Your Ride Today

Everything to do with cycling
ransos
Sr. Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 335
Joined: 6 years ago

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by ransos » 4 years ago

Joan wrote:
4 years ago
You kitchen looks different today, somehow.
We finally finished self-isolation!
2 x

User avatar
Joan
Administrator
Administrator
Posts: 3117
Joined: 6 years ago

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by Joan » 4 years ago

I had a flat tyre today - totally my fault, target fixed on a rock in the middle of the cycle lane - and wheeled my bike into a Royal Park so I could fix it on the grass.

No less than 7 men checked that I had everything I needed! Seeing not everyone carries tools, that might have been everyone who passed who could have helped.

I am flabbergasted. Helping someone fix a tyre, or lending your tools could expose you to virus transmission.

Those men are heroes!

But damn, now I have to offer the same to any cyclists I see. Right?
0 x

User avatar
JohnToo
Hero Member
Hero Member
Posts: 620
Joined: 6 years ago
Location: Leatherhead

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by JohnToo » 4 years ago

This is actually a rather mundane photo. But on our daily ride at the moment, everything seems deceptively beautiful, every ride a delight, as we rediscover the beauty of our local area.
20200408_181814.jpg
2 x

LowlifeDes
Hero Member
Hero Member
Posts: 1365
Joined: 5 years ago

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by LowlifeDes » 4 years ago

Yes, our straightened times heighten our senses and our pleasures. Let's hope that, along with giving other people space in public situations, we remember all this afterwards.
1 x

User avatar
JohnToo
Hero Member
Hero Member
Posts: 620
Joined: 6 years ago
Location: Leatherhead

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by JohnToo » 4 years ago

Small, but greatly to be savoured, pleasures out on the bike this afternoon:
20200410_172006.jpg
20200410_184308.jpg
5 x

ransos
Sr. Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 335
Joined: 6 years ago

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by ransos » 4 years ago

IMG_20200411_131034.jpg
I'm fortunate to have a good climb just a short distance from my door.
2 x

ransos
Sr. Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 335
Joined: 6 years ago

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by ransos » 3 years ago

IMG_20200422_203850.jpg
EMC is the early morning group I sometimes ride with before work. We're each leaving messages on the local hill for the others to discover.
3 x

User avatar
Regulator
Global Moderator
Global Moderator
Posts: 1880
Joined: 6 years ago
Location: Cambridge

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by Regulator » 3 years ago

ransos wrote:
3 years ago
IMG_20200422_203850.jpg

EMC is the early morning group I sometimes ride with before work. We're each leaving messages on the local hill for the others to discover.
Bloody graffiti vandals....





:P
0 x

User avatar
Regulator
Global Moderator
Global Moderator
Posts: 1880
Joined: 6 years ago
Location: Cambridge

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by Regulator » 3 years ago

A cheeky pre-lunch 20 miler in the glorious sunshine today.

Lots of cyclists and walkers out today.

14B73C99-FE67-467A-8C51-3DB2C893C2FE.png
2 x

User avatar
Joan
Administrator
Administrator
Posts: 3117
Joined: 6 years ago

I preferred it when it was quiet.

Post by Joan » 3 years ago



+ I got beaucoup de trophies!
0 x

User avatar
Joan
Administrator
Administrator
Posts: 3117
Joined: 6 years ago

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by Joan » 3 years ago

4 x

User avatar
JohnToo
Hero Member
Hero Member
Posts: 620
Joined: 6 years ago
Location: Leatherhead

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by JohnToo » 3 years ago

I'm envious.

What was that little out and back diversion just south of Heathrow for? (I don't know that area).
0 x

User avatar
Joan
Administrator
Administrator
Posts: 3117
Joined: 6 years ago

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by Joan » 3 years ago

JohnToo wrote:
3 years ago
I'm envious.

What was that little out and back diversion just south of Heathrow for? (I don't know that area).
Nothing. I just wanted to hit exactly 100km, didn't plan, so just kept random perturbations going.

Though Heathrow is shockingly quiet now,it's probably worth a visit. Another day.
2 x

Iris
Hero Member
Hero Member
Posts: 755
Joined: 5 years ago

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by Iris » 3 years ago

Fasted? Really? Why?!

For 100km I'd want to eat well, before, during and after. Personally I'd have gone in the other direction, too. But that's a matter of taste.
0 x

User avatar
Joan
Administrator
Administrator
Posts: 3117
Joined: 6 years ago

Re: Your Ride Today

Post by Joan » 3 years ago

Iris wrote:
3 years ago
Fasted? Really? Why?!
because I wanted to see what I could do fasted. Quite a lot, it seems.
For 100km I'd want to eat well, before, during and after.
I'm fat adapted, so being well fed or not is much the same now. Yesterday kind of proved that, but I did crave an iced coffee when I got home, and perked up after having it. Not sure if it was the milk or the caffeine that was most important in that drink.
Personally I'd have gone in the other direction, too. But that's a matter of taste.
it's not really a matter of taste. I just picked a direction. I much more often go the other way. In fact, I started out heading towards Surrey, but moments later changed my mind.
0 x

Post Reply