Keith Oates
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Due to work and travel I've not done much riding this month but with the weekend off I managed two mornings riding for a total of 140+ Kms, so I was well pleased !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your ride today.... (part 1)
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Gravity Aided
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I wound up doing 10 miles to the grocery store, going by a very circuitous route. I knew I'd have full panniers on the way back, so I put a few extra miles in the going. The Fuji handled about 25 pounds of groceries well, hardly knew it was there, from the way the bicycle felt. I saw some geese, part of a flock, landing in a newly cut corn field, and Mr. Crow decided to have a look as well.
djb1971
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Another from yesterday.
The mist in the distance was my ride through Hanchurch. Just climbed up to Acton, now heading for Keele Woods then home.
The mist in the distance was my ride through Hanchurch. Just climbed up to Acton, now heading for Keele Woods then home.
35 litres on the go elderberry. 20 kilos of Sloes in the freezer, eventually found 3 trees with tons on. No cider though devastating as I am going to see mother in Manchester so I may never make any.After a day out in the park with my Granddaughter, I got the chance to pop out for an evening ride to pick some elderberries to make a couple of gallons of wine..No great distance involved, but as it was such a lovely evening, I decided to add a few miles on before I got to the byway I was aiming for.
Apart from a couple of stings, I was OK. Plenty of elderberries and blackberries on both sides of the track. Why don't more people go out and get some free stuff...?? There's loads of it just hanging there waiting to be picked!
Oh well..... more for me
As it is getting darker a bit earlier now, I had taken my lights as I was going to be back on the roads for a few miles of my ride home.
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That'll do for a few gallons! They're already bubbling away in a big pan..
A nice leisurely 15 mile ride on the hardtail. No wind, no rain and no idiots...
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Ælfrēd
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Stunning.Another from yesterday.
The mist in the distance was my ride through Hanchurch. Just climbed up to Acton, now heading for Keele Woods then home.
Wow, very cool shot of that area. We live the other side of Hanley so tend to go out towards Leek rather than Keele.Another from yesterday.
The mist in the distance was my ride through Hanchurch. Just climbed up to Acton, now heading for Keele Woods then home.
djb1971
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I head out to Leek and Buxton lots on the road bike, I head through Congleton. It's a bit too far to ride the mtb on roads and then do an off road route without overnighting. I almost always head out to Wales than negotiate Hanley and the traffic. I can be in Whitchurch by the time I've passed Hanley or Meir etc.
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Joshua Plumtree
Approaching perfection from a distance.
Another from yesterday.
The mist in the distance was my ride through Hanchurch. Just climbed up to Acton, now heading for Keele Woods then home.
Ahhhh! Went to Uni at Keele a very very long time ago. Still remember it fondly!
djb1971
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You wouldn't recognise it. It's grown!
The only similarity from a few years back is the mass of students that are permanently ****ed from the night before
I'm out a little bit too early on the bike to meet them.
Yeah, no doubt the same reason we don't come yr way! It's rural all the way from our house if we go Leek / Ashbourne way.
djb1971
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Exactly the same reason. I'm literally the last street on the edge of Newcastle, nothing to the west but Wales, shropshire etc.
I'm in the cities enough when working, like the peace and quiet
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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now you have me curious - my grandfather lives over in the westlands... and my mother used to live in Keele before moving to Madeley Heath....Exactly the same reason. I'm literally the last street on the edge of Newcastle, nothing to the west but Wales, shropshire etc.
I'm in the cities enough when working, like the peace and quiet
djb1971
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About 2-3 miles west of the Westlands
I can see the top of Keele bank from my house, it's about 1mile away
People who know the area will know my hill climb, every single ride out and in includes Alsagers Bank and Black Bank. I should be like a whippet riding those very day, unfortunately, I'm not
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