Your ride today....

[Shearwater Missile]

Yesterday's, pottering 65 mile or so back home from Grinton was via The Stang and Whorlton.
It turns out Eggleston actually has an Abbey which happens to be at an 8 mile southish offset

A lovely part of the country, where we have holidayed many times, near Whorlton. I dare say that the traffic through Barnard Castle is just as bad ?

 

[ianrauk]

So, last night's and this morning's cycling shenanigans.
Over the past few years. The London lockdown ride has grown massively since it first started, Run once a year, 2026 attracted over 300 riders including a good few members of this forum. But it's not me as I'm not really keen on mass group riding, especially in London. So a few of us decided to do our version.
Basically it's a 100 mile ride around London taking the shape of the COVID virus.
So myself Ross, Mark, Rob, Dan, Geoff, Adie, Dan and John met at Victoria station at 9pm Friday night and set off in very warm temperatures.
It was an enjoyable ride, helped by the fab warm weather and the great company, but not helped by the very slow going higgledy piggledy route. But it is what it is and it's the nature of the ride. Not lending itself to any real speed. But we got it done, arriving back at Victoria Station at 8am for brekkie and beers before trains home.
So scores on the doors
A tad over 100 miles for the ride and including Fridays 22 mile round commute meant I'm just three more rides away from the Eddington # of 120.
Imperial Century Ride Month #188
Imperial Century Ride #368
I was back home just after 10am, had a shower, a cuppa and a bit of a doze. Now kicking back watching the tour.

 

[sevenfourate]

So, last night's and this morning's cycling shenanigans.
Over the past few years. The London lockdown ride has grown massively since it first started, Run once a year, 2026 attracted over 300 riders including a good few members of this forum. But it's not me as I'm not really keen on mass group riding, especially in London. So a few of us decided to do our version.
Basically it's a 100 mile ride around London taking the shape of the COVID virus.
So myself Ross, Mark, Rob, Dan, Geoff, Adie, Dan and John met at Victoria station at 9pm Friday night and set off in very warm temperatures.
It was an enjoyable ride, helped by the fab warm weather and the great company, but not helped by the very slow going higgledy piggledy route. But it is what it is and it's the nature of the ride. Not lending itself to any real speed. But we got it done, arriving back at Victoria Station at 8am for brekkie and beers before trains home.
So scores on the doors
A tad over 100 miles for the ride and including Fridays 22 mile round commute meant I'm just three more rides away from the Eddington # of 120.
Imperial Century Ride Month #188
Imperial Century Ride #368
I was back home just after 10am, had a shower, a cuppa and a bit of a doze. Now kicking back watching the tour.
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Great ride, fabulous pics. I envy you for this. Always looked good fun - and I MUST do this sometime. Jealous !!!

 

[albion]

A lovely part of the country, where we have holidayed many times, near Whorlton. I dare say that the traffic through Barnard Castle is just as bad ?

Barnard Castle compares well to horrific Yarm.
Depends on the route, there not been that much traffic via Whorlton on towards the traffic free route north.
Whorlton suspension bridge is meant to reopen soon. Of some similarity, Union Bridge on the borders is magnificent.

 

[ianrauk]

Great ride, fabulous pics. I envy you for this. Always looked good fun - and I MUST do this sometime. Jealous !!!

It's is a great ride, no doubt. So put your name down for next year.

 

[fossyant]

Just a quick 25 mile of gravel and tarmac. Out before 8am, but it started warming up around 9am so didn't stop for a coffee. After yesterday's dehydration, and an early bed, I was raring to go this morning. Blooming boiling cleaning the bike off by 10am. Phew...

 

[HLaB]

A slight difference to my regular Saturday ride today. Only one bloke from the East Northamptonshire villages was out and he had to head back after the cafe with 🥂 stop. My other mate needed to get back to take his kid to choir practice so opted for a short route back and a pub nearer to his house in the centre of town. To tell the truth I prefer the longer route and stopping at a pub in a village but given it was his birthday I went with it. The only thing when he wanted to weave along the twisty and narrow cyclepaths, I insisted we stayed on road. Going a really slow pace on a bumpy cycle path tends to cause my hands to go numb and I hate whizzing around peds to keep them warm. After the pub I left him to mess about on cycle paths to his place only about 1/2 mile away and headed out of town and took mostly a road route home except for a newer and less bumpy cyclepath which saves me about half a mile on the A15.

 

[Mburton1993]

Not the most accommodating day to test the full camping load out.

What with the return headwind and it being a few degrees above the Planck temperature this ended up being quite a knackering ride.

Still, I don't think anything fell off so that's a win.

And the new route was nice too.