Pic of the Day

[Bndit]

Unwanted bling, Burgetc UDH hanger. Black ones were out of stock. Not big fan of my totally black levo, but not big fan of anonized parts either…but maybe color matching stem but one thing is sure, if this is as stiff as Santa Cruz original hanger on my Bullit, I never go back to those Sram ones…

 

[thongraegu]

Some updates to my cube, got a new fork installed that I got for less than half the price, what a pain with the cables going through the headset hoolyyy who thought that was a good design. Anyway it feels great.

 

[mtbbiker]

Murrieta, CA. Greer Ranch my local riding area. I usually ride here 2 - 3 times a week.

 

[Mcharza]

Another cracking day at the local bike park.

Pensioner's advantage: you are among the first when the park opens during the day. You get time to ride in peace for the first 2 hours.

 

[Zimmerframe]

Uhmmm. Defo not EMTB today. Playing in the car in the Spanish Pyrenees.

 

[Arminius]

Uhmmm. Defo not EMTB today. Playing in the car in the Spanish Pyrenees.

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Amazing what people can do with….

 

[Just gan]

still not getting the decent weather cold today

 

[Jackware]

Uhmmm. Defo not EMTB today. Playing in the car in the Spanish Pyrenees.

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What do you use to find and navigate the tracks?

 

[Powerslider]

Saw this outside my favorite dive bar The Rooster Tavern today.

 

[Gila Man]

Saw this outside my favorite dive bar The Rooster Tavern today.

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I like it but, drop-bars would give it a cool cafe racer feel.

 

[Zimmerframe]

What do you use to find and navigate the tracks?

Generally, OSMand PRO when navigating. It's a bit quirky when you first use it but it's great once you get used to it.

Then just follow your highlighted section on the screen (you can also enable navigation, but I don't).

When you zoom in it also has all the other mountain trails shown so you can then just follow them and link yourself up to whatever general direction you want to go in, or head back to a road.

You can add in other layers like mountain huts and just about anything else you can think of.

Then just tell it which tracks you want displayed, you can change the colour boldness and other things to give you more visuals on altitude etc.

Wikiloc is pretty good for finding 4*4 routes, off road bike routes, walking routes, then download the gpx files.

https://www.wikiloc.com/

Or here :

Spain | All off-road trails

Here you will find all legal off-road trails in Spain - clearly listed, with practical filters and map view.

www.offroadatlas.com

I also have a lot of offline maps downloaded so you don't get caught out.

 

[MOG]

Just about to go to bed last night when an alarm on phone went off. Checked and it appeared that a very high chance of viewing the Aurora from anywhere in the UK. So stepped out and took following shots with phone. Only lasted 15 mins and only 2nd time I have experienced them here in South Wales

 

[skizzian]

Just about to go to bed last night when an alarm on phone went off. Checked and it appeared that a very high chance of viewing the Aurora from anywhere in the UK. So stepped out and took following shots with phone. Only lasted 15 mins and only 2nd time I have experienced them here in South Wales

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what app do you use to notify you?

 

[The Hodge]

Out with Ant & Jaco this morning on a ride which started at Hexham Racecourse it takes in some fantastic flowing singletrack along the top edge of a valley for about 5 km before heading out over the moors towards Allendale .
This used to be a favourite night ride back in the day when we still did that type of riding ..
Ant said he had never ridden the woodland singletrack in daylight and estimated that it must be 17 years since he had ridden it at night ..its about 5 years since I'd last been on it a little longer for Jaco ..quite why we have neglected this for so long is a mystery as its right up there as some of the finest ribbons of natural singletrack in Northumberland ..
The pics Im about to post really dont do it justice ..

Rebel Hill

Yeah no biggie ..we rode through this too..
Great ride and the usual spot on piss taking ..
Cheers lads






Ive tried to remove the duplicate final 3 pics ..beyond me Im afraid

 

[MOG]

what app do you use to notify you?

Aurora watch UK

 

[Just gan]

Aurora watch UK

We get it loads but I always miss it I used to jump in car and go down beach two minutes away ,turn up after it's gone story of my life.

 

[Bndit]

Saturday afternoon chilling

 

[MeatBike]

Out with my youngest today.

 

[The Hodge]

Out with my youngest today.

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Nowt like having a day off ..resting up in the back of a trailer while the youngster takes the strain up front ...

 

[Amber Valley Guy]

Saw this pair of swans and their four fluffy cygnets whilst ambling about on the bike.

 

[Just gan]

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Easy to chill your in Finland

 

[Stihldog]

Early-ish ride and scratched a bit of dirt.

Afternoon project in the cave …truing up the wheel for a gravel bike.


…and finally nap time (no pics)

 

[richy]

A weekend away in the flattest part of the UK...

 

[RustyMTB]

First punny in a while & so first time using the mini electric pump. I say first, I did use it for another guy last year who after I'd pumped up his tyre, said thanks, the mountain bike gods will bless you.

Twenty minutes later I went over the bars & ended up off the bike for five months.

 

[Stihldog]

First punny in a while & so first time using the mini electric pump. I say first, I did use it for another guy last year who after I'd pumped up his tyre, said thanks, the mountain bike gods will bless you.

Twenty minutes later I went over the bars & ended up off the bike for five months.

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Hmmm , that little pump looks interesting. Easy to fit in a pac and fairly lightweight. Good trail-side tool.

Errr…hopefully you didn’t use the same guy, who patched up that barn roof, to patch you up also.

Welcome back to the saddle

 

[Atos62]

Winter is back

 

[billwarwick]

Wet and windy ride on the High Peak trail and the Tissington trail. Both reclaimed old railway lines in Derbyshire . All gravel so a bit boring but wonderful scenery and you get a real sense of the graft that went into building the lines back in the day

 

[Just gan]

Wet and windy ride on the High Peak trail and the Tissington trail. Both reclaimed old railway lines in Derbyshire . All gravel so a bit boring but wonderful scenery and you get a real sense of the graft that went into building the lines back in the dayView attachment 184679View attachment 184680View attachment 184681View attachment 184683

Nothing like a long flat road to bore you to bits. Nearly as bad as paddling a kayak up a long loch in to the wind haha.

 

[RustyIron]

Greer Ranch my local riding area. I usually ride here 2 - 3 times a week.

Kewl. I've only ridden Greer once. It's a bit of a jaunt mid-week, with all the commuter traffic. Fun trails you have there.

 

[Zimmerframe]

None EMTB related again. But will add in on the travel options

Stayed at a really cool château last night.

It was absolutely enormous. Best of all, unlike most really old Châteaus and castle's, you could go everywhere!

Had it's own chapel and it's own church.

It was so large some sections were just abandoned

I lost track of the number of hallways and towers I climbed.

So anyway, useful things ..

I've invented a new 4*4 trail grading system ! You just see how much your beer can has worn !!

Ok, so if you are traveling off road moto, 4*4, or want to traverse parts of Europe with your EMTB and try to stick to small roads/off road, then TET is a good source of gpx files where people have linked all the trails together with road sections.

https://transeurotrail.org

For example :

Beware, if you're in a 4*4, trails are intended for Moto, so some will be a tight fit !

We met two Germans earlier who caught us up during a coffee break, so we followed them until one fell off on a steep rocky/muddy descent after a really technical section, so they broke off to recover at a bar. Spoke to them later and the other one had a puncture,.so expect excitement!

Apologies for all the none EMTB content !

For anyone really sad (like me) ..

From a disused 500 year old wine cellar, to the top of one of the towers !