The "Photos From Today's Ride" thread...
Discussion
Piginapoke said:
callmedave said:
The River Stour:
Reculver Towers:
Really great ride, done 60 miles. This is my furthest distance Ive covered so far.
Love the bike. Can I ask what it is?Reculver Towers:
Really great ride, done 60 miles. This is my furthest distance Ive covered so far.
Orro Terra Via
I didn't realise just how many bikes there were in the range now. They've not been around very long, and when I first encountered them in a local shop there were only two models available, both pure 'road' bikes. From what I've seen they are well finished and decent value for the money.
Yellow jack is correct
I've only started road biking so don't know all there is to know about it. But I've been told it's an ok spec for a starter bike.
Weighed it yesterday at 10kg including by tool bag. It's an aluminium frame and I really like it. I have black bar tape but other wise it's as it came out the box. For a bike that's under a grand I'm really with it.
If you have any questions about it, please ask. I'm involved with a bike shop and this was one of the first orros we had in. We have a pyro and a gold also.
I've only started road biking so don't know all there is to know about it. But I've been told it's an ok spec for a starter bike.
Weighed it yesterday at 10kg including by tool bag. It's an aluminium frame and I really like it. I have black bar tape but other wise it's as it came out the box. For a bike that's under a grand I'm really with it.
If you have any questions about it, please ask. I'm involved with a bike shop and this was one of the first orros we had in. We have a pyro and a gold also.
yellowjack said:
? Farnborough Main to Grateley via a change at Basingstoke - 54 minutes travel time, and £13.60 for an 'Anytime' day single ?
? A 9 mile ride from Grateley to Station Rd, Tidworth via Thruxton and Kimpton Down, partly off road ?
? A loop around the Tidworth area of x duration/distance ?
? A 50-ish mile one way ride home from Ludgershall ?
Even if it doesn't fit with a meet-up with tuffer, this looks eminently do-able at some point, provided I can get up and moving early enough...
Get a return ticket to Grateley and I will pick you up, we can then have an epic day out on the Plain and then I will drop you back at Grateley.? A 9 mile ride from Grateley to Station Rd, Tidworth via Thruxton and Kimpton Down, partly off road ?
? A loop around the Tidworth area of x duration/distance ?
? A 50-ish mile one way ride home from Ludgershall ?
Even if it doesn't fit with a meet-up with tuffer, this looks eminently do-able at some point, provided I can get up and moving early enough...
tuffer said:
yellowjack said:
? Farnborough Main to Grateley via a change at Basingstoke - 54 minutes travel time, and £13.60 for an 'Anytime' day single ?
? A 9 mile ride from Grateley to Station Rd, Tidworth via Thruxton and Kimpton Down, partly off road ?
? A loop around the Tidworth area of x duration/distance ?
? A 50-ish mile one way ride home from Ludgershall ?
Even if it doesn't fit with a meet-up with tuffer, this looks eminently do-able at some point, provided I can get up and moving early enough...
Get a return ticket to Grateley and I will pick you up, we can then have an epic day out on the Plain and then I will drop you back at Grateley.? A 9 mile ride from Grateley to Station Rd, Tidworth via Thruxton and Kimpton Down, partly off road ?
? A loop around the Tidworth area of x duration/distance ?
? A 50-ish mile one way ride home from Ludgershall ?
Even if it doesn't fit with a meet-up with tuffer, this looks eminently do-able at some point, provided I can get up and moving early enough...
yellowjack said:
That might be "a plan". The price of an 'Anytime Day Return' is only 10 pence on top of the single fare. Which is pretty bonkers as it goes. We'll have to get in touch properly at some point and get this 'booked'. I might prefer to ride into Tidworth from Grateley though, as it's too nice an area to chuck a bike in a car for such a short spin if the weather is nice. I've run it through Strava and GoogleMaps route creation and there seems to be a largely traffic free route to Perham Down/Tidworth via Quarely/Thruxton Circuit/Kimpton Down ending up near the old firing range south of Perham Down. Just got to choose between road and MTB now.
That is pretty much across my back garden 
Herman Toothrot said:
My new build, NS Snabb T - swapped the frame out of my Commencal Meta AM, all components bolted straight across shock included.
Love it, blows the Meta out of the water, done two rides on it so far and gained 3 Strava downhill off road top tens.
I'm very impressed with it. I tried so hard to gel with my Meta AM but always felt my weight was right over the bars and I had a huge amount of bike out behind me, front end too short back end too long. At 5'10" the medium Commencal should have been fine for me but it just wasn't. Did loads of downloading frame pics with geometry until I found the NS and it all looked great medium with almost 2cm more reach yet shorter chain stays and wheel base, same BB height lower stand over and to seal the deal same fitment for all components bar BB which is a nice standard English fitment none of the press fit nonsense. Instantly felt so much better, rode it twice this weekend on trails round the Chilterns that I've riden hundreds of times before and get home to check Strava and gone substantially faster on the fast rough downhill stuff than before made my day, correct bike choice :-)
From today's trip out to Henley via the LBS and a haircut...
Hugely disappointing. I rode my road bike up a Byway to get here, and there were absolutely no Zulus to be seen anywhere. Can I get my money back please? This theme park sucks!
Bluebells + a bike = PHOTO OPPORTUNITY!!!!
Waiting for the traffic lights in Twyford. He'd passed me once near the station. I'd catch him only to be passed again twice more. Sounded and looked fabulous in the afternoon sunshine.
I found a cheeky slice of NCN4 that is a gated "Restricted Byway". Apart from the pollen and the heavy scent of the Oilseed Rape in the field through which it runs, it was a flat and level, well surfaced, traffic-free delight to ride. If only all the NCN routes were so.
I'm not generally a fan of 'selfies', but hey? I was going to ask a rather attractive lady to take my picture, but I abandoned that idea when she failed to hear my bell (headphones on) and I nearly ran over her dog. She shot me a look that was very much "bulldog licking p
s off a thistle", and it rather ruined the moment. Sorry love, but it's not a 'Public Footpath', it's clearly signed as part of a "National Cycle Network", and bikes are pretty much to be expected, so I really don't get the attitude...
Well signposted, and gates like this at either end ensuring that the only traffic you are likely to meet is occasional farm traffic.
Hugely disappointing. I rode my road bike up a Byway to get here, and there were absolutely no Zulus to be seen anywhere. Can I get my money back please? This theme park sucks!
Bluebells + a bike = PHOTO OPPORTUNITY!!!!
Waiting for the traffic lights in Twyford. He'd passed me once near the station. I'd catch him only to be passed again twice more. Sounded and looked fabulous in the afternoon sunshine.
I found a cheeky slice of NCN4 that is a gated "Restricted Byway". Apart from the pollen and the heavy scent of the Oilseed Rape in the field through which it runs, it was a flat and level, well surfaced, traffic-free delight to ride. If only all the NCN routes were so.
I'm not generally a fan of 'selfies', but hey? I was going to ask a rather attractive lady to take my picture, but I abandoned that idea when she failed to hear my bell (headphones on) and I nearly ran over her dog. She shot me a look that was very much "bulldog licking p
s off a thistle", and it rather ruined the moment. Sorry love, but it's not a 'Public Footpath', it's clearly signed as part of a "National Cycle Network", and bikes are pretty much to be expected, so I really don't get the attitude... Well signposted, and gates like this at either end ensuring that the only traffic you are likely to meet is occasional farm traffic.
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