Tell us about your weekend ride

Yeah, it got a bit roughed up. Sweaty day 1, wet as fook day 2, wet start to day 3 but by that stage the shin pain was taking my mind off any gooch issues anyway.

He did indeed, the idiot

Highland Fling 1000k:
1 https://www.strava.com/activities/7080609545
2 https://www.strava.com/activities/7080616230
3 https://www.strava.com/activities/7080622961
4 https://www.strava.com/activities/7080633019

I love what that does to the Grupetto club leaderboard on Strava.

I don't think I've ever looked at a leaderboard. Now I have, I think you lot have some catching up to do :P

I'm currently most proud of the AUK AAA leaderboard. I'll have achieved my season's 100AAA points now.

Your shortest day was longer than the previous leader’s weekly total.

haha lol-age

I think I'm gonna do feck all for the rest of the week.
Just turbo to spin the legs. Got a AAA 200k on the weekend.

Can confirm Alderbourne Lane, to the north of Pinewood, has had the most degraded areas resurfaced.

I look forward to riding it again, haha. At least one has the prospect of Artefood coming up shortly.

Fortunately there are no documented cases of a squirrel ever having jumped into a wheel

You are mistaken. I saw a pic of exactly that, many years ago — was in Murica. Bladed radial spokes too! Not sure how the rider fared, but the squirrel was totalled.

lol I was making a sly ironic reference to exactly that picture, oft quoted on this forum, mostly by @Oliver Schick

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I saw red squirrels in Scotland.

Yeah but did you eat any?

They were too fast for me.

Haha yes, that very pic! I imagine the rider came a cropper too

Very short run out this morning, only a couple of hours, due to me fighting with tyres and tubes til 1am this morning (tubeless is great until it's not), so not getting much kip.
Very pleasant run around the lanes of Cheshire, with a small amount of rough stuffing it through a slight road block.

Quick 40 miles this morning. Took in some of my favourite lanes in and around Strines, found a few new favourites. Tackled the wood fall lane climb from low Bradfield to High Bradfield for the first time. Comically steep - I did actually laugh out loud as I came around a corner and saw it ramping up ahead of me - but managed to grind my way to the top. Heard some cuckoos, hit a few gravel paths, had a bakewell slice. Also, no cunt drivers for once. Pretty glorious morning in all.

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Did 39 miles, SSMTB but mainly onroad, which makes me question my decision. Ice cream, Oxford Gold and crisps helped me get round. Out past Henley, up into the hills. A classic car show was on so spotted many interesting cars including an e-type.

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Sunday I did a 185km (140km offroad) gravel/forest ride in Walloon Brabant (area south of Brussels) organised by Grelly Cycling. Beautiful route that was challenging at points but never too technical. With dry and sunny weather the conditions were perfect. Got my gopro with me so made a little after movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chi5PRKTe0c

Lovely 70k flirting with the Hampshire / West Sussex Border. Would recommend the area.

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Just got home from Over the Severn 200k. Lovely ride on a lovely day (could've done without the 5am wakeup and 2hr+ each way journey but it's worth it just to get out of this shithole)

Is Windsor in your horizon?
Get yourself along to Artefood.
'Jubilee' special, Ice Cream burgers.
Choice of in-house ice creams served in warmed, split, very light doughnut.
Kind of Baked Alaska finger food.
Best thing about the Jubilee for me so far.
Also recommended by @NorthLondonLight

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I'd smash one of those. But I'm not riding to Windsor for it :)

Just had a battle with a tyre install - I think I'm a bit knackerated.

. But I'm not riding to Windsor

There's always the train to Windsor & Eton Riverside through Richmond.

Heli.

Addendum to the Ice Cream Burger post upthread.

Much as I see myself on the bloke end of the 'Bloke on a bike< > Cyclist' spectrum,
I am also at the lhs of the 'Eat to Live rather Live to Eat'spectrum.
The light 'doughnut', it was explained to me,
by Alex the proprietor,
is actually an egg rich and egg-risen brioche dough,
(apologies to Vegans),
lightly toasted with a sprinkling of maybe cinnamon sugar?

If you gelato buontalenti you know what you doing.