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Bike: Cotic Roadrat
Distance: 37 miles
Time: 2hrs 20mins
Phew! It’s been a long time since I did one of these, perhaps June/July this year, anyway, time was short this weekend and I only had a couple of hours Sunday morning to get any sort of pedal powered satisfaction in so I decided to whip out the Roadrat.
From the off it was completely noticeable that the legs have not had a sustained singlespeed ride for a long time, my aim was 40 miles and I actually felt quite good up until the 30 mile mark and then the legs just died for some reason, probably the curry/beer nutritional combination from the night before! whatever happened it annoyed the heck out of me, so the plan over the winter is to try and get out at least every 2 weeks for a sustained singlespeed ride, unless of course the sun shines and I am forced into a mountain bike ride!!
Am struggling with temptation at the minute, have seen this in the sale:-
with 2 upgrade options which just blings the bike out perfectly, so my ultimate dream bike in a sale……
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Bike: Cotic Roadrat
Distance: 17.86 miles
A late Sunday evening ride, felt the need to inflict some pain upon myself, so took the rat out for a quick road blast.
I had an idea of a route in my head that would hopefully last about an hour, it was spot on and according to the GPS actually took me 1:02:56 – so in my mind there is a perfect goal for the summer to get round that 18 mile loop in under the hour. I took it flat out as best as I could last night and actually managed to sustain a decent pace, averaging 17mph for the route, legs were a little heavy from Friday’s ride but after 30 minutes that was all but shook off.
Motionbased link to the route here, no real hills or anything, pretty flat all the way apart from the odd kick, which makes it a good training route for the rat and it’s 44/16 chainring setup.
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Bike: Commencal Meta 5.5
Distance: 27.45 miles
A day off work and what better way to spend the morning when the rest of the house is either at school or work than out on the bike. I secretly was aiming for some pain today wanted to really push it and see if I could get 2 laps of Davagh in plus the road ride up, well I managed it, did the usual lap of the forest then hit the Middle Run for another lap then double-backed along the Middle Run again taking in the alternate route, legs were absolutely fried but it was worth it.
Weather could not have been better, not too hot, little wind and the trails dare I say it were nearly dusty in places, can’t remember that since oh, maybe this time last year!!
According to my GPS I was in the forest for close on 2 hours, didn’t see another living soul in all that time, just me and the bike and a certain degree of pain and punishment, couldn’t ask for more!
Grabbed the camera as I headed out this morning but in the end couldn’t be bothered to faff too much in stopping and taking photos, took a couple though.
Long ladder on the Stream Trail
Nice and dry trails
View plate at the top of Beleevnamore Mountain
