Rás Cnoic
Hillrider a.k.a. The Apostle
- Region
- United Kingdom
- City
- Dartmoor
Been marvelling at the week ahead, reorganising work, looking at maps...
2026 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos
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Chargeride
Well-Known Member
I admire your faith in the Met Office, I wish you luck traveller
Rás Cnoic
Hillrider a.k.a. The Apostle
- Region
- United Kingdom
- City
- Dartmoor
I have 2 apps - met office and one called Windy. Met is pretty conservative - "only a few drops of rain old fellow, nothing to worry about." Whereas Windy is more dramatic "ITS A FUCKING HURRICANE WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!"
So usually it's somewhere in between and both remarkably say sunshine (patchy) for the week ahead.
Chargeride
Well-Known Member
The way they simplify the weather is so inconsistent and decieving.
Sunny and dry but 30% chance of rain and the graphic looks like a monsoon.
So you take an umbrella and its suntan all day.
Oh and its strangely free, why is weather prediction practically free outside of the bbc.
A few adverts on the web page is hardly gonng to cover the costs involved.
Edit..I deep dived, its quite a bag of snakes.
Sunny and dry but 30% chance of rain and the graphic looks like a monsoon.
So you take an umbrella and its suntan all day.
Oh and its strangely free, why is weather prediction practically free outside of the bbc.
A few adverts on the web page is hardly gonng to cover the costs involved.
Edit..I deep dived, its quite a bag of snakes.
Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
- Region
- USA
- City
- Carlsbad, CA
Used Windy to see the maps with the wind, rain, fronts, and pressure centers headed your way. It just shook its head in grim silence.
Your lows resemble our daily highs, our lows are in the negatives
Stefan Mikes
Gravel e-biker
- Region
- Europe
- City
- Mazovia, PL
Elektroza Nieporętoza (A NON-Gravel Group Ride) 
As we accepted my long time friend Makenzen (Joanna) into our riding group, and she rides a recumbent bike on 25 mm tyres, I promised our ad hoc ride would avoid riding gravel or terrain at any cost! Weather: warm (16 C), sunny, hardly any wind (and if any, it was a friendly one!) We all four met in Warsaw-Rembertów where the e-biker Anna lives. And we rode North.
You would think we were riding gravel anyway Not. We found Komoot tried to force us inside a forest so we were considering options. An elderly lady who was walking her doggie not only took that picture but also told us a concrete slab road was a connector to a new beautiful road of a minimum traffic that would easily take us to our destination! (L to R: Yours truly, Makenzen, Anna and Tommy).
Here, they all look as a typical gravel group who emerged from the woods to cross a road and immerse into another forest again NOT! (A joke says: "Who are gravel cyclists? They are cyclists who ride across paved roads!")
Me leading the group on the Beautiful New Road
Our destination was Nieporęt, a location on Zegrzyńskie Lake. The big artificial reservoir is a favourite place for sailing, motor-boating or just numerous sand beaches at many different locations around. Here: At the "Quiet Water Inn". See one of several recumbent bikes that Makenzen owns. This one has been designed for road riding only.
At last! After several months of culinary drought, I could eventually get a pork chop with potatoes and cucumber in sour cream ("mizeria"), probably the most favourite meal in Poland!
Totally satiated with the highest quality food we got at the inn, we rode to the beach.
The motorboat guys certainly had a lot of fun!
Despite all my efforts, we could not avoid several kilometres of smooth gravel along the Royal Canal towards Warsaw. It was at least not sand.
We've been close friends with Makenzen since 2006, and even were in the same musical band!
This photo is out-of-focus but gives the gist why people love riding their bikes there!
As some of you already know, Anna is of my age group, and she (and her late husband) were e-bikers well before I turned into one! Anna was e-biking in many countries! Nowadays, she rides a nice Swiss made Flyer, a Bosch E-Bike, Nexus IGH, carbon drive belt etc.
I made 70 km total on the day. As I had to significantly reduce the assistance to match the group capability, I got a really good workout! (Not that many calories as the day before though).
As we accepted my long time friend Makenzen (Joanna) into our riding group, and she rides a recumbent bike on 25 mm tyres, I promised our ad hoc ride would avoid riding gravel or terrain at any cost! Weather: warm (16 C), sunny, hardly any wind (and if any, it was a friendly one!) We all four met in Warsaw-Rembertów where the e-biker Anna lives. And we rode North.
You would think we were riding gravel anyway
Not. We found Komoot tried to force us inside a forest so we were considering options. An elderly lady who was walking her doggie not only took that picture but also told us a concrete slab road was a connector to a new beautiful road of a minimum traffic that would easily take us to our destination! (L to R: Yours truly, Makenzen, Anna and Tommy).Here, they all look as a typical gravel group who emerged from the woods to cross a road and immerse into another forest again
NOT! (A joke says: "Who are gravel cyclists? They are cyclists who ride across paved roads!") Me leading the group on the Beautiful New Road
Our destination was Nieporęt, a location on Zegrzyńskie Lake. The big artificial reservoir is a favourite place for sailing, motor-boating or just numerous sand beaches at many different locations around. Here: At the "Quiet Water Inn". See one of several recumbent bikes that Makenzen owns. This one has been designed for road riding only.
At last! After several months of culinary drought, I could eventually get a pork chop with potatoes and cucumber in sour cream ("mizeria"), probably the most favourite meal in Poland!
Totally satiated with the highest quality food we got at the inn, we rode to the beach.
The motorboat guys certainly had a lot of fun!
Despite all my efforts, we could not avoid several kilometres of smooth gravel along the Royal Canal towards Warsaw. It was at least not sand.
We've been close friends with Makenzen since 2006, and even were in the same musical band!
This photo is out-of-focus but gives the gist why people love riding their bikes there!
As some of you already know, Anna is of my age group, and she (and her late husband) were e-bikers well before I turned into one! Anna was e-biking in many countries! Nowadays, she rides a nice Swiss made Flyer, a Bosch E-Bike, Nexus IGH, carbon drive belt etc.
I made 70 km total on the day. As I had to significantly reduce the assistance to match the group capability, I got a really good workout! (Not that many calories as the day before though).
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edobici_forza
Well-Known Member
- Region
- USA
- City
- San Mateo, CA
I am a weather geek too! so good to plan rides but you are looking too fa into the future!
edobici_forza
Well-Known Member
- Region
- USA
- City
- San Mateo, CA
so cool Stefan. riding with friends is awesome!!Elektroza Nieporętoza (A NON-Gravel Group Ride)
As we accepted my long time friend Makenzen (Joanna) into our riding group, and she rides a recumbent bike on 25 mm tyres, I promised our ad hoc ride would avoid riding gravel or terrain at any cost! Weather: warm (16 C), sunny, hardly any wind (and if any, it was a friendly one!) We all four met in Warsaw-Rembertów where the e-biker Anna lives. And we rode North.
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You would think we were riding gravel anyway
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Here, they all look as a typical gravel group who emerged from the woods to cross a road and immerse into another forest again
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Me leading the group on the Beautiful New Road
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Our destination was Nieporęt, a location on Zegrzyńskie Lake. The big artificial reservoir is a favourite place for sailing, motor-boating or just numerous sand beaches at many different locations around. Here: At the "Quiet Water Inn". See one of several recumbent bikes that Makenzen owns. This one has been designed for road riding only.
At last! After several months of culinary drought, I could eventually get a pork chop with potatoes and cucumber in sour cream ("mizeria"), probably the most favourite meal in Poland!
View attachment 208875
Totally satiated with the highest quality food we got at the inn, we rode to the beach.
The motorboat guys certainly had a lot of fun!
Despite all my efforts, we could not avoid several kilometres of smooth gravel along the Royal Canal towards Warsaw. It was at least not sand.
We've been close friends with Makenzen since 2006, and even were in the same musical band!
This photo is out-of-focus but gives the gist why people love riding their bikes there!
As some of you already know, Anna is of my age group, and she (and her late husband) were e-bikers well before I turned into one! Anna was e-biking in many countries! Nowadays, she rides a nice Swiss made Flyer, a Bosch E-Bike, Nexus IGH, carbon drive belt etc.
I made 70 km total on the day. As I had to significantly reduce the assistance to match the group capability, I got a really good workout! (Not that many calories as the day before though).
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