Tell us about your weekend ride

Short ride to a park with daughter in Yepp Mini. Lots of roadies out n about, nice day for it n'all that.

Nice! Have a safe ride!

I think you need a bike ?

I'm in Cornwall, and it's rotten down here tonight, with the poor weather set to continue into tomorrow too.

I hope the weather improves for the following 8 days.

Tomorrow looks like you should be able to get quite an epic ride in. The weather is rarely like this month in August.

Wow.....

I've been out with Hackney when I lived in Stokey and they were a lovely bunch-two groups normally go out, a fast and a cake eater one, but yes, numbers vary and if there was a race or event on it would probably be the one group.

Why do they meet there? Um. I'm pretty sure there's a cycle charity based there, and they are ran to encourage local residents to take up cycling. Their youth team is doing fantastically well and they have a bank of bikes to loan to youngsters who otherwise wouldn't be able to try it out.

Maybe make 'em a sign to stick somewhere? I didn't have any probs finding it but I'd looked on google maps beforehand.

Anyway. Watch out for Lea Bridge road and some of the big roundabouts near Harlow... fucking mental, especially on a bank holiday weekend for some reason.

Quite an experience to be cycling again in London yesterday after two weeks on the continent. So many cars and pedestrians.

Left late so traffic was pleasantly quiet going out of London. Not many bikes around at any stage of the ride either. Weather was ok, sun out at times, hiding behind clouds at other, so occasionally chilly.

Legs were not great at all. Took me over an hour to get over aches and pains that I suspect were a result of the 95 miles fixed from last weekend's ride to Herne Bay & Margate. Once I got past that stage it was very pleasant but certainly not fast. Could not push at all so just took it easy and enjoyed being out on the bike.

Great to have the lanes mostly to myself. Might do another of these later in the day rides if this is what it's like all the time. Had a big sausage and homemade tomato jam sandwich lunch (Delicious!) so didn't pack any food to take with me. This meant I felt fully justified in stopping at Peaslake for a big chunk of chocolate cake. Very tasty.

Pushed on after that at a measured pace and enjoyed lots of wildlife spots along the way. Little bunny rabbit curled up right on the roads edge, loads of it's bigger brethren in various fields and lots of pheasants as well.

Got home just as the sky was darkening. Perfectly timed for an absolutely delicious spatchcocked roast chicken for dinner. Sometimes I wonder weather I do all these miles just so I can stuff myself full of food.

(Anyone see the Garmin embed in this? Shows in preview but I can't see it once posted.)

Sick. Have fun!!

got rear ended by a guy on a foffa, queue me stumbling then getting a huge honk, almost making me jump off my bike, from a whopping HGV who wasn't prepared to wait any longer

1. foffa owner, explains itself
   
2. why do hgv drivers think a deafening honk is going to do anything other than put me in more danger and slow me down more
   

No riding.

Fin.

I had two rides this weekend, Friday night I rode home from teddington to Wimbledon... I say Friday night it was about 4am... I fell in a bramble bush at one point on Wimbledon common.

The other was home from somewhere near the regent... Around 2 or 3am too?

Both involved being basically conscious of my alcohol and drug ridden body piloting itself home, whilst I watched. Both were on inappropriate bikes (bouncy mountain bike and polo bike) and both were two of the most fun rides I've had in a long time :))))

Just rode 20 miles to get a coffee in Marlow, because being on holiday is awesome, racing later so i had to take it a bit easy, but fun nonetheless!

I got given a starfucks gift card so i need to find on somewhere to visit for tomorrows ride!

I had a pretty great weekend riding in North Wales, the place I grew up. It rained the whole time, but I came to love the muted colour palate of a rain-drenched hills.

Day one, I set of from my Parents house and went to the shelf (as featured in 100 Hill Climbs) after that and just six miles into a century ride I decided to pull of the road and take a break in the mountain biker’s café in Llandegla. It was a smart move, the rain had been hammering down and after a cup of coffee and some typical roadie vs. MTB, your clothes are so fucking silly looks in the cafe, I was ready to set off again. My Gabba Jersey was dry. From Llandegla I headed to the worlds’ end climb as featured in the wiggle sportive etape Cymru. It’s an awesome hill that lands you at world’s end, a mysterious wilderness of a place. From the top of worlds end, it’s a 5.6 mile descent to Llangollen, good luck riding this on the wiggle sportive guys; the road surface is dogshit, considerably worse than a year ago. It may just be sour grapes on my part w/r/t road surface as I fell off at the point the river floods across the road on the descent, by losing my back wheel on some Algae. From the bottom of worlds end, unhurt but blood dripping from my lip and knee I road alongside the Dee River for 20 or so miles to Pentroefoelas. This is a nice route on lanes and I would suggest this over the A5, from Pentroefoelas it’s a punchy climb up to Denbigh Moore’s and then a sweet smooth descent on well surfaced roads into Denbigh, by this time the sun was out and it was a great day, so I went on a noodley loop between Denbigh and St Asaph, before I headed home to Craigfechan,

Ride clocked in at 100 miles with 8,307ft of Climbing,

http://www.strava.com/activities/183860730/

Day Two took in two more climbs from 100 Hill Climbs, the short and steep Moel Arthur climb, and the long ‘Road to Hell. Road hell is aptly named, Every time I ride it, a headwind and rain are guaranteed. It’s also quite long but really kicks up in places, as much to 17% in parts. Once completed the reward for ring Road to Hell is great, a sweet view of Llyn Brenig and what feels like a 20 mile decent. Into Ruthin (although there are a few hills)

Ride Clocked in at 56.8 Miles, 4,944 ft of Climbing and an improbable top speed of 60.6 MPH

http://www.strava.com/activities/184159256

Day Three was the big one. Riding in Snowdonia, a friend hooked me up with the route that does two loops of the roads around the mountain range, if you ever fancy heading to Snowden to do a ride, this is a great route. The climbs are a lot longer and less steep than two rides I did previously. It feels like riding in the mountains more than riding in the hills I guess, The first loop was in hammering rain, this takes in the Pen Y Pass from the easier side and features a wonderful descent down the Pen Y Pass on the steap side (which you eventually finish the ride by riding back up) and also a descent down the capel Curig road, where I chased someone in full team sky kit, riding one of Bossan Hagen’s ex race bikes. The second loop takes you out towards the coast, the rain stopped for this one, the larger version of the Pen Y pass climb is really challenging at the end of an 80-mile ride, but quite rewarding. Seriously go and ride this one.

75.9 Miles 4,898 Ft

http://www.strava.com/activities/184791808

Day 4 – recovery on tired legs. Two times x 100 hill climbs. The shelf and Bwlch Pen Barras

http://www.strava.com/activities/185146901

Microcosm is kinda beyond me sometimes.

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1. Worlds End
   
2. Denbigh Moores
   
3. Road to Hell
   
4. The Shelf
   
5. Bwlch PenBarras
   

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I rode around some Scottish islands and ate much cake. Both were a lot of fun.

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Wales looks beautiful!!

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Had a nice gentle ride out to Sevenoaks with the wife, or rather it would have been if this had been avoided. That tyre had less than 25km in it, you can still see the mould lines, FFS.

I had to ride 20km with a gel wrapper between the innertube and the tyre, and keep the descending speed below 'ludicrous'.

The route was great though, I'd love to work it into a loop round Knoles Park and back into Herne Hill next time.

Day one, I set of from my Parents house and went to the shelf (as featured in 100 Hill Climbs) after that and just six miles into a century ride I decided to pull of the road and take a break in the mountain biker’s café in Llandegla

Sounds like you grew up very close to where I did, which was a couple of miles from Llandegla. That corner of NE Wales is a hugely underrated area, very beautiful and some killer climbs of course. The local club has run a mountain TT all round that area for decades, up the Horseshoe Pass, through Nant y Garth etc

Rode with Islington CC yesterday. Much fun was had. Once we were out of town Louis van Gaal pacelined us to the bottom of Leith Hill. At the top of the hill I fled the Whitedown routed peloton to the Box Hill cafe via Coldharbour and Dorking. Where I met the fast group who had done a Whitedown Larrington themselves. Was cooked and the train to London arrived at Hurst Green five minutes after myself.

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45 miles in the sun this afternoon in glasgow - couldn't get going though, my legs were dead all the way round. did foolishly switch to my steel bike but doesn't explain the lack of ~zip~

maybe coming down with something? overtrained? undertrained? who knows. we all have bad days, I guess

Full ride report to come after I finish but 206km today on day 7 of LEJOG from Bothwell Bridge to Fort William. There really is no bad scenery in this beautiful corner of the world. Ben Nevis in the background.

60km from Clapham to Windsor, via Wimbledon Common, Richmond Park, Hampton Court, Shepperton and, uh, Staines.

Working myself up to the distances I'll be doing on the South Downs Way in a couple of weeks.

Brand new tyre expoding? Is that a Tale of Conti by any chance?