Hooray for silly German holidays! Whilst everyone round here was dressing up in fancy dress, I was out on the bike.
The original plan had been to head to the Ardennes, but it's still under some snow. Instead, I headed to Velbert which is about 20km east of here and the limit of most of my rides. I wanted to do a bit of exploring round the area to try and find some nice riding to add a loop to my normal rides for a future 70 / 80km epic. I know there are some larger hills to the other side of Velbert so I wanted to try and link them in.
I took La Conasse (with new, spiffy SS cranks: j-harris.net04.jpgOpen ↗) and headed out in to the hills. Sun was shining, but there was still some snow on the ground from the previous night's dusting: j-harris.net01.jpgOpen ↗
The peak of the hill with the radio tower was my target: j-harris.net02.jpgOpen ↗ which I eventually reached, after plenty of wrong turns and dead-end trails. Tried different routes for the way back and found some nice stuff: j-harris.net06.jpgOpen ↗ - but just not enough of it.
Was out for nearly 5 hours in total. One pinch flat. One OTB. One snow storm. Not enough decent trails. Still, pizza and a Rochefort when I got home and better than being in the office 🙂
What's with all that paint rubbed off of your chainstay?
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and headed out in to the hills. Sun was shining, but there was still some snow on the ground from the previous night's dusting: j-harris.net01.jpgOpen ↗
The peak of the hill with the radio tower was my target: j-harris.net02.jpgOpen ↗ which I eventually reached, after plenty of wrong turns and dead-end trails.
Looks like a haul. How far does it turn out to be? (less the wrong turns, and dead ends of course 🙂
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Tried different routes for the way back and found some nice stuff: j-j-Open ↗ harris.net/bike/velbert/06.jpg - but just not enough of it.
is it ever really enough. I rode for 2 1/2 hours yesterday, and still didn't satisfy the thirst. But my new CB MULE quenched the real thirst very well!
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Was out for nearly 5 hours in total. One pinch flat. One OTB. One snow storm. Not enough decent trails. Still, pizza and a Rochefort when I got home and better than being in the office 🙂
What's with all that paint rubbed off of your chainstay?
Chainsuck from when it used to run as a gearie.
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The peak of the hill with the radio tower was my target: j-harris.net02.jpgOpen ↗ which I eventually reached, after plenty of wrong turns and dead-end trails.
Looks like a haul. How far does it turn out to be? (less the wrong turns, and dead ends of course 🙂
Hooray for silly German holidays! Whilst everyone round here was dressing up in fancy dress, I was out on the bike.
The original plan had been to head to the Ardennes, but it's still under some snow. Instead, I headed to Velbert which is about 20km east of here and the limit of most of my rides. I wanted to do a bit of exploring round the area to try and find some nice riding to add a loop to my normal rides for a future 70 / 80km epic. I know there are some larger hills to the other side of Velbert so I wanted to try and link them in.
I took La Conasse (with new, spiffy SS cranks: j-harris.net04.jpgOpen ↗) and headed out in to the hills. Sun was shining, but there was still some snow on the ground from the previous night's dusting: j-harris.net01.jpgOpen ↗
The peak of the hill with the radio tower was my target: j-harris.net02.jpgOpen ↗ which I eventually reached, after plenty of wrong turns and dead-end trails. Tried different routes for the way back and found some nice stuff: j-harris.net06.jpgOpen ↗ - but just not enough of it.
Was out for nearly 5 hours in total. One pinch flat. One OTB. One snow storm. Not enough decent trails. Still, pizza and a Rochefort when I got home and better than being in the office 🙂
Nice.
5 hours is a long time on HT. You're hardcore. -- Slacker
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:52:13 +0100, bomba <[email hidden]>
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Hooray for silly German holidays! Whilst everyone round here was dressing up in fancy dress, I was out on the bike.
The original plan had been to head to the Ardennes, but it's still under some snow. Instead, I headed to Velbert which is about 20km east of here and the limit of most of my rides. I wanted to do a bit of exploring round the area to try and find some nice riding to add a loop to my normal rides for a future 70 / 80km epic. I know there are some larger hills to the other side of Velbert so I wanted to try and link them in.
I took La Conasse (with new, spiffy SS cranks: j-harris.net04.jpgOpen ↗) and headed out in to the hills. Sun was shining, but there was still some snow on the ground from the previous night's dusting: j-harris.net01.jpgOpen ↗
The peak of the hill with the radio tower was my target: j-harris.net02.jpgOpen ↗ which I eventually reached, after plenty of wrong turns and dead-end trails. Tried different routes for the way back and found some nice stuff: j-harris.net06.jpgOpen ↗ - but just not enough of it.
Was out for nearly 5 hours in total. One pinch flat. One OTB. One snow storm. Not enough decent trails. Still, pizza and a Rochefort when I got home and better than being in the office 🙂
nice, hope you're loving that SS experience, bill The mind serves properly as a window glass rather than as a reflector, that is, the mind should give an immediate view instead of an interpretation of the world. :-]
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Hooray for silly German holidays! Whilst everyone round here was dressing up in fancy dress, I was out on the bike.
The original plan had been to head to the Ardennes, but it's still under some snow. Instead, I headed to Velbert which is about 20km east of here and the limit of most of my rides. I wanted to do a bit of exploring round the area to try and find some nice riding to add a loop to my normal rides for a future 70 / 80km epic. I know there are some larger hills to the other side of Velbert so I wanted to try and link them in.
I took La Conasse (with new, spiffy SS cranks: j-harris.net04.jpgOpen ↗) and headed out in to the hills. Sun was shining, but there was still some snow on the ground from the previous night's dusting: j-harris.net01.jpgOpen ↗
The peak of the hill with the radio tower was my target: j-harris.net02.jpgOpen ↗ which I eventually reached, after plenty of wrong turns and dead-end trails. Tried different routes for the way back and found some nice stuff: j-harris.net06.jpgOpen ↗ - but just not enough of it.
Was out for nearly 5 hours in total. One pinch flat. One OTB. One snow storm. Not enough decent trails. Still, pizza and a Rochefort when I got home and better than being in the office 🙂
Sounds good, should do more of the investigative riding myself, always too tempted to follow an mtb- rag route.
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Hooray for silly German holidays! Whilst everyone round here was dressing up in fancy dress, I was out on the bike.
The original plan had been to head to the Ardennes, but it's still under some snow. Instead, I headed to Velbert which is about 20km east of here and the limit of most of my rides. I wanted to do a bit of exploring round the area to try and find some nice riding to add a loop to my normal rides for a future 70 / 80km epic. I know there are some larger hills to the other side of Velbert so I wanted to try and link them in.
I took La Conasse (with new, spiffy SS cranks: j-harris.net04.jpgOpen ↗) and headed out in to the hills. Sun was shining, but there was still some snow on the ground from the previous night's dusting: j-harris.net01.jpgOpen ↗
The peak of the hill with the radio tower was my target: j-harris.net02.jpgOpen ↗ which I eventually reached, after plenty of wrong turns and dead-end trails. Tried different routes for the way back and found some nice stuff: j-harris.net06.jpgOpen ↗ - but just not enough of it.
Was out for nearly 5 hours in total. One pinch flat. One OTB. One snow storm. Not enough decent trails. Still, pizza and a Rochefort when I got home and better than being in the office 🙂
Sounds good, should do more of the investigative riding myself, always too tempted to follow an mtb-rag route.
Huh, I'm always too tempted to go back home and give my joints a rest ;-(
