2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

[Chargeride]

We had the exact same snow at the same time, down in devon, the roads filled to the top of the hedges I stood on snow with my hand on top of a telephone pole.

BBC - Devon - History - The blizzards of 1978

Watch archive news film from the winter of 1978 when much of Devon was cut off by the snow.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Stefan Mikes]

We had the exact same snow at the same time, down in devon, the roads filled to the top of the hedges I stood on snow with my hand on top of a telephone pole.

BBC - Devon - History - The blizzards of 1978

Watch archive news film from the winter of 1978 when much of Devon was cut off by the snow.

www.bbc.co.uk

That must have been a real disaster!

 

[dodgeman]

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve ridden. A sore knee that is better and very cold and snowy. A picture from yesterday looking out from my front porch after I plowed.

 

[Chargeride]

All American Christmas movies have suburban America clearing the snow with a small blower, we Brits are like.
Aint got no time for that.

 

[Chargeride]

So Poland is Really Polska
Germany is Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Netherlands is really Nederland

And Finland is Suomi...what!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

So Poland is Really Polska

Rzeczpospolita Polska. "Rzecz Pospolita" or "Res Publica" (Common Thing).

For your information: England is Anglia (you are Anglik and your wife is Angielka), Wales is Walia, Scotland is Szkocja, and Ireland is Irlandia

Your state is known as Zjednoczone Królestwo Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii Północnej. Go figure

 

[MartsEbike]

Work has been hectic lately so I finally had the chance to take a ride out, and I took the drone with me.

Despite the blue skies, it was chilly out, and this cut my ride short as I wasn't wearing the right clothes for it. So just a 14-mile round trip to the neighbouring town of Leighton Buzzard. Much shorter than the 45-mile ride I had planned on the Garmin!

Anyways some pics.

Has anyone lost a bike?

The murky waters of the Grand Union Canal. I'm standing on the wharf in the middle of this photo... a microdot from 100 meters up!

The Grand Union Canal with the river Ozuel running alongside...

You can see Dunstable Downs in the distance on the left... It's about 7 miles away... You gain such a different perspective from 80 meters up in the air! Everything seems so much closer.

All Saints Church - Leighton Buzzard

The canal boat Timeslip quietly slipped by!

There she goes... around the bend to somewhere.

Completely unedited... Love the contrast of blues and greens...

 

[BlackHand]

All American Christmas movies have suburban America clearing the snow with a small blower, we Brits are like.
Aint got no time for that.

@dodgeman 's driveway looks like a tractor(or pickup) and plow situation to me.

My dad in his mid 80's still plows the driveway religiously.