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@FatManOnAFixie
Weekend/on Holiday rides count here too?
Been on Hols with my other half, Kernwool, we both love it down here. Took a steed, I rode the 40 miles of Lostwithiel to Padstow and back again, 1st bit very hilly up and over Cornwall's backbone and had to resort to pushing the trusty old Dawes up a hill in the arse-end of nowhere once but the zoom along the Camel Trail was ace to meet up with my long-suffering-other-half for a sarnie at the Quayside and a dwinky before turning round then riding the whole thing again back to Lostwithiel. Got a split negative on the way back, 1Hr 24mins there, 1hr 14mins on the way back. FWIW, I got the term 'split-negative' from my little Sis (46 y/o club-level runner) who does 'sport' and knows about these sort of things :-) Really good, if very busy, fun ride.
Poodle to Padstow...
Sun, sand and steed.
The following day we hit up Lanhydrock, the National Trust place. Lo and behold, there's a house full of William Morris/Arts n Crafts movement stuff my partner loves AND a series of off-road trails where you can hurtle around on bouncy hire bikes with knobbly tires and a billyun gears and springs and levers and stuff on.
She did the house, I did the trails.
Luckily the Hire place had run out of hire bikes so I took the 32c slick tyred Dawes SS'er on all except one trail/track. It was such a laugh. I hammered around the tracks, only fell/skidded off a couple of times, had to stop and repair bike once when the adjustable quill stem had worked itself loose through chronic levels of vibration and pilot excitedness at bombing over/around/through stuff. Folk that had the 'proper' hire bikes looked uncomfortable on bikes they were unfamiliar with whereas the short little Hippy fella on that funny old bike he knows inside out with no springs and gears or knobbly tyres on blasted about in a most enthusiastic manner.
Just fer giggles I left the Garmin running. Looks like a 'special kind of art'.....
10/10. Would ride inappropriate bike through bonkers off road venues again.