Had a fantastic ride out today on the MTB for the first time in a while, had a lot of fun! Smashing through puddles, balancing on the edge of tow paths through bridges haha.
It didn't start too well, had a bus driver on three separate occasions nearly wipe me out, and one of those times were whisker close. So I caught him up and pulled along side him, I think I said "are you effin kidding me" to which he replied "I earn £4.50 per hour, you don't know what it's eeffin like".. My reply was simply "so that's worth killing someone, is that what you're trying to accomplish today? You've nearly crushed me a number of times whilst speeding through town, is it worth it, do you wana kill me or something?" He was completely blank and turned away at this point and kept ignoring me. Genuinely scared me twice and there were no need, I wernt exactly going slow and I was hugging the kerb.
Anyways, a few mins later I were on the canal and I had a beautifully nice morning! I don't often ride the MTB at all so it was nice to give it a good blast across a genuinely beautiful part of West Yorkshire.
I had intentions of getting to Rochdale but my knee was hurting, I were running low on water and my thighs didn't feel reet good either so I decided decided to turn back and bag myself a good 40 miles.
Got a 2015 4th overall on a section I didn't know was there and 15th overall so that made me feel quite good as I wernt expecting anything along the route.
It was so much fun coming the other way as I were going down all the locks! Need to do it again but go a further next time!
Anyway here's the ride! I have pictures!
http://app.strava.com/activities/284545618
Pics - https://imageshack.com/a/XXB4/1
It didn't start too well, had a bus driver on three separate occasions nearly wipe me out, and one of those times were whisker close. So I caught him up and pulled along side him, I think I said "are you effin kidding me" to which he replied "I earn £4.50 per hour, you don't know what it's eeffin like".. My reply was simply "so that's worth killing someone, is that what you're trying to accomplish today? You've nearly crushed me a number of times whilst speeding through town, is it worth it, do you wana kill me or something?" He was completely blank and turned away at this point and kept ignoring me. Genuinely scared me twice and there were no need, I wernt exactly going slow and I was hugging the kerb.
Anyways, a few mins later I were on the canal and I had a beautifully nice morning! I don't often ride the MTB at all so it was nice to give it a good blast across a genuinely beautiful part of West Yorkshire.
I had intentions of getting to Rochdale but my knee was hurting, I were running low on water and my thighs didn't feel reet good either so I decided decided to turn back and bag myself a good 40 miles.
Got a 2015 4th overall on a section I didn't know was there and 15th overall so that made me feel quite good as I wernt expecting anything along the route.
It was so much fun coming the other way as I were going down all the locks! Need to do it again but go a further next time!
Anyway here's the ride! I have pictures!
http://app.strava.com/activities/284545618
Pics - https://imageshack.com/a/XXB4/1
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