Today's Ride
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My partner has started coming out with me on a Sunday. She's not done much cycling recently, mainly because she had this horrible BSO made from scaffolding poles. A desperately debilitating thing just to look at, never mind ride. So to encourage her I made some minor changes to the Stumpjumper - pedals, seat, stem - and she loves it. 'Oh my god, that is so nice to ride. Her opinion of a bike being just a bike has now transformed into an appreciation of the difference between a good bike and something that merely resembles a bike. It's been quite a breakthrough.
So today was a nice steady pace over about 14.5 miles, taking in quiet lanes and some minor offroading. Temperature was about 17c when we left, with a stronger breeze than recently, but really pleasant. Very busy, lots of cyclists on and off-road.
My partner has started coming out with me on a Sunday. She's not done much cycling recently, mainly because she had this horrible BSO made from scaffolding poles. A desperately debilitating thing just to look at, never mind ride. So to encourage her I made some minor changes to the Stumpjumper - pedals, seat, stem - and she loves it. 'Oh my god, that is so nice to ride. Her opinion of a bike being just a bike has now transformed into an appreciation of the difference between a good bike and something that merely resembles a bike. It's been quite a breakthrough.
So today was a nice steady pace over about 14.5 miles, taking in quiet lanes and some minor offroading. Temperature was about 17c when we left, with a stronger breeze than recently, but really pleasant. Very busy, lots of cyclists on and off-road.
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Cracking weather yesterday, more reminiscent of California, than Scotland.
Took the RTS for a gallop. Reminded me of Fairfax Pat's posts and my early mountain biking days.
Bored now, with not many jobs left to do, I took a local ride out, GoPro in tow and threw together an edit.
https://www.facebook.com/mountainbike.l ... 823710269/
Cracking weather yesterday, more reminiscent of California, than Scotland.
Took the RTS for a gallop. Reminded me of Fairfax Pat's posts and my early mountain biking days.
Bored now, with not many jobs left to do, I took a local ride out, GoPro in tow and threw together an edit.
https://www.facebook.com/mountainbike.l ... 823710269/
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Good work, not hanging around either. Any chance of having this without the music?
Bit of a turnaround from the past few days of wall to wall sunshine and low 20's. Whilst it's still sunny, a chilly 6 degrees with a strong breeze meant donning the jacket again
Still, it was ace.
The trails are super quick at the moment and with another dry week forecast we'll be in dust-mode soon.
Trialsmeister":j9bq9rrg said:
Good work, not hanging around either. Any chance of having this without the music?
Bit of a turnaround from the past few days of wall to wall sunshine and low 20's. Whilst it's still sunny, a chilly 6 degrees with a strong breeze meant donning the jacket again
Still, it was ace.
The trails are super quick at the moment and with another dry week forecast we'll be in dust-mode soon.
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https://youtu.be/58hNDRSHtwY
There it is buddy, apologies, the go pro was in the full case, audio chatter is probably up there with pearl jam! Gives it a grainy, retro sound, aptly matching my videography on the hero 4, I reckon?!
Best wishes,
Mike.
al-onestare":1770mems said:
https://youtu.be/58hNDRSHtwY
There it is buddy, apologies, the go pro was in the full case, audio chatter is probably up there with pearl jam! Gives it a grainy, retro sound, aptly matching my videography on the hero 4, I reckon?!
Best wishes,
Mike.
