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Velofrog thats a cool picture, whats the machine? it looks nice.
Good to see that Bear Valley out and getting tweaked so quickly after the build, what with finishing it off and buying another bike. Your hooked, its all down hill now
Are both you guys coming to Dunkeld next weekend?
For me, I did eventually get out this afternoon for a couple of hours, unfortunately the wind had dropped and slightly turned. I say unfortunately as this morning it was almost gale force and was coming from the south/east, whereas its usually always from the west and north. I ended up getting a lift eastwards with Heather who was going to drop some stuff off near Wick. I thought great, I will dodge most of the headwind. Almost worked perfectly, almost. Oh well, medium strength tailwind just meant medium strength headwind, glass half full I suppose.
I got the bike out the car, all the while having this strange guilt type feeling that I was somehow cheating due to getting a lift
I've never been dropped off somewhere before like that.
I quickly discovered as I put my front wheel in that the strange feeling I had yesterday, similar to a flat back tyre was in fact my headset coming loose, no idea how I didn't pick this up last week. Only having a multitool I tightened it by hand and set off.
Headwind was still decent enough to be a pain but was soon enough heading for home. Hopefully the next 35 or so kilometres would see me with either a tailwind or a crosswind but hopefully no headwind.
The backroads I go along through Lythe and towards Greenland are singletrack farm roads and are pretty rough in places, patchy, gravel etc, with scenery being pretty open and exposed, nice I suppose but a bit bleak in places.
Whilst I thought the tailwind was diminishing I was proved wrong, as I was motoring. Home quite quickly and even on the really rough section that is a long slightly uphill drag I was making good time. For once the farm hedges and tree sections that you normally look for up here to hide from the wind, were a bit of a pain now I had a tailwind
Anyway it was a good ride for the time I had available, very enjoyable as usual, though the tailwind was a welcome change. At one piont I was on the main road before the Lyth turnoff and on the long straight I was pulling 56 klm/h for about 2 mile. On my own, no chaingang, drafting, nada
Lost a lot of speed when I turned off at 90 degree :facepalm:
All good fun and hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend.
Jamie
Still pulling over 50 and thats after fumbling in my pocket for the camera etc.
