Today's Ride

Hombre · Saturday at 17:00

it was nice and shinny, and surprisingly warm (22°C) today, so it would have been too rude not to go riding. I was a bit late at 2:00 pm to start, so the ride was badged by ST as 'fastest time on this route' at 42kms/2:50hrs

, which also means only one pic was shot.

reindeer · Saturday at 20:22

80 km test ride with my recently acquired Bike-tech #2. Even warm enough for shorts today

moonlite · Sunday at 06:15

Weird country that this is, when I last logged a ride it was freezing cold and wet; today, four or five days later, it's calm, sunny and 26C. I set out on the Jake for a 40km loop with about 440m (1,440 ft) climbing, on a mixture of metalled and gravel roads. Had to abort a run yesterday due to a twinging knee, so it was great to find pedalling no problem. Sunscreen definitely required!

bagpuss · Sunday at 15:11

My last 10 days have been FUBAR so getting out today was a must .so in pictures .

wynne · Sunday at 18:09

Bright but chilly spin this afternoon, taking in a couple of East Sussex's famous hill climbs - Firle Beacon and Bo-peep.
Great to get out.

2manyoranges · Sunday at 19:16

wynne said:
Bright but chilly spin this afternoon, taking in a couple of East Sussex's famous hill climbs - Firle Beacon and Bo-peep.
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Hey my old stamping ground - gorgeous light - BIG HILL - we bailed off here midwinter many times, after fighting East wind and driving rain/hail/sleet

And we often lost our moral compass and became car worriers on the way down; much faster to be on a bike than in a car.....

2manyoranges · Sunday at 21:26

For 'Today's Ride' I am going to time travel forwards to May next year....and hopefully my photos and text will be of the Jura. Not Jura (island) but THE Jura...that amazing set of huge hills which aspire to be mountains, and stretch 360 kms along the Swiss-French border.

I am asking for advice. I have driven through the Jura over 200 times. It's the last bit of France before we get to friends and family in switzerland and the first bit we drive through rushing back. We have stopped to rest, have coffee, eat, and sit on the grass marvelling at the hills. But we have never stopped to ride. This May I want to get an Air BnB base in Metablief, and ride. Ride the many forest tracks, ride the farm access roads, ride the singletrack.

Anyone with any experience or advice?

wynne · Sunday at 22:01

I rode through the Jura on my way from Lewes to Geneva (and back) this summer. I stayed in Prémonon for a night. Never ridden off road round there, but been through it on the road bike lots of times. I love it too.

PhillB · Sunday at 23:08

Still got a few more things to do on this one, but am riding it in the meantime. I did change out the Ritchey Vantage Expert wheels for some Ritchey Vatnage Comp ones. The logos match the frame paint colours so well, I had to really

There is usually a car parked in front of this mural, but not today! I love it because it looks like the sandwich is going to steal your bike!

Rode on to the park as usual. All the rain over the last few days meant dodging a few puddles, although it was mostly dry. Autumn is definitely here now. It was about 14C - no wind, nice in the sunshine.

I've mentioned before that the park is usually deserted on Sunday afternoons in the hour or so before sunset. But not today, quite busy. There has been quite a lot of coverage of the the annual deer rut - with some dramatic pictures of the stags fighting. Which seems to have drawn a lot of photographers!

Although all the stags I saw today seemed pretty quiet and chilled out.