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

[Jeremy McCreary]

Thats not riding on sand, its parting it like moses

No experience with fat tire bikes, but I know what it's like to ride in the loose, dry, deep beach sand that @RabH showed with 38 mm (1.50") and 60 mm (2.35") gravel tires: It's hopeless. Can't imagine any skill level making it rideable at those widths.

Q1. So how wide a tire do you need to ride that stuff comfortably on a reasonably powered ebike?

Once saw a guy really struggling on 4" tires. Got bogged down a lot. But I think the late Matt Robertson got 4" knobbies to work well on this kind of sand on a 2 wheel-drive ebike he built himself. (Miss that guy.) Makes sense.

Q2. Would 5" be wide enough with RWD only — without kicking up a rooster tail?

 

[Chargeride]

At least 4inch and running low pressure, you can make 2.6s do it, but at practically flat.
If I overinflate the 4.8s for the road, they are useless in super soft sand.

 

[Chargeride]

I fitted my spare gopro under the peak which allows me to film without reaction, we dont see many orthodox jews, but theyalways look like theyre on a mission

Its strange that the fire completely misses the path

Bit close, if it was in another few feet I would be turning back for a mile or scrambling the bike over

In the summer the beach fills with various ethnicities, we never see them again till next summer

I noticed the guy in pink was eyeing me up, the other guy completely ignored me.

The lovely young lady had an amazing voice and whistle, she was playing only to me at this point.

Several supercars were being shown off.

Nearly finished dismantling the Open stands, loud American golfers.

I love this tiny cemetry, so over the top

Octopus postbox

Anyone lost a log?

 

[edobici_forza]

Love the live music serenade aspect @Chargeride

 

[stompandgo]

That pizza and salad look fantastic.

 

[stompandgo]

No experience with fat tire bikes, but I know what it's like to ride in the loose, dry, deep beach sand that @RabH showed with 38 mm (1.50") and 60 mm (2.35") gravel tires: It's hopeless. Can't imagine any skill level making it rideable at those widths.

Q1. So how wide a tire do you need to ride that stuff comfortably on a reasonably powered ebike?

Once saw a guy really struggling on 4" tires. Got bogged down a lot. But I think the late Matt Robertson got 4" knobbies to work well on this kind of sand on a 2 wheel-drive ebike he built himself. (Miss that guy.) Makes sense.

Q2. Would 5" be wide enough with RWD only — without kicking up a rooster tail?

It depends how deep it is. I have been able to power through short stretches of loose sand, but it had a packed base. Beach sand, no way. Plenty of people ride 4" analog fatties on the beach by deflating their tires, but adding the weight of the drive system has to make it challenging.

 

[JGcycle]

A pic from this morning's 17km ride:

 

[Chargeride]

Emilys Tower over looking Abergele, this is part of the huge mock castle and this whole hill has been turned into an unofficial mtb trail centre.
The tracks are unworldly and there are climbers all over the tall granite slabs.
Ive been out 6 hours, 32 miles, 3200ft.
An epic ride, pushing hike a biking, on my hands and knees.
Simply fantastic.

 

[dodgeman]

I rode 25 miles today and took a look at a wind farm that’s going up.

We drove to Southern Illinois and spent a night to be in the middle of the last eclipse here, April 2024. We were more or less dead center in it so it lasted a few minutes. The best way to describe it is a 360 degree sunset, very cool. You can feel it cool off when it happens. My daughter was going to school in Carbondale so she saw the one in 2024 and the one in 2017. Both were total and happened to criss cross in southern Illinois.

 

[fooferdoggie]

got a coupe more crows today. though I am going to ahve to use the map to find them all. the fist one looks like a very cool bridge the St johns bride.

 

[fooferdoggie]

what a view from up there.

 

[JGcycle]

A pic from this morning's 23km ride:

 

[Chargeride]

Another bridleway ride starts next to a motorway

Path went through these lovely barns, could hear pack of dogs going balistic

They started chasing me down the bridleway, I got past the gate, turned to see it was one very annoyed little Spaniel

I'm not sure I should venture in without double underpants

Started reading, started seeing the Romans point.

Obviously an ebay bought sign, couldnt be bothered making a fuss as I had planned to sneak through his apple orchard.

Some places really feel like Ive time travelled

On my way to Abergele

Bridleway went straight up

Hillbilly style house half way up, 4x4 required

Bridleway went right through their house, no one home so had an explore, too overgrown so used main road.

Heres a clue where Im headed

Bridleway went straight up, then exposed me to quite a drop.

Ive shown this before, its a mock castle

Theres more than this, the entire area is surrounded by its walls

This is abusy commuter road, imagine getting bored looking at it.

Trying to find Emilys tower, lost in the stunning trails

Gve up on the tower and then spotted it from here

Completely unmarked, searched through thick trails for twenty minutes

5 mins from where I parked the van was a KFC, you could see this castle from the car park, theres a lotof them inWales

 

[Chargeride]

That ride was actually 39 miles!
More importantly there is water falling out of the sky.