Today's Ride

@thom04 best rough advice I got (as fit is obviously tailored to the person) was to make sure saddle height and fore/aft are set correctly. Numerous methods for height ie roughly hipbone, heel method, inseam x 0.883 to get height from bb (lemond method) or just plain old fiddling. Knee over pedal spindle good rough aim for fore/aft, then can start fiddling with reach or stack height. Always good to have a third party who knows a thing or two about it to help out too - might not get the most optimum efficiency per pedal stroke, but sure beats dropping 500 quid on a bike fit. Probably a lot of snake oil or crackpot theories regarding fit so get it as good as you can and stick with it before you start losing sanity

Happy to report back wheel didn't suffer too bad from the other days incident, quick true and back on the road. Got lucky as ksyriums have a bad habit of the nipples and spoke bonding then being up shits creek when you try to true them. Quick spin out this evening, went up a road I haven't been to in probably 10 years, surprised me to see multiple housing estates and the road now actually being a shared path for a couple miles.

Technically, and actually, last night's ride. Things might be (mostly) dry here, but they are not smooth. A friend described the lush-looking field we crossed as being like hoof prints set in concrete covered in grass. Spot on. Corrugation Chicken!

Out in the green lanes, just seeing what's rideable with what...
Took Minty because its the most adaptable.
Easy...
Mmm, not so easy.
Refreshing...

Relaxing.

Any lane following the contour is pretty rideable, but the lanes dropping down the hillside are basically unrideable, due to historic lack of maintenance and over use by motorcycles

Glorious. 14 degrees, a touch warmer in exposed parts, much less in the valleys and nooks. A fair amount of moisture in the air, hazy, but beginning to burn off quickly. Subtle 6-8mph NW breeze. Blues skies and golden sunshine.

The last short climb up to Sancreed, looking down to St Buryan. Still a few bluebells left, the foxgloves are out in full force now (not in shot).

Nipped out on the TiBride to find an enormous tree, but unfortunately the tree was in the middle of freshly sprouting crop and covered in ivy.
On the way, I found what I think was the road to raglan before the toll road was built around 1810.
Still looking pretty neat, this piece is bridleway.

Still as you like, barely a whisper of air. Hazy blue skies, golden sunshine, a little cooler at 9 degrees, rising to 11/12.

It'd be criminal not to ride on a morning like this.



Some of those foxgloves I was talking about yesterday.

Beautiful morning for a ride here too. Not too warm not too cold, light breeze.


The name of this track was a bit of a concern, didn’t find the dead end






There’s a track behind that lot, getting to the time of year where nettles and vegetation need to be considered.



The size of the prize about 25 miles in was a slice of custard tart and a sausage roll at Hambleton Bakery. A very worthwhile stop.

More POETS CC shirking today. Up and over the Downs towards the Weald. Lovely.