Today's Ride

[Markybeau]

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The ride in this morning was all she wrote. Multiple punctures and a spare tube that fell apart scuppered any chance of riding home.

Wanted to get a ride in before the feted bad weather arrives...

So only 21 miles today.

15°c. Beautiful early autumn mist and sunshine.

 

[ibbz]

Ah last of the lingering summer - tried through a pair of bins

 

[SirLurkalot]

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Had a bit of bad news yesterday, so felt the need to to clear my head and process things. What better way than to go for a ride along Southampton Water to Hamble on a old Raleigh rescued from a skip.

It rode pretty well, even managed a little bit of single track through the woods, although the brakes are shocking. :shock:

 

[mk one]

Beautiful warm sunny day today, though the wind was cold, enough so i had to put long sleeve on for the last part as my arms were just not getting warm. Sat out of the wind though it was glorious.

A quick loop, as i was doing what seems to be regular now, dog sitting. My legs felt like lead after a long walk the other day but as usual im glad i made the effort and would have stayed longer in a couple of spots if i had more time.

 

[al-onestare]

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Autumn has arrived Shocking weather yesterday morning meant an aborted ride and walk with Cooper instead. It had dried up in time for my end of work blast ride before another walk with the dude. The light was pretty special by the time we were close to home; almost CA like, golden and with a proper, super-massive rainbow.

This morning was equally bad if not slightly worse and blinkin' cold. However it looks decent for another blast after work again. Fingers crossed.

 

[rwm1962]

Cool! Aye - be dressing warmer soon!

 

[mk one]

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The light was pretty special by the time we were close to home; almost CA like, golden and with a proper, super-massive rainbow.

can never seem to capture a rainbow, need a different camera me thinks.

 

[mk one]

Another glorious warm sunny day.

Well it has been a while since i have had a ride in the Peak, been doing a lot of walking up there again recently so today i decided to drive over for a quick blast. The weather was glorious as said, so, despite an early start to avoid to many people, i didn't, it was packed on the first edges, they are close to car parks though so its quite easy to get to for most. By the time i reached there on the bike it was like a town centre, only no queues.

Once on the moors though it was a lot quieter with only a few bikers, some dog walkers and a runner, guy must have been in his 70's still going strong. Stopped and chated to another biker for a while, turns out he has a whyte pr type thing, also a P7 and a few santa cruz nomads, nice guy though unlucky with forks by the sounds of how many he goes through.

Another great ride, awesome backdrop and all in all an excellent day.

 

[mk one]

some more pics...

 

[al-onestare]

Nice shots. Picking up on your comment the other day, what phone/camera are you using? The resolution seems a bit low and some of those vista's probably look more epic than the pictures reflect.

Busy couple of days so Monday was a run in the morning since I felt right rotten on Sunday. With the radio show on Monday night, yesterday morning was a "luxury" lie-in (to 7!) but I got out in the early evening to scoot about and see the sun looking ace. You could smell autumn everywhere.

Got the morning ride in today but heading back out shortly. The Esatto is finally ready to pick up from the LBS. They've been waiting since April for Hope to provide the hubs for my new wheels. Crazy times. Anyway, I'd forgotten to give them the maxle for the front wheel and in my infinite wisdom I'd accidently thrown it out when I was clearing out the garage last month. So I'd found a new one and was ready to post it through their letterbox this morning, then pop over later in the day to ride it back. I turned up this morning to find that they don't have a letterbox :facepalm:

Ah well. It was still a good urban scoot, carving up the traffic. A clear, fairly still morning, slightly chilly 11 degrees rising to 12 by 08:15. Here's the tunnel entrance/exit at Elmstead Woods. So many people go through them but would never see it like this.