Today's Ride

[PanoIgano]

Snowy ride today here in Belgium:

 

[Deleted member 69416]

Sunny and clear without a whisper of breeze . I'd say it was cold , but that's relative

 

[Deleted member 69416]

And so it begins…. usual day off and was excited for a snow ride on the DH but all the snow has gone and I managed to miss the early early train to the flying circus training spot, but it was -8 at 7 this morning so maybe the trails have thawed a bit by now

got the usual dirty stare from the trolley dolly as I wheeled the beast into the wheelchair point but train bicycle holes are not meant for big square DH bikes, I ve tried many times to no avail, luckily it’s only one stop


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I took a loaded tandem to Aberdeen once . Never again .

 

[trailstar82]

Beautiful blue skies daan sauf today in Essex. Had to get some fresh air today after working from the home office for the last two days feeling rather unwell. It was good to get out, even with the hacking cough afterwards.

 

[PercyInglesFlyingCircus]

I took a loaded tandem to Aberdeen once . Never again .

Ooooosh that must have been excruciating fun, I can’t even work out how you would even get such a thing through the outer door and through the vestibule door ahaha the mind boggles

 

[Deleted member 69416]

Ooooosh that must have been excruciating fun, I can’t even work out how you would even get such a thing through the outer door and through the vestibule door ahaha the mind boggles

I was told there'd be a guards van , which there was but the bike stowage was a large cubicle with hooks so the tandem was double the length the hooks were designed for . It hung in an awkward L . Bump , cringe , bump , cringe ......

 

[highlandsflyer]

Just a shake down bimble in the snow. Last time I had spikes was a fat bike, and this was much better with 2.1s, cutting through to the compacted underlayer where it existed. Lost it a couple of times, but much less as when floating around on the fat.

 

[al-onestare]

Last day of normal winter before the wind and rain returns. Still, zero wind (a real rarity!), straight out 0 degrees, with a mixture of colder and warmer spots. All the layers on. Mostly clear skies and some very low horizon stars. Cracking morning for it apart from the odd bit of ice.

Those are stars, not ships or aeroplanes. The night mode really struggled to capture them and the horizon lines. Proper magical!

HARD LEFT!

 

[PercyInglesFlyingCircus]

I was told there'd be a guards van , which there was but the bike stowage was a large cubicle with hooks so the tandem was double the length the hooks were designed for . It hung in an awkward L . Bump , cringe , bump , cringe ......

I put my surfboard in a proper padded board bag in the “gaurd van” once and had that cringing feeling for 13hrs back from Newquay when I was a a teenager and yep still came out dinged… yep never again… once upon a time when I was a regular touring scratch DJ and had just got hold of a magical (at the time) numark digital deck with a 12” scratch record on top controller thing… I popped it off at the “fragile” window at the airport in its fancy flightcase which had fragile stickers all over it as usual ….. waiting for my bags at the other end before going to the other ends “fragile” window the flight case comes rolling out down onto the bag conveyor and straight away I know well that’s that fkd and tonight’s gig…. that bloody deck went back to Numark nearly every time I flew with it

 

[Deleted member 69416]

I had a standing joke with another crew guy that...." The Flemish translation of fragile is smash ."