itboffin
Legendary Member
- Location
- Marlborough, Windshire
Dry but 40 mph winds made for an interesting ride, the last dry day for quite some time
Your ride today....
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HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
With the forecast one of my mates asked yesterday if the ride was going ahead and should he prep his winter bike, so I thought I should too.
I needn't have bothered, we modified and shortened our usual route for a dry ride. We were back 30 or 40minutes before the roads even started to see moisture and it still doesn't look torrential out there!
For tomorrow's ride I think I'll just put my winter wheels on the good bike.
I needn't have bothered, we modified and shortened our usual route for a dry ride. We were back 30 or 40minutes before the roads even started to see moisture and it still doesn't look torrential out there!
For tomorrow's ride I think I'll just put my winter wheels on the good bike.
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Bringing the shopping home: first view of my village.
Enough fresh food on the bike for the week and enough dried / tinned food for a bit longer, Also a fairly solid headwind on the way back, so no speed records were set on the way home.
On the other hand, the expected torrential rain didn't materialise. So I'm calling that a win.
Elybazza61
Legendary Member
Zwift ride yesterday and another different endurance workout.
Also did a short spin down for 10 minutes.
HRM behaved itself so will keep an eye on the battery life as it seems to be getting through them at the moment.
Also did a short spin down for 10 minutes.
HRM behaved itself so will keep an eye on the battery life as it seems to be getting through them at the moment.
A very welcome utility jaunt having returned to the city after a tiring and stressful few days at home.
As usual the rain radar made all the difference in giving reasonable confidence it would remain dry once the day’s rain had drifted past.
Once out the city felt like some unfamiliar parallel universe; ever-changing with the accelerating colour shift in the leaves, remnants of the wind, warm and comforting aroma of decay all under dramatic stormy skies.
The overwhelming sense was of quietness both inside and outside my head thanks to the weather likely keeping people in and my new-found solitude.
First stop was the local bike co-op to drop off some tyres for recycling along with some brake hoods bought in error, then on to the park for a reasonable session on the rings – the weather keeping the kids away today, barring one lad and his very friendly Spaniel...
Today’s excursion was rounded off by a tour of the supermarkets; my prevailing sense of calm being shattered upon finding that the large field behind Waitrose now looks like a scene from the Somme – trees butchered, ground carved up no doubt awaiting sacrifice to some god-awful development
Home after a reasonable fruitful shop, glad to be in, still struggling with the clocks changing and not looking forward to tomorrow’s inevitably chilly / possibly wet commute.
As usual the rain radar made all the difference in giving reasonable confidence it would remain dry once the day’s rain had drifted past.
Once out the city felt like some unfamiliar parallel universe; ever-changing with the accelerating colour shift in the leaves, remnants of the wind, warm and comforting aroma of decay all under dramatic stormy skies.
The overwhelming sense was of quietness both inside and outside my head thanks to the weather likely keeping people in and my new-found solitude.
First stop was the local bike co-op to drop off some tyres for recycling along with some brake hoods bought in error, then on to the park for a reasonable session on the rings – the weather keeping the kids away today, barring one lad and his very friendly Spaniel...
Today’s excursion was rounded off by a tour of the supermarkets; my prevailing sense of calm being shattered upon finding that the large field behind Waitrose now looks like a scene from the Somme – trees butchered, ground carved up no doubt awaiting sacrifice to some god-awful development
Home after a reasonable fruitful shop, glad to be in, still struggling with the clocks changing and not looking forward to tomorrow’s inevitably chilly / possibly wet commute.
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Donger
A.K.A. Buster Nuvverbike (componentry destroyer)
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
A bit breezy in Gloucestershire today, but nice and sunny. Out in my shorts again, but with a long-sleeved base layer under my jersey. What a lovely ride. 22.6 miles. I rode out via Frampton to the banks of the Severn at Priding, near Framilode ....
.... parking my bike for a moment on top of the dyke wall:
On the way back I couldn't help noticing the sun catching the church at Longney:
That wall has been braced like that for at least 10 years now and still hasn't quite fallen down. I pulled over by the riverbank at Stonebench to let a crewcab past and took the chance to get a photo of the houseboat that I usually just breeze past. You can tell by the car parking that they are expecting some high water levels:
Just before I got home I was forced to stop for a moment as the bridge on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal was swung open. They are busy dredging Gloucester Docks at the moment, and an empty dredger's barge was being taken back in to Gloucester .... just about to pass my house:
A lovely little opportunist ride out. If I'm going to hit my minimum mileage target this year, that's 22.6 miles I won't be having to do in late December to catch up.
.... parking my bike for a moment on top of the dyke wall:
On the way back I couldn't help noticing the sun catching the church at Longney:
That wall has been braced like that for at least 10 years now and still hasn't quite fallen down. I pulled over by the riverbank at Stonebench to let a crewcab past and took the chance to get a photo of the houseboat that I usually just breeze past. You can tell by the car parking that they are expecting some high water levels:
Just before I got home I was forced to stop for a moment as the bridge on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal was swung open. They are busy dredging Gloucester Docks at the moment, and an empty dredger's barge was being taken back in to Gloucester .... just about to pass my house:
A lovely little opportunist ride out. If I'm going to hit my minimum mileage target this year, that's 22.6 miles I won't be having to do in late December to catch up.
Spartak
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- Location
- Bristolian
Train to Cardiff today with Mrs S . & Daughter no. 2.
Whilst they went shopping I had a poodle around Cardiff Bay and along the Taff Trail on my Folder.
Couple of heavy showers had me seeking shelter but not a bad days weather.
Whilst they went shopping I had a poodle around Cardiff Bay and along the Taff Trail on my Folder.
Couple of heavy showers had me seeking shelter but not a bad days weather.
