Tell us about your weekend ride

Blimey, you've a lots of climb on the 215k!

Gruber, I'm jealous of the hills you seem to have on your doorstep! Whereabouts? Enjoyable ride reports too.

I'm up very north in Scotland at present... so hills nice but midges not so nice. Soon to be scooting off to Siena for a few months so ride reports will surely include all of all the vintage Italian steel I'll be stumbling across for a cheeky fiver and pre/mid post ride gelatos.

^^^ so much this, theukr, your posts always make me smile. Excellent pictures, looks amazing.

^^ where in scotland are you, u_g?

Cool ride man!

great pics! See-food one cracked me up.

After getting lots of sun and snorkeling and seeing manatees the day before (!!! omfg manatees!!!!) I formed a bike gang.
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We rented some rusty beach cruisers on Caye Caulker and decided to explore the island in the last hrs before sunset.
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Little did we know that, that area we were cycling into was the mosquito breeding ground. Panic, deet!
Still being chased by the little terrorist, we hit the airstrip of Caye Caulker Airport

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I smashed it, [like] I was being chased by a swarm, leaving my Scottish friends to be eaten instead of me... Every lady for herself...
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I stravaed.

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http://app.strava.com/activities/62005421

http://verticaljapan.blogspot.jp/2013/06/my-new-favourite-route.html

New favourite route, and one of those rides that makes you fall in love with cycling all over again. Fucking BEAUTIFUL ride with a couple of great buddies.

Whenever I watch one of those gorgeous Rapha Continental videos, with the sounds of wooshing air, tyres on tarmac and deep breaths, I always feel this deep desire to get out and ride right now. This ride gave me the same feeling, except I was already riding. It was almost confusing.

Spotted a troupe (cete?) of 3 badgers last night. fistpump

The first live badgers I have seen while riding. Hard to believe it has taken so long to add these little critters to my palmares. Also witnessed a toad jumping out of the road and startled a muntjac deer.

Nothing exciting and no breathtaking pictures as on the last page or two, but a decent pace if I do say so myself. Horrid weather on the way out and it started to rain on the way back too. Really wish I had someone to hide behind at many points.

http://app.strava.com/activities/62036888

Went on a tour of Bristol and its environs with a mate. Cool place lots to see and do and so close to the countryside. Windy ride into the headwind up the hills on the way out of Bristol. Tough going fixed. Will take more gears next time I go West

And the Clifton Bridge is impressive:

and lots of strange bike action around town:

<<< Sponge

You shut up, your training rides destroyed most of all the road surfaces between Ealing and Chinnor.
#wellworthit

Out with Corlis from Santa Maria Pizza yesterday evening to Thame on Ludd redux route.. Never been to these parts of the Chilterns. Shortsleeves until 1.30am at Thame. Supermarket was open. Home via Christmas Common. It rained from 2am until 6am quite steadily. After Bourne End total navigation fail, more lanes and more A roads and an until then unknown sensation of copious amounts of water running down from my head when looking at the map.

That bit through Chinnor/Thame is on my route home.

All the supermarkets are open 24 hours round there, not sure about the one that took 14 years to build...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrards_Cross_Tunnel

Rode yesterday's route, again, with the girlfriend. We had a nice lunch halfway round, at which point is started raining so we sat with our feet in a hot spring for about an hour. It didn't stop raining so we just said "fuck it" and carried on. Place looks even more gorgeous in the rain!

http://app.strava.com/activities/62238037

I feel pretty inadequate posting this with all this talk of double centuries and people trekking across Denmark, but somebody has got to bring the mean average distance down.

Two rides this weekend, totalling just over 100 miles. Dulwich Paragon club run yesterday, with a bit of an extension to take in Pilgrim's Way and Brasted. I couldn't get into my 28t sprocket and my rear wheel was slipping every pedal stroke so that was a fucking nightmare but I did manage to get up despite cursing quite a lot. Bonked badly on the way home and struggled back. One banana isn't enough for 47 miles.

http://app.strava.com/activities/62042408

Over to Richmond today to do three laps full gas. Should have known better. Rammed full of fluoro nodders on hybrids riding two abreast so the whole park was slowed to their pathetic commuting speed. 1.03.31 was all I could manage. In my defence it was windy as fuck. 20.18 was the best of the three, which puts the others in perspective. Bonked again and had to stop for a Snickers on the way home. Took my bike to the excellent London Cycle Workshop in Wandsworth and they adjusted my limit screw so I now have some more gears. Didn't charge me. Good blokes in there.

http://app.strava.com/activities/62042408

I did an hour on the rollers with a bit of resistance while listening to the first half of the 'Agharta' live album and being harassed by a 6-year-old high on sweets.

Then I did my stretching followed by a messy incident in the kitchen involving a homemade smoothie and a partially displaced blender seal.

Woo-hoo, cycling :/

Wasn't going to go out cycling this weekend because the wind / rain forecast but as I've been off the bike for the last couple of weeks with a back injury, I thought I better get out there anyway.

The rain held of and it made it an almost pleasant 60k despite my lack of fitness. I was in a good mood until my brother posted a picture from his weekends ride up the Col de la Madone...

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those full-kit wankers - are they on here?

Went out yesterday with the aim of a long-ish ride through some of the home counties. Weather constantly jumping between sunshine and pissing rain which made kit choice a bit challenging. Had to abort after 84 miles when my left pedal did this...

...so I limped to Broxbourne station and then rode home on 1 leg which was a bit of a bitch in yesterday's headwind. Not a terrible day out but the Pompino felt particularly heavy, even on 66".

http://app.strava.com/activities/62083765

Wasn't going to go out cycling this weekend because the wind / rain forecast but as I've been off the bike for the last couple of weeks with a back injury, I thought I better get out there anyway.

The rain held of and it made it an almost pleasant 60k despite my lack of fitness. I was in a good mood until my brother posted a picture from his weekends ride up the Col de la Madone...

Full kit and tri-bars >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

those full-kit wankers - are they on here?

no thinks your all werid

Those full kit wankers aren't fast enough to keep up with us, I'm not surprised they're not on here.

I went out for a 60 mile spin around Surrey. 2 laps of Box Hill, came home via Epsom, Chessington, Tolworth, Surbiton and Richmond, imagining that this would be a nice middle class route with scenery and ting, innit. Who knew Tolworth, with its chocolate-box traditional English name, was such an irredeemable shithole? Also everybody out there today is even grumpier than me, which is quite a fucking feat.

Did the Flat Out in the Fens long route today. The route passes within a couple of miles of my house, so it seemed rude not to since I had no other plans for today.

The good news is I have (make that briefly had) a new Strava KOM, although given that the segment in question is 3 miles long, has an elevation gain of 0ft and an elevation difference of 9ft, the title King of the Mountains seems highly inappropriate.

The bad news is I appear to have fucked up my right knee in the process, but I'm hoping that ibuprofen, a good bottle of claret and A Good Night's Sleep will cure it.