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[Chargeride]

Molly Malone is a character from a popular Irish folk song

Just back from our English/Welsh/Irish trip. So many adventures! Now I need a solid rest

However, let me summarize my London cycling phenomenon impressions:

• Excellent infrastructure for cycling
• A lot of people riding bikes and e-bikes
• Most of the riders wearing the helmet; and carrying either panniers (always Ortlieb) or a backpack
• If this is a traditional bike, it is typically a road bike
• If this is e-bike, it is normally a powerful, heavy, and illegal fat tyre e-bike. The London food deliveries depend on that sort of e-bikes. More rarely, a fat tyre folder e-bike.
• A small number of high quality e-bikes, all of them Cube (!!!)

On my return way with an overcrowded Stansted Express train (from London Liverpool Street Station to the Stansted Airport), there was a girl with an inexpensive and heavy recreational e-bike. She was charging it on the train. I helped her to get the e-bike in and out. And yes, she was wearing the helmet. And a face mask, which is not required in the UK anymore.

Today, which is Sunday May 29th, 2022, there will be a bike street race in Central London, to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. All four major bridges of Central London are to be closed to the traffic. How lucky I am to have returned on Saturday...

Only one of our group rides a cube, very garish colours.
Specialized or Canyon or the main makes.
Ive never seen a fat tyre deliverybike up here, nearly all hub drive chinese mtb.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Only one of our group rides a cube, very garish colours.
Specialized or Canyon or the main makes.
Ive never seen a fat tyre deliverybike up here, nearly all hub drive chinese mtb.

Where do you live, CR? A hilly area maybe?
I regret I could not ride an e-bike while in the UK but I thought the left-hand sided traffic combined with my lack of understanding of the area could be very dangerous.
Besides, I've just tried the Branston Pickle. Delicious!

We discovered the London's Beer Mile (Enid Street, Bermondsey) on Thursday, and participated in an anniversary party of the Craft Beer Junction pub (86 Enid St, London SE16 3QA, UK), by chance run by the Polish, on Friday Perhaps I will report more on that! (We had a live DJ party, led by an English girl and a Chinese man in turns).

@Brix and I together with Marcin Kłos, the owner of craft beer pubs in London and in Katowice, Poland.

 

[DiggyGun]

Out for our first ride on Mrs DGs new bike. We took delivery of the small frame Riese and Muller Nevo3 this week.

Took a quick ride around the local villages and as usual took a light picnic, but it started to rain just after we stopped, so we hid under a tree until it cleared a bit.

One of the local villages, Padbury, preparing for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

Our route today.

 

[Surly]

Out for our first ride on Mrs DGs new bike. We took delivery of the small frame Riese and Muller Nevo3 this week.

Took a quick ride around the local villages and as usual took a light picnic, but it started to rain just after we stopped, so we hid under a tree until it cleared a bit.
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One of the local villages, Padbury, preparing for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
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Our route today. View attachment 124687

I'm sorry DG i don't think it's appropriate to keep your mrs in a pannier, especially as there's a second ride available.

 

[DiggyGun]

I'm sorry DG i don't think it's appropriate to keep your mrs in a pannier, especially as there's a second ride available.

She’s small

 

[RabH]

What a great day, I got to enjoy both of my passions I wasn't really intending to do a 100 miler but the opportunity presented itself so why not? I had to contend with a cold northerly wind which was really zapping my first battery, I made it to the racing circuit at 38 miles with it down to 29% so it was time to change for the return journey! I wasn't sure about making it to 100 miles with 62 still go on my other battery but I had the wind behind me for quite a bit so I managed to conserve it! I had a few miles to go when my second battery dropped to 16% so I switched back to my original battery which still had 29% left and made it with some juice to spare!

My day started in the sunshine at 8am which is always welcome!

I passed the Kelpies in Falkirk on my way to the circuit!

The Ochil Hills were looking nice in the morning sun! The Clackmannanshire bridge in the foreground, I stupidly decided to use it on my way back home....not a wise choice on my behalf with trucks and cars passing at 60-70 mph!!! There is a verge but its only about 2 feet wide...

I was getting close to the racing circuit now and the views are fabulous!

The road up to the circuit just keeps rising and rising to almost 1000ft but at least the wind was behind me now!

Time to enjoy some racing!

The cost of fuel is hitting the racers hard, so the numbers were well down today! On the Clackmannan bridge on my way home, never again....

The view of the old Kincardine Bridge from the Clackmannan Bridge!

I was going to wait until tomorrow to post my report but I managed to stay awake long enough to post it tonight!

I think I will sleep very well tonight

 

[BlackHand]

Time to enjoy some racing!

I hope you got to ride a lap or two ! I think you could hold your own..

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I wasn't really intending to do a 100 miler but the opportunity presented itself so why not?

You did it again! Congratulations!

By the way, Jacek made two imperial century rides on his Giant Trance E+ 2 Pro with a single 625 Wh battery on Friday and Sunday the week before. (He of course had to recharge the batttery during the stay with his brother-in-law). How brave he was taking into account he had to face a strong headwind on the outward ride! On contrary, his return tailwind ride was easy-peasy for him as he was sailing with the wind

ook a quick ride around the local villages and as usual took a light picnic, but it started to rain just after we stopped, so we hid under a tree until it cleared a bit.

What a beautiful couple of e-bikes, matching your beautiful married couple!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

ook a quick ride around the local villages and as usual took a light picnic, but it started to rain just after we stopped, so we hid under a tree until it cleared a bit.

What a beautiful couple of e-bikes, matching your beautiful married couple!

 

[fooferdoggie]

a regular route to lake Oswego. a really nice freshly paved real rode along the river. rain off and on just like todays ride. a high end bike shop river city bikes right by my shop. got to see if I can get a better pic of the figures on bikes on the roof. hard to stop and take pics the road has no shoulder at all most of the time.
Oregon city paper mill finally after so many years of rotting along the river. If I turned the camera around you ahve regular stores on the other side of the street and the tracks are gone. we housed to get stunk out when we were kids riding past it.

 

[Saratoga Dave]

Say what you want about New York State, but all the bike paths around here seem to be getting these work stands somewhere along the thing. This was at Nassau Lake today on the newly finished (last Fall) Albany - Hudson Electric Trail. Great for a quick tuneup of the indexing! I have to give NYS props for all the effort they have put into the bike infrastructure, apparently all over the state.

 

[Twin Valley]

Like many of you I keep hoping to see David Berry's thumbs up on our postings. This week we are wrapping up a 3 week visit to Northern B.C. and I just love it out here. Very isolated and a healthy bear population to keep your neck on a swivel when riding (saw a good size grizzly today and thought my small canister of bear spray seemed pretty silly with his size) but nothing beats that fresh mountain air. My latest bike hassle is the rear shock is shot and pedal strikes over uneven ground is annoyingly jarring + be glad to get back home and sort that out. My project on this visit for my daughter was building her a new green house and safe to say she is pretty excited with her new plant digs.

 

[Prairie Dog]

Like many of you I keep hoping to see David Berry's thumbs up on our postings. This week we are wrapping up a 3 week visit to Northern B.C. and I just love it out here. Very isolated and a healthy bear population to keep your neck on a swivel when riding (saw a good size grizzly today and thought my small canister of bear spray seemed pretty silly with his size) but nothing beats that fresh mountain air. My latest bike hassle is the rear shock is shot and pedal strikes over uneven ground is annoyingly jarring + be glad to get back home and sort that out. My project on this visit for my daughter was building her a new green house and safe to say she is pretty excited with her new plant digs.View attachment 124743

Really nice build there, Bill. My wife would be green (pardon the pun) with envy as our Costco version pales in comparison. I share your feelings about fresh alpine air as we’re headed up to the mountains this week for a ride. Will also keep our eyes peeled for bears. Mid March is supposedly when the big males come out of their dens.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

A Monocycle Show At London's Covent Garden

Have fun!

 

[kahn]

Like many of you I keep hoping to see David Berry's thumbs up on our postings. This week we are wrapping up a 3 week visit to Northern B.C. and I just love it out here. Very isolated and a healthy bear population to keep your neck on a swivel when riding (saw a good size grizzly today and thought my small canister of bear spray seemed pretty silly with his size) but nothing beats that fresh mountain air. My latest bike hassle is the rear shock is shot and pedal strikes over uneven ground is annoyingly jarring + be glad to get back home and sort that out. My project on this visit for my daughter was building her a new green house and safe to say she is pretty excited with her new plant digs.View attachment 124743

I have done a search or two for David Berry in Brisbane and keep coming up with some actor with the same name!

Oh, my. And, here, I'm proud of my pre-built stock tanks!

 

[kahn]

A Monocycle Show At London's Covent Garden

Have fun!

They look about my age and that's how I was mounting my Creo a few weeks back at the height of my lower back sprain. Bike in the street and me on the curb so the top tube was relatively lower for the leg swing.

 

[Mulezen]

I meant to leave in the morning, and technically did, 11:55am. This humidity and heat of 90f is a taste of what's coming. Mad dogs and Englishmen thought the cattle in the shade though I wasn't barking. Such a pleasure to start back up after taking a picture, the wind of turbo just perfect.

 

[fooferdoggie]

went on a group tandem ride. it has been at least a year since we rode with the group. them mostly ride on Mondays and of course I work. went on a few roads I have not been on and It was not a long ride 28 miles total including riding to the start. the highlight was the dead skink in the middle of the road man it stunk.
couldn't to stop and take pics I really wanted to post the skunk. was nto sure if it would rain like it has all weekend so bring all the rain gear in one bag and snacks I the other. didn't to need the rain gear of course.

 

[PatriciaK]

went on a group tandem ride. it has been at least a year since we rode with the group. them mostly ride on Mondays and of course I work. went on a few roads I have not been on and It was not a long ride 28 miles total including riding to the start. the highlight was the dead skink in the middle of the road man it stunk.
couldn't to stop and take pics I really wanted to post the skunk. was nto sure if it would rain like it has all weekend so bring all the rain gear in one bag and snacks I the other. didn't to need the rain gear of course.
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"Come on, stink!"

 

[PatriciaK]

Short ride on a hot (90°!) day to run a few errands and make sure the battery is down to about 60% before putting the Flow away until the fall . Heading back to WA and the La Free tomorrow.

I'm going to miss my Flow - I think I might actually prefer it to the La Free ! Maybe I'll feel different after a few rides around the fair isle of Whidbey???