Your ride today....

[CharlieB]

Late reporting yesterday's adventure.
The second annual RideChartridge sportive, starting and finishing, as the name implies, in, allegedly, England's longest village, Chartridge.
A 75 mile loop around the Chilterns - Chesham, Aldbury, Cheddington, Mentmore, Wing, Cublington, Whitchurch, the Winchendons, Cuddington, Whiteleaf Hill, Great Kingshill, Hughenden, Speen, Kop Hill, Great Missenden and Chartridge.
A very tough day out with temperature in the high 20s from 10 o'clock onwards and a 15mph head wind on the southward leg. A total of 1563m of climbing, 850 of which were in the last 30 miles. I walked up most of Kop Hill, sad to say. I'd never been up it before, and frankly, with the Garmin showing 28 degrees, I just couldn't be @r5ed to try.
Still, a great day out with the woods carpeted in bluebells, and the fields in bright yellow rapeseed, with some great views across the Vale of Aylesbury.
74.76 miles at 15.1 mph avg.

 

[biggs682]

Just another nice pre work ride this morning bedding in a new cassette on the Ian May , hoping to do a few miles on this one this year .

Been a good weekend with over 80 miles lets hope it carries on all week

 

[Freds Dad]

I took part in the Evans Hoy 100 yesterday. It was a great event with a choice of routes either 100k or 100m. I did the 100k as I would still be riding today if I'd attempted the 100m!
I also got to meet Sir Chris Hoy and have a brief chat which topped off a great day. He did the 100k ride, set off 1 hour after me, finished before me and was meeting and greeting folk when I got back looking refreshed and relaxed. It just goes to show you how fit professional athletes are.

https://www.strava.com/activities/570285830

 

[Elybazza61]

Been a bit slack with posting over the last few days,the gardening and decorating has been taking up the time.

Anyway a few rides to report since the last post.

Last Thursday was a two part 100k day(not in one go so not for the challenge);

Nice longer commute in spent in the big ring with a deserved(well I thought so!) coffee and sourdough toast with jam at the Espresso Library

https://www.strava.com/activities/565906085

Return home was via a loop around Six Mile Bottom and the slog up the Isleham to Prickwillow road were unfortunately cramp got the better of me.

https://www.strava.com/activities/566489309

Saturday's club run was spent with the easy group on a glorious day;

https://www.strava.com/activities/568165678

Sunday was again a lovely day so an early(ish) ride with the better half before it got too hot!

https://www.strava.com/activities/569131651

And a usual A10/cycle path commute this morning,loaded up with the Alpkit bag with clothes and food for the week ahead;

https://www.strava.com/activities/570287051

Some nice rides in glorious weather,this cycling lark ain't half bad sometimes.

Oh and apologies for the above posts I've missed,will try and catch up with the likes if I can

 

[Jody]

We have had some great weather the last few days so have been out a few times exploring but also putting in some miles on the Trans Penine Trail. It's times when the weather is like this I love living in Sheffield. I don't normally take many pictures when I'm riding, but when you do it reminds you what we have on our doorstep. There are also a couple of pics I didn't post from when we went out into the peak district a couple of weeks ago.

 

[john59]

Tried to take advantage of the nice weather before it changes tomorrow. It was overcast for the first hour but the sun shone for the last two, lovely! No sign, thank goodness, of any pins on the cycle path.
Chester cycle path pins.

Ride.

View: https://www.strava.com/activities/570418904/embed/f1ebe8527a0d959f560fa2243d5169341be13659


The things you see on the 'Greenway cycle path'.

 

[postman]

A lunch ride to Otley.It's been a funny day.I was going to try and build on the wonderful pie ride 33miles Skipton,back by train.i was up early normal cycling breakfast porridge and toast.Got things ready but i felt tired and weird.So at 9-20 i went back to bed for an hour,i kid you not.So now i have to get the car out to pick Mrs Postman up from work.So i decided lunch in Otley.Weather wonderful bit of a wind,but whoa no energy aching knees.Well best i can say is i did 23 miles,and i have no idea but i wiped off the ride details of Cyclers on my phone.Mind you i was taking a rest and i must have hit the wrong button.I wanted to see how rubbish i was.Well onward and upward next week will be better,no more space for any more rides this week.

 

[derrick]

Made the most of today's lovely weather, Nice loop of parts of Epping and Hertford, Not many other cyclist's out, most of the roads were pretty quiet. 67 miles in the sun, so nice to be riding the country lanes on a Monday, good start to the week.
https://www.strava.com/activities/570614938#kudos

 

[mrandmrspoves]

Saturday was time for the 2nd Annual King's Lynn & West Norfolk Bicycle Users Group Yellow Welly Ride.
The ride from King's Lynn to Old Hunstanton Lifeboat Station in aid of the RNLI is about 23 miles each way.....and most riders wear Wellies on the outbound leg of the ride.
Wellies are not ideal cycling footwear - especially when the temperature hits 23°c!
I was the only recumbent rider in the group so it was nice to meet a fellow bent trike on the outward leg.

 

[mybike]

View attachment 127901 View attachment 127903 Saturday was time for the 2nd Annual King's Lynn & West Norfolk Bicycle Users Group Yellow Welly Ride.
The ride from King's Lynn to Old Hunstanton Lifeboat Station in aid of the RNLI is about 23 miles each way.....and most riders wear Wellies on the outbound leg of the ride.
Wellies are not ideal cycling footwear - especially when the temperature hits 23°c!
I was the only recumbent rider in the group so it was nice to meet a fellow bent trike on the outward leg.

I'm guessing you didn't take the main road. Since I'll be staying in the area in June (for the first time in 50+ years), I'd appreciate knowing what the route was.

 

[Donger]

It's still way short of where I was.

There have been a few inspirational people posting on this thread from time to time, and you are now most definitely one of them. Keep on trying, and keep on letting us know how you are getting on, Fossy. Every ride is a victory.

 

[mrandmrspoves]

I'm guessing you didn't take the main road. Since I'll be staying in the area in June (for the first time in 50+ years), I'd appreciate knowing what the route was.

We rode from KL via North Wootton, Castle Rising, Babingley, Sandringham, Dersingham, Snettisham, Sedgeford, Ringstead, Old Hunstanton.
From KL the cycle path takes you most of the way to Sandringham.
If you want any other info just drop me a pm.

 

[Dark46]

No club ride for me this weekend as we have parted company. I'm not going into details.

So my ride was a lonely 10 miles in the creeky Boardman as the bottom bracket needs replacing. So I still made my weekly target.

The ride included a pitstop at @Frazzle s place chewing over the repercusions from my split with the club.

 

[Elybazza61]

Damp commute in today for the Strava ride to work day and pretty quiet along Twenty Pence road which was nice;still busy-ish along the river though but a good ride in none the less.

https://www.strava.com/activities/571255116

 

[Elybazza61]

Doesn't look native to me.

Looks like a Trachycarpus fortunei;native to China although extreemly hardy here.

Couple in our garden behind the bike;

And obe from last February;