The "Photos From Today's Ride" thread...

[Black can man]

The tower of London looks stunning at the moment, shame about the rubbish photo

[2DDav]

Craikeybaby said:

Looks like a good trip - I've been meaning to explore Craik forest for year, I did realise that there are mountain bike trails there though!

They seem to have a couple of routes one red and one blue from what I can gather. Unfortunately at the moment most of the paths and trails around the main carpark area are closed due to tree-felling & landslides, although signs did indicate that they were expecting them to be re-opened around the end of November.

Certainly next time I;m back down I plan to go further up into the forest, seems the trail I was on will take you up through that way anyway. Well worth a look.

[neilbauer]

Mr Gearchange said:

No pics from today because I got a GoPro this morning so went to try it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1K50skNSM&fe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmS9VDO_rw8&li...

Good quality video, what model is it?

[Celtic Dragon]

Mr Gearchange said:

No pics from today because I got a GoPro this morning so went to try it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1K50skNSM&fe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmS9VDO_rw8&li...

Chicksands?

[Mr Gearchange]

Celtic Dragon said:

Mr Gearchange said:

No pics from today because I got a GoPro this morning so went to try it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1K50skNSM&fe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmS9VDO_rw8&li...

Chicksands?

Aston Hill - was completely deserted.

[anonymous-user]

Mr Gearchange said:

Celtic Dragon said:

Mr Gearchange said:

No pics from today because I got a GoPro this morning so went to try it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1K50skNSM&fe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmS9VDO_rw8&li...

Chicksands?

Aston Hill - was completely deserted.

Everyone had probably slipped off the track into the woods on that mixture of damp polished chalk and wet leaves......... ;-)

[Mr Gearchange]

It was particularly slippery - wet leaves over wet chalk don't give up a lot of grip!

It didn't escape my notice that if I came off and broke my leg I could be there a looong time before someone found me - especially on the last run which was in near darkness.

Really shouldn't go and ride these places alone

[anonymous-user]

Mr Gearchange said:

Really shouldn't go and ride these places alone

Yeah, sorry, i let you down on this one..... (to be fair, my woburn late arvo ride was terrible. I just wasn't "in the groove" at all, and repairing to the pub in Silverstone couldn't come quickly enough!)

You can see from you video where the grip just disappears in a few places. Still, you get a great run up and off a few of those large kickers ;-)

[Mr Gearchange]

Not at all mate - it was hardly planned long in advance
All of my riding since BPW has been on my own - usually there's other folks about and you end up chatting - but there was absolutely nobody about yesterday so it was a bit daft in retrospect.

Those big senders are really nice once you summon up the courage to hit them fast enough. It is funny how flat and slow it all looks on a camera.

[ukbabz]

Was a tad gusty today!

[neilbauer]

Worthing to Brighton into the wind on way back!

[Justin S]

Singletrack photo with mates today. Rode along the Wayfarers to Watership down, down Ladle hill and home. 30 miles and 1960 ft climbing in the clay bog on a rigid singlespeed is a good harder than dry ride.

Don't look at the ebay £3 klaxon. Bit less subtle than a dinging bell and gave about 300 yrd warning to walkers of our appearance :haha:

[bordercontrol]

GOPR4871 by IMGPhotography, on Flickr

[mikees]

White Waltham airfield. Very gusty. Some interesting landing!

[Craikeybaby]

Just had a quick ride through the woods in Coventry today, this was the only photo I took:


Selfie in the woods by Lewis Craik, on Flickr

[yellowjack]

Not from today's ride, but fairly recent...


Just made it through to solid ground!


That'll need a clean when it gets home...


...so will that.


Red flags were flying. I stayed out.


Hmmmm? That was deeper than it looked...


...whereas these looked plenty deep enough.


Fear not! The shirt washed clean, first time.

[Jayfish]

He didn't know how much he needed those calories until I got lost on the way back and turned a 28 into a 38 mi.
Very proud of the lad he's only 12 and he's loving it.

[Silver940]

Round 2 of the Offcamber XC series at Blandford, managed to bag 4th place





Was pretty slippy, lots of roots - fell of on the practice lap. Wonder the gears were still working at the end!

[CoolC]

Spin class this evening.

[Craikeybaby]

Obstacle- this wasn't across the trail last week! by Lewis Craik, on Flickr

This tree wasn't across the trail last week, must have been a casualty of the hurricane earlier in the week.