2024 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

[Chargeride]

A few rides
Noped out of this one, already up to the hub, found a way through the field.

This the moment the pawls in the freehub failed, spoilt that day

Explored more of Ringmore, its a bleedin Disneyland of thatched cottages

Mid fall at Dartmoor

It was this for eight miles. I cried like a baby the entire time

Everything was impossible, muddy, slippy and knackering

It started off so well

Better days at Garra Rock

This rock was as slippy as wet ice, you just had to cross it in straight lines, sort of tacking down the lanes

No idea in Totnes

A beautiful coastal ride from Wembury led us to Plymouth, you can see the fort

 

[JGcycle]

A couple of pics from today's 20km ride:

 

[Stefan Mikes]

t was this for eight miles. I cried like a baby the entire time

I would ask myself the question "Why do it?"

Better days at Garra Rock

My man!

 

[MartsEbike]

A couple of pics from today's 20km ride:

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Jealous of the blue skies and sunshine! This was my day yesterday. Photo taken around 2pm. Murky, misty and grey! Don't you just love British weather!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Jealous of the blue skies and sunshine! This was my day yesterday. Photo taken around 2pm. Murky, misty and grey! Don't you just love British weather!

Would you prefer sunshine but 1 C instead of 12-13? That's Poland in November for you!

 

[MartsEbike]

Would you prefer sunshine but 1 C instead of 12-13? That's Poland in November for you!

Wow! 1c already!!! I'm a the hotter the better kind of guy, the cold goes straight to my bones!

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Guessing you guys don't wanna hear about our cold days last weekend. Got down to a high of 15°C. Brrrrr! But at least our 3 weeks of non-stop gloom through mid-October were over.

 

[Chargeride]

The rare Artic palm tree.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Guessing you guys don't wanna hear about our cold days last weekend. Got down to a high of 15°C. Brrrrr! But at least our 3 weeks of non-stop gloom through mid-October were over.

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Hoping for no rain and a 10C ride tomorrow...

 

[Chargeride]

I would ask myself the question "Why do it?"


My man!

Yes, why did we do it, you reach a point thinking it will get better and then realise it would be worse to turn back.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Yes, why did we do it, you reach a point thinking it will get better and then realise it would be worse to turn back.

I am, unfortunately, a person of a similar mindset I hardly can return from the trail when the things have gone wrong.

Once, I mistakenly rode into a hiking trail in Polish Table Mountains. I should have returned soon but continued. The things were getting worse and worse to the point I needed to ask hikers met on the trail to help me carry the e-bike past the point of no return. As it turned out to be impossible to continue, I took an advice from an experienced hiker and took a shortcut, walking. Eventually, I found myself in a place where fallen trees made it impossible to move any farther! Then I understood I was in a really dire situation. I managed to pull my e-bike across a tree trunk, then threw the bike down the valley and followed it on foot...

This is what a person who has avoided certain death looks like.

Nowadays, I often go back when see that something looks very wrong ahead!

 

[Chargeride]

Jeez, thats quite a gnarly trail, have to take off the panniers for that one

 

[RabH]

Would you prefer sunshine but 1 C instead of 12-13? That's Poland in November for you!

1c in sunshine yes please, way better than 12C in rain!

 

[Chargeride]

The name of this road makes me very uncomfortable.

Around the bend the public toilets are on a cliff edge.

Agatha Christie eh?
That motorcyclist was mocking us by pretending to pedal.
We arranged for his untimely end in a mysterious motorcycle themed weekend at the mansion.

Three icons, 1960s Mustang, Red telephone box and an Orange mountain bike.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I actually had a hard time what reaction your post should get Agatha Christie prevailed!

 

[Chargeride]

This sums up my last few days.

 

[BlackHand]

Those double yellow lines at the edge of the road( and taking 1/3 of the bike lane) are confusing to me as an American. Also the orange mtb in the middle of the road looks stupid/dangerous unless that line of traffic is completely stopped.

 

[MartsEbike]

Those double yellow lines at the edge of the road( and taking 1/3 of the bike lane) are confusing to me as an American. Also the orange mtb in the middle of the road looks stupid/dangerous unless that line of traffic is completely stopped.

Haha That piece of tarmac is wide for Torquay!! I think it would blow your mind if you had to drive on the roads around there. I'm from the UK and find it daunting. Most of the roads were made for Horse and Cart!

Even worse if you're a truck driver. One wrong turn and you might be stuck! Like this guy below (this happened just 2 days ago!)

Lorry gets stuck in narrow village lane near Saltash

The HGV, carrying 40 tonnes of seed, is wedged between a house and a wall in the Cornwall village.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Chargeride]

Those double yellow lines at the edge of the road( and taking 1/3 of the bike lane) are confusing to me as an American. Also the orange mtb in the middle of the road looks stupid/dangerous unless that line of traffic is completely stopped.

Yes those cars on the right are parked, there is no bike lane.

 

[Chargeride]

Haha That piece of tarmac is wide for Torquay!! I think it would blow your mind if you had to drive on the roads around there. I'm from the UK and find it daunting. Most of the roads were made for Horse and Cart!

Even worse if you're a truck driver. One wrong turn and you might be stuck! Like this guy below (this happened just 2 days ago!)

Lorry gets stuck in narrow village lane near Saltash

The HGV, carrying 40 tonnes of seed, is wedged between a house and a wall in the Cornwall village.

www.bbc.co.uk

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We ended up in a tiny lane due to road closures, when I say tiny, my mates van was running its mirrors through bushes.
A young woman came the other way and tried to reverse, she was so bad at it that the guy behind her did it for her.
She just kept getting further into the side even though it was a wide part of the road

This is normal down here.