargic today
Set out for a reasonable few miles, then reality set in ...so a short ride today
Funny how cycling (or anything exercise related) finds any weakness in you

 

[longers]

i did rubbish again, but at least it was better than last time.

If you keep getting better then that's good innit?

No pedalling here but lots of cleaning and fettling. Got one bike put away for winter and another nearly ready for the road before it went dark.

It was a good job the back wheel was already dead as I had to cable tie the chain whip to the spokes (after putting a power link in it to fix that!) and use a gurt big pipe on the spanner to get the locking nut jobby off the cassette.
I probably put it on a bit too tight.

And I popped two tubes while fitting tyres.

 

[Baggy]

Strangely enough we could not resist the lure of cycling out to the nearby farm shop and ice cream parlour
It's only 4 miles away, so, fortified by bacon butties we trundled on for another 18 miles. Unfortunately this meant going up a long hill which contained a chevron towards the top bit
Beautiful weather, but it was pretty nippy!

 

[craigwend]

10 miles - with the trailer(& jr #3), for resistance training, looking at all the flooded fields and overflowing ditches/dykes/culverts/drains/etc

 

[colly]

Set out to do somewhere around 50 miles but after an off on some ice and yet ANOTHER puncture I decided to call and see a mate in Otley. So about 35 in all.

www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=2936

If you happen to be the bloke who called to me telling me there was ice on a corner and to watch out............I did hear you but didn't quite pick up on what you meant. Hence the fall. After hitting the ground and sitting up to nurse my sore elbow. I slid gracefully down the road on my arse into the kerb. That was as slippery as it gets.

Thanks anyway.

 

[Christopher]

applies to Sunday:
rode the newly-serviced Yates tourer from Kendal up to Kentmere, intending to look for the glove I lost last week... and found it! Some nice person had found it & left it on a post outside a house in Green Quater (little hamlet E of Kentmere) . So I wrote a thank-you note, wrapped a tenner in it & put it through the letterbox of the nearest house.

After that locked the bike up and went for a look round the old slate mines near the reservoir. Lethal they are: either flooded, barred or steep slippery shafts. Saw some people fooling around on the spillway at the reservoir, then saw the Kendal Mountain Rescue ambulance going up there about a half hour later
then a lovely ride down the dale and back to Kendal for the train, nice not to hurry and the tourer flew after riding fixed week in, week out. BTW Kendal still sucks!

on the commute today on the way in, did a two-wheeled slide on ice about 50 years from the office but didn't fall, luckily