Chris Auton hung out with 1 person.Tim Auton

Chris Auton hung out with 1 person.Tim Auton

Tim Auton you seen this :-)

Tim Auton you seen this :-)

Originally shared by harri manni

Impressive!

#LEGO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF0pMILT7_Y

My MTB circle is looking a little quiet... Anybody care to share a well populated circle?

Anybody use MyTracks to record rides?

Anybody use MyTracks to record rides? It is a great application, or at least it was. It has started missing sections of track and I am hoping it is just my phone rather than MyTracks updating itself into a hole...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.maps.mytracks

#MyTracks is a fantastic GPS tracker for your phone, minimal battery drain, rates to many formats, e-mail them...

#MyTracks is a fantastic GPS tracker for your phone, minimal battery drain, rates to many formats, e-mail them easily from the app, just a good simple application. Thanks to Rick Horsfield for the tip, but this this question goes to you as well Rick.
If you are already using it, has it suddenly started missing huge swathes of your rides? I am hoping not and it is something fixable at my end but I suspect a recent update may have broken it...
This might be an odd thing to say, but if you haven't tried it, do, it really is/was good :-)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.maps.mytracks

Well, it took the threat (as yet unfulfilled) of heavy snow but today's commute is back on the bike.

Well, it took the threat (as yet unfulfilled) of heavy snow but today's commute is back on the bike. Not the usual 700c shod hybrid though, with its convenient pannier but probably a knobbly tyred singlespeed... Time for a rucksack and the "I'm here!" cover.
I say probably as I might whip on some studded tyres if it is looking more icy than snowy.
Should be fun :-)

First ride back in a while and oh look, the puncture fairy!

Well, that was eventful! First ride of the year, and in truth, the first ride in ages. Steady and undemanding was the order of the day with a pretty easy 16ish mile loop, not very technical. Not too strenuous, so feels like more effort if you go singlespeed, so I did. Which now involves the new bike (to this blog) all the bits off the Carrera Fury are now on the On-One 456 Evo.
Anywhere there could be mud there was, unless there was a small flood instead but riding through water is just more fun, more grippy and much cleaner so that was fine :-)

The more observant amongst you may however have noticed a discrepancy. I said 16ish miles but Strava says 13? Well, about 12 miles in is when the puncture fairy turned up... Only a bit soft so a quick pump up and deal with it later... The puncture fairy didn't like that, they really didn't! So over the next mile the soft tear became a fully flat rear, out comes the tube and in goes the one I hastily grabbed on my way out of the door. A little too hastily as it was a 700c, and I was on 26" wheels. No matter, fitted it anyway, pumped up fine and away we... don't go.

As I grabbed the front wheel to flip the bike back, the front was flat, utterly airless. Never mind, just had some practice, this will take no time! So I appropriated my mates spare tube and popped that in. Well after removing the enormous thorn from the tyre carcass, way bigger than the one in the rear so no idea why the rear went soft first but no matter.

Well, actually yes, some matter, because the new (to me) tube was already leaking! Not had it apart to try and find out why but that tyre was thorn free, I checked it twice, I always do! So that's when I stopped Strava recording, the next mile and a half to the road was pretty interesting, uphill was just a bit sketchy, downhill was frankly hilarious! Like riding in beautiful powder apart from the jarring of rocks on rim. It was destined to be the last ride for my well worn Mud X tyres anyway, but I think it will be pretty trashed now.

Can't really afford to go tubeless on the SS bike as well but it did remind me of the BIGGEST advantage of tubeless... no thorn punctures.

Was great to be back out though :-)

I just rode 13.0 miles! Check it out on #strava

Well, that was eventful!

Well, that was eventful! First ride of the year, and in truth, the first ride in ages. Steady and undemanding was the order of the day with a pretty easy 16ish mile loop, not very technical. Not too strenuous, so feels like more effort if you go singlespeed, so I did.
Anywhere there could be mud there was, unless there was a small flood instead but riding through water is just more fun, more grippy and much cleaner so that was fine :-)

The more observant amongst you may however have noticed a discrepancy. I said 16ish miles but Strava says 13? Well, about 12 miles in is when the puncture fairy turned up... Only a bit soft so a quick pump up and deal with it later... The puncture fairy didn't like that, they really didn't! So over the next mile the soft tear became a fully flat rear, out comes the tube and in goes the one I hastily grabbed on my way out of the door. A little too hastily as it was a 700c, and I was on 26" wheels. No matter, fitted it anyway, pumped up fine and away we... don't go.

As I grabbed the front wheel to flip the bike back, the front was flat, utterly airless. Never mind, just had some practice, this will take no time! So I appropriated my mates spare tube and popped that in. Well after removing the enormous thorn from the tyre carcass, way bigger than the one in the rear so no idea why the rear went soft first but no matter.

Well, actually yes, some matter, because the new (to me) tube was already leaking! Not had it apart to try and find out why but that tyre was thorn free, I checked it twice, I always do! So that's when I stopped Strava recording, the next mile and a half to the road was pretty interesting, uphill was just a bit sketchy, downhill was frankly hilarious! Like riding in beautiful powder apart from the jarring of rocks on rim. It was destined to be the last ride for my well worn Mud X tyres anyway, but I think it will be pretty trashed now.

Can't really afford to go tubeless on the SS bike as well but it did remind me of the BIGGEST advantage of tubeless... no thorn punctures.

Was great to be back out though :-)

I just rode 13.0 miles! Check it out on #strava: http://app.strava.com/activities/35403149
http://app.strava.com/activities/35403149