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• #11302
Set out at 9 sharp to try my first 100mile, came a cropper 25 miles out landing on my shoulder and elbow, limped home. Maybe next weekend.
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• #11303
there's always next weekend! First 100 seems like a biggie but once your over it - its all downhill from there. Mostly..
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• #11304
Windy.
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• #11305
:)
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• #11306
And cold! Did a lovely little ride round Derbyshire / Staffordshire borders but was very underdressed. Luckily I’m unfit enough to generate a fair bit of warmth on the (frequent) climbs.
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• #11307
Dang. Hope you didn't do much damage. Better luck next time.
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• #11308
Cheers man!
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• #11309
I rode (some of) the western side of @giofox 's Cambridge off-road route out to my sister's near Letchworth yesterday and it was excellent. Thanks so much for having a lot of public routes - am going to complete the loop in parts.
Some bits were a bit dicey on 36mm tyres post Friday's downpour, including a ford that had to be ridden through due to a tree falling on the pedestrian/bike bridge, but all totally doable and serene.
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• #11310
No worries! Glad you enjoyed it!
Come to this if keen tomorrow
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• #11311
I've got family plans - otherwise, I would have definitely come. Next time for sure.
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• #11312
getting absolutely fucked off with the weather this 'summer'. for the past 8 weeks up here (maybe longer? feels like forever) it's just been a constant blue/grey sky mix which makes it near impossible for dress for. one minute it can be scorching, the next it's bucketing and you're freezing. it wouldn't be so bad if it was just constant grey misery - at least you know what you're getting when you step out the door
need to move to somewhere with a summer
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• #11313
Route + Conditions + Company made for one of the best rides of this summer yesterday!
More photos and route here.
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• #11314
I win.
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• #11315
Rode from Hackney to my Dad’s house just outside Bury St Edmunds on Saturday.
Was supposed to be going with a mate but knee issues meant he had to hop in the the car & left me solo for the morning. It was 4 years to the day since we lost my Mum and spending a few hours with my thoughts on a perfect sunny day couldn’t have been nicer. Passed by a speciality beer shop in the ground floor of a house in the middle of nowhere at about 10am, screeched on the brakes and the owner opened up for me to have a look around and picked up a beer to stuff in my jersey for later. Stopped again at about half 11 in a field by Lavenham church to toast Mum, a friend that we lost in Afghanistan that we buried there & the mini ramp that we’d spent days on when I were a lad. 4 and a bit hours on my own that i feel like I’m going to remember
https://strava.app.link/dQCCznr2K9
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• #11316
Passed by a speciality beer shop in the ground floor of a house in the middle of nowhere
You will, obviously, tell us where this was, no? :)
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• #11317
Looks and sounds like an awesome ride. The Big Hat to you.
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• #11318
Bankside Biers in Wethersfield (http://www.banksidebeers.co.uk). Extremely friendly & the sole importer of a German brewery that I can’t remember the name of which looked to do a range of classic German styles. Picked up an Abbeydale NEIPA, a new brewery to me and really hit the spot
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• #11319
Silly me, I've ridden past that countless times but didn't think of it. Thanks!
There's a Früh sign in the window, which is Kölsch.
I can't quite read the one to the left of the bay window, but I've seen it before. Something -bacher.
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• #11320
krombacher? both that and früh pretty widely available here. (früh is delicious ime). maybe kulmbacher
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• #11321
Dunno about that.. Great riding mate, well done!
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• #11322
I think it was the Monchshof that they’re importing. Would have picked more up but wasn’t travelling with a bag
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• #11323
Finally put together my Downslink to Avenue Verte link ride that I've been trying to figure out for ages. It still needs some tinkering, but it was a great mix of off-road and quiet lanes, with some fast road sections to mix it up. 156km door to door.
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• #11324
I rode the Pilgrim's way to Whitstable this morning and was completely alone in the lanes once I got past Sevenoaks for the most part. I just had the route on my to do list and thought sections were off road - they weren't! 38c was overkill.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/2706283
Lovely route still. There's one detour from the above where they've seemingly closed a right of way through Bradbourne House. I started to update the route but then saw the RGPS user has an updated one for every year since - great work.
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• #11325
Have you shared this anywhere? Looks great - would be something I'd like to do in Spring.
Proper stunning!