Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

[Catalyzt]

Im reading that just as much of a tourist as you.
I rarely visit the capital, in fact I was shown a picture of the skyline and didnt recognise it as London, you've sparked my interest to revisit, last time I took my ebike in the van and rode around like a delivery rider.
Its just sooooo busy and so multicultural, something Im not used to and quite an assault on the senses for a hick like me.

I haven't been to good old Angleterre since 2016, and I miss it, though the last few trips I've been working constantly as a script doctor for independent films. The director I worked with was very good to me, put me up and paid for everything, but did work me very hard, so there wasn't much site-seeing, and most of our time was spent somewhere near the edit suite near Camden Lock our out at his flat near Hampstead Heath.

I did get up to Malmsebury for one day, which I enjoyed, and my friend showed me his cycling route (by car) which as utterly terrifying. Being a pedestrian in Malms seems utterly terrifying, the front door of the house opens on a sidewalk that's about three feet wide. These are three-beer-limit homes, in my opinion... with four, you could stumble out the front door, and with a single false step, wind up on the road and be flattened by traffic!

P.S. I'm being told by Londoners there is no faster way of travelling inside London than a bike... Another observation: Almost all London cyclists wear helmets.

I've been told the same thing, but also that it's quite dangerous. My friend has been hit twice while riding, once seriously, and I've been riding with him since the 1960s in New York, he's not a reckless or careless rider. (Well, except in his teens and 20s, when he was as crazy as any of us.)

 

[DiggyGun]

@kahn

The mount arrived today and I’ve attached some photos of it fixed on the pannier rack.

The bracket and angle joint is Aluminium and the clip that the Varia fits into is plastic. It does appear to be quite robust.

One difference this time is that the tether is attached to the Varia with a cable tie, rather than one of the rubber elastic bands.

When it came off the bike as the angle joint broke the tether didn’t do it’s job, hence the cable tie for more strength.

The mount is fixed with five cable ties to the pannier rack.

 

[Deleted member 18083]

Bypassing the city centre…

South Bank Bikeway
"Bikeway" on RwGPS Map
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New buildings that look like flower pots: wider at the top than the bottom. No thanks! I'll stay with the oldies on the bikeway.

The map shows a few of my stops—it was hardly an energetic ride—as I bypassed the CBD on the longest ride for some time. Photos of the other places to follow.

 

[Djangodog]

My wife in her happy place, (the middle of nowhere).

 

[Deleted member 18083]

Bits and pieces …

Catfish Mural
Kangaroo Point, Brisbane​

 

[Twin Valley]

a picture perfect (well, in my mind) to end an 8 day vacation into the mountains, a bit of everything biking on this trip - the grandkids on their non e-bikes where this picture was taken and they loved swimming in Columbia Lake just before dark when the water was calm; their mom (my daughter) enjoying her new Liv Intrigue that took close to 7 months to arrive after ordering and that extra small frame proved to be a nimble choice for her on the intermediate trails in the area and yes that first e-bike smile as we finished our rides on the local "Spirit Trail" or maybe it was just relief taking a break from her 3 youngsters while "me-maw" covered for us to get away, and a couple of my own trips

into familar treks around the Fairmont Mountain range . . .

 

[kahn]

Bits and pieces …

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Catfish Mural
Kangaroo Point, Brisbane​

Some artists are so damn imaginative. Terrific

 

[kahn]

Thurs - 4 miles and 800 feet and Friday - 15.7 miles and 800 feet.

 

[Chargeride]

Bits and pieces …

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Catfish Mural
Kangaroo Point, Brisbane​

I could make an ebike out of that

 

[Saratoga Dave]

Holy smokes, I can’t believe the places that some of you folks live in. Kahn, that second picture is just off the charts.

 

[Cowlitz]

No pictures, but rode down to the Saturday Farmer Market to get a bunch of cherries. Took the longer way home and....nobody was waving. Usually people here wave when they go by. Today they all seemed to be a bunch of grumpy pants. What goes?

Saw a big muley doe and two snakes--one might've been a tiny rattler but I didn't stop to have a close examination.

Beautiful morning, cherries are good, watermelon is now good, why be extra grumpy?

 

[kahn]

Holy smokes, I can’t believe the places that some of you folks live in. Kahn, that second picture is just off the charts.

I should note it was a hike and not a bike ride! It is a relatively easy hike although even those are becoming harder these days. My friend is just getting back into hiking and reminded me that the pants and boots she was wearing were the same items when we did the Haute Route (France to Switzerland) in 2004. I could probably stitch two pair of shorts together it fit me!

But if you live Saratoga as in the Springs, you have that famous smelly water. Ask me how I know - well, I can remember it more than 60 years later. I'm originally from Da Bronx.

I, too, am impressed by some of the "location" shots. I'm finding "gentle" English Countryside wonderful. And who knew Poland was so interesting.

 

[kahn]

No pictures, but rode down to the Saturday Farmer Market to get a bunch of cherries. Took the longer way home and....nobody was waving. Usually people here wave when they go by. Today they all seemed to be a bunch of grumpy pants. What goes?

Saw a big muley doe and two snakes--one might've been a tiny rattler but I didn't stop to have a close examination.

Beautiful morning, cherries are good, watermelon is now good, why be extra grumpy?

Is it too hot over there? It has been warm on this side. At first I confused your name with one of our English brethren and went "rattlesnakes!!!" Yikes. Then I remembered hot, rattlesnake infested Eastern Washington! Actually, the friend in the picture above use to live in Winthrop and my Haute Route companions were all from that area.

 

[Cowlitz]

Is it too hot over there? It has been warm on this side. At first I confused your name with one of our English brethren and went "rattlesnakes!!!" Yikes. Then I remembered hot, rattlesnake infested Eastern Washington! Actually, the friend in the picture above use to live in Winthrop and my Haute Route companions were all from that area.

It's getting into the upper 90s in the afternoon. My thermometer said 102 yesterday but it was in the sun. The weather is normal. Need to eat MORE cherries. I thought the cherries were done after the rain of the fourth but apparently not.

 

[Djangodog]

Thurs - 4 miles and 800 feet and Friday - 15.7 miles and 800 feet.

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Great pictures. My father spent his time in the CCCs up in then Pacific North West. His ashes are in Tillamook, OR. I have to get out there one of these days.

 

[kahn]

It's getting into the upper 90s in the afternoon. My thermometer said 102 yesterday but it was in the sun. The weather is normal. Need to eat MORE cherries. I thought the cherries were done after the rain of the fourth but apparently not.

I just had a bunch of Rainiers. I really like them. I use to have a great bing cherry tree in the back yard but it finally succumbed to old age. Those are toasty temps. Today we are cloudy and breezy and around 70 although somewhat humid. I was out doing some yard work. Then walked up the block and an open house - Yikes - $2,600,000!!!!

 

[kahn]

Great pictures. My father spent his time in the CCCs up in then Pacific North West. His ashes are in Tillamook, OR. I have to get out there one of these days.

Those folks did some great work back in the day. Where are you?

 

[DiggyGun]

@kahn

The Varia has been on the bike for the last 20 miles and still on, albeit, a bit dusty…

 

[Djangodog]

Those folks did some great work back in the day. Where are you?

About 3,000 miles to the east in Claremont New Hampshire. My father was from Rhode Island. He was sent out to Oregon and Washington to fight forest fires, put in telephone poles and build a trestle in Tillamook. He especially loved Tillamook. Your pictures help to explain his love of Oregon and Washington.

It was a tough life, but he was a tough guy and it was a good fit and it probably helped him to survive his time in the Army Air Corps and as a POW.

Thank you for sharing your pictures. I will look forward to seeing them.

It’s beautiful here as well, but quite different. The grave belongs to Charles Bronson and looks toward Mt. Ascutney, Brownsville Vermont. I have no complaints regarding my rides.

 

[DiggyGun]

Another hot and dry day in good old Blighty, around 35oC.

Went back to a favourite place for us, the Millennium Park at Marston Moretaine.

As it’s not a particularly long route, we did four loops and were very dusty by the end.

This was the first picnic stop, which was very peaceful.

The second picnic stop was in the Sensory Garden and the smell was very nice.

Minor adjustment to the new suspension seatpost. Changed from a Crane Creek Thudbuster GT to a Crane Creek eeSilk+, as the nose of the saddle raising itself up