Your ride today....

[guitarpete247]

I had a poor cycling year last year. Every half term off I was childminding granddaughters or weather was s@#t. Got new bike (Boardman Road Sport) in December but only been out twice. Dec 31st did 12 miles at 11.7 mph. Today extends route to 16 miles at 12.1 mph so getting a little fitter. Won't get chance to go out again till next weekend so hoping for good weather.
When we get back to lighter nights I can go out after work .

 

[Stonechat]

I had a poor cycling year last year. Every half term off I was childminding granddaughters or weather was s@#t. Got new bike (Boardman Road Sport) in December but only been out twice. Dec 31st did 12 miles at 11.7 mph. Today extends route to 16 miles at 12.1 mph so getting a little fitter. Won't get chance to go out again till next weekend so hoping for good weather.
When we get back to lighter nights I can go out after work .

You can get lights!

 

[Racing roadkill]

119 of your English Imperial miles today. Another weekend, another ride to Whitstable for brekkie. In almost balmy temperatures. Joined by @martint235 and the legendary @zigzag . Even though the day remained dry. the roads were mucky after last nights/last weeks rains.. very mucky. The bike was muckier then a mucky thing from planet muck.... but no more...it's now clean ready for tomorrow commuting duties (The normal commuter is in the LBS getting some tender, loving care). Martin looked like he had rolled around in a mud bath......the mucky pup.
A couple of punctures and a faulty/broken CO2 pump meant some comedy moments...CO2 is damn cold when it let's go in your hand....

So Century # 3 for the year, 169 over all.
Martin wanted the speed to be kept under 15avg... Oooops

Sorry.. no pics today...

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It was uncommonly warm down here as well today. I ended my ride with the jacket in my bag, and a short sleeved jersey. Fair play for another imperial.

 

[guitarpete247]

You can get lights!

I could and I have but if I go any further than a few hundred yards I'm onto pitch black country lanes and I'd need to invest in some so that I can see as well as being seen.

 

[rideswithmoobs]

119 of your English Imperial miles today.

So Century # 3 for the year, 169 over all.
Martin wanted the speed to be kept under 15avg... Oooops

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Cocking hell Ian. My first goal is 100 miles in a week.... Maybe one day I will hit your sort of miles

Warm here too today. Endura 3/4 shorts and short sleeve top with montane rain coat over top. Just went for a quick loop to keep the miles in and legs turning. 11.7 miles in 49 mins at a 14.3 average. No pics or scenery just up to nether kellet, lavericks, Halton and back home. Could feel little stiffness in thighs from 41 miler but soon went.

 

[Old jon]

This warm thingy seems to be all over the country, got it here as well. Alter clobber to suit and got it about right, but all that thought did not go into a route. I think I have worn a rut into the road on the ride I did today, but I do enjoy it. The Holbeck wander started 29.4 miles of ride, canal towpath, Viaduct Road and Cardigan Road to Headingley, in Bramhope turn right onto Creskeld Lane, I will crack that descent some time soon,



I posted a similar clip last year, but that was in the very wet . . .

Arthington, with a sight of the viaduct, Pool with the silly mini roundabout, Otley and sandwich stop and then home via the main drag. I did have a foolish thought of trying the old Chevin, but 150 yards of wishing for a great granny ring put paid to that one. Some day.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Today i did my second ride in a row wearing shorts,and fingerless gloves it was that mild! I've done two 35 milers on the trot so i'm happy,though also sad to find my pocket rocket had fallen out my back pocket. I went round the route again but someone must've picked it up. They've got a good pocket jacket there, i hope they make good use of it!

 

[Racing roadkill]

A two parter today

https://www.strava.com/activities/478132902
This for 20 odd miles,

https://www.strava.com/activities/478279188

This for 7 miles, I'm now only 3 Km's shy of the Mega meters for the month, so tomorrow morning's ride home will do it.

 

[Jon George]

As a writer I am used to an insular existence, but being forced to wait inside for an gas engineer to turn up any time in a four-hour window was excruciating - especially as I used some of first hour to fettle with Patsy #2 The CX and provide her with new brake pads (Swisstop fore and a lesser value pair for aft) and a general clean. This may well have been necessary maintenance, but at the end of it I was gagging to get outside and ride. I even got my cycling clobber and drink ready.
Engineer eventually turned up with half-an-hour to spare and solved the problem, but I noticed her glancing at Patsy #1 The Carbon and Patsy #2 The CX and told her, as I kind of hustled her out of the house, that I going out for a ride as soon as she'd gone.
"If I weren't doing this, I'd be out on my roadie, too."
Turns out she is a member of Ipswich Bicycle Club and promised to say hello if she ever sees me on a ride.
Buoyed up after meeting another cycling nut, I went out and found that pumping up the tyres to their pre-winter levels made a huge difference to the speed of my ride out to Falkenham. Enjoyed the ease of cycling so much I forgot to take any pics.

 

[IBarrett]

Not a great day for me.
A rear wheel puncture this morning. Punctures are driving me bloody mad. That's the 3rd one this year and the it was quite a big one so the tube has gone in the bin. I have no idea what caused it, though there is a cut in the tyre.

Coming home tonight I was T boned off my bike by someone pulling out of a side road and obviously didn't see me.
I'm fine but my back wheel is buckled at the very least so I'll be late into the office on Wed to drop the bike off at the local bike shop.

Dinner time. I'll check Mrs B knows the heimlich manoeuvre before I start !

 

[Jon George]

Not a great day for me.

Have a better one, tomorrow! Glad you're okay.

 

[Oldbloke]

Most enjoyable ride of the year today;dry roads and a sunny 14c. 51 kms on the hilly back roads to Fougeres and back.

Average speed slowly improving, clean dry roads and light winds a great help.

No ride until Thursday if the weather forecast for next 2 days proves right!

 

[Katherine]

Have a better one, tomorrow! Glad you're okay.

Ditto

 

[Donger]

Very wet, very windy. Uurgh! At least I found out that my waterproof overtrousers really are waterproof.

Had to nip down to my LBS for a new inner tube and to ask him to tweak my rear brake. Cantilever adjustment driving me nuts..... must be some kind of dark art to it. Decided to add a few extra miles on the way back through the estates to take it up over 10 miles. (Trying to keep my average ride length above last year's 33 miles per ride and keeping myself within touching distance of my first ever 300 mile month ... should get that done on next Sunday's club ride).

Did a spiralling tour of the Kingsway estate, which is getting bigger by the day. Had no idea where I was until I stumbled upon @maltloaf's house. 10.6 very wet miles.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

A trip to Middleton Hall this morning, 50 miles covered. The original plan was a ride over to Desford and Tropical Birdland, but when I got up and seen the tree's being blown horizontal and the forecast rain for the afternoon I decided a shorter more direct route was called for and decided on Middleton Hall. It wasn't a bad ride out, I was flying in front of a tail wind most of the way, riding back was a bit interesting, most of the way it was a slow slog into the wind with side gusts that were pushing the front of the bike around, and when I got back in the city with 45 miles on the clock I decided on the scenic route across Coventry to bring the miles up to a nice even number. In the end not a bad morning on the bike.