Tell us about your weekend ride

Boring, no - I would have loved to see pictures; Singapore is a strange but wonderful place.

This morning I went over to the UCI velodrome at Aigle to pick up my new season ticket, find out which storage hook I've been allocated this winter, and drop off my new track bike at the velodrome. Since I was there, it seemed rude not to have a few laps, so I spent about an hour riding around. For the last 45 minutes I was the only person on the track. Which was nice. @Cycliste dropped her bike off but didn't go on track as the new tub on her front wheel was only fitted last night and she insisted that the glue should have 24 hours to dry.

The reason no-one else was on track was because the weather's been glorious today, so after the velodrome @Cycliste and I went for a quick up-and-down ride to the local ski station at Les Plaiedes. This is @Cycliste about half way up the climb, with Lake Geneva in the background:

The view about three-quarters of the way up the climb:

And @Cycliste disappearing rapidly into the distance on the descent:

Tomorrow we're going mountain biking around Leysin. Yay!

That's nothing compared to Sussex. You've got nothing. Your photographs sully this thread, such is their poverty.

Please do better next time.

and where's yer fuckin Strava!?

I used to live in that there West Kirby! Some bloke called Boardman lives there now. ( used to live in Hoylake ) Not sure I'd fancy riding the Chester Road these days. Scary busy dual carriageway. Parkgate ice-cream stop is a must.

Oh you can all fuck off, especially danstuff. The only ride I've done this weekend is in my head. Sat at my desk in London staring out the window trying to study for Tuesdays exam - yer all bastards!!

Had been off the bike for a few weeks after LEJOG as I'd lost my mojo.
Finally finishing my LOOK AL264 last week spurred me into action and I went for a lap of Richmond park this afternoon poser style . Bike is amazing but quantities of traffic not so. Wheels make that refreshing whomp whomp sound.
Got a migraine 15km from home and was horrid riding with about 20% of normal vision for the rest of the way.
7/10 - Slow, unfit but new bike rides amazingly well.
http://www.strava.com/activities/209259200

Sad day today. We are shortly leaving to start our next adventure living in NZ and today was my last ride with my club. Took the Koga which I finished building a few weeks ago but have not yet ridden. Great ride which covered a lot of my favourite local routes from the last couple of years. Thanks PNECC. If my next club is half as good I will be very lucky.

22km mostly along the river to Richmond with MrsGB and MiniGB, death by bread/cheese/Paulaner at Stein's and then spun the 25kg training weight (MiniGB in a Hamax) up Nightingale Lane and back home through Richmond Park.

Where are you moving to in NZ? A bunch of Forumers are in Auckland if your ever keen for a ride.

You're so right. And to emphasis, the point, here's some photographs from today's mountain bike ride, showing the paucity of Switzerland compared to Sussex.

We got the train to Aigle, to do the MTB route 68 up to Les Diablerets. It starts off on minor roads, roughly following the mountain train up to Les Diablerets, but then there's some gravel forestry/logging tracks:

with some singletrack through the forests:

We couldn't do the whole route up to Les Diablerets, as we didn't have time. I had to fly back to the UK this evening, with @Cycliste 's mountain bike, which is wintering in the UK due to the fact that Swiss mountains are rather more suited to skiing than mountain biking in the winter. So we had to get back in time to pack @Cycliste 's mountain bike in the bike box and then get it down to the train station for the journey to the airport, and I had to get there in time to check it in.

So we bailed out at Le Sepey, and returned to Aigle down the valley road. Happily, we did have time for a cheese fondue and a couple of (small) bottles of Chasselas on the way down, sitting on the terrasse of the Relais de Vuargny.

A shortish ride, but a good one.

Christchurch (where I grew up) initially but looking to buy in Nelson.

Sat: 10hrs drinking
Sun: 10hrs riding

#priorities

Balanced lifestyle.

Ah, Nelson. We are down there for New Year. Great place.

If you ever find yourself in Auckland get in touch!

@PinkGottiMobbs original forum members still online. Reeeespect

One of those days where you end up riding the last 10K with some current rainbow stripes in your 4 man bunch http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=52276

Think I took the 'if you reallllllllllllly want to do something you'll make time for it' idea too far this morning. Left the house at 5am and did The London Classic route. Now sat at my desk trying to study with shagged wrists (from the cobbles). Maybe the wife and kids need to go!

^^
That's cool.

I did a slow club ride today (I am slow at the mo').

Total fucktard riding. Middle aged men (old enough to know better) drifting off the front, then stopping in front of us.

We had a 14 yo (on his 1st ride) who was struggling a bit, we could have really used some classier riding, classier than leaving him dangling off the back on a looong gradual climb into a force 4 wind – when you really want a tight group, classier than 'attacking' when someone (me) did some steady pulling rather than contributing a turn.

How do you tell a proud 50 year old man he may have been riding since his teens but he's shit at it?

/rant

:(

#rep - some senior wife switching must have gone somewhere special prior to that ride, when balls have to measured so reasonless.

Took a turn on the front on a club ride today and some prick told me it was bad form to ride in front of the ride leader. Fuck me...

Club?

@croft difficult one, traditionally you'd let the ride captain lead the whole way but sharing the work seems much more sensible...