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North York Moors by Lewis Craik, on Flickr
This was actually from last week - I took my bike on our family holiday to the North York Moors, and managed to sneak out for a pre-breakfast ride from the airbnb. It was a bloody steep climb, then boggy, then on a downhill section I fell off into a bog - but it was so much better than being in the office at 9am on a Monday morning!
Freshwater West by Mark Bowden, on FlickrWent for a ride around Pembrokshire this morning. There are some great roads in this part of the world, this is Freshwater West which was my halfway point.
theboyfold said:
Freshwater West by Mark Bowden, on FlickrWent for a ride around Pembrokshire this morning. There are some great roads in this part of the world, this is Freshwater West which was my halfway point.
yellowjack said:
Eeeh! It's lovely down there. I remember riding down to Freshwater after sunset, when I did a National Trust working holiday at Bosherston. I took a picture of my bike in almost that exact spot. I'll see if I can find it and post it up. Did you take any pictures of the Challenger and Leopard tanks flanking the gate at Castlemartin?
No, I didn't. That road is long, straight and ever so slightly downhill. So I was pressing on. I did see them, but it's very unusual for me to stop for photos. theboyfold said:
yellowjack said:
theboyfold said:
Freshwater West by Mark Bowden, on FlickrWent for a ride around Pembrokshire this morning. There are some great roads in this part of the world, this is Freshwater West which was my halfway point.
Not quite exactly the same spot, but pretty close. I think I was higher up to the left of your picture, and there was less light to play with. This was mid-ride, either shortly before or shortly after I reached the turn-around point near Angle (on the headland in the background).
Taken near the Pembrokeshire Coast Path/car park at St. Govan's Chapel, I think. Early in the ride, on the way out.
Gratuitous shots of tanks. Remus II isn't a Challenger at all - it's a Chieftain.
Typical bloody Germans! Not content with beach towels on sun loungers, they've reserved their place on this piece of tank bridge by leaving a Leopard parked on it. And it's been there since they left in 1996!!!
I stopped for the tank photos because I remembered stopping there with my parents on holiday as a wee boy, and having photos taken with the tanks. Not the same tanks though - the ones I remember from the 1970s were WWII or immediately post-war era tanks. I think they went to Bovington Tank Museum collection in the end.
Great pics, it's an amazing part of the country. I'm not sure we covered all the same ground. This was my route https://www.relive.cc/view/1136192190
Eddie Strohacker said:
First two around Cissbury Ring & the middle one is the trail that runs between Wyevale garden centre in Findon & Long Furlong, off Rogers lane - locally known as the green mile. Cissbury is my route on to & off the downs, so I'm forever passing through there.
Thats why it was familiar. I was at cissbury ring on sunday.I will check out the other local ones at some point too
If you're interested, the bit in red is the 2nd photo - it's not that easy to find if you've not been that way before. The top comes out on long Furlong & you can turn left for High Salvington & back to Worthing or right & that will bring you out at the A280, where you can cross the road (carefully!) & carry on up to the SDW or towards Angmering park.
theboyfold said:
Great pics, it's an amazing part of the country. I'm not sure we covered all the same ground. This was my route https://www.relive.cc/view/1136192190
No 'relive' from back then. But I don't think we shared much common ground really - just the road back from Freshwater to Stackpole via the Castlemartin entrance. My route from Strava... https://www.strava.com/activities/343306285 ...and it was quite a late one. Edited by yellowjack on Thursday 17th August 11:20
Eddie Strohacker said:
If you're interested, the bit in red is the 2nd photo - it's not that easy to find if you've not been that way before. The top comes out on long Furlong & you can turn left for High Salvington & back to Worthing or right & that will bring you out at the A280, where you can cross the road (carefully!) & carry on up to the SDW or towards Angmering park.
I use that trail a lot and it's a great run and you can really get some speed up 
However as you know Eddie, there's a couple of nasty pieces of concrete 2/3rds of the way down which can be a teeny weeny bit slippery sometimes
My fastest down that stretch is 1:49 (it's called decent to Rogers Lane) and conditions have to be good so I can go that fast, I'm too old and knackered to go fast in the wet! The fastest ever decent is 1:12
A tiny selection of shots from the first half of my 1,400km London-Edinburgh-London race. The blog has the story and many more photos.
https://theadventurecapitalist.wordpress.com/2017/...
https://theadventurecapitalist.wordpress.com/2017/...
Just checked Strava & my fastest is apparently 1:37. I'm clearly not trying hard enough although it told me I hit 34mph last week!! Usually, I try to climb it for the fitness, but it is huge fun to fly down, I find the secret of the concrete steps is to hit them on the right side, pointing left so you don't have to give it much steering input on the way out. Besides, the gullys down the bottom are way scarier!
Edited by Eddie Strohacker on Thursday 17th August 11:34
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