eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

[Nealh]

A few pics from today's 85 miler. Nice bright & breezy conditions with good views today.

Chanctonbury Ring.


Came across this bullet riddled tank chassis.



Some of natures fine tasty Blackberries this time of year makes snacking essential.


A purple sea of Field Scabious.


View from Sompting. Offshore wind farm steadily growing I counted sometime ago some 100 turbine plinths being prepared.


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[Dom T]

Near to my mothers in worthing and on the way to my brothers in brighton, will take the bikes when i next visit i think. Nicer day than we had here.

 

[topographer]

Lucky you to get to cycle there. I need to find places like that. I can well imagine druidic practices going on on that hill. I hope no dog cocked its leg on those blackberries.

 

[Nealh]

Not knowing your area but there must be a few gems to ride with in 10/20 miles. There must be some National Parks/moorland open space to ride. Most of the S/downs are accessible with open roaming on farm land/trails.
The black berries were a little off the usual beaten track though a keen rambling dog walker would probably pass by, the pic though was for generalisation. I pick mine from higher up or in the thick of the hedges. The true beauty and best riding of the downs is to found off the SDW and on the 100's of tracks and bridleways criss crossing the landscape.
Not far away is another and more impressive iron age landmark the Cissbury ring with a defensive ditch that is complete around it, it's impressiveness needs to be viewed from an aerial pic. On a time line scale Chanctonbury's beech trees are a newer addition and planted there in the 1760's as an enhancement to the area, though some what decimated by the 1987 hurricane.
The only downside for me is I have to ride a min of 18 miles to get to the base of the downs, so envy Kistin and Darren just a little as they only need to open their front door to be there.

 

[EddiePJ]

Nealh, where is the location of the tank?

 

[Nealh]

Nealh, where is the location of the tank?

If I remember rightly it was well before I hit the boggy quagmire of Angmering Park. So somewhere between the SDW / Kithurst Hill area and before Wepham Down along the bridleway ( Grid ref 070119).

 

[EddiePJ]

Spot on with the location. It appears from Google maps to be a WWII Churchill MKII.

 

[Nealh]

Well done Eddie.
It made me look for further info 'Kithurst Hill Tank' and apparently was abandoned by a Canadian tank regiment before D-day after it broke down, then used by the Canadian's for firing practice hence the bullet hole damage using armour piercing bullets. It was rolled into a crater and buried after the war and then dug out in 93 by REME for spares, parts used in restoration work at Bovingdon rtank museum. The rest is history and the tank was left in situ as a relic and makes for a great artefact on a downs trek.

 

[topographer]

The true beauty and best riding of the downs is to found off the SDW and on the 100's of tracks and bridleways criss crossing the landscape.

Yeah. I have a desire to find the hidden away, rarely used tracks rather than just the well designated cycleways. I love remote farm tracks but I don't want to trespass so need to find the ancient rights of way. I think I'm looking for deep tranquility.

I have a thing about hill forts. Visiting a bunch of them is on my bucket list. I'm not sure how hill forts and ebikes go together. One hopes you can cycle slowly...respectfully up to the top of them on whatever designated paths there are.

 

[Nealh]

I've ridden on Cissbury Hill a grand feature on the landscape with no complaints. Lunch, drink, a camera and respect for the surroundings but then again I only ride on weekdays leaving the weekenders to them selves.

 

[anotherkiwi]

I know... not my ride, not my photos but a sign of things to come perhaps

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/aug/06/electric-bikes-france-vercors-grenoble-mountains-forests-outdoors

 

[chris_n]

Went out this morning to test my extender battery, the local test hill is 10km long with a 1000m height difference, so 10% average gradient. Started the climb with 90% showing and finished with 60% showing. I did make the motor do more work than usual just to give it a thorough test. New battery is 375Wh paralleled with my 400wh Yamaha.

 

[Dom T]

Went out too but not as high as you Chris, 40 miles, didn't rush it, average speed about 15 mph nice day had.

 

[Dom T]

I just can't get it

 

[BillyBoy88]

Had a early morning ride as it is too hot during the day, today as it is a Bank holiday, went to the Akamas Peninsula lots of superb off road tracks, some pictures below.

 

[chris_n]

Went out for a little tour this moning! Good job I fitted the extender, only 11% left when I got back. I was giving it a bit of a pasting though!

 

[EddiePJ]

Sadly disappointing photos from yesterday's superb 20 mile evening/night ride. So good just to find the time/energy to get out and go for a ride. Another week or so, and work will have settled, and I can get back to some decent riding time in again.

Under the elephant beech.

 

[topographer]

What do you mean? Those pics are fab. Just the type of places I want to go to, so inspiring. Make me itchy to get out, in fact.

 

[Dom T]

My new floating discs

 

[soundwave]

you just need a permanent marker for the qr leaver i got rid of mine as looked like a wart lol