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

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yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Wednesday 21st October 2020
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Dowks said:
Back on the MTB

Where's that? It looks fun.

I was eyeing up my MTB today. But in the end I took the drop bar Cannondale Backroads out on the Old Shaftesbury Drove from Salisbury to where it meets the A30 a couple of miles east of Shaftesbury. I thought I might need the 'bounce' provided by the HeadShok, but apart from a few patches of squishy mud and a few puddles here and there I could even have got away with a road bike, so smooth was the gravel on the byway/drover's road.


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Dowks

449 posts

245 months

Wednesday 21st October 2020
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Hindhead/Devils Punch Bowl, on the North side down towards Hanckley Common

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Wednesday 21st October 2020
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Dowks said:
Hindhead/Devils Punch Bowl, on the North side down towards Hanckley Common
Cheers for the reply. I used to pass through Hindhead and the Punch Bowl fairly regularly, but always on my road bike. Since they put the A3 in the tunnel it has been a nice place to ride, and to stop at the NT cafe. I rode through on the old A3 once, around the top of the bowl, and vowed never to repeat that experience, but now that the road is gone it's a nice ride. Since I moved down to Bournemouth I do miss the MTBing up that way. If/when this Covid stuff dies down a bit, I think i'll stick the MTB in the car and take a trip up for old time's sake. If I do, I'll try to make time to check out Hindhead and the Surrey Hills. Is the Tamed Earth bike shop still there?

Fluffsri

3,161 posts

195 months

Wednesday 21st October 2020
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yellowjack said:
Cheers for the reply. I used to pass through Hindhead and the Punch Bowl fairly regularly, but always on my road bike. Since they put the A3 in the tunnel it has been a nice place to ride, and to stop at the NT cafe. I rode through on the old A3 once, around the top of the bowl, and vowed never to repeat that experience, but now that the road is gone it's a nice ride. Since I moved down to Bournemouth I do miss the MTBing up that way. If/when this Covid stuff dies down a bit, I think i'll stick the MTB in the car and take a trip up for old time's sake. If I do, I'll try to make time to check out Hindhead and the Surrey Hills. Is the Tamed Earth bike shop still there?
Didn't realise you had moved to Bournemouth. Shaftesbury is my home town, lots of bridleway stuff to be had in the area. Bit hilly though lol. One of my favourites was Shaftesbury, Wingreen, Tollard Royal, Ashmore, Washers Pit then up to the airfield for tea and a butty. Aff to Melbury beacon into Melbury Abbas and then catch the B3081 home.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Wednesday 21st October 2020
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Fluffsri said:
Didn't realise you had moved to Bournemouth. Shaftesbury is my home town, lots of bridleway stuff to be had in the area. Bit hilly though lol. One of my favourites was Shaftesbury, Wingreen, Tollard Royal, Ashmore, Washers Pit then up to the airfield for tea and a butty. Aff to Melbury beacon into Melbury Abbas and then catch the B3081 home.
Yes, I moved down nearly 18 months ago now. We had no family connections in Farnborough, and once my boys had done the Uni thing there was nothing rooting us there. So after 20 years we upped sticks and moved down to my wife's home town so she could be closer to the care home where her mum is.

I've been busy exploring Dorset (and Wiltshire/Hampshire too) by bike since the move...



Been to Shaftesbury only a couple of times, and not managed to pass the Compton Abbas airfield café in daylight hours yet, but I'm slowly, surely "colouring in" the map and having great fun doing it!

Johnny

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9,652 posts

283 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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Squadrone Rosso

2,740 posts

146 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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Dowks

449 posts

245 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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yellowjack said:
Cheers for the reply. I used to pass through Hindhead and the Punch Bowl fairly regularly, but always on my road bike. Since they put the A3 in the tunnel it has been a nice place to ride, and to stop at the NT cafe. I rode through on the old A3 once, around the top of the bowl, and vowed never to repeat that experience, but now that the road is gone it's a nice ride. Since I moved down to Bournemouth I do miss the MTBing up that way. If/when this Covid stuff dies down a bit, I think i'll stick the MTB in the car and take a trip up for old time's sake. If I do, I'll try to make time to check out Hindhead and the Surrey Hills. Is the Tamed Earth bike shop still there?
No shut quite a while ago now. Can recommend MB Cyclery just down the hill in Haslemere. If you want some routes around there just shout

PushedDover

5,623 posts

52 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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Squadrone Rosso said:
Lucky lad in that weather scenery. Winter has landed up north

Squadrone Rosso

2,740 posts

146 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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PushedDover said:
Lucky lad in that weather scenery. Winter has landed up north
Weather has been horrific over the last few days. Not been out since Sunday so was desperate.

I’m only at 114 miles this month frown

PomBstard

6,729 posts

241 months

Friday 23rd October 2020
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Johnny said:
Got passed by one just like this earlier today. I was going at a reasonable pace, Strava says around 35-40kmh on the flat, and this came past me like I was going backwards. No Aero Beard, though...

As for my ride, I paused to check out the sunrise over Pittwater and Scotland Island...


APOLO1

5,256 posts

193 months

Friday 23rd October 2020
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Johnny

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9,652 posts

283 months

Friday 23rd October 2020
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PomBstard said:
Got passed by one just like this earlier today. I was going at a reasonable pace, Strava says around 35-40kmh on the flat, and this came past me like I was going backwards. No Aero Beard, though...

As for my ride, I paused to check out the sunrise over Pittwater and Scotland Island...

Definitely would have been quicker with a beard...

And, cracking pic as always

RC1807

12,482 posts

167 months

Saturday 24th October 2020
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Thursday, I cycled the Moselle along the Lux / German border to / from Schengen, a 70km round trip. It was warmer than expected and around 20C when I finished. I was dressed in winter gear. Sweaty.

Anyway.... it was a lovely day.






That made it 258km for the week.

PushedDover

5,623 posts

52 months

Sunday 25th October 2020
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Live from the Hillside


magpie215

4,370 posts

188 months

Sunday 25th October 2020
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Bit breezy on Blackpool Promenade today.....fabulous travelling North...coming back southbound not so much.

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

5,071 posts

54 months

Sunday 25th October 2020
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PushedDover said:
Live from the Hillside

You need to mix it up and do a West to East ride.

Weather was mega today wasn't it. We did a Rudland loop.

wobert

5,010 posts

221 months

Sunday 25th October 2020
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40 miles around NE Wales....




PushedDover

5,623 posts

52 months

Sunday 25th October 2020
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take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:
PushedDover said:
Live from the Hillside

You need to mix it up and do a West to East ride.

Weather was mega today wasn't it. We did a Rudland loop.
Agree I need to mix it- I had plans today but then .... stuff happened and wanted to sneak in before darkness.

Sat outside the Golden Lion having a beer on the darkness






And an hour ago :


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

5,071 posts

54 months

Sunday 25th October 2020
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PushedDover said:
Agree I need to mix it- I had plans today but then .... stuff happened and wanted to sneak in before darkness.

Sat outside the Golden Lion having a beer on the darkness






And an hour ago :

Nice... Years since I've bben in that pub. We nearly bought a house in Osmotherley when we moved up here.

A good ride is over to captain cook's monument. Cleveland way or one of the many other bridleways.

From there, there starts to become a network of mtb trails into Guisborough woods if you want to experiment with more techy stuff. Worth downloading trail forks...most are on there.
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