The "Photos From Today's Ride" thread. (Vol. 2)
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Daveyraveygravey said:
Master Bean said:
45 miles through some of the beautiful Cotswolds and this is all I could come up with in the photo department. Slumped on the floor propped up against a flower bed. The lemon cake was delicious as was the double espresso.
I'm enjoying my special Italian custom ratio cassette. All the middle gears and none of the extreme wasted ones.
More info on that cassette please!I'm enjoying my special Italian custom ratio cassette. All the middle gears and none of the extreme wasted ones.
Top of one my local blacks. It's a fast approach and you have to land the jump and immediately brake as you then drop down a very steep chute - 90 left - which is mostly off camber root and loam and rock.
Cod liver oil route - bloody awful but you know its doing you good!
The chute...
The fast line is high left but due to the roots, it's high risk. The lower has more support but you risk hitting the tree, and then you're down the chute one your back.
In the wet you're a passenger from the moment you drop in to the bottom. You certainly feel alive by the time you exit at the bottom.
Another lovely week on the paradise island (Madeira). No road riding this week. but some great enduro riding including Poiso down to the Boca do Risca trail out across the sea-cliffs and then on down to the sandy beach at Machico. Certainly makes a difference to the Surrey Hills or the New Forest which will be beckoning soon(ish) as Portugal is off the red list and my wife and son are now back in the UK.
About 80km today in 3hours, from home, south to the Moselle. Met a mate in Ehnen and headed to Remich. (Remich will be a ghost town when Covid restrictions are lifted. Many bars and restaurants are completely empty - signs down, furniture gone.) 
Coffee and cake from the bakery, and back home via Mertert and a hilly route.
It was a beautiful sunny day today, hitting 22C when I got home. Frustratingly, what I’d thought was a crank creak and solved turned out to be a saddle creak, which annoyed me for 75km today.
It’s been out / off, cleaned and greased. Noise is much reduced, but still there. Perhaps it’s time for a new saddle .... or a new bike?
Anyway, pics.
In Ehnen, awaiting my mate. River was like glass today.
Looking across ze river to Chermany, ja.
Lux side, vineyard.
And if you’ve ever wondered where your satellite and cable TV images come from, it’s here, the Château de Betzdorf, home of SES (Astra).
^^^ it’s a bit council, innit.
Coffee and cake from the bakery, and back home via Mertert and a hilly route.
It was a beautiful sunny day today, hitting 22C when I got home. Frustratingly, what I’d thought was a crank creak and solved turned out to be a saddle creak, which annoyed me for 75km today.
It’s been out / off, cleaned and greased. Noise is much reduced, but still there. Perhaps it’s time for a new saddle .... or a new bike?
Anyway, pics.
In Ehnen, awaiting my mate. River was like glass today.
Looking across ze river to Chermany, ja.
Lux side, vineyard.
And if you’ve ever wondered where your satellite and cable TV images come from, it’s here, the Château de Betzdorf, home of SES (Astra).
^^^ it’s a bit council, innit.
wobert said:
After work spin on the Slate to Parkgate on the Wirral for ice cream.....the Hope Pro4 rear hub is an excellent pedestrian / bike early warning system 
I have the same bike as that. Surprised you've stuck with the Panaracer tyres. I thought they were rubbish. Absolute puncture magnets. I ran them tubeless but kept getting home with dried sealant all over the bike. It had obviously done it's job. I changed them out to some Schwalbes and not had a single puncture.I also changed the gearing for something better for climbing and spend a week cycling the Alps on it. Alp D'Huez, Galibier, Croix de Fer, Les Dues Alpes, Glandon...absolutely brilliant.
What bars have you got on there? Fancied getting some flared drops.
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