Today's Ride

A less eventful ride this evening on a typical British Summer day :LOL: 17C, chilly, overcast, threatening rain. Snapseed.jpeg
Again the park deserted, even with a squeaky brake (that I need to adjust) the deer seemed surprised to see me - I should fix a GoPro to my handlebars..

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The swans and cygnets were preening and getting ready to roost...Ducks already asleep...lightweights!

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finally bought a smoke and dart combo, put them on the melon marin and sent it through the local mtb park
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They’re dope, I see why these were/are the dream combo, the dart grips the sides and the smoke is like a paddled tire, I never lost traction or couldn’t get enough torque down

I need different pedals, the trek system 3’s are THE pedal for this bike, straight out of 1990
But I need to be able to take my foot off the pedals and caged pedals are not what I want to be rolling for actual off-road use
Too many situations where I had to just whip my foot out of the cage or eat dirt
 
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This was a mixed rando - MTB retro ride with the local bike community. 70km in total but completely flat l. That ain’t that difficult in the lowlands…😎
 

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Away at a conference in a dull, overcast and somewhat chilly Falmouth on Thursday and Friday last week...so pretty much the same as at HQ further west! I knew I'd have time for a decent ride, so I brought the single-speed A'ha and decided to hammer out some silly, short climbs with a 42*14 ratio 🤣 Climbing out of Flushing (smirk) was a pleasure!

For our transatlantic cousins, please could you pull the gulf-stream south again because it's too far north 😟

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Away at a conference in a dull, overcast and somewhat chilly Falmouth on Thursday and Friday last week...so pretty much the same as at HQ further west! I knew I'd have time for a decent ride, so I brought the single-speed A'ha and decided to hammer out some silly, short climbs with a 42*14 ratio 🤣 Climbing out of Flushing (smirk) was a pleasure!

For our transatlantic cousins, please could you pull the gulf-stream south again because it's too far north 😟

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Nice to see a bit of Cornwall on here! I used to live in Mylor so did that flushing climb fairly regularly. Good fun when you're not having to dodge 4x4s & boat trailers 👌
 
Falmouth/Flushing are lovely...happy memories of holidays there (although I only lived in Devon :) ) The Jetstream needs to go North though to pull up warm air from the continent ;). We have had above average rainfall in the UK for 11 months in a row now....with that average covering all years back to 1836...

Anyway , the forecast seemed dry for this evening so I took the opportunity to get out on a different route this evening. HWTHE1850.jpeg The sun actually came out, briefly....

It was nice along the Thames path, deserted too. MVAIE3224.jpeg

I've put touring pedals on my Gwerch and I am soooo much happier...I'm a terrible roadie that's for sure, I don't like drop bars or pedals that are always upside-down, but I do like the awesome steel frames and pantographed bits :) and I love this bike...

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I did 18km along the Thames path and back again.

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