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I wish we had terrain like that over here Pat !
Here's my ride , on a short fast one from this very morning .
Having worked out a nice route , had to decide which bike to take ! Kept changing my mind :facepalm: Do we all do this ? Ended up rolling out on my '99 Gary Fisher Kaitai . Along a short road section , before what seemed like a 10 minute climb ,
Flattened out soon enough so I could start going up the gears to the top . Rewarded with a lovely view of . . . very little due to mist :roll:
Or is it fog ?
Anyway , had a nice gradual ,long downhill slope on some loose chalk/flint before going up briefly for a little sprint . :shock:
Dropped down to a road , along a couple of road climbs in order to get to the climb back up to the top of the Downs , past the pig farm .
Good for clearing out the lungs !
Past what must be the last of the poppies for this year ,
and onto my favourite bit of singletrack , uphill , just to make it harder ,
these pics are of the rootier wider sections but it does get narrower and rooty . Just didn't want a rider coming the other way to crash into the bike on those sections .
Held a gate open for some other riders , most on modern bikes , but one on a Parkpre Comp . Nice .
Then a long a ridgetop , then down a loose gullied drop
to the main road . Up the other side , then a wind assisted blast along the last bridleway home .
All in all , a good couple of hours ride
Mike
I wish we had terrain like that over here Pat !
Here's my ride , on a short fast one from this very morning .
Having worked out a nice route , had to decide which bike to take ! Kept changing my mind :facepalm: Do we all do this ? Ended up rolling out on my '99 Gary Fisher Kaitai . Along a short road section , before what seemed like a 10 minute climb ,
Flattened out soon enough so I could start going up the gears to the top . Rewarded with a lovely view of . . . very little due to mist :roll:
Or is it fog ?
Anyway , had a nice gradual ,long downhill slope on some loose chalk/flint before going up briefly for a little sprint . :shock:
Dropped down to a road , along a couple of road climbs
in order to get to the climb back up to the top of the Downs , past the pig farm .Good for clearing out the lungs !
Past what must be the last of the poppies for this year ,
and onto my favourite bit of singletrack , uphill , just to make it harder ,
these pics are of the rootier wider sections but it does get narrower and rooty . Just didn't want a rider coming the other way to crash into the bike on those sections .
Held a gate open for some other riders , most on modern bikes , but one on a Parkpre Comp . Nice .
Then a long a ridgetop , then down a loose gullied drop
to the main road . Up the other side , then a wind assisted blast along the last bridleway home .
All in all , a good couple of hours ride
Mike
