The "Photos From Today's Ride" thread. (Vol. 2)

[Big Al.]

Continued from over here:-

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Solocle]

Well, volume two, I'll start with photos of yesterday's ride:




Highcliffe castle and the far east (of Dorset).

[mike80]

I've lived in and around Northampton since 2007, and never got right up close to the famous Lift Tower, until tody...

[PushedDover]

Snagged the best part of the day

[thewarlock]

[yellowjack]

Solocle said:

Well, volume two, I'll start with photos of yesterday's ride:

Crumbs Chief! You stood that far from your unlocked bicycle in Boscombe and you still have it? Wonders will never cease...

[Daveyraveygravey]

Oh, to be in on the first page of one of the best threads on the whole Internet! These are from today, just a ride to work...I get a couple of these every year, it's so cold but the sunrise is special. I feel sorry for the saddos that don't get it.






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Yep, that's a pair of storks.

[Solocle]

yellowjack said:

Crumbs Chief! You stood that far from your unlocked bicycle in Boscombe and you still have it? Wonders will never cease...

Heh, I think the "police" box might keep them at bay! For the same reason, I tend to set combo locks to 9999 when locked...

[Bathroom_Security]

Daveyraveygravey said:

Yep, that's a pair of storks.

where is that

Maybe the saddos think we are saddos all clad up in lycra

[RC1807]

yellowjack said:

Solocle said:

Well, volume two, I'll start with photos of yesterday's ride:

Crumbs Chief! You stood that far from your unlocked bicycle in Boscombe and you still have it? Wonders will never cease...

Boscvegas, eh? That explains the Police Box!

[Fas1975]

Couple from today on a route I haven't been through since last summer.

Resting at the gate



View beyond the gate

[Daveyraveygravey]

Bathroom_Security said:

where is that

Maybe the saddos think we are saddos all clad up in lycra

It's Knepp Castle, just off the A24. Used to be a normal type farm, but the owners are "rewilding" it. No crops, just animals, deer, cattle sheep mainly, but some pigs, the storks and they hope beavers soon. It's a lovely place for a walk, definitely typical English countryside but a bit...Africa, almost.

[Coolbananas]

A couple from the end of my ride today.

[PomBstard]

Early lap in the dark this morning - I know the trail really well but it’s always a tricky bstard in the dark with lots of cobwebs - took a break on this bridge to wipe the spiders away...

[RC1807]

Was it a tunnelweb?

[PomBstard]

RC1807 said:

Was it a tunnelweb?

Keep that up and there’ll be no need to take your coat off...

Whilst the area that I ride is well-known for Sydney Funnel-Webs, the cause of most shrieking on this ride is the Orb Weaving Spider which, each evening, puts up a chuffing great web across trails, paths and other spaces between hedges, trees and buildings. Being the first through the trail on a morning will pretty much guarantee several web-face moments, and the web is spectacularly sticky.

You then need to check every so often that an Orb Weaver hasn’t hopped on for the ride...

[RC1807]

Yuck!

I hate walking through webs, let alone thinking there might be a dangerous spider in it, too.

[PomBstard]

Orb Weavers aren’t dangerous - otherwise I wouldn’t be there either!

On the other hand, falling off and landing near a Funnel Web or Wolf spider...

Handy chart here for those that are contemplating wandering or riding these parts...

https://www.termite.com.au/spider-identification.h...

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

4 pedal strokes! .... This after I'd picked it up from the bike shop yesterday for warranty work - motor fault repair firmware update, and creak from the bb area.

Firmware not updated, creak still there, and fault still present. There's no wonder people buy direct and spanner themselves.

[Fluffsri]

Never had that issue on my bike