Today's Ride

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Today I did some clearing of the basement. Rode my unfortunately to small for me ABM Breezer (complete DX build) to the shop down the hill. Gifted it to a well deserving mechanic who was pumped.
Easy come, easy go and good to see it’s going to be well loved.
Bike = joy. Isn’t that what these mechanical contraptions are all about?

What a lovely thing to do

 

[KayOs]

Today I did some clearing of the basement. Rode my unfortunately to small for me ABM Breezer (complete DX build) to the shop down the hill. Gifted it to a well deserving mechanic who was pumped.
Easy come, easy go and good to see it’s going to be well loved.
Bike = joy. Isn’t that what these mechanical contraptions are all about?

Awesome! The look on his face is priceless!

 

[Frankenorange]

Yesterday after work ride. Good to see Drift resevoir looking full, even after the really dry spell we had from March through to early May.

I felt odd on the bike with no real concept of speed or power. Trauma is a funny thing. I'd gone out in the morning to the shops but ended up spending 2 hours outside looking after a neighbour who'd fallen, and getting her comfortable and waiting for the medics arrived. Making a call to 999 was something I really didn't want to do again, and the memories from a few years back when I had to do the same when my wife was barely breathing, then in this case yesterday, waffing down lunch and getting straight back into work, I just didn't process what had happened, and the ride became a sort of semi-comatosed mental fog.

Back on it today, but I'll file that ride under "out of body experience".

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A bit of PTSD going on there possibly?

A singular event with enough psychological impact can sit with you for a long time. It doesn't have to come from repeat events overwhelming the mind. From personal experience i would suggest having a chat with someone about it as you don't want to re-live those events, or do any mental gymnastics to block them out. That can be a slippery slope depending on how bad things are.

 

[al-onestare]

A bit of PTSD going on there possibly?

A singular event with enough psychological impact can sit with you for a long time. It doesn't have to come from repeat events overwhelming the mind. From personal experience i would suggest having a chat with someone about it as you don't want to re-live those events, or do any mental gymnastics to block them out. That can be a slippery slope depending on how bad things are.

Cheers for the concern; done plenty of talking so it's all good. In my view, we can't completely erase or totally park traumatic moments. We're not robots just yet. Personally speaking, I have to embrace these things to be able to move on.

What was great was even after all that, my neighbour is fine and my legs still felt good at the end

 

[bikeworkshop]

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Nothing evil about riding in Barbadoes Wood with tina - plenty of climbing, but lately the Welsh forestry NRW are keen on laying 50mm+ stone chippings, which Tina finds unrideable and I can barely manage.

 

[slackboy]

Ride out to the seaside. Managed to pick up a waif and stray en route, so now I'm the proud (?) owner of a marin mount vision.

 

[Gtpulse]

Rainy start to today’s ride. Back in wet weather boots and waterproof jacket for half of the day.

In a couple of fields the powdery surface to the mud just compressed in to clay when my tyres went over it. Got to the stage where wheels weren’t moving it as they were picking up so much mud. Ended up carrying my bike about half a mile just to get out of it! Ended well with the sun coming out and coat coming off.





In this one the photo doesn’t give great perspective, this was a rocky track down to the River Trent, it looks almost flat but was sooo steep.

 

[slackboy]

Doesn't that saddle weigh more than the bike?

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Doesn't that saddle weigh more than the bike?

My saddle bag does

 

[Gtpulse]

Doesn't that saddle weigh more than the bike?

It’s fairly hefty but so am I! The skinny one it came with I wouldn’t be able to do an hour on let alone a days riding.