The "Photos From Today's Ride" thread...
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After the problems with my bike mentioned on the previous page, I had a very nice 19 mile ride around Sidmouth today. This is the view looking over towards Newton Poppleford.
View Over Newton Poppleford And East Devon by Alastair Cummins, on Flickr
http://www.strava.com/activities/168334492
View Over Newton Poppleford And East Devon by Alastair Cummins, on Flickr
http://www.strava.com/activities/168334492
No in fact. I've had it longer than the whippet. I generally use it for commuting which is quite dull, so all the pretty pictures I post here are of the other one. I wanted a ride on Sunday, but couldn't face the downs in this heat, so pootled around the coast for the sea breeze really.
Not really much to do with bike riding, but...
...I came within a whisker of squashing this little Toad tonight. Around 2200hrs, it was pretty much dark, and I was riding with my lights off. Riding on a gravel forest road, I caught a movement from the corner of my eye, and stopped, fully expecting the little chap to be dead/dying, but somehow I'd avoided running him over. He was only about the size of my thumb too.
...I came within a whisker of squashing this little Toad tonight. Around 2200hrs, it was pretty much dark, and I was riding with my lights off. Riding on a gravel forest road, I caught a movement from the corner of my eye, and stopped, fully expecting the little chap to be dead/dying, but somehow I'd avoided running him over. He was only about the size of my thumb too.
Justin Cyder said:
No in fact. I've had it longer than the whippet. I generally use it for commuting which is quite dull, so all the pretty pictures I post here are of the other one. I wanted a ride on Sunday, but couldn't face the downs in this heat, so pootled around the coast for the sea breeze really.
Nice, that's the bike that prompted me to buy my Boardman, all you need to do is get that HORRID mud guard off 
A bit of a mix today, and I was out earlier in the day than usual, in decent light too, so managed to take some 'share-able' pics...
Open (former) farmland - Minley
Bloody cows!!! I waited to see if they'd move. They didn't...
...so I went around them, avoiding the fresher 'pats'.
But what's this? No sooner am I back on the track, than the contrary beggars decide to move out of the way anyway
Onward, to Fleet Pond. A slow ride around the pond, too many people about to smash any Strava segments, and far too hot for that silliness anyway.
Up to the canal, and as I rode along, I had a chat with the couple who live on this boat. Registered in Stoke-on-Trent, they were on the second day of their return trip to Birmingham. The trip down took them 3 months!!!
Even the wildlife was too hot to fly away. Normally the local Herons will take flight when disturbed.
Canal aqueduct over the A331 Blackwater Valley relief road.
A varied 25 miler, at a rather sedate 9mph average speed. It was too hot to get silly, so I settled in and enjoyed the scenery.
Open (former) farmland - Minley
Bloody cows!!! I waited to see if they'd move. They didn't...
...so I went around them, avoiding the fresher 'pats'.
But what's this? No sooner am I back on the track, than the contrary beggars decide to move out of the way anyway
Onward, to Fleet Pond. A slow ride around the pond, too many people about to smash any Strava segments, and far too hot for that silliness anyway.
Up to the canal, and as I rode along, I had a chat with the couple who live on this boat. Registered in Stoke-on-Trent, they were on the second day of their return trip to Birmingham. The trip down took them 3 months!!!
Even the wildlife was too hot to fly away. Normally the local Herons will take flight when disturbed.
Canal aqueduct over the A331 Blackwater Valley relief road.
A varied 25 miler, at a rather sedate 9mph average speed. It was too hot to get silly, so I settled in and enjoyed the scenery.
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