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The A225 manoeuvre. Chapeau!
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The A225 manoeuvre. Chapeau!
Yups, north downs avoidance by nipping up the valley innits :) I love that stretch from Otford to Dirtfud but someones nicked all the Lavender from the fields down near Lullingstone, its been Harvested, meh.
Almost any route would be better than 7 mile lane :0)
Agreed!
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Rode offroad on the Surrey Hills on Saturday. Was good riding and sunny as well as there being a stop-off for ice-cream and orange juice. Tidy stuff.
Will be riding with a few forum members next Saturday over Holmbury Hill/Leith Hill/Ranmore Common. Shall make sure to take photos from that one to post here.I think, though, that @tonyme might have some photos from our ride a month or so back...
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Had a layover in Dijon on route to our family holiday in Italy.
Got the bike out to have a look around.
Local graffiti is worth a look:
Houses round here are pretty nice too:
The Route des Grand Crus, which heads south out of Dijon rolls through gentle hills and takes in Fixin, Gevery-Chambertin, Nuits St George and many more.
Well worth a visit.
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Weekend/on Holiday rides count here too?
Been on Hols with my other half, Kernwool, we both love it down here. Took a steed, I rode the 40 miles of Lostwithiel to Padstow and back again, 1st bit very hilly up and over Cornwall's backbone and had to resort to pushing the trusty old Dawes up a hill in the arse-end of nowhere once but the zoom along the Camel Trail was ace to meet up with my long-suffering-other-half for a sarnie at the Quayside and a dwinky before turning round then riding the whole thing again back to Lostwithiel. Got a split negative on the way back, 1Hr 24mins there, 1hr 14mins on the way back. FWIW, I got the term 'split-negative' from my little Sis (46 y/o club-level runner) who does 'sport' and knows about these sort of things :-) Really good, if very busy, fun ride.
Poodle to Padstow...
Sun, sand and steed.
The following day we hit up Lanhydrock, the National Trust place. Lo and behold, there's a house full of William Morris/Arts n Crafts movement stuff my partner loves AND a series of off-road trails where you can hurtle around on bouncy hire bikes with knobbly tires and a billyun gears and springs and levers and stuff on.
She did the house, I did the trails.
Luckily the Hire place had run out of hire bikes so I took the 32c slick tyred Dawes SS'er on all except one trail/track. It was such a laugh. I hammered around the tracks, only fell/skidded off a couple of times, had to stop and repair bike once when the adjustable quill stem had worked itself loose through chronic levels of vibration and pilot excitedness at bombing over/around/through stuff. Folk that had the 'proper' hire bikes looked uncomfortable on bikes they were unfamiliar with whereas the short little Hippy fella on that funny old bike he knows inside out with no springs and gears or knobbly tyres on blasted about in a most enthusiastic manner.
Just fer giggles I left the Garmin running. Looks like a 'special kind of art'.....
10/10. Would ride inappropriate bike through bonkers off road venues again.
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@Jingle_Jangle What's the bike?!
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Bike's the one I made.
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Today, I shall be riding an mtb race. In Brighton. So will be covered in crap by the end. Should I survive - I'm running a rigid steel bike with cantis - I may stop shaking enough by this evening to upload some photos
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It is an annual 6 hour race. There's several categories, I went with Retro pre'95 pairs category with a mate. We won for the second year in a row!
Here's a couple of pics, on arrival,
Relaxing in between laps,
Great course, lot's of climbing, but even more roots trying to catch you out where possible. Thankfully, it dried out after a week of rain, and the course dried out pretty well with the amount of tyres rolling over it!
Hope I can link to some photos of me actually riding it when they go online!Mike
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Well done @BelgianToothpaste, really good work.
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Just finished riding unsupported from Big Ben to the Eifel Tower with 6 friends and their 6 children over 5 days. Children ranging in age from 1 to 8 on a combination of tagalongs, triple tandems and trailers.
Day 1 - Big Ben to Crawley
Day 2 - Crawley to Newhaven
Day 3 - 9am ferry to Dieppe then rode to Forges les Eaux
Day 4 - Forges les Eaux to Meulan-en-Yvelines
Day 5 - Meulan-en-Yvelines to the Eifel TowerGot caught in some biblical rain on day 2 but apart from that, was lovely.
Rode the Donald Hirsch route. Would ride again. Children are capable of so much more than people give them credit for.
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Agreed! And so do some very childish adults too, I'm in! :)
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Yeys! does victory roll and bottom burps at the same time
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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Looks like an absolutely fabulous trip. Love the final picture :D
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I made the pedal things go round and round again today and did a new-n-improved assault on Teapot Island. After my last scary run along 7 mile Lane I had a very kind offer of local route knowledge from YetiDamo and he plotted out a whiz-bang route away from 7MLfor me which I gratefully received and bunged on my Garmin. I was intending on doing a ride up to that-there Lunnun again this weekend but that big London 100 ride is on this weekend and so that scuppered them plans.
So, I thought I'd join together my Wrotham Loop with the @yetidamo 7ML avoidance loop. The result is the Kent Figaro, so called cos it's a fig-a-ro-8 innit? See what I did there?
Looks like this...
...and powered by my little hairy legs on the Dawes SS running 48/18 I done this...
Yetidamo's route took me down roads I didn't know existed, so brill views too and dappled sun light roads...
Not a lot of Veggie choice there but Fuel...
...to get the ol' smiling Hippy up hills like this...
...then back home via the Darenth Valley...
Obligatory shadow pic...
Fun, would converse with forum members again! 10/10, Cheers Damian.