Anyone had an interesting ride recently ?
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"kangaroos on the way to the pub."
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Nice long hilly ride taff....be nice to see some stunning scenery pics next time and dont forget by the canal too
Lynda
Lynda
Nice long hilly ride taff....be nice to see some stunning scenery pics next time and dont forget by the canal too
Lynda
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Not a long ride
Still bedding in my cyclotricity Claud Butler hybrid (Chubby 57)
Took it up to Kingsdale today, rode as far as Dalehead. Good testing climb out of Thornton in Lonsdale and plenty more uphill once in the dale, but stopped before the big hill at the end. I shall save that for when I'm properly kitted out (drink, puncture repair and mini toolkit). 15 miles, liberal use of power, battery down one LED. Not bad.
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Whernside from Yordas Cave
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Looking back down Kingsdale
Still bedding in my cyclotricity Claud Butler hybrid (Chubby 57)
Took it up to Kingsdale today, rode as far as Dalehead. Good testing climb out of Thornton in Lonsdale and plenty more uphill once in the dale, but stopped before the big hill at the end. I shall save that for when I'm properly kitted out (drink, puncture repair and mini toolkit). 15 miles, liberal use of power, battery down one LED. Not bad.
Whernside from Yordas Cave
Looking back down Kingsdale
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Perth to Sydney
I think this ranks as an interesting ride, just wish I was on it
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This needs to read in reverse order to make sense.........but then they are Australian
I think this ranks as an interesting ride, just wish I was on it
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This needs to read in reverse order to make sense.........but then they are Australian
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Me too .......just tell me when you've booked the flights, we can hire the bikes over there...I think this ranks as an interesting ride, just wish I was on it
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Lynda
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York and Around
24 mile ride yesterday with wife and friends - wife on her (2nd hand) urban mover, and me on my Claud Butler cyclotricity mod. Started near Clifton, following cycle tracks and cycle friendly on-road routes to the University Science Park campus, crossing the Millenium bridge and stopping at the York Sport village for coffee.
From there, we headed across to Naburn, stopping at the locks, before following the York Selby line and marvelling at the vastness of the solar system (well, from Saturn inwards - we didn't get to Uranus or beyond this time!)*
From there we passed through the Museum Gardens (dismounted of course) and returned to our starting point, and a well earned cup of tea and slice of Victoria Sponge!
I only used power pulling away from junctions, and to annoy my friend Dave as he slogged manfully up the gentle inclines on the overbridges for the A64. My wife used hers for about half the route and lost one LED on the battery indicator - not bad for an obviously well used second hand battery, and well within her comfort zone for distances likely to be covered in future.
All in all a great day in good company.
* There is a scale representation of the solar system modelled along the York - Selby route (route of the old east coast main line, which was re-routed in the early 1980s when they opened a new coalfield between York and Selby) - the planets and sun are modelled to scale with one another, and spaced appropriately - every hundred metres representing some 57 million kilometres! Cycle the Solar System
I would have posted photos, but I can't get any to load, either directly from pc or from online webserver - never had an issue doing it before
24 mile ride yesterday with wife and friends - wife on her (2nd hand) urban mover, and me on my Claud Butler cyclotricity mod. Started near Clifton, following cycle tracks and cycle friendly on-road routes to the University Science Park campus, crossing the Millenium bridge and stopping at the York Sport village for coffee.
From there, we headed across to Naburn, stopping at the locks, before following the York Selby line and marvelling at the vastness of the solar system (well, from Saturn inwards - we didn't get to Uranus or beyond this time!)*
From there we passed through the Museum Gardens (dismounted of course) and returned to our starting point, and a well earned cup of tea and slice of Victoria Sponge!
I only used power pulling away from junctions, and to annoy my friend Dave as he slogged manfully up the gentle inclines on the overbridges for the A64. My wife used hers for about half the route and lost one LED on the battery indicator - not bad for an obviously well used second hand battery, and well within her comfort zone for distances likely to be covered in future.
All in all a great day in good company.
* There is a scale representation of the solar system modelled along the York - Selby route (route of the old east coast main line, which was re-routed in the early 1980s when they opened a new coalfield between York and Selby) - the planets and sun are modelled to scale with one another, and spaced appropriately - every hundred metres representing some 57 million kilometres! Cycle the Solar System
I would have posted photos, but I can't get any to load, either directly from pc or from online webserver - never had an issue doing it before
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Just spent a most enjoyable weekend helping-out with a perambulating theatre production on the Clay Trail around the Eden Project down 'yer in Cornwall.
"Burn the Curtain" theatre company, based in Devon, put on morning & afternoon performances of " Don Quixote by bicycle"; covering 3.5 miles of the trail, mounted on seriously customised bikes, with the audience also riding.
It was the most fun I've had on my bike & loads of people were interested in my ebike, it being the only one there: There's definitely a serious amount of interest in them down here but, of course, only very limited opportunity to get your bum on one for a test ride. If I'd had a commercially available machine, rather than my gng-kitted bouncer I reckon I could have sold a few.
It started with Eden asking if I'd help with marshalling the route & I ended-up being a thespian in addition to spannering an assortment of nuts throughout the weekend.
As I said, great fun & a brilliantly conceived adaptation of the story - partickly the jousting at windmills scene: How Don Quixote stayed upright on his Penny Farthing, I'm blowed if I know.
"Burn the Curtain" theatre company, based in Devon, put on morning & afternoon performances of " Don Quixote by bicycle"; covering 3.5 miles of the trail, mounted on seriously customised bikes, with the audience also riding.
It was the most fun I've had on my bike & loads of people were interested in my ebike, it being the only one there: There's definitely a serious amount of interest in them down here but, of course, only very limited opportunity to get your bum on one for a test ride. If I'd had a commercially available machine, rather than my gng-kitted bouncer I reckon I could have sold a few.
It started with Eden asking if I'd help with marshalling the route & I ended-up being a thespian in addition to spannering an assortment of nuts throughout the weekend.
As I said, great fun & a brilliantly conceived adaptation of the story - partickly the jousting at windmills scene: How Don Quixote stayed upright on his Penny Farthing, I'm blowed if I know.
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Had an Interesting ride home from town today - As in "May you live in interesting times"...
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This is the first time I've been unnerved by slipstream & I hope it's the last.
Dangerous passing - YouTube
This is the first time I've been unnerved by slipstream & I hope it's the last.
Jesus mate, not exactly what I would call a relaxing ride. Have you got a mirror on your bike to see any impending doom coming your way?
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Normally, yes, but my daughter used the bike recently & somehow managed to detatch the mirror & I can't find the damn thing.
Time to google for one, methinks. Although - I don't think it would have been efficacious to see him coming up behind me !
Time to google for one, methinks. Although - I don't think it would have been efficacious to see him coming up behind me !
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