Your ride today....

[sevenfourate]

40 easy miles to kick off a much needed and hard earned (300 hours at work in the last 30 days 😳) 3 day weekend.

Pace determined by my ‘injured’ riding buddy: but a scenic, lovely temperature ride on a route I’ve not done before.

All good 😎

 

[HLaB]

Just a short easy ride out to a hotel cafe to meet my mates. It also gave me a chance to test out if I got on with my new top tube bag. I also wanted to test a garmin compatible power pack but thanks to Evri, that never came in time 🙄

 

[Mburton1993]

To Marshbrook and back:

Oh the humidity! It didn't get mad hot but it stayed warm for most of the ride, only falling below 15c for the last hour and a bit.

Switched to Rubino 30c's this week, one of the 32s finally got a puncture last week after over 3360 miles. Good pair of tyres them Rubinos.

 

[VinSumRox]

Did the Samaritans Ride North 50mile sportif from Alford, nice route with big climb up Suie and very well organised. Sunny weather too!

 

[Elybazza61]

Yesterday (well Friday night/Saturday morning) was the Fridays Cambridge to Kings Lynn ride;

Group of around 27 (I think) led by lucretia my reflection aka Claire left Cambridge at Midnight to meander North through Cambridgeshire and Naarfolk for breakfast on the quay at Kings Lynn.

Out of Cambridge with less hassle than last year and up to Ely via Upware and Padney,then on to Christchurch hall for the diy stop via Welney.
Light winds and clears saw the group have a chilly ride up to Wisbech via Welney and Friday Bridge before heading to Lynn past Sutton Bridge to the ferry were a detachment was dropped off to get the ferry over the Great Ouse river while the rest of us looped around and over to the breakfast location.

After breakfast everyone either headed for the train or split to ride south or do a loop to Hunstanton.

I decided to head back South with Claire and three others(sorry can't remember your names!) but run out of steam at Downham Market and was lucky to catch the train as we got to the station.

Quality ride with great company and the biggest distance of the year so far of just under 152k.

At Cambridge Station.

Reach village.

On Barway road before the a road to Ely

Fairlight in front of Ely Cathedral.

Think there were five Fairlights in the group; also a Stayer a couple of Condors and Enigmas and a nice Moulton.

Group at Ely.

And in from the front.

At three holes.

More pics in a moment.

 

[Elybazza61]

As promised the rest of the pics;

Other side of Three holes with the bike in front of‎⁨ the Middle Level Main Drain.

Three holes again with the sun rise.

Should say that Three holes is the Junction of Middle Level(Which runs in to the sixteen foot drain that starts at Vermuydens(forty foot) drain near Chatteris,the other end joins the Great Ouse at the Wiggenhall sluice) and Popham's Eau(which runs in to the old course of the River Nene).

Hopefully this link will explain it better;

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River Nene.

Sutton Bridge.

Breakfast!

 

[geocycle]

Fabulous day for riding a bike! Warm and light cloud with no wind made things humid but very pleasant. The Dales beckoned and I headed eastward through Wray and Mewith Lane to Austwick. Two big groups were embarking on the Way of the Roses which uses the same route. The climbing started at Austwick to Stainforth where the big pull up the side of Penyghent began. I got to the top and was enjoying a banana stop when a dozen or more vintage tractors processed past, all very incongruous. I dodged sheep and potholes to Halton Gill and lovely Littondale. The pop up campsites were busy but not the roads of course. I left Littondale at Arncliffe and took the steep road that steps you up to the Malham Tarn plateau. The descent to Langcliffe was better than usual as it was dry and the rim brakes did the job. I had a late lunch in Settle and contemplated a train back west but I felt ok after a sausage roll and decided to ride home. 125 km with 1643 m of climbing.

Pictures are of Penyghent, the tractors, Littondale and Malham Tarn.

 

[HLaB]

A wee trip to the seaside 🌊 for me today.

 

[MadMalx]

Fabulous day for riding a bike! Warm and light cloud with no wind made things humid but very pleasant. The Dales beckoned and I headed eastward through Wray and Mewith Lane to Austwick. Two big groups were embarking on the Way of the Roses which uses the same route. The climbing started at Austwick to Stainforth where the big pull up the side of Penyghent began. I got to the top and was enjoying a banana stop when a dozen or more vintage tractors processed past, all very incongruous. I dodged sheep and potholes to Halton Gill and lovely Littondale. The pop up campsites were busy but not the roads of course. I left Littondale at Arncliffe and took the steep road that steps you up to the Malham Tarn plateau. The descent to Langcliffe was better than usual as it was dry and the rim brakes did the job. I had a late lunch in Settle and contemplated a train back west but I felt ok after a sausage roll and decided to ride home. 125 km with 1643 m of climbing.

Pictures are of Penyghent, the tractors, Littondale and Malham Tarn.

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All these on my doorstep since I moved up here two years ago. Love this area.

 

[sevenfourate]

A wee trip to the seaside 🌊 for me today.

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Wow ! Epic 🙏

 

[geocycle]

All these on my doorstep since I moved up here two years ago. Love this area.

It is indeed! I’m near the west coast so this is about my max for a there and back day ride with hills. I do use the train occasionally to give me access to the south central dales before heading for Skipton. It’s about as good as it gets for cycling although as a Yorkshireman I may be biased.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

One from Thursday the 21st:

A rather grey and cool morning had brightened up into a fairly nice afternoon so I took the chance to get out and enjoy it. I did think about doing a route with some hills but in the end decided that I fancied something flatter and faster, so got the Galaxy out and went off to have a bit of a blast round the longer version of my Acton Burnell route as I haven't done that for a while.

I generally like this route best going round it anti-clockwise as the roads just seem to flow better that way round. On this occasion though it might have been better doing it the other way round as the wind was a brisk north-westerly meaning I couldn't make the most of some of the fastest bits. The bike did go pretty well though and I was able to keep a decent speed up for longer than I thought. The traffic was pretty light too which is always a help. Flag of the day at Cound was that of Ukraine.

23.6 miles at 16.5 mph average. Strava says 1025 feet of climbing. I really enjoyed that and although I should have been getting some more hill training in for the Coast to Coast I'm doing with Gav, it was nice to just go out and push myself on a flatter route.

No photos this time.

 

[wafter]

No commute today as I was forced to be a car w*nker, however a horrible day at work drove me out on the bike afterwards for some respite.

Pretty standard fare - a few charity shops looking for furniture (saw a nice solid oak bureau that sadly wont' fit), bought some strawberries, managed 1.5 dips in the park (rings day yesterday so still recovering from that) and did a half-arsed dead hang on the football goals so as not to disturb the frighteningly agile monkey-child sat atop / all over the bars..

Quite a lot of dangling bramble canes were encountered on the tow path and since my mum's reclaimed her secateurs I made do with my pocket knife; with an unprecedented number of people offering thanks as I waited for them to pass on bikes / foot (which was very much appreciated) before resuming the butchery.

Despite the day's earlier events all seemed well with the world until the last leg home; approaching some tosser reversing out of his drive as he waited patiently for the two cars in front to pass before backing out in front of me. Maybe he misjudged my speed, maybe he didn't see me, maybe he didn't care... but I wasn't going to brake and couldn't go round the outside of him so nipped up the (empty, well-sighted) kerb and down the other side in front of him. I took the primary for maybe the next half mile and he remained perhaps sheepishly well-behind me until I turned off.

Also had a glimmer of hope that I might have sorted the ghost-shifting issue on the Fuji, however I've thought this a thousand times before; ultimately to my disappointment.

 

[HLaB]

Another flat fen ride for me today, I prefer the undulating roads west but the Yaxley group gravitate to flatter areas. To get a decent workout I sat on the front for a fair bit.

 

[geocycle]

On holiday this week and of course the weather has changed. Fortunately a weather window presented this morning and I got out to the edge of Bowland. Lovely ride toward the Trough with stops to admire the heather and spot the grouse. Definitely turning purple now, the heather that is. After a short shower I doubled back up and over Jubilee Tower then climbed Littledale before home before the rain set in for the afternoon. 57 km with 755 m of climbing.

Pictures of Bowland and Littledale.