bikeworkshop
Old School Grand Master
Looks like your cycle lane is perfectly aligned with summer solstice sunrise.
Are there hippies or druids in your town planning department?
Today's Ride
- Thread starter FairfaxPat
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Are there hippies or druids in your town planning department?
PhillB
GT Fan
cool sun rays!
PhillB
GT Fan
I spent my childhood in Devon and whilst one of the sights of the summer were Swallows and Swifts, the sound was the Skylarks that nested in the fields behind my house.They fly up and sing above their nests, during the mating season. They nest in my local park too and I love sitting there and listening to them. Takes me back!
The first real warm weather of the summer is very welcome after months of rain! 23C at 8:30pm. 16km ride.
This Karakoram has been through many incarnations...it's a kind of a BMX cruiser at the moment.
The first real warm weather of the summer is very welcome after months of rain! 23C at 8:30pm. 16km ride.
This Karakoram has been through many incarnations...it's a kind of a BMX cruiser at the moment.
doctor-bond
Feature Bike
Nipped out to the post office. Came back the long way.
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PhillB
GT Fan
You wait all winter for some sun to sit by the ponds and then they fill up with algae 
- There's some huge fish in there though.
I took a different route today through some lesser travelled parts of the park...
The deer use the Bracken as cover for their young in July/August, so tend to keep away from it then...
- There's some huge fish in there though.
I took a different route today through some lesser travelled parts of the park...
The deer use the Bracken as cover for their young in July/August, so tend to keep away from it then...
Southville Hop
Retro Guru
Just a quick shakedown ride to get the new build set up correctly.
A lovely evening, and a super new (to me) frame and fork. The bike is just so much fun, I got carried away and fan out of daylight
A lovely evening, and a super new (to me) frame and fork. The bike is just so much fun, I got carried away and fan out of daylight
Typically bonkers weather. Yesterday was sea fog whilst a mile away it was wall to wall sunshine. With a slightly stronger wind, the fog has jogged on. So 14 degrees, felt like 12 but the suns strength is coming through and a good sweat was on by the time the ride was over. Westerly 10-12mph breeze. Getting the legs ready for round 4 of the SWXC series, or operation not last as I like to call it 
Today's great ride with the Parkpre Team 925 (4h30, 40km and 1000m of elevation)
the weather is great, no one on the road, the bike is running well, great
arrived at the lake exactly 1 hour after leaving the house (lac de la Thuile)
picnic with feet in the water, watching the fish
after this nice little break I arrived on a very steep path, super wet and therefore super slippery, I push the bike because I'm weak and my tires are smooth ! but after I can continue on the bike, pedaling with sweetness in the muddy passages, and there are many of them
I climb, I alternate between pushing the bike and trying to avoid deep mud puddles
I arrive at the first pass, I take a stony but dry (at least at the beginning) forest road, it gets bad after a while with a few more very greasy and very steep sections, but in the end I arrive at the second pass
I tell myself that next time I have to do this in the other direction, up to the lake it's quite a descent, in the meantime I take the forest road which goes down towards the village of Aillons le Jeune
very nice road, shady and cool (quite a few streams on the right and left)
I arrive at the village and find fresh water to fill my bottle and take a banana break before tackling the climb of the last pass
and here we go again, on the asphalt it's still easier than on the rocks or the mud
attacking the climb with a nice view of mountains (Mont Colombier at the far end on the left and the Roc de Pra Renard on the right)
arrived at the pass I switch back to the big descent, I leave it before the end to take my little path which I like and which takes me not far from home avoiding the road
in the end super happy, the Parkpre is really super pleasant, comfortable, light so very good for climbs (or when you have to push
), I love it !
the weather is great, no one on the road, the bike is running well, great
arrived at the lake exactly 1 hour after leaving the house (lac de la Thuile)
picnic with feet in the water, watching the fish
after this nice little break I arrived on a very steep path, super wet and therefore super slippery, I push the bike because I'm weak and my tires are smooth ! but after I can continue on the bike, pedaling with sweetness in the muddy passages, and there are many of them
I climb, I alternate between pushing the bike and trying to avoid deep mud puddles
I arrive at the first pass, I take a stony but dry (at least at the beginning) forest road, it gets bad after a while with a few more very greasy and very steep sections, but in the end I arrive at the second pass
I tell myself that next time I have to do this in the other direction, up to the lake it's quite a descent, in the meantime I take the forest road which goes down towards the village of Aillons le Jeune
very nice road, shady and cool (quite a few streams on the right and left)
I arrive at the village and find fresh water to fill my bottle and take a banana break before tackling the climb of the last pass
and here we go again, on the asphalt it's still easier than on the rocks or the mud
attacking the climb with a nice view of mountains (Mont Colombier at the far end on the left and the Roc de Pra Renard on the right)
arrived at the pass I switch back to the big descent, I leave it before the end to take my little path which I like and which takes me not far from home avoiding the road
in the end super happy, the Parkpre is really super pleasant, comfortable, light so very good for climbs (or when you have to push
), I love it !
CassidyAce
Senior Retro Guru
I like the bike. Is it a RockHopper that's been converted to fully rigid? If so, what's the fork? I'm curious because I'm thinking of going for a rigid fork on the RockHopper I got a few weeks ago.Just a quick shakedown ride to get the new build set up correctly.
A lovely evening, and a super new (to me) frame and fork. The bike is just so much fun, I got carried away and fan out of daylight
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