Making friends with my new Rockhopper Expert 29 mountain bike. I’ve now used all the gears (12-speed) and washed the first mud from it. It’s good, it’ll get me to places I wouldn’t otherwise get to.. Just the old road out from Keswick to Wescoe and Threlkeld that goes on to Scales and Mungrisdale. I rode alongside a red squirrel jumping from tree to tree in Brundholme Wood. Lots of gates and it’s not flat. My main ride was just under 20 miles so nothing epic but it’s the new bike’s first “official” ride.
Biggest problem was taking only one breakfast bar as a trail snack so I indulged in a guilty pleasure (see photo) on my return route along the rather more level railway path through the gorge of the River Greta.
