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

[neilbauer]

Got cold on the bike earlier.

[PHmember]

Rode into the New Forest today & stopped at one of the locations from Martyn Ashton's Road Bike Party:

[vwsurfbum]

Took No1 over bedgeburry for her first trail centre experience (it was dark and muddy also) She's 7.



and some video footage with a crash (and slow mo at the end)
http://youtu.be/EutzCwMVSVQ

[Cagey]

Nice breakfast stop at Harrold Country Park on this mornings 100k.

[Mr Gearchange]

Fun ride out this morning.

[anonymous-user]

Awesome! That's ^^^ a big distance in real life when you stand next to it!!

[nessiemac]

My 10 yr old out on his new DH bike today

[GuinnessMK]

Not today, but we spent last week at Glentress and Innerleithen. Fantastic little holiday cottage with bike storage and jet washing facilities, a five minute ride onto Innerleighen, and a five minute drive to Glentress.

Anyway, the lad at the top of Teenage Kicks;

[burriana]

Got out yesterday morning for a lovely little amble around the hills and lanes around Harrogate in glorious weather.

This morning, a quick hilly twenty miles, weather not quite so good!

[SkinnyBoy]

Good early morning rideout on some old school tracks until I binned it on a mad off camber into gully rock garden. Knee is throbbing today!

[DeuxCentCinq]

First go on the new bike. Can probably lose half to three-quarters of an inch off the stem, saddle down a tad too. Everything else spot on. Came over the heathland as the rain swept across the Solent. New Forest can have its moments, even on a road bike...

[nammynake]

Our club's reliability ride today, plus a tribute ride for a local cyclist killed in a collision last weekend

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-...

[burriana]

Aha. I knew there was another PH roadie somewhere around here. I saw an original PH top out on the road last year

[nammynake]

burriana said:

Aha. I knew there was another PH roadie somewhere around here. I saw an original PH top out on the road last year

Could have been me. I still occasionally wear my white/black/yellow jersey from a couple of years ago.

[Silver940]

DeuxCentCinq said:

First go on the new bike. Can probably lose half to three-quarters of an inch off the stem, saddle down a tad too. Everything else spot on. Came over the heathland as the rain swept across the Solent. New Forest can have its moments, even on a road bike...

Nice looking bike, that Road out to Beaulieu can be a bh if it's windy, great with a tail wind though!

[DeuxCentCinq]

Silver940 said:

Nice looking bike, that Road out to Beaulieu can be a bh if it's windy, great with a tail wind though!

It's the one between Ashurst and Lyndhurst that I hate. Cars doing 80-90 mph, beeping you just because they have to overtake you.

[Silver940]

DeuxCentCinq said:

Silver940 said:

Nice looking bike, that Road out to Beaulieu can be a bh if it's windy, great with a tail wind though!

It's the one between Ashurst and Lyndhurst that I hate. Cars doing 80-90 mph, beeping you just because they have to overtake you.

Never ridden that one, not sure I'd want to, I'd find a way round it if I were you! I'm Ringwood side of the Forest but that road from Lyndhurst to Beaulieu is on one of my Sunday routes.

[timbo48]

I think that the problem car drivers have with cyclists using the A35 between Lyndhurst and Ashurst is that there is a cycle lane for its whole length, so "why aren't they using it" etc etc. Path is ok on a mtb but not sure I'd like to ride my road bike along it, bit bumpy and gritty.
Not sure that I've seen anybody doing that kind of speed along it though, but 50-60mph probably seems like 80-90 when you're on 2 wheels.

[DeuxCentCinq]

timbo48 said:

I think that the problem car drivers have with cyclists using the A35 between Lyndhurst and Ashurst is that there is a cycle lane for its whole length, so "why aren't they using it" etc etc. Path is ok on a mtb but not sure I'd like to ride my road bike along it, bit bumpy and gritty.
Not sure that I've seen anybody doing that kind of speed along it though, but 50-60mph probably seems like 80-90 when you're on 2 wheels.

There is? I've never seen it! Would make sense to have it tarmaced though.

I used to drive down that way quite a lot, and would regularly have people overtaking me, despite doing 60-70 mph. I have no problem with people going quickly down there (as you can see, I do), but when you're doing 60+mph, a 1 metre gap when overtaking a cyclist isn't really enough...

I will investigate this path. Thanks for the heads up!

[Silver940]

timbo48 said:

Not sure that I've seen anybody doing that kind of speed along it though,

That cycle path is due to be worked on allegedly

NFNPA said:

Another maintenance project that has been rolled into the plan is the resurfacing of the A35 Lyndhurst to Ashurst cycleway. The £700,000 track was opened six years ago and the authority now plans to spend £130,000 "upgrading" its surface.

The NFNPA says DfT approval has already been granted for this expenditure, which is curious as it's hard to see how this amounts to capital expenditure and not maintenance. It's also not clear if the necessary permission has been obtained from Natural England and the often vociferously anti-cycling New Forest Verderers.

New Forest Cyclist describes using this path as "terrifying" as the narrow grass strip between the path and the A35 puts cyclists "inches away from HGV's travelling at 60mph in the opposite direction". It also appears to be substantially narrower than the DfT's recommendation of 2.7m for a bidirectional path.

Quieter alternative

https://app.strava.com/activities/259236233