The joy of bike riding

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GrahamJ wrote: 13 Sep 2022, 6:16pm On the track along Loch Gleann Dubh near Kylesku. A bridge was closed for repairs.
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Ah..... come on... everyone thought it. Fair play by the way. A heroic fording, and one which must have been damned cold.
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Almost half of the bikes in this thread have horizontal cross bars, in contrast to what I see on the road. Does this show that, on average, old bikes are more fun to ride?! Picture is the Quirang on Skye, reached on a 1990 Dawes Galaxy.
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No photos, sorry, I was too busy dodging the rain drops then admiring the views but this route through my childhood haunts was epic:

Bridge (near Canterbury) to Hythe (via Pett Bottom road through the North downs) then along the sea wall/coast road to Dungeness, back across Romney Marsh then a mega-climb back up to the North downs and home via the Roman 'Stone Street' and a few wiggly country lanes.

Time taken, didn't notice, average speed, no idea, mileage, not a clue, punctures - two, due to the combination of rain and Kentish flint :)
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Does this show that, on average, old bikes are more fun to ride?!
My working assumption was that it was giving a clue as to the maturity of forum contributors.

Here’s mine, slightly sloping top-tube (I’m sure they used to be called crossbars), having a rest in the shade at Graffham Water en-route Cambridge to MK last month. It was c0930 and c28 degrees at the time. I’m fairly sure that ride was a joy, but as the morning progressed, and the temperature continued to climb to dizzying heights, I did have my doubts!
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Nearholmer wrote: 15 Sep 2022, 2:22pm
Does this show that, on average, old bikes are more fun to ride?!
My working assumption was that it was giving a clue as to the maturity of forum contributors.
am sure that's it.
I do tend to think that a horizontal bar looks better, and so makes a better pic, but I wouldn't buy such a bike - I find sloping way more practical.
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My favourite morning ride - Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight, on a glorious September morning.
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Out with mates on a bike. And getting up a mountain with family. Joyful.
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Went out on a new bike yesterday it’s a Moulton APB old school ish. I have Ordanance Survey on my phone set it to started recording a route picked a destination and just rode with the phone in my pocket if I got to a junction and didn’t know which way had a look at the map. I’ve been practicing for audax so I have been watching the time and distance a lot that was taking a lot of fun out of riding. Yesterday just bimbling along enjoying the Sun it reminded me of why I started riding a bike in the first place.

In past I used to have a basic wired computer and used tipex to cover the screen so I could only see the distance displayed I knew I was slow so didn’t need a computer to depress me. If I could I would use one of those clicky things that went on the front wheel.
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Is that my old bike if it is looking good
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At least it’s red and you won’t have to paint that one.
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An early ride out to Drumnadrochit, the A82 is quiet on a Sunday morning, and back via Beauly and Redcastle.


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Testing out the recently acquired Garmin Edge 200, all working so far (although I think the ascent was more like 600 mtrs):


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cycle tramp wrote: 25 Sep 2022, 11:56am Along time ago, in another thread someone mentioned that they were thinking of taking up cycling as a past time.. but wondered if as they would only cycle 8 or 9 miles around their local villages they'd get bored.
I made a comment that it's what I've been doing that for the last four years, and I ain't got bored yet... they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here's my other reply, taken on the way back from the local shops (about 3 miles away) with my all terrain (shopping) bike.. (a gravel shopper?)

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It was absolutely peaceful out there, and if it wasn't for the fact that I had a couple of bags of frozen scampi in the panniers, I would have broken out a book, some ginger beer, bread and cheese and would still be out there now, deep into chapter eight...
Are those the new T pylons I can see in the background. They look less obtrusive than the current :roll: versions.
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