Your ride today....

[Lightning CycleQueen]

I live in the UK and its starting to rain alot more and starting to get colder. I would love to have a few more trips on the bike like you guys but it doesnt look the best. I'm thinking of packing it away for winter

 

[sevenfourate]

I live in the UK and its starting to rain alot more and starting to get colder. I would love to have a few more trips on the bike like you guys but it doesnt look the best. I'm thinking of packing it away for winter

I think ‘most’ of us here are in the UK. Pretty sure the majority are……

 

[FrankCrank]

Another utility run yesterday; usual fare - a bit of food, a reasonable session on the rings (felt a bit guilty for not offering an inquisitive girl a go as I think she was too shy to ask and I wanted to get home). Managed to spend nearly seven quid on a pint in the Lamb and Flag, which wasn't welcome

Did a little bit of end-of-season snipping, to the delight of a passing oriental woman who'd apparently been accosted further down the tow path by brambles and whose gratitude and compliments were very much appreciated

The city was very odd yesterday - conspicuously very quiet when I went in early afternoon but ridiculously busy later on... possibly not surprising post-five except that I reckon a lot of the apparently suicidal pedestrians encountered were tourists and students.

Glorious autumn colours everywhere - very much trying to make the most of this last hurrah before subjected to the full misery of the winter.

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Good to see these familiar sights. I often walk past those boathouses on my meanders in along the river, and often cut through that lane featuring the Lamb & Flag, on my way to visit the Natural History/Pitt Rivers museums. Seven quid a pint you say, think the Four Candles would suit my wallet better

 

[wafter]

Good to see these familiar sights. I often walk past those boathouses on my meanders in along the river, and often cut through that lane featuring the Lamb & Flag, on my way to visit the Natural History/Pitt Rivers museums. Seven quid a pint you say, think the Four Candles would suit my wallet better

Yes; I'm glad to say that the novelty of living somewhere so nice is yet to wear off and I remain regularly thankful that I'm lucky enough to be here.

Since I stopped drinking alcohol the costs of pub visits are thankfully a lot more manageable; however the asking for the odd pint of Guinness zero is conspicuously, ridiculously out of step with the rest of my finances..

 

[Elybazza61]

Well so much for the mist lifting at 9:00 this morning so hung around until 10:30 to go out and the mist was still hanging in.

Left anyway with a multitude of lights and a nice bright orange Albion light jacket on, headed east with a plan of getting over the A14 for some rolling hills in West Suffolk before turning back to make a figure of eight route.

Mist was stubborn to lift and was still pretty thick on the road down to Isleham;

Through the village and out to Chippenham over the A11 to Kennett and then over the A14 to Moulton where the sun finally had broken through so stopped for a snack and switched the Albion jacket for a gilet.
Got a pic of a cool 'ratty' looking 2CV in the distance and while checking the pic missed getting one of an immaculate 'slab' GSXR 750 burbling past.

Also some smart thatched roof adornments.

Onward down to Dalham and a pic by a bench.

Then to Barrow and another stop for a pic of a bell tower that was part of a Sally army church and 'barracks',apparently was going to be demolished back in the day but was kept as it housed an air raid siren.

Some info about it here

https://kevintangodance.wordpress.com/tag/clock-towers/

Was now time to head back North so once again over the A14 past Risby and up through Cavenham and Tuddenham after which I missed a turning and ended up at the A11 so backtracked and took the back road to Herringswell and back through Kennett
and Chippenham before another stop at the garage in Fordham for a quick re-fuel

Out of Fordham, over the Soham roundabout for the long road through Wicken and up to Stretham; over the roundabout there ,through Wilburton and a quick stop again at Haddenham for another pic and last snack by the .

View on the road between Stretham and Haddenham.

Bench at Haddenham Baptist Church.

Last leg to Ely via the usual Grunty Fen roads and a short city loop to make up the 100k at just under 4 hours moving time and just under 26km/h.

Was a bit of a slow start and wasn't really feeling it for a while but kept going and pleased to get another 100 this month and that's 700k for the month as well. Just got to try and keep things ticking over through the winter now.

 

[Donger]

I live in the UK and its starting to rain alot more and starting to get colder. I would love to have a few more trips on the bike like you guys but it doesnt look the best. I'm thinking of packing it away for winter

Sign yourself up for one of the monthly challenges next year and it'll force you to go out when otherwise you might not fancy it. It keeps you fit over the colder months and I've never regretted doing it. Give it a go .... you'll either end up thanking me for the suggestion or hating me for it!

 

[sevenfourate]

Needed to somehow travel a mile or two (?) to do a chore. Took the bike - told the Wife I wouldn’t be long. Spun it out to 11 extremely gentile miles; broken up by a stop to catch up with the guys at the LBS.

Absolutely gorgeous out. And as my Strava title says……

 

[HLaB]

My usual Saturday crowd were away, except for a mate who said he'd meet me at the cafe. So I did a solo interval session on my own to the cafe in the fog. It was supposed to lift at 9am then turn sunny and warm like its been all week when I've been at work. I got back after 1pm and it was still foggy and I don't think it properly lifted until it was turning dark!

Needless to say my video camera never captured any good shots but at least my 3 rear lights were good with the drivers. I never encountered any negative interactions.

 

[HLaB]

Needed to somehow travel a mile or two (?) to do a chore. Took the bike - told the Wife I wouldn’t be long. Spun it out to 11 extremely gentile miles; broken up by a stop to catch up with the guys at the LBS.

Absolutely gorgeous out. And as my Strava title says……

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So that's where the sun was just west of you I don't think the fog fully lifted and the clouds parted until it was turning dark 😂

 

[sevenfourate]

So that's where the sun was just west of you I don't think the fog fully lifted and the clouds parted until it was turning dark 😂

Sorry mate. Please accept my apologies. But it’s true. When ordering today’s weather - I saw the opportunity to order ALL of the Sun: I thought I’d try my luck and see if anyone else noticed 🤣

Was truly gorgeous (For Oct ?) here. I probably could have ridden in a t-shirt. I took a 10-second video of riding back in along the sea-front. Here’s a screen shot from that.

In saying all that - the forecast is thick Fog most of the Morning tomorrow. And I’m out riding early. What goes around comes around….

Safe ride yourself; if you’re out tomorrow too 👍

 

[VinSumRox]

Halloween Ride.