Majestic, definitely and so quiet. There are trails that go to 8-900m, we were around 350m, absolutely ebike territory. 

We drove 20-25 mins to there from the house and the last bit to where we parked is 20% min, 30 in places and Michael and his mate will ride there from home, climb higher and ride home, 60-70kms usually. 

Nice easy ride today, 2 or 3 newcomers so 13 in total

 

 

2nd outing on the Orbea and with the Saturday group. 

Majority done with no assistance, the odd bit and the last mile or so in Eco mode, Strava says harder than usual effort 😀

 

 

1st ride out over here, a short one to run in the Felt

 

 

A short Sunday Razz, mainly Gravel and Road, I need to find my way around again. 

Drive train creaking a tad so I need to look at that before doing too much on it, time for the Road bike methinks, of course I will ride past any Bars 🙄

 

 

@olduns i have a feeling i'll heading into the woods again rather than up the peaks  too... the mud and rain yesterday made the climb near impossible... no traction anywhere

1st ride out on the Carrera for 2 yrs... 

I'd forgotten how twitchy 23mm  slick tyres, narrow bars and being clipped in felt 😳

 

 

Edited 4 October, 20214 yr by olduns

I'm staying with my mother for a few days, in Shropshire and thanks to my new Superb, I've brought my bike with me.  I smashed out a 56 mile ride this morning, including a trophy (I think I only have 1 or 2 of these previously) for a second best on a segment out of 3,600 people! So quite pleased with that.

 

 

I don't how but it appears I've been off the bikes for 2 weeks 🤷‍♂️

Last full day run out, 22c and clear Blue skies, lovely 😀

 

Chicken Farm with railway things 🤔

 

 

and after 2 years they've finally re opened the next bridge upstream to be able to do a loop

 

 

 

Edited 19 October, 20214 yr by olduns

10 hours ago, olduns said:

I don't how but it appears I've been off the bikes for 2 weeks 🤷‍♂️

Last full day run out, 22c and clear Blue skies, lovely 😀

 

Chicken Farm with railway things 🤔

 

 

and after 2 years they've finally re opened the next bridge upstream to be able to do a loop

 

 

 

and it looks like nasty asbestos roofs on the sheds 😬

 

any closer pgotos of the rail stuff? i xan see rail ends so looks like some sort of very shallow depth sleeper/bearer arrangement possi ly from a bridge deck or that they had an elevated loading/unloading bay there previously. probably for gather all the chicken ****e for transportation to a fertiliser plant or for unloading chicken feed by the wagon load?

 

It's all narrow guage I think? 

the piles in centre are sections, possibly concrete bearers? 

The rail laid turns tight to the right as you look at it then finishes but no buffers. 

The sheds behind have more rail and carriages, no loco that I can see but didn't go wandering about. 

One of our neighbours thinks it's a hobby railway, recalls a w/e show a few years ago. 

I'll take a look at the French version of OS maps for signs of a railway

Google Maps shows the rails and sheds better, a lot more 'stuff' there than i thought.

terrain is hilly around there so i don't think the line ever went anywhere other than the yard

 

 

 

Edited 21 October, 20214 yr by olduns

Group ride out today, a bit colder than Tuesdays ride 😳. 

A bit of levitation thrown in, phone threw a wobbly 😀

 

 

eMTB tomorrow.... 

Muddy, slippy and the FC tearing up the singletracks 🙁

 

 

Another one for you Mac... only goes to the Grey box and the same the other side

 

 

2 bikes to clean now.... The sheep poo from August BH is starting to smell 😀

Early day so off out for a few hours on the Digital bike... 

A muddy group ride today especially where the FC are tearing areas up, some downhill areas a touch sketchy riding over conifers, trunks etc

 

 

Managed to be more than 100m from a WC after 3-4 days 😀

Easy pootle about in Eco mode mainly to try and save what little energy I had

 

Someone's been busy painting the Trig points.... 

Analogue Group ride today... Must remember to press resume after Coffee stop 🙄

 

 

Total was 13 ish miles... 

 

 

Long'ish way back to test lights for night rides.. 

 

 

Next one will be with helmet lamp as well

 

A wander around an area I've not been to, an old quarry and plenty of lumpy singletrack

 

 

and a minor off 🙄

 

 

Slow speed and thankfully the prickly stuff has died off 😄

were you venturibg up or down the trailat the time? looks like deceptive little hole tbf

going the way ive taken the pic....bottom of pic is a small rise, threw me off line and towards the bush.

cameras tend to flatten out the terrain

its actually a very steep  slope to the left, about 20ft to the bottom, covered in bracken so a soft drop!

Group ride day and a lights ride return home with helmet mounted lamp as well, so much better 👍🌚

 

 

Sunday eMTB pootle... 

 

 

2 weeks since the last ride so I thought I'd best get out... Cold, bitter wind and it seems a lot of rain last night... Sloppy, wet, muddy