Your Rough Stuff Photos

[mattheus]

Somewhere on YouTube is a video taken by a small group of cyclists doing “gravel” on the Balmoral Estate where they come across an older chap out walking, and get into conversation with him. The older chap is The King, who seems entirely relaxed and ‘natural’ in conversation with a random bunch of cyclists.

That is a classy video

(On the Sunday ride, one of our number managed to delay the car of Charles+Camilla on their way to church! My experience of big black shiny cars on the estate was that drivers were under very clear instructions to be polite to the public. )

[Carlton green]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/miHnxX9TGPEpFFM97

mixed-surface audax thru the Balmoral estate.
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Same weekend, different estate (Mar Lodge; "Linn of Dee" up from Braemar, towards the Lairig Ghru pass):
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JS7hVrQDgW3r8X1y7

Took my commuter - 33/35mm tyre, cantis, 1x8friction shift. Severely "underbiked" but perfectly rideable (I didn't take any pics of the more technical gravel in the Balmoral woods).

Nice looking dog, long haired Dachshund? Does it run with you or is it carried?

Under-biked? Better than mine and roll with what ya’ got, it’s what you do with what ya’have that matters

[Carlton green]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/miHnxX9TGPEpFFM97

mixed-surface audax thru the Balmoral estate.
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Same weekend, different estate (Mar Lodge; "Linn of Dee" up from Braemar, towards the Lairig Ghru pass):
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JS7hVrQDgW3r8X1y7

Took my commuter - 33/35mm tyre, cantis, 1x8friction shift. Severely "underbiked" but perfectly rideable (I didn't take any pics of the more technical gravel in the Balmoral woods).

Nice looking dog, long haired Dachshund? Does it run with you or is it carried?

Under-biked? Better than mine and roll with what ya’ got, it’s what you do with what ya’have that matters

[RodT]

Bike with crab apple harvest, on a bridle path near Colerne.

[mattheus]

Nice looking dog, long haired Dachshund? Does it run with you or is it carried?

Under-biked? Better than mine and roll with what ya’ got, it’s what you do with what ya’have that matters

Yes, a daxie - handsome chap called Joseph, but known as "Sephie" to his German owners. We met on the path, I don't own a dog but try to take do photos home from my bike tours for The Dog-Lover Indoors (especially terriers and the like).

...however, there was a dog on the audax, A spaniel of some kind, ran with his owner.(It was only a 10kph min speed, which gave the blighter a fighting chance). A brevet-card was made up for him - of course!

[a.twiddler]

Muddy riverside ride on the Linear.

[Cowsham]

Complete with front mudflap too. -- does that bike sit on the stand with you onboard ?

[a.twiddler]

The stand was just to hold the bike while mounting and dismounting. Better to lean the bike against walls, rails etc when parking it long term, particularly with loaded panniers. The long, rather flexy stand wasn't designed to support a lot of weight. It worked well for what it was designed to do, like many of the rather unorthodox components of that Linear.

[Cowsham]

Was just a random thought -- if you had a stand that could support your weight you can have the benefits of a recumbent trike plus the narrow width advantage of the recumbent bike ie a nice place to sit and take a rest if on a long haul trip.

[a.twiddler]

Nothing to stop you coming to a stop alongside a wall and leaning a shoulder or full pannier against it while keeping both feet up without using the stand. I've started off from such places by placing a hand against the wall and setting off with both feet on the pedals.

I don't think even a twin legged stand would tolerate regularly supporting the weight of bike and rider. With my various motorcycles over the years there have been dire warnings not to sit on the bike on the centrestand, and motorbike stands are much more solidly fixed than just the single bolt that you get on two legged cycle stands. Bicycle kickstands on conventional bikes have a lot of leverage against the frame. The Linear one bolts on to quite a hefty block but with the length of its stand, the stand itself is likely to bend. The fixing point is a long way off the ground, compared with conventional bikes or even most recumbents.

[cycle tramp]

Was just a random thought -- if you had a stand that could support your weight you can have the benefits of a recumbent trike plus the narrow width advantage of the recumbent bike ie a nice place to sit and take a rest if on a long haul trip.

Yeah...it was done...it was called the behemoth, and was probably one of the heaviest road travelling recumbents ever. The stabilisers were powered by compressed gas and had little wheelies at the end , meaning they could be deployed as the rider sat on the bike, just before the bike's speed dropped to the point where balance became impossible.....
The guy who designed it went on to designed and build a very small tri-hull boat which was powered by sails and pedals, and had little wheels which meant it could be pulled onto the shore and on dry land..
https://www.cyclingabout.com/heaviest-t ... -behemoth/
I guess it's possible to recreate the stabilisers by modifying the frame, with additional pivot points', some springs, a locking/unlocking mechanism, a modified friction shift lever, two cables and some legs with little wheelies on... or you could buy a trike...

[Cowsham]

Was just a random thought -- if you had a stand that could support your weight you can have the benefits of a recumbent trike plus the narrow width advantage of the recumbent bike ie a nice place to sit and take a rest if on a long haul trip.

Yeah...it was done...it was called the behemoth, and was probably one of the heaviest road travelling recumbents ever. The stabilisers were powered by compressed gas and had little wheelies at the end , meaning they could be deployed as the rider sat on the bike, just before the bike's speed dropped to the point where balance became impossible.....
The guy who designed it went on to designed and build a very small tri-hull boat which was powered by sails and pedals, and had little wheels which meant it could be pulled onto the shore and on dry land..
https://www.cyclingabout.com/heaviest-t ... -behemoth/
I guess it's possible to recreate the stabilisers by modifying the frame, with additional pivot points', some springs, a locking/unlocking mechanism, a modified friction shift lever, two cables and some legs with little wheelies on... or you could buy a trike...

I was thinking along the same lines as a motorcycle centre stand -- let it down and roll back onto it lifting the back wheel. ( maybe not completely off the ground )