Ode To Sunday

May 4, 2014
by Drink Tea Ride Bikes  
Ode to Sundays
Ode to Sundays
Ode to Sundays
Ode to Sundays

Ode to Sunday
Whoever said Sunday was the Lords day. Sunday is My day.
Sundays are for drinking tea and washing the hangover away. For rolling over one more time before falling out of bed. Cooked breakfasts and blurry eyes. Two morning dumps. Finally making that call “Let's go ride”.

The kettle whistles once again as waiting for your friends. Sitting in the kitchen with your helmet on, staring into space, sipping, staring, sipping, ‘knock, knock! “Let's go ride” We whistle down country lanes barely wide enough for one car let alone a van, past hedges and dry-stone walls, cows and country pubs. This is Yorkshire.

Pies, we need Pies!” My reunion with home cannot be complete without a good old collection of pies. We continue to a place that has been ridden by some of the best in the world in years gone by, but is now left to the few who remember the way back.

One pie down as we prepare our bags and tell tales of our respective winters, one in the Dales and one in the Alps. To peddling into the wind, over the grit stone and sand, catching peddles and lunch busting. “I think I remember how to do this!

Ode to Sundays
Ode to Sundays
Ode to Sundays
Ode to Sundays
Ode to Sundays
Ode to Sundays
Ode to Sundays
Ode to Sundays

Smashing turns and finding photos, creative jousting and back in the flow and ready for a fresh season with new eyes and adventurous ideas.

Drink Tea Ride Bikes.
Enjoy your Sundays!

Ode to Sundays


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57 Comments
  • 106 5
 I once heard this.
"I'd rather spend a day in the mountains thinking about god, than spend a day sitting in church thinking about the mountains."
  • 5 8
 Hehe, good one Smile The twisted side of it all is that you go to the church, think of mountains then leave feeling guilty of not participating in the mass as well as unfulfilled by not riding the bike. Well... I feel it right now, it's just that I am at work not in the church...
  • 11 1
 A wise man once said to me "When I was growing up, the mountains were our church and Herman Meier was our god."
  • 6 11
flag WAKIdesigns (May 5, 2014 at 1:34) (Below Threshold)
 Who ever heard of Herman Meier?
  • 7 0
 Hermann Maier is like the best ever downhill ski racer of all times. from austria
  • 4 0
 Nope that's Ingemar Stenmark.
  • 2 0
 Ingemar Stenmark, swedens pride!
  • 3 5
 I know who Herman Maier is, I just found it amusing to see someone call some bloke a god and not even be able to spell his eftername correctly. Now... Who ever cares for Alpine skiing...
  • 2 0
 I'll have you know that I do.
  • 2 1
 Awesome Smile I just love this bit when people go to such extents to not tell directly what they mean, when they mean - I am so into something, and I demand others to acknolwedge that this thing awesome. This is my way of seeking acceptance. I do it by using word "god" to call a prime representant of a particular interest in order to aggressively challenge the listener of my message, to force him to acknowledge that awesomeness. At the same time I feel great for calling that prime bloke a god, that will gain me the sympathy of others who are already in my sport so that we can evenutally gang up on the bloke that does not want to recognize and appreciate our devotion.

I seeeee youuuuuuu!
  • 1 0
 That's was not really my intent but thanks for putting so much effort into your comment Wakidesigns
  • 1 0
 I did not talk about you, but the original comment which is very common among people who claim to be so into some sport Big Grin
  • 4 0
 Sorry for spelling the godly Maier's name incorrectly earlier.
  • 41 2
 Who says sunday isn't religious for mountain bikers as well? Sunday is race day...
  • 3 0
 Sunday Funday
  • 2 0
 Not anymore for World Cups. Stupid UCI Frown
  • 16 1
 Pinkbike needs more of this
  • 10 0
 Pre- ride: Sandwich with smoked ham and avocado & a slice of bread with peanut butter and homemade jam with a large iced coffee on the side.
During ride: "Pasteli" - Greek sesame and honey snack and copious amount of electrolytes
Post ride: Souvlaki or gyros and cold beer

Annnnnd..... I'm still fat!
  • 3 0
 I like how u roll!!
  • 3 0
 Post ride souvlaki.... I'd be fat too. I used to date a Greek girl; every time we visited her family I would leave 5lbs heavier. Paska Sunday was like a 12 hour lamb buffet.
  • 2 0
 Pascha Sunday is the best food you will ever find. Ever. This is an undisputedly true fact
  • 1 0
 Pascha Sunday lunch is more of an extreme sport than a lunch! The gyros place we found near our usualy riding loop is a good substitute though. It's like a combination of gyros place and ouzo drinking place for the elderly of the vilage so you get the sureal image of dudes in mtb gear eating (well actually devouring) gyros next to a table of old men drinking (copious amounts of) ouzo with mezze while they watch sports on the tv.
  • 14 1
 Lawd Jesus! I need to go bike!
  • 10 1
 My two-dump Sunday consisted of changing my toddlers diapers, so I will live vicariously through you. Good job!
  • 13 4
 drink tea? more like drink Beer and ride bikes!
  • 21 33
flag Lester22291 (May 4, 2014 at 21:16) (Below Threshold)
 *smoke weed, ride bikes.*
  • 5 4
 beer always after, never with bike in this same time
  • 3 3
 Stay safe is always the best bet.
  • 8 0
 No tea? You've clearly never been to Britain.
  • 3 0
 Colorado mtb! Lol
  • 2 1
 went ridding this past Sunday (read yesterday) , nothing special, runs up and down the local hill, pissing rain, wet washy turns, sketchy rocks, came back cold, wet and beat to $hit.

awesome sunday. Thanks god!....i mean bike.
  • 1 0
 Sunday is my ride day as well Smile

Weeks are dropping of kids, work, picking up kids and cooking dinner. Saturday is taking care of house chores and spending time with family. But Sunday morning to a bit after lunch is my time. Getting all dirty, sweaty and tired Smile
  • 7 2
 GOD= Great OutDoors
  • 15 11
 Sunday is the Lord's day. It's how we spend it that matters.
  • 2 1
 Agreed.
  • 7 6
 aaaaaand what if you don't believe, like me?
  • 10 1
 Bruccio, it is irrelevant whether you believe or not when it comes to interacting with other people. Everyone has his own reality, we are only judged by others for how we behave in the common one, how we confront ours with theirs, and we must find our own way to deal with that judgement. Believe in what you want, the only thing that matters is what you do with it. Oh excuse me... this is what I believe in heheh. Cheers!
  • 2 1
 exactly what i wanted to stress out mate Wink
  • 2 0
 Everyone should watch this - a man I have spent far too long reading - afterwards you will understand everything (including as a bonus what links monthy python, the titanic starring Winslet and Decaprio, and Coca-Cola - dinner party/internet winner right there!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ6QszbQMEs - watch, understand, and you'll figure out everything
  • 3 0
 There's time for church, brunch, riding, and beer on Sundays, and I regularly do all four. Some Sundays I even *make* beer. Best day of the week, IMO.
  • 1 2
 thelumberjack - heheh, I am happy if you did. Things like that are eye opening, they are necessary for people to realize. but they blow a bubble that will burst, or I'd rather say, they are bubbles, you get into them through awakening, not realizing first that they are bubbles, membranes. After time you start to consume all that is inside them and they start to get smaller. At least if you are digging deeper to find more about the issue of your awakening. Some settle inside of them and deny th existence of their limits, of the membrane. But then, when the walls come close enough, you will find another world behind the membrane, not the one that you left. You will cross it, and you will eventually find that this new world is harsh as well and you may want to go inside of another bubble of wisdom, awakening, transcendence Smile After being in at least three I no longer live through them, i appreciate them, embrace them, but, these are just bubbles. At least I wantd to arrive somewhere everytime I found one, now I know that search will always go on. We probably cannot arrive, we probably cannot wake up.
  • 2 0
 yesterday was Sunday, the 4th of May, and it was snowing in our neck of the woods. So, what happened to the Sun anyways? (was still riding though)
  • 2 0
 I havent been able to ride my bike for 4 months thanks to this deployment, roll on the first sunday when im home!! Pies rides and teas!! boom!!
  • 3 0
 how about bbqs and beer rather than pies and tea haha
  • 3 0
 Peacefully dope!
  • 2 0
 pie, chips, peas, and gravy
  • 4 3
 You should all be ashamed of yourselves. You should all be in Church on Sunday...SO I can have the trails all to my selfish.
  • 1 0
 Many can and do both, non any given Sunday.
  • 1 0
 Currently drinking pre ride tea. Pre ride dump imminent. All I need is pies now.
  • 2 0
 I always enjoy my Iron Horse Big Grin
Badum tsssss
  • 3 1
 This is awesome Smile
  • 2 1
 Tea is good ( but coffee and beer are just as good IMHO) Smile
  • 1 0
 cool layout. nice article
  • 1 0
 love the layout and pics. great work.
  • 1 0
 Drink tea, ride bikes. Yorkshire life, perfection.
  • 3 6
 Sunday is the Lord's Day.
  • 2 1
 No no no no! You don't understand! Sunday is my day to ride my bike!







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