This thread is only for the logging of your qualifying ride.
PLEASE DO NOT POST ANYTHING ELSE BUT QUALIFYING RIDES IN THIS THREAD
To log a ride, add a post containing all of your 2026 metric centuries to date. Ideally one ride per line, with the date, distance (in kilometres, climb (optional), a short route description, and any links you want to add. Do not just post a link: these can be embedded. See last year's thread for examples of how others have formatted..

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Only slightly, but enough to bring the gap at the top down to 71.5" rather than 6'. The post is secured into a concrete base, sitting in soil.

Puzzled, as I have just pulled a fence panel out of it. So clearly someone got one to fit. Can't move the post over by hand.

What are my options?
1. Push the post over by force, e.g. car jack and beam.
2. Trim the panel. But that will make it loose near the bottom.
3. Remove pins, insert, reassemble panel?

The date on my analogue Casio changes at 6pm instead of midnight. Not a game changer, but is it possible to correct it?

Mine was so good. (I did go for that ride..glad i did)
Just over 20 miles, but since the rear ends a bit sore..
Suns been shining here all day, 13 or 14 degrees, 15 mph winds made it a bit slow on the outrun, but fast home (20 -25 mph for 6 miles ).
Very very glad i went...now i feel guilty about feeling good

How was yours...

A thread specially for 'persons of leisure' and independent means, or those with aspirations.
How do you while away those lazy days?
How do you cope financially?
When did you retire?
Is retirement what you expected?
How long did you take to adjust?
Etc.

Tell us what you are up to today or what plans you have.
Or just have a bit of silliness to while away those lazy hours.

I've been busy today. Hilly 15 mile ride in North Devon, took dog for a stroll along Saunton Sands, cut the front lawn..

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The film thread is getting all cluttered up with idiots like me rating serials, shows and documentaries.

So, here is the all encompassing TV thread.

Review and rate what you're watching or have recently watched, please hide spoilers behind tags!

I'll kick off with:

Making a Murderer - 6/10

A solid but at times frustrating account of Steven Avery. It's a pretty damning critique of the American legal process, and the commitment of the filmmakers is impressive. But some parts are..

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I will kick off with this classic


View: https://youtu.be/Fe93CLbHjxQ?is=xV-68UcWRFOfKi6N

The time is upon us when the early signs of Christmas can appear. Discuss sightings here.

***** ColinJ's forum rider tag list *****
Fellow forum riders, I am planning another ride!
@colly, @neil_merseyside, @Sea of vapours, @Domus, @Julia9054, @Spiderweb, @Slioch, @EasyPeez, @Kestevan, @Venod, @Soltydog, @NorthernDave, @Buck, @si_c, @videoman, @FrothNinja, @Vantage, @Dadam, @Jameshow, @Pennine-Paul

If anybody wants their name to be..

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Everyone else in the house seems to have a spare body clock to use at the weekend. Me? Just the one.

Dry and clear, what else do you want for British Winter Time?

Coffee and oats consumed, ParkRun next.

Yourselves?

Hi folks, have got some decisions to make following some investigation with cardiology.
Does anybody have any experience of cycling with warfarin? How do you manage it? What are your general concerns when out on bike? Or did you just give up and start golfing?

Thanks in advance
TTB

A little game that was recommended to me over the festive break: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
I’m quite enjoying the daily word puzzle.

I've noticed that when discussing distance in the forum bods always seem to refer the the number of kilometres rather than miles, even when UK travel. Is this a cycling thing? Just curious

Thanks

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Hill Wimp said:

Seasonal depression has hit.

Click to expand..

Sending you and

Driving up Folly Bank, a fairly steep bugger on a major B road near Eggleston up in the Pennines.
I spot a cyclist ahead going up the bank, as there is no traffic coming the other way I pull across for a safe, wide pass and at last second spot his mate riding parallel to him, on the other side of the road against the traffic. Both dressed in nice safe black and not wasting electricity on lights.
Sometimes we don't help ourselves do we.

I went into Halfords and bought some Muck Off (getting ready for the weekend cleaning ) and some chain lube. The guy dropped the chain lube and it broke and spilled out over the floor lol

Two Glaswegians, Archie and Jimmy, are sitting in the pub discussing Jimmy's forthcoming wedding.

"Och, it's all goin' pure dead brilliant," says Jimmy.

"Av goat everythin organised awready, the fluers, the church, the caurs, the reception, the rings, the minister, even ma stag night".
Archie nods approvingly.
I've even bought a kilt to be married in!" continues Jimmy.

"A kilt?" exclaims Archie, "That's magic, you'll look pure smart in that. Whit's the tartan?"

"Och," says Jimmy..

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OK This is a little game which had a lot of success on another (car) forum that I used to be on.
Basically someone sets a challenge which is to take a picture of your bike next to a certain type of monument/landmark/building/interesting feature/anything curious really. The first person that validly fulfills the challenge gets to set the next one. It has to have your bike in the photo, and the person that set the challenge adjudicates whether it passes the challenge.

might not take off, but..

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Review and score a film that you watched last night. It can be old or new. On TV, DVD/Blu Ray or cinema. Popular or obscure. Any film you like!

Last night I watched "Drag Me to Hell". Been wanting to see this for a while and watched it on DVD. A very good and pretty funny in parts horror flick from Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spiderman), it tells the story of a loan officer who rejects the pleads of an old gypsy women whose home is going to be repossessed. The gypsy women puts a curse on..

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There are other threads on here where we can discuss our Zwift and Real Life Racing and give each other encouragement, p~ss taking, banter and knowledge sharing. I thought it might be good to have a thread where people can post up what workouts they are doing, how they got on and how they are progressing. It may even give a bit more accountability for the tough workouts.

This opening post may ger edited as we go along if there are useful links or information.

So post up the workouts you..

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As the end of my lease nears, I have been thinking about what to go for next. I'm not that keen on the ID4 again as the tech is pretty crap as are the facilities compared to rivals.
Up until recently I've always coveted a Tesla Y (can't afford an X).

So - which is the best EV in terms of tech and equipment now that Tesla are about to fall off a cliff?
What would you go for (bearing in mind I'm looking at a medium range family car, not a runaround)?

I quite like the look of the Ioniq 5 but..

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Guardian article - red light jumping cyclists given the option of a £50 fine or watching a road safety video.