Best day of the year so far with the best ride of the year for me.
Big day out but happy with some impressive times in the middle of such a big ride.
This one for example Greig had been chasing from lanark with a 12 minute gap as he went back to wait on another lad. Guy is a ******* motorbike. Caught us at Leadhills and then smashed the descent with me and the other guy.
This climb was meant to be steady but a big young guy decided it wasn't to be so not quite in the top ten but over a minute faster than my last time up it.
Cafe legs hitting this one was fun with a 60kg rider doing 4.5w/kg up it, had to just sit on his wheel and die a little inside. Tried to help on the descent but ended up sitting on as 3 guys rotated - did not feel bad guilty at all
@Jonny ///M I'm just glad you see how lucky you are to have all those bunches available. It's truly a god send and **** most other places in Scotland.
Absolutely nothing up here. There is a local bunch on Thursday nights but dunno if I will bother with going to it.....
Literally just now about to start messaging folks in a 20 mile radius and try set something up for a Saturday. You are spot on the money saying you need these bunches and hard rides outside. It's that icing on the cake that you need no matter how good someone may be.
That's some ride! I was out a bit east of that today and the wind was ridiculous - glorious roads for cycling though, think I saw maybe 10 cars across a 40KM loop
Posted adjuster and spacer second class today.
Also fastest Bundy tonight
https://strava.app.link/AXqcRj1LFfb
Not bad for having heavy racing 77 wheels on.
So a err.. 'recovery ride' for you then?
For me - MTB ridesWhat's a recovery ride????
Loop from Bathgate through West Calder down to Tarbax and back in via Breich. For a longer run I'd be heading off to biggar. Not the crazy number you are posting!Yeah I guess I take it for granted mate.
Guess it's just the population centres really, you should move
We were pretty lucky too. A few dicks at 9am on route to the meet point but other than that we had a car meet of various Porsche and a McLaren on the dalveen pass, loads of Harley's heading from moffat up the beef tubs and a few sports bikes giving it some beans was nice in the ears.
What is East of Moffat then? I only know the wall of talla and St Mary's loch towards Peebles/Inners.
It's the thing you do when you're ancient like me and can't go hard every day that ends in Y.
For me - MTB rides
Must have done 4+ in the last 6 weeks or so. Didn't touch it all of last year. Kinda nice going off-road in some of Surrey. Crossing roads I've ridden many a time on-the-road.
Loop from Bathgate through West Calder down to Tarbax and back in via Breich. For a longer run I'd be heading off to biggar. Not the crazy number you are posting!