itboffin
Legendary Member
- Location
- Marlborough, Windshire
Dry but 40 mph winds made for an interesting ride, the last dry day for quite some time
Your ride today....
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HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
With the forecast one of my mates asked yesterday if the ride was going ahead and should he prep his winter bike, so I thought I should too.
I needn't have bothered, we modified and shortened our usual route for a dry ride. We were back 30 or 40minutes before the roads even started to see moisture and it still doesn't look torrential out there!
For tomorrow's ride I think I'll just put my winter wheels on the good bike.
I needn't have bothered, we modified and shortened our usual route for a dry ride. We were back 30 or 40minutes before the roads even started to see moisture and it still doesn't look torrential out there!
For tomorrow's ride I think I'll just put my winter wheels on the good bike.
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Bringing the shopping home: first view of my village.
Enough fresh food on the bike for the week and enough dried / tinned food for a bit longer, Also a fairly solid headwind on the way back, so no speed records were set on the way home.
On the other hand, the expected torrential rain didn't materialise. So I'm calling that a win.
Elybazza61
Legendary Member
Zwift ride yesterday and another different endurance workout.
Also did a short spin down for 10 minutes.
HRM behaved itself so will keep an eye on the battery life as it seems to be getting through them at the moment.
Also did a short spin down for 10 minutes.
HRM behaved itself so will keep an eye on the battery life as it seems to be getting through them at the moment.
A very welcome utility jaunt having returned to the city after a tiring and stressful few days at home.
As usual the rain radar made all the difference in giving reasonable confidence it would remain dry once the day’s rain had drifted past.
Once out the city felt like some unfamiliar parallel universe; ever-changing with the accelerating colour shift in the leaves, remnants of the wind, warm and comforting aroma of decay all under dramatic stormy skies.
The overwhelming sense was of quietness both inside and outside my head thanks to the weather likely keeping people in and my new-found solitude.
First stop was the local bike co-op to drop off some tyres for recycling along with some brake hoods bought in error, then on to the park for a reasonable session on the rings – the weather keeping the kids away today, barring one lad and his very friendly Spaniel...
Today’s excursion was rounded off by a tour of the supermarkets; my prevailing sense of calm being shattered upon finding that the large field behind Waitrose now looks like a scene from the Somme – trees butchered, ground carved up no doubt awaiting sacrifice to some god-awful development
Home after a reasonable fruitful shop, glad to be in, still struggling with the clocks changing and not looking forward to tomorrow’s inevitably chilly / possibly wet commute.
As usual the rain radar made all the difference in giving reasonable confidence it would remain dry once the day’s rain had drifted past.
Once out the city felt like some unfamiliar parallel universe; ever-changing with the accelerating colour shift in the leaves, remnants of the wind, warm and comforting aroma of decay all under dramatic stormy skies.
The overwhelming sense was of quietness both inside and outside my head thanks to the weather likely keeping people in and my new-found solitude.
First stop was the local bike co-op to drop off some tyres for recycling along with some brake hoods bought in error, then on to the park for a reasonable session on the rings – the weather keeping the kids away today, barring one lad and his very friendly Spaniel...
Today’s excursion was rounded off by a tour of the supermarkets; my prevailing sense of calm being shattered upon finding that the large field behind Waitrose now looks like a scene from the Somme – trees butchered, ground carved up no doubt awaiting sacrifice to some god-awful development
Home after a reasonable fruitful shop, glad to be in, still struggling with the clocks changing and not looking forward to tomorrow’s inevitably chilly / possibly wet commute.
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