MrBrownstone
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Got rocks? This morning in Southern Maine. Home sweet home.
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Josh ebike devon
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Sunny Devon
Don’t recognise the coastline. Where you to bay?
Josh ebike devon
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This is mansands beach near Brixham
Those are some nasty cobblestones!
Shane(NZ)
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Trance 19 E+0(wife's wheels)Trek LT9 with 29er up front mine.
MrBrownstone
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Lonely out there this am.?
Lockdown ends .. my not crashing streak ends ...
steve_sordy
Wedding Crasher
Sherwood Pines is now open, but the off-piste runs need some recovery work. Some trails are gone for ever, but some just need a bit of pruning.
The bombhole run at Sherwood Pines in the UK is a remnant of Word War One training in trench warfare. It runs through the middle of the latest forest clearance and had a lot of trees fallen across it and discarded brash in the trench. I forgot to take a photo before I cleared this, so you'll have to use your imagination!
The bombhole run at Sherwood Pines in the UK is a remnant of Word War One training in trench warfare. It runs through the middle of the latest forest clearance and had a lot of trees fallen across it and discarded brash in the trench. I forgot to take a photo before I cleared this, so you'll have to use your imagination!
Was this some form of deadly scrabble ?
steve_sordy
Wedding Crasher
Very deadly game of words unfortunately! Thanks for spotting the typo, now corrected.
The entire area now known as Sherwood Pines was a WW1 training area for troops. They had to learn how to build, live, fight and survive in the hell of trench warfare. When the war ended, the training detachment just walked away and left it. During the war, the country almost ran out of wood to feed the coal mining industry's demand for pit props. This was aided and abetted in a huge way by the demand for wood to shore up the trenches that ran for hundreds of miles on the the continent of Europe. After the war the government decided to establish "The Forestry Commission" to make sure that in a future conflict the nation would not run out of such a basic asset. Their remit was to rebuild and manage the Nation's forests.
Trees were planted all over the place and at Sherwood Pines the trees ran in straight lines right over all the trenches, defensive works, ramparts etc. All those works are still there and have had preservation orders placed upon them (dunno when) to stop the catastrophic damage that would result if the harvesting machines were to run over them.
The FC ran pretty much uninterrupted for 100 years, until very recently they were split up and Forest England was created; no doubt also Forest Scotland and Forest Wales. I have no idea why they did that. I suspect a cunning plan!
The entire area now known as Sherwood Pines was a WW1 training area for troops. They had to learn how to build, live, fight and survive in the hell of trench warfare. When the war ended, the training detachment just walked away and left it. During the war, the country almost ran out of wood to feed the coal mining industry's demand for pit props. This was aided and abetted in a huge way by the demand for wood to shore up the trenches that ran for hundreds of miles on the the continent of Europe. After the war the government decided to establish "The Forestry Commission" to make sure that in a future conflict the nation would not run out of such a basic asset. Their remit was to rebuild and manage the Nation's forests.
Trees were planted all over the place and at Sherwood Pines the trees ran in straight lines right over all the trenches, defensive works, ramparts etc. All those works are still there and have had preservation orders placed upon them (dunno when) to stop the catastrophic damage that would result if the harvesting machines were to run over them.
The FC ran pretty much uninterrupted for 100 years, until very recently they were split up and Forest England was created; no doubt also Forest Scotland and Forest Wales. I have no idea why they did that. I suspect a cunning plan!
MrBrownstone
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04fuxake
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Titahi Bay, Porirua, NZ
GrandPaBrogan
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Gil Lumb Park, Cambridge, NZ
(Autumn 2020)
MrBrownstone
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Whose trails these are I think I know.?
Weeding, trimming and blowing ... trail tidying with my lazy buddy ..
GrantCube
Member
In my garden after a ride
MrBrownstone
Well-known member
Thank you sir may I have another! Perfect dirt this am. Next 7 days look about the same.
deksawyer
E*POWAH Master
Nice out there today. Here's a bit of ott hdr camera action.
GrandPaBrogan
⚡ eGeezer ⚡
Funny how cameras can never capture the inclination of the trails we ride. I can view that as if I’m looking up a hill or looking down a valley - it makes sense either way. ?
GrandPaBrogan
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Ha! We can quote ourselves in this forum?!!Funny how cameras can never capture the inclination of the trails we ride. I can view that as if I’m looking up a hill or looking down a valley - it makes sense either way. ?
Actually there may be subtle indicators. If there’s a bike at the end of that trail and it’s one of mine or Zimmerframe’s pics... it’s probably a downhill shot. ?⤵
Yup, rusty was arguing with himself yesterday... ???
GrandPaBrogan
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Cool!! I can troll myself when I’m feeling insecure, haha.
Hang on, if I p!$$ myself too much, would the forum server implode, if I click preferences to ignore myself??
Today's ride to Birkrigg Common (near Ulverston, Cumbria), looking across Morecambe Bay towards Heysham, with the nuclear power station poking out of the mist in the distance.
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