A very pleasant ride to work this morning. Warm and dry but a bit overcast so no nasty sun. I took the muni and went the long way out round the reservoir down my favourite rocky track. I was intending to use Joe’s “take a picture for each UPD” idea, but the places I fell off made pretty boring photos so I took a few more in random places.
The pictures in order:
UPD 1. I’m quite ashamed of this one… track was very loose this morning and caught me out trying to thrash down it at speed :o
UPD 2. Failed to clear a big hole between two stones. This is actually looking up hill, but looks down for some freaky reason. Odd camera angle.
It’s illegal (and actually pretty much impossible with the tufty grass and bogs) to cycle on the open moorland but there are some nice bridleways and permitted cycle routes that let you get around quite a bit. Loops tend to end up quite long though (you have to go a long way between junctions on the tracks). I’m just lucky that a couple of the nice routes happen to go in the general direction of where I work. That rocky bit in the pictures is very entertaining - loose rocks on sandy/gravelly stuff and pretty much becomes a river bed in heavy rain, moving it all around. It’s never the same twice.
There are three reasonable routes for my commute. There’s an old railway line route that goes from where I live down to pretty near where I work, which is nice on the coker - some steep (1:5) roads at the end, about 9 miles. Then there’s the route I went this morning down to the reservoir, then a few miles on easy roads, about 10 or 11 miles altogether I think. Or there’s a quick 7 1/2 mile blat down the road on the bike. Can’t complain
Johann3s, I can ride over a board that is laying on the grass but I don’t believe I would have the nerve to ride over a stream . Old age or lack of experience? Probably just a lack of nerve.
The whole family went on a uni ride on the bike paths near Frisco, Colorado this weekend. Unfortunately, I lost both my 29er and my 36er to my 9 and 12 year old when they figured out they could ride them. I am just beginning to be able to free mount the 36er, and the 12 year old does it with no problem even though he can barely reach the pedals! sigh. Now I just need to find a bigger wheel for the 7 year old. No luck so far. Even the KH20 is still too big for her… Anyway, here’s a picture of the kids - a lot cuter than my husband and me anyway.
We spent the 4th of July weekend in Illinois. It rained continuously, so all parades were cancelled… Our family did our own parade with 10 unicycles of all sizes… Unfortunately, I never got any pictures of the whole group of aunts, uncles, and cousins on unis.
The whole “parade” degraded into a massive squirt-gun fight…
Pic1: The bridge behind me is a privately owned toll bridge that charge 40p per car - unicycles free!
The signals are left from the original trackbed of the railway that used to bring slate from inland quarries to Barmouth on the coast. Now it’s a 10mile uni run.
Pic2:
The original trackbed of the railway now called the Mawddach Trail. 10 miles of good riding for the 36
I’ve been exploring a network of MTB singletrack in the last week on the 29’er, been a muddy, greasey hoot! Some additional pics and video in ‘Woodend II - Singletrack’s Revenge’
