Today's Ride

wynne · Sep 26, 2025

Fairly sunless day here, so practically clad in full winter gear now. I need to live somewhere that is regularly 10°C hotter than southern England.
Lovely spin on the road this morning, followed by a mellow autumnal off road outing this evening. Yes, we did go up the track on the hillside, and yes, it is horrible.

al-onestare · Sep 27, 2025

Took a wrong turn yesterday evening and ended up doing a much longer loop than planned. One I usually do in the summer before it gets boggy so thankfully it was rideable and super quiet. There's nothing like seeing the sunlight fade , bombing downhill knowing home is just a few more miles away.

wynne · Sep 27, 2025

al-onestare said:
Took a wrong turn yesterday evening and ended up doing a much longer loop than planned. One I usually do in the summer before it gets boggy so thankfully it was rideable and super quiet. There's nothing like seeing the sunlight fade , bombing downhill knowing home is just a few more miles away.

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Sounds like a correct turn to me!

Tootyred · Sep 27, 2025

Well, I'm marking today up as a win and a bit of a milestone.

I did my first ever Audax. Not ever having been a roadie, distances have always been fairly limited to off road routes and riding.

However, I've realised that seriously smashing it off road is becoming a thing of the past for me mainly due to accumulative injuries etc (nobody tells you that thing you bust in 1989 is going to come back to haunt you 30 years later!).

So in Jan i decided to join a local touring club to keep me riding more. Im not a club person really, but I've ridden with then every week and my mileages have gone up considerably as a result....especially combined with some 26" green laneing.

All this culminated in todays 100 audax ( 114 km).

I really enjoyed it and came back with slightly aching knees but suprisingly ok and cycled home after!

I know lots of us original 80s mtb'er are now suffering a bit, but I look at it this way...

"Ok, its not mtb that I love to death, but this won't kill me and is certainly making me stronger and feel better....."

Next Sept im thinking of going up to the 200k class.....well its another year to train!

JDI

al-onestare · Sep 27, 2025

Tootyred said:
Well, I'm marking today up as a win and a bit of a milestone.

I did my first ever Audax. Not ever having been a roadie, distances have always been fairly limited to off road routes and riding.

However, I've realised that seriously smashing it off road is becoming a thing of the past for me mainly due to accumulative injuries etc (nobody tells you that thing you bust in 1989 is going to come back to haunt you 30 years later!).

So in Jan i decided to join a local touring club to keep me riding more. Im not a club person really, but I've ridden with then every week and my mileages have gone up considerably as a result....especially combined with some 26" green laneing.

All this culminated in todays 100 audax ( 114 km).

I really enjoyed it and came back with slightly aching knees but suprisingly ok and cycled home after!

I know lots of us original 80s mtb'er are now suffering a bit, but I look at it this way...

"Ok, its not mtb that I love to death, but this won't kill me and is certainly making me stronger and feel better....."

Next Sept im thinking of going up to the 200k class.....well its another year to train!

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Awesome work

any in-flight pics?

Tootyred · Sep 27, 2025

No sadly, too busy trying to eat enough bread rolls and home made chewy bars to get me round!

plus as i have no gpx tech, i was riding off the old skool paper crib sheets they give you...which seemed to amuse/ amaze people.

Incredibly lucky with the weather..especially on the coast as it can be very windy.

Hombre · Sep 27, 2025

I was standing on this stump watching the landscape...

...imagine that the tree used to be here was living its whole life 'watching' this scenery and didn't care for a moment with all the crazy world around. it had to be a great life.

NimbleRider · Sep 27, 2025

A lovely morning ride. Started out cool and breezy and ended up drenched to the core by the time I got home. I love the Autumn rain in the desert.

2manyoranges · Sep 28, 2025

Sans photos - again…..

Just finished Grom’s house refurb in Wales - during which he did a solo hero ride up Snowdon to see the rising equinox sun - 1am start and exciting jumpy ride back down - roll forward to yesterday I arrived home pretty wrecked from using heavy equipment - but prep bike and off to Thetford. Woah Mike off to unbelievably fast start but never mind here we go … it’s a grippy day with damp trails and sticky rubber. Pikes are working great - bish bosh left right left right. … halfway into ride, the singletrack dives into wood - fast right with great catch berm … rail that one - then the next left cranked U turn has a great catch berm too - ffffffff it’s gone!!!! Just a mess of loam so immediate front wheel wash out and fast B A N G body slam onto baked surface of the trail … but brilliant knee pads and full face … chunk out of elbow, scratches all over shoulder and holed ego. Who the fff ripped the berm out? Badgers? E bikers? CIA?

Quick body check. Collar bone? Fine. Ribs? Fine. So it’s back up and off again at high pace to ride through the ache and sting….and indeed a near PB.

Nice hot bath when I get back, with thready blood from elbow holes wisping through the soap suds.

Moral - ride what’s there not what you ThINK is there….

Betsy · Sep 28, 2025

Pt1

Hooked up with the Guinness-gang for a coffee this morning en route to the Peak District..

My Peak District photos are getting a bit samey so when i got home i went for a little spin around the neighbourhood for a change.

We live in this type of red brick Victorian terrace .. c1870