Pic of the Day

[The Hodge]

A few pics from this evening's ride out of Alwinton , Northumberland with @The EMF & @timberjack ..or Wayne & Ant if you prefer..
Wayne ( front ) & Ant climbing up Middle Hill..

Wayne starting the climb up Pass Peth left as it was taken for scale having started after myself & Ant for his own pics ..

The Upper Coquetdale Valley..the faint line running away from the trees in the middle ground is the bridleway from Shilmoor..very entertaining as the bracken was chest high in places , riding blind and the track off-camber ..great fun

Ant taking in the view

Wayne rounding the last corner ..

Down all the way now to a pint of the dark stuff in the Rose & Thistle after another cracker of a ride
Cheers lads

 

[The EMF]

Following on from @The Hodge ride description with myself and
@timberjack i can only agree what a cracking mid week ride it was. Every where looking nice and green after days of rain, the trails were surprisingly dry though. A few pics of the boys doing their thaang. You will have to expand the last pic’s to capture Neil and Ant climbing Pass Peth, the last big climb.
Only downside was the swarms of flies every time you stopped, little gits

 

[The Hodge]

Map & numbers from yesterday's ride ..

 

[Mcharza]

Back at flat land. First northern Germany then Sweden and Finland. No more mountain pics

I also went to check Sweden's NATO readiness. There's still work to do

 

[Christurbo]

Playing with the Factory orange before the black goes on!

 

[The Hodge]

Playing with the Factory orange before the black goes on!

The car looks absolutely fine as it is ..

 

[Dax]

 

[darwink1]

Since the bullit is down with beep boop motor issues I've been riding the chubby bike. Its.... different...

D

 

[etoni]

singletrack day with walking pictures…

 

[Mcharza]

Checking our local bike park's new jump line.

 

[Tonybro]

Last ride before my Op on Tuesday. 16 miler up, around and down from Jubilee Tower, Darwen and Roddlesworth...

After all these years of riding up to it, I never went in so remedied that and took a pic of my bike from the top... Mine's the one on the left! ;-)

Also reasonable view of Pendle Hill from the Tower...

Didn't see any witches! :-(

So 16 miles, 1250 kCals, 2600ft of climbing.

 

[The Hodge]

Last ride before my Op on Tuesday. 16 miler up, around and down from Jubilee Tower, Darwen and Roddlesworth...

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After all these years of riding up to it, I never went in so remedied that and took a pic of my bike from the top... Mine's the one on the left! ;-)
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Also reasonable view of Pendle Hill from the Tower...
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Didn't see any witches! :-(

So 16 miles, 1250 kCals, 2600ft of climbing.

Hope all goes well on Tuesday

 

[Zimmerframe]

Saw this on a little tour yesterday. Apparently made by a local metal fabrication company. It's the scrap stamping sheet which they turned into a gate .. thought it looked quite cool !

 

[Menelaos]

Ionian Sea Greece

 

[Errol1098]

 

[RustyMTB]

Snakes on a plain.

 

[Kary]

Last evening on the Tahoe Rim trail. At the "Bench"

 

[etoni]

afterwork ride.

 

[klevtik]

Kyiv, Ukraine

 

[steve_sordy]

Kyiv looks better than I thought it might, thankfully.

 

[Stihldog]

It’s difficult to not get political for a moment.

Slava Ukraine
“Heroyam Slava”

 

[TimC7]

Nice on the open trails,

muddy in the woods.

 

[HORSPWR]

Back at flat land. First northern Germany then Sweden and Finland. No more mountain pics

I also went to check Sweden's NATO readiness. There's still work to do View attachment 121147 View attachment 121148 View attachment 121149 View attachment 121150 View attachment 121151 View attachment 121152 View attachment 121153

Where and what sort of snake is that? Venomous?

 

[RustyMTB]

Went rain dodging on the world's most serviced Jam2. Still got soaked on the way home.

 

[Mcharza]

Where and what sort of snake is that? Venomous?

European common viper that is poisonous. Although not fatal for a healthy person.

 

[Arminius]

European common viper that is poisonous. Although not fatal for a healthy person.

Ladder without L?

Don“t run one over. Interesting that it is now protected by Finish law:
„New nature protection legislation will come into force at the beginning of June that will make the viper a protected species for the first time in Finland.
In the future, people will no longer be permitted to kill vipers without reasonable cause, nor may these snakes be disturbed in their natural habitats.“

 

[franciscoasismm]

Sunrise on the Guadiana River

 

[StoneH]

The first ride on my "Blue Thunder".
Monsanto Park, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

[The Hodge]

I was going to ride yesterday but there was just a tad too much precip..and while I'm not bothered at all if it rains when I'm out there ..I hate starting off with it already raining ..so took another day off today and headed up to Kielder my local "trail centre" ..spent my time on the last section of the red "twist & shout" x2..then did the Osprey Trail ..which is a blue trail and in my opinion ( biased )..the best trail centre blue I've ridden ...spoilt only by the fact that the budget ran out before it could be completed ..but the link up forest road section isn't too bad and a new vista has opened up after recent felling ..where you can now view Kielder Castle from above ..
I rode the last section of this trail x3 times by taking the forest road from where it meets the Lakeside Way and climbing back up to the maintenance access track at the top ..a bit naughty
Anyway a few pics ..and the first one of a couple of lads who I met at Twist & Shout ..over from Cumbria ..
They seemed interested in maybe joining the forum ...

The view of Kielder Castle from near to the Osprey Chick section ..( still closed ) Zoom in

Why have I taken a picture of these trees ? ..well when this trail was first built there was a clear view across the valley to the Lonesome Pine Trail..just shows how time flies ..

Fams Bridge & the stream below

This section of trail just flows so well..from this point down ( Squirrel Nut Pines) to the Lakeside Way ..
If it had a few " features " it would be a " red " ..but so skinny is the singletrack that it would probably spoil things ..give it a try if you are in the area ..you won't be disappointed..

 

[Slymobi]

@The Hodge I have the same feelings regarding the rain