I feel for you with all that mud, Iāll take the dry desert any day. Iād hate to have to clean my bike after ever ride. It has been about 5 rides since I washed the bike.
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Our rattle snakes donāt always rattle. They do strike without warning, but I am definitely glad I am not in your shoes. The eastern US does have Coral Snakes and Cottonmouth Snakes that donāt rattle. I do not like snakes, they freak me out more than anything else on our trails. Itās the season for them, March through early October.You guys are lucky!
They installed a rattle on your snakes to let you know where they are
Ours donāt come with a warning
Rattle Snakes? Pah, nothing compared to cattle bell cows in the Alps! In most cases these even donāt have to coil up. You come around a corner and up you go.
Just kiddingā¦.
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Beautifull area!
When I was a kid I had such a turtle. But donāt do this in other countries if not sure about the species. I nearly grabbed about such size of a snapper turtle in US to put here aside from the road. Luckily there was a local guy that hold me back from grabbing her, kicked her with a stick when she suddenly snapped unbelieveable fast with a long neck to the back of her shell. 
First ride of the year! 
To be fair, I've been ill and had some family issues to deal with (and the weather has been sh1t)...
Just a loosener on The Green Hornet to see how much fitness I'd lost. As it turns out not too much, thankfully.
Was expecting a slop fest so took the Merida but happily, apart from a few really sloppy and/or wet bits, its was OK, if a little cool - only 8C.
Did a couple of loops around Jubilee/Darwen Tower. Only just over 11 miles but 1750ft and nearly 900Cals...
Green Hornet at the Tower
Same location facing back to Winter Hill and its transmitters in the distance...
The "loops"
To be fair, I've been ill and had some family issues to deal with (and the weather has been sh1t)...Just a loosener on The Green Hornet to see how much fitness I'd lost. As it turns out not too much, thankfully.
Was expecting a slop fest so took the Merida but happily, apart from a few really sloppy and/or wet bits, its was OK, if a little cool - only 8C.
Did a couple of loops around Jubilee/Darwen Tower. Only just over 11 miles but 1750ft and nearly 900Cals...
Green Hornet at the Tower
Same location facing back to Winter Hill and its transmitters in the distance...
The "loops"
darwink1
Well-known member
Pictures of fixes that shouldn't have worked but did.
About a third of the way into our ride Wes cracked a rim on my lender bike and it wouldn't hold air anymore. While I laughed at him he proceed to wrap the area in electrical tape, threw on a couple zip ties and somehow we finished the ride and only had to stop to top off the tire twice...
Rim separated at the seam from an impact btw.
D
About a third of the way into our ride Wes cracked a rim on my lender bike and it wouldn't hold air anymore. While I laughed at him he proceed to wrap the area in electrical tape, threw on a couple zip ties and somehow we finished the ride and only had to stop to top off the tire twice...
Rim separated at the seam from an impact btw.
D
Rosemount
E*POWAH Elite
It's been wet in Queensland.
Bike path ride last weekend.
Bike path ride last weekend.
Semmelrocc
E*POWAH Master
While waiting for my Levo SL, which is on a maintenance visit with my LBS, I went for a quick ride in between yesterday's rain showers with my "winter project". It's amazing, how good a vintage MTB like this 1992 Schauff hardtail can feel after receiving some fresh parts like wider handle bars, a new fork, etc.). I still wouldn't take it to rough trails, but it's fine for 80% of the everyday stuff.
steve_sordy
Wedding Crasher
Atmospheric!
Mcharza
E*POWAH BOSS
Nice MacGyver hack
Exercised the Fuel EXE today. Almost 30km.
Trails in good condition ā¦before the monsoons hit.
Trails in good condition ā¦before the monsoons hit.
steve_sordy
Wedding Crasher
I don't care how isolated the location; I would not sleep unless the bike was in the van with me!
Got to have trust in the human race occasionally. Left it for 6 hours in the heather once.I don't care how isolated the location; I would not sleep unless the bike was in the van with me!
That and the perimerer trip wire and claymore mines . .
Steady on Tim its only a bike haha. Seriously I don't normally do that but that road i parked beside would not see cars in the middle of the night. There are still a lot of people round my area who's doors are left unlocked when the go out keys left in cars . If you go to some places there's kayaks and things like that just lie beside the waterside. Just like the good old days.
Short (25km) and not especially interesting ride today, though didn't have much time spare and it was good for breaking in the new saddle.
Windy but stayed dry.
Tad jealous of the forest @KnollyBro has.
Windy but stayed dry.
Tad jealous of the forest @KnollyBro has.
steve_sordy
Wedding Crasher
I used to ring my girlfriend from one of those call boxes at the top of the street. Happy days!
Yeah so did I once you'd gone ...
Fake! There are no hills in NL!Few days a week I'm working from home. When I can I do a short Lunch break ride. To free up my mind for the next meetins ;-)
Few days a week I'm working from home. When I can I do a short Lunch break ride. To free up my mind for the next meetins ;-)
When I click on NL it gives me Newfoundland so not sure where you are. I was off down memory lane as I did a job there.Since when is Klever Reichswald in the Netherlands ?Yes it is close to the border with NL.
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