Tell us about your weekend ride

Excellent :)
(4 laps in the hour is even more incriminating...)

106 miles on Dartmoor. 7.17.
delightful mist that burnt off as the morning progressed into pure sunshine views.
some stiff long climbs but all made worthwhile by the howling descents with great visibility.
saw 1 rider on belt drive single speed but other than that gears all the way.
might bang a pic or two up later some arent bad.

now wheres the hippys report on the real event of the weekend?

Did about 120 miles yesterday, Birmingham to London, my first foray into three digit days. Feeling good today too, although my hip aches a little....

I will be catching up with the TNRC soon, but this weekend I got all of 2 miles on a ride out with my dad when my bike decided to eat itself. The left bb cup unscrewed itself into the left crank arm and the right crank shifted over to the left and ran the smaller chainring into the frame, taking a healthy chunk of paint with it. It now seems that the bb I have been using for almost a year won't work without the chainring rubbing the frame. Very strange.

The clue's in your name, I guess.

After Hippy's epic riding... all else pales, but for the record I did 50 miles of Ecstacy-laced riding in Essex. Before it got silly hot.

That is ace. I am going to do all of them.

I did a good ride from Stratford to somewhere between Amersham and Aylesbury the other week. Definitely want to do more riding around there.

Best countryside for riding in, around and over, forever and ever. Amen.

Rode in the Gran Fondo Luciano Sportive yesterday - was going really well until 55k in something fell between my back wheel and frame on a fast descent, jamming it... managed to control my skid for about 10 meters before the tyre blew and I narrowly avoided spikey hedge death. Poor tyre:

Was disappointed to find that the organisers didn't have a single spare tyre (not even an old crap one) or any tools at all in the sag wagon. Had to wait and hour to be picked up by a van driver who tried to lay my bike down on it's drive-side, unsecured in the back of his Transit before I intervened. He then got lost, so it took another hour and a half to get back to the start, by which time all my friends had finished.

Massive disappointment and bad news for my Etape training - missed out on all the big climbs and generally felt in limbo after. Tired from getting up early but full of energy food without expending it. Yuk.

Only plus is that I suffered my mechanical 100 yards from a nice pub, so managed a cheeky half - though that made me feel guilty. Oh and climbing Box Hill in the mist and sun at 8.30am was beautiful yesterday, so silent and ethereal.

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^^ Zoikes! Unlucky.

hard luck there dan. if it makes you feel any better i got two punctures on my ride yesterday, hadn't even got outside that M25 at that point.

Did the A to B to Seaford route. what a glorious day to be out on the blacktop and then to end with a dip in the channel

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4606773

shitter - glad you managed to get a decent ride in though

No sun in the Outer Hebrides a wet and windy 25miles across the moors for me.

heading out to portsmouth on saturday, tidy squad of five riders.. 91miles of tarmac..

rode with Mattha and coupla of friends on saturday..

started at trafalgar square followed the olympic road race route towards guildford and the surrey hills, then on to godalming, haslemere, liphook, petersfield, over southdowns, then long fast descent into portsmouth 6 hours and +100miles later
avg. 18mph
top speed 42mph
1,600ft climbing

beer and chips at spice island inn, then slow train back to London. The Olympic route had alot of traffic, maybe taking a quieter route if we go south again.

There was talk of a south downs ride Winchester to Eastbourne, sounds like moutain bike territory.

Next one day ride London to Banbury via chilterns and cotswolds detour +100miles, in July or August.

^^^^ I concur

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3535/jonnyseaford.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1958/seafordwayforest.jpg
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/8894/seaford.jpg

looks enjoyable ^^^
heres the route and a pic or two from Dartmoor, parently we finished 254/255 from 2, 500 not too shabby.
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/473040

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That looks like a pain cave fest...nice one.

After missing my alarm on sunday my fellow riders thankfully waited for me at Euston where we eventually got a slow train out to Watford. So much for an early start.

But an awesome days riding in sweltering weather. I got us lost on quite a few occasions but the 'sneaky' bits of routing were worth it, I think...

Roughly 82 miles including the ride back (with bonus tailwind), including scrumptious tea and cake stop in Upshire and shandy in South Weald. Now circumnavigated the M25 so fuck yeah. Now to do it in one go. :|

That's a lovely picture, Cynthia!

The dartmoor route looks like a winner mf. Missed out this time but it's in the calendar for next year.

That looks like a pain cave fest...nice one.

After missing my alarm on sunday my fellow riders thankfully waited for me at Euston where we eventually got a slow train out to Watford. So much for an early start.

But an awesome days riding in sweltering weather. I got us lost on quite a few occasions but the 'sneaky' bits of routing were worth it, I think...

Roughly 82 miles including the ride back (with bonus tailwind), including scrumptious tea and cake stop in Upshire and shandy in South Weald. Now circumnavigated the M25 so fuck yeah. Now to do it in one go. :|

have you got a route for this one? Sounds nice. Always keen to hear about rides that involve going north, rather than south

We took this route
(devised by spybot but with considerable input from Oliver Shick and dropout I believe, but he can tell you more about its heritage) but rode out to join it from Watford using a sneaky route through the town centre and Casiobury Park
that I devised for the ride I led to Leamington.

Then we got a lift from the Highways Agency 4x4 across the bridge from Thurrock to Dartford and rode back from there using this cunning route supplied by dropout
.

It was a long, hot day - with quite a few off road bits, including sticky mud and rutted tracks - but had many highlights - as spybot said the tea and cake at Upshire Church were excellent, watching the sunset over London from the top of Shooters Hill was also a big one for me.

I didn't realise we had a tailwind on the way back from Dartford, I just thought we were on fire. Oh well ;)

It was definitely a tailwind...

Actually I thought it was dropout's legs. I knew it wasn't me, so I'm not too disappointed.

after our nelson inspired trafalgar square to portsmouth ride on saturday, planning this..

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/39170824/?open_ive_done=1

shakespeare's birthplace to theatre site, shoreditch on saturday 30th july 2011
113miles/182km

after our nelson inspired trafalgar square to portsmouth ride on saturday, planning this..

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/39170824/?open_ive_done=1

shakespeare's birthplace to theatre site, shoreditch on saturday 30th july 2011
113miles/182km
almac68 has made this route private.

:(

almac68 has made this route private.

:(
oops sorry.. here it is public http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/my_routes/?

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