Are We Condemned to Strava?

MartsEbike said:
A photo of an UK e-bikers worst nightmare. :D Kissing Gates. Traditional cyclists create routes on Komoot and then carry bikes through these with ease.

Along comes me on a heavy e-bike and I'm stuck. o_O

These gates are often used in the British countryside and Komoot does not highlight them. I wish it would! :)

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Im pretty well an expert at those, put your back pack on your chest, walk in on back wheel, hold with brake, pull gate towards you, let bike roll back, drop and then get through yourself
If you leave back pack on your back it will snag 32 times on average.
Getting your friend to help will result in quantam entaglement, chain falling off and pedals ripping your pockets open.
 
Stefan Mikes said:
Martin, so assume you start the Komoot Route Planner, set it to "MTB (e-bike)", route from A to B, and the Komoot route leads through the gates?!
Unbelievable :) Perhaps it is because Komoot is a German app and perhaps the German do not know the specific of the British Isles?

Please do not rely on the routes created by other people. Make your own route and tell me what you have got, please :)
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Yep, but not always. Thankfully people aren't that evil that they're purposely doing it! But you can be caught out. They're usually found wherever livestock graze. Any UK e-Biker will know about these things! :D
 
Chargeride said:
Im pretty well an expert at those, put your back pack on your chest, walk in on back wheel, hold with brake, pull gate towards you, let bike roll back, drop and then get through yourself
If you leave back pack on your back it will snag 32 times on average.
Getting your friend to help will result in quantam entaglement, chain falling off and pedals ripping your pockets open.
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Yep, that's it! A technique I've had to master! :D But the small kissing gates are a bugger to get through with a big bike. 😬
 
Sometimes I like to reminisce about past e-bike trips, and Strava is ideal for this with its Training -> My Activity tool (especially when you gave your rides meaningful names and indicated what e-bike you were riding, so you can search for the ride).

Today, @Brix posted this nice picture from London:
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I exclaimed: 'That place is familiar to me! Where is it?' to which she replied 'That's Imperial Wharf train station'. No idea! I located the station on Google maps, went in Strava, recollected my longest London e-bike ride, and then...

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'Yes! I WAS THERE!' :D Besides, it's good I was not aware I was passing World's End or I wouldn't continue my ride past it! :D
 
Chargeride said:
Yup, my videos are a great reminder for me, editing them also doubles up my last remaining neurons, its like a video diary.
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I regret Chris you are not on Strava, as looking at your ride maps would be even a greater pleasure for me than watching your videos (as those do no explain where you were actually riding!)
 
Stefan Mikes said:
MartsEbike 😊
I wonder when he would ride to Bletchley :)
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I've been to Bletchley and other parts of Milton Keynes a few times in the past, but I do have a few more rides planned in that direction! 😃

A visit to Bletchley Park, as I've never visited it, and I'm also planning a couple of trips for my drone around Willen Lakes and Woburn Abbey, which is just south east of Milton Keynes.
 
Chargeride said:
I did many a course at Bletchley Park in the late 80s, some remains of a Colossus computer were in unlocked rooms , I actually pinched a bit.
Long lost, just a little rack of relays.
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Yeah it's crazy how they made the first computers, fully of relays and vacuum tubes. They've made a working reconstruction of the Colossus computer since your visit in the 80's.

Mind you with how unreliable vacuum tubes are I doubt it's switched on very often. More of a static display.
 
It was chaos, how different life was then, 30 18yr olds sleeping in the barracks, we set off hundreds of fireworks
outside the Mansion and had a major enquiry the next day like we were in the army.
They would give us 150 pounds a week..yes a week in the 80s, cash in hand.

Ive just realised it was the early 80s, I was only 19

Result was drinking and fighting and mass firework buying😂
 
There was an absolutely brilliant novel by English author Jerome Klapka Jerome by title "Three Men On A Bummel" a.k.a. Three Men In Germany or Three Men On Bicycles. It was a sequel to "Three Men In A Boat". The heroes were to take a bicycle trip in Germany in early 1900s. I usually quote the stories "The Best Bicycle Gear" and "A Wannabe Bike Mechanic" from that book. However, what I also liked about the book was the statement British youth loved pranks (and being punished for that); however, there were not many things disallowed and punished in Britain. Therefore, the author advised young Brits travelling to Germany. German law was (and still is!) full of absurd things you could be severely punished for doing them! :D
 
James May is recently into gin, and he drove a Cybertruck in California!
He was honest he didn't like the car very much.
 
Whistlin Diesel destroyed a cybertruck just recently in a 'real world'test, lets be honest here, its a just a comical loss leader.

Here's part 2, warning this is the epitome of decadent , jackass Tomfoolery with complete disregard for societal norms.
But he is insanely popular in rural America and the world.

 
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