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

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

Tall_Paul said:

Some choice pics from the last 2 weeks, been on a trip to the tweed valley, Arran, and now the Peak District.

Overall, 125 miles, 10,500ft of climbing and 15,000ft of descending in 11 days, with another ride with a mate tomorrow to finish things (me!) off

Oh and my next bike will have a pinion gearbox

Edited by Tall_Paul on Thursday 8th October 17:28

Some lovely pics and locations there - you seem to have been blessed with the weather.

We did Glentress 'spooky woods' on an MTB tandem a few years back. The 7 make a great holiday..

What did you think of the Sonder? ETA I looked at the non pinion a while back. Seemed quite short (reach) for tall folks.

[PushedDover]

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

We did Glentress 'spooky woods' on an MTB tandem a few years back.

Wait. on A What?

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

PushedDover said:

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

We did Glentress 'spooky woods' on an MTB tandem a few years back.

Wait. on A What?

I'll take a picture over the weekend and post it up.

It's a (now) long in the tooth Cannondale MTB hardtail tandem. To which is added a set of world-cup spec 200mm triple clamp DH forks, two dropper posts, big brakes (Used to run Hope 6 pots, but the parts are hard to get these days so was swapped for SRAM DH brake) and a cush-core rear end as it's a little difficult to bunny-hop a tandem so they can be a little puncture prone on the rear

It's surprising what you can ride them down. Ground clearance can be tricky so jumps and drops need to be taken quite fast - hence the 200mm forks, and on really tight tracks the wheelbase can be an issue. But generally, they're a proper hoot and surprise a lot of folks with just how fast they are DH.

[wobert]

Those Arran gravel photos look ace, I can see why Grinduro was based there...

[maccas99]

wobert said:

Those Arran gravel photos look ace, I can see why Grinduro was based there...

I agree - the views and countryside look amazing - how many bikes do you have though?!!

[Daveyraveygravey]

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

I'll take a picture over the weekend and post it up.

It's a (now) long in the tooth Cannondale MTB hardtail tandem. To which is added a set of world-cup spec 200mm triple clamp DH forks, two dropper posts, big brakes (Used to run Hope 6 pots, but the parts are hard to get these days so was swapped for SRAM DH brake) and a cush-core rear end as it's a little difficult to bunny-hop a tandem so they can be a little puncture prone on the rear

It's surprising what you can ride them down. Ground clearance can be tricky so jumps and drops need to be taken quite fast - hence the 200mm forks, and on really tight tracks the wheelbase can be an issue. But generally, they're a proper hoot and surprise a lot of folks with just how fast they are DH.

You didn't do the Fred Whitton on it in 2016 did you? I rode "with" a couple on a Cannondale MTB tandem, they flew on the flats and downhills but completely died when the gradient went up.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

Daveyraveygravey said:

You didn't do the Fred Whitton on it in 2016 did you? I rode "with" a couple on a Cannondale MTB tandem, they flew on the flats and downhills but completely died when the gradient went up.

Wasn't us. Probably 12 years ago since it was last rigged for road use, pre-children

Ouch... Some meaty climbs on the FW. They did well doing that on a tandem.

They'll climb up a house side... But very very slowly... It's like riding with brakes on. You'd think they'd fly up given the lack of weight and rolling resistance.

[Ares]

AJB88 said:

Ares said:

Not so much a photo from the ride, but got out yesterday for a quick 70mins to take my YTD distance over 25,000km.

I call a chunk of those Covid-KMs

nice!!! I passed 1k the other day haha

All milestones deserve beer (and cake)

[Ares]

maccas99 said:

how many bikes do you have though?!!

Good god man..... That's the question you never ask!! (although the answer is always "One less than I need")

[Johnny]

Finally got an on-bike pic taken by someone else!

Cracking weather here today in BP, spent some time riding round Margit Island and then out north of BP again. Lovely.

[Tall_Paul]

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

Some lovely pics and locations there - you seem to have been blessed with the weather.

We did Glentress 'spooky woods' on an MTB tandem a few years back. The 7 make a great holiday..

What did you think of the Sonder? ETA I looked at the non pinion a while back. Seemed quite short (reach) for tall folks.

Loved it, the main thing I wanted to test was the gearbox, as it was the bike was a size M and I'm 6ft 3in so it was a bit small for me! However the pinion was everything I hoped it would be, I tested it on probably the wettest ride I've done for ages and it didn't miss a beat.

maccas99 said:

wobert said:

Those Arran gravel photos look ace, I can see why Grinduro was based there...

I agree - the views and countryside look amazing - how many bikes do you have though?!!

Arran is amazing, and the south half of the island just has miles on miles of forest gravel roads.

I only have the 2 bikes, the Jeffsy FS and the space chicken gravel bike. The Sonder was a demo from the Hathersage store, had it for a day so did a 23 mile, 2300ft loop around ladybower

The gravel bike will be getting replaced with a titanium pinion gearbox hardtail over winter

[yellowjack]

Ares said:

AJB88 said:

Ares said:

Not so much a photo from the ride, but got out yesterday for a quick 70mins to take my YTD distance over 25,000km.

I call a chunk of those Covid-KMs

nice!!! I passed 1k the other day haha

All milestones deserve beer (and cake)

I had a Doom Bar and a couple of mince pies with my Strava upload this evening. Todays ride took my year-to-date mileage over 4,000 miles. I might actually make my target of 6,000 miles this year if I keep at it...

Strava said:

2020 Distance = 4,013.7 mi
2020 Elevation Gain = 149,708 ft

Just a shame it didn't coincide with 150,000 feet climbed on the same ride, really...


ETA: Because it's a photo thread, two from today's ride...



...and one from the day before...

Edited by yellowjack on Saturday 10th October 01:38

[defblade]

Not sure if it's exactly what this thread was intended for, but happy (enough to take the power hit in order to get to F10 for a screenshot!) to see this on my last ride:



I've been sitting on 1110 as a max for a while and failing to get that highest badge... this workout is aimed entirely at sprints, though - my actual peak power was 1433w
(Falls to 980w at 10 seconds mind, and my FTP is only 238... I can bang out the power, but it'd better be a short sprint or climb!)

[PomBstard]

The kids are now doing athletics on a Saturday morning so I get a spare hour or so whilst they’re running, jumping and throwing. It was only on the way back that I remembered their home track is a reasonably good place to have as your home track - kinda take it for granted sometimes...

[Johno]

First beach ride of the season .... sand is slow today & very busy, but great to be back on the sand.

[mcelliott]

Johnny said:

Finally got an on-bike pic taken by someone else!

Cracking weather here today in BP, spent some time riding round Margit Island and then out north of BP again. Lovely.

Very nice Johnny boy!

[BrundanBianchi]

The weather was unexpectedly nice today, so I pulled the XR4 out of hibernation and did a 100Km jolly to Ringwood and back.

[Gareth79]

Dry weather here too, so I headed to the office to pick up some stuff and then did a ride of all the hills I would have been doing in the evenings after work were I not WFH! Learned I am a little out of practice at pedalling very steep hills (eg. Barhatch)

[Tempest_5]

From a few nights ago on the MTB North of Chichester, cutting across from Binderton to Kingley Vale.

[gangzoom]

Beautiful day for a ride!