Today's Ride

[doctor-bond]

Cold and bright, so dusted off the tourer and followed my nose to Castle Howard and back. 38 miles 500m. Notable things that didn’t get photo’d: starling murmuration; land-that-time-forgot roadside travellers’ camp replete with evocative wood fires and lots of magnificent (fighting?) cockerels in cages ; old giffer in a metro that almost took me out coming over a blind hill on the wrong side of the road (him, not me). Anyway here’s a church with a superb carpet of snowdrops, and some sun.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Cold and bright, so dusted off the tourer and followed my nose to Castle Howard and back. 38 miles 500m. Notable things that didn’t get photo’d: starling murmuration; land-that-time-forgot roadside travellers’ camp replete with evocative wood fires and lots of magnificent (fighting?) cockerels in cages ; old giffer in a metro that almost took me out coming over a blind hill on the wrong side of the road (him, not me). Anyway here’s a church with a superb carpet of snowdrops, and some sun.

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Your Randonneur is so much prettier than mine

 

[Betsy]

The mudguards are very nice / well fitted

 

[thom04]

First ride of the year! (6th Feb - shameful)
A short but finger numbing loop round the outskirts of town & the nearest clump of muddy woodland

This was mainly a test ride for some new bits on the bike & to assess the Xmas damage on my fitness levels. The bike performed better than I did