2026 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

[RabH]

The eagle has landed, they even put my original cover back on to make it look genuine!

 

[DaveMatthews]

The eagle has landed, they even put my original cover back on to make it look genuine!

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Nicely done!

 

[Chargeride]

That motor has been around the world, it looks like new.

 

[Chargeride]

Bri took this picture of the idiot, who didnt take a change of clothes, buying a KFC at a service station.
He said my new biking top was too big, I now realise he was correct.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Saturday, the third ride in the same area. It looks I would be riding the hills alone. The objective is 103 km, SUB 5 (gross ride time).

The new name:
Łódź Sights
Łódź Sighs

Radars, singletracks, Premium Grass, murals, stores, inns, taking photos, all eliminated. Premium Gravel included. Riding along the railroad not in the plans. Sheer power, no stops, four energy gels, four cigarettes only

 

[Chargeride]

I hear premium gravel.polishes your shoes as you pass

 

[Chargeride]

That picture was very confusing to me, I dont seem to have grey hair, its totally grey at the front, maybe its just the lighting.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

That picture was very confusing to me, I dont seem to have grey hair, its totally grey at the front, maybe its just the lighting.

It was one evening when I entered a live music tavern I used to frequent at those times. Girls hurled at me for the welcome, kiss-kiss. "How come you are blond?" everyone asked. "Well, because I washed my hair?" -- a general laughter. Turned out, I got partly grey in a very short time!

I was wearing long hair then and decided to do a drastic haircut soon as long grey hair do look pathetic, meseems.

 

[Chargeride]

Gandalf strikes you with his staff.

 

[RabH]

The warrior returns! If only the weather would play ball...50mph winds and heavy rain at the moment, increasing to almost 70mph tomorrow..... I had a proper faff with one of the motor side covers, took me almost an hour to get it back in place after a lug popped out...

 

[Chargeride]

Yup, same here, going to the corner shop feels like venturing out from an arctic science station.
Going the beach tomorrow

 

[DaveMatthews]

The warrior returns! If only the weather would play ball...50mph winds and heavy rain at the moment, increasing to almost 70mph tomorrow..... I had a proper faff with one of the motor side covers, took me almost an hour to get it back in place after a lug popped out...

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Fantastic news, congrats!

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Yup, same here, going to the corner shop feels like venturing out from an arctic science station.
Going the beach tomorrow

Be careful out there. Things happen at Arctic and especially Antarctic science stations.

 

[Chargeride]

The lads watched the original and we roared at the line..something like..

He moves fast for a man with a pack of dogs on his back.

We quoted it for years everytime we saw someone running.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Meanwhile in Central Poland (that is, Land of Łódź. Mazovia with Warsaw is not Central Poland).

 

[JGcycle]

A pic from today's 17km ride:

 

[RabH]

Going the beach tomorrow

Nutter...

 

[Chargeride]

I might stay in the van

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

First ride on my own bike after 8 days away started with a 5 mi coast ride north to Carlsbad Village with no plan beyond that in mind.

On the way, puzzled over the unusually squat thunderheads coming in with the unstable air trailing the remnant of Hurricane Trudy passing through SoCal the day before. Their pancake-shaped tops seemed too low and too broad for a typical anvil cloud.

To this old Trekkie, the one at center looked like the starship Enterprise.

On a whim, the next segment hugged the north shore of Agua Hedionda Lagoon. This shot looks across the lagoon to Carlsbad State Beach and beyond.

Passed lots of posh view homes overlooking the lagoon en route.

And among them, this large, totally out-of-place contraption on a lot surely zoned residential. Some kind of fancy foundation work for another mansion?

Poking around the unfamiliar neighborhoods along Highland Drive came next. Highland follows the crest of Carlsbad's first inland ridge from Agua Hedionda to Buena Vista Lagoon, the next lagoon north.

The odd mix of posh and modest long ocean view homes side by side along Highland suggested gentrification in progress. Lots of that going on in San Diego County beach towns.

From there, it was back down to the Coast Highway and home. Stopped at this bluff at the south end of Carlsbad State Beach to see how much sand it had left, and the sad answer was little to none.

At 78, had to wonder if I'll ever see anything approaching normal sand levels on Carlsbad beaches again? Hard to see expensive and potentially short-lived replenishments as the solution when so much coastal infrastructure also has to be repaired now.

In normal times, sand sloshes back and forth between our beaches and their offshore bars on timescales of days to weeks. All we can hope for now is that some of the sand moved offshore by recent storms will eventually find its way back.

But with many months of El Nino-driven high tides and big wave events ahead, who knows how long that would take and how much sand is already beyond return?

 

[Chargeride]

I follow the Skid Kids, typical Californian..Whoooaaa surfer dude, his footage is pretty reliable as to the situation, as in doesnt exaggerate..just whooooo
It doesnt really need exaggeration, the sea is burrowing in.