Rides 2014 -- add yours

[Danneaux]

Hi All!

Just a data point here on the return leg of my long tour...

All done on a new pair of Schwalbe Marathon Deluxe tires. Not the lightest or smoothest rolling, but so far not a single p*ncture.

Not bad, considering where I've ridden. My second tour through Liege, BE, and I'm now more convinced than ever they pave the streets with broken beer bottles.

Best,

Dan.

[FrogPrince]

Click on the link to enjoy a recent Cycle Somerset outing

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/43354333_MDQfjW

[jags]

Great pics frogprince lovely cycling country for sure.

[Andre Jute]

Out on my bike with my pochade box, painting. That's only a couple of kilometres from my house, though you need to know that what appears to be a farmer's driveway is in fact a public road to get there.

Also put in one of the harder rides hereabouts (as it happens crossing the impossible Macroom road via farm lane and back road just at the electricity switching station in the photo and the painting) before the rains started here. I'd been working towards it, but last year and the year before it didn't happen, so I'm pretty happy to tick it off this year.

[jags]

great set up Andre 

[Andre Jute]

great set up Andre 

That's an electricity power switching station down there. You reckon they'd let me plug in?

[in4]

I'd be mindful of charring me tripes and incinerating me chitterlings stopping so close to that beast. That said I'm sure the fragrancies of the wider Mersey basin chemical works do my respiratory system the power of good. I had a ride of such stark contrasts yesterday: Across a marsh boardwalk, into an industrial estate and down a lane leading to the old port of Shotwick; silted up many years a go. One of cycling's joys is discovering these old paths and tracks that modern life has made either invisible or difficult to access. Thankfully one of Mr Beeching's victims has been transformed into a cycle way that aided my home run so perhaps there is new life to be found in the ways of yore.

[Hoodatder]

Espallion - Part of the St Jacques Chemin Compostelle

[Hoodatder]

Conques - A real gem of a place hidden in a valley. A delight to descend in to and a sloe grind out of the place. Beautiful!

[jags]

That's an electricity power switching station down there. You reckon they'd let me plug in?

with the amount of juice coming from that place ,just point your bike at it and bobs your uncle.
but what a fantastic way to cycling flask of coffee sambo and the talent to paint the  view your looking at amazing.

[Hoodatder]

The top of Col Aubrac - a descent for 24km without pedalling - believe me when I say "It puts a smile on your face!"

There is also the benefit of a lovely town at the end - St Come d'Olt.

[jags]

hoodatder fantastic photos looks like tough cycling though but worth it..

[Hoodatder]

You cannot comprehend how beautiful it all is. We started in Valence and rode up to St Agreve - no mean feat after travelling 24 hours and only cat napping.

Yes, it was hard in places, but the rewards far outweighed the "pain", which to be fair is 90% psychological.

I would download more pics but my camera doesn't do it justice. Perhaps my mates photo's will.

We finished at St Jean Pied de Port and then cycled up the coast to Bordeaux. Only 1 days rain in 23 days cycling - bliss.

[Hoodatder]

Seem to be making a bit of a Horlics out of this.

Sometimes my reply will take 2 x pics with a little bit of annotation, sometimes it wont.

Sometimes it wont even take 2 x pics although they have been reduced in the same format.

Then it says my file is too big, so I revise it and then I'm informed that this post has already been posted. I'm confused.com.....

I thought that once before I had posted 3 or 4 pics in one go - maybe that was on the CTC forum?

[jags]

can't help you there buddy ,but no hurry post whenever you can worth the wait.


jags