Marshmallow_Fluff
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Your ride today.... (part 1)
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...right!!
Marshmallow_Fluff
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Now we're talking!!
[the "..right!" btw it was for your excuse for not cleaning it yesterday, not for your intention to do so today... just sayin'
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I went for yet another blood test today, and as usual, that involved me doing 4 miles of brisk walking to and from the clinic. TBH - I hadn't looked at the local forecast, so I expected the dreary weather I set off in at 08:30 to last all day. To my surprise and delight, the sun came out for my walk home so I decided to make the most of the pleasant conditions and get a ride in while they lasted.
A quick change of clothes, a last minute bike lube, and I was set to go.
I wanted to treat myself to an easy start for a change, rather than having to slog my way up the usual 4 or 5 mile climb very early on. I don't like the traffic on the A646 valley road, but once in a while it isn't so bad as long as that isn't during school runs or commutes.
I'd noticed that a significant NW wind was blowing. I would be sheltered from the worst of that down in the valley as I headed out towards Burnley, and then I would pick up a good tailwind as I climbed up the Long Causeway back towards Hebden Bridge.
It was a pretty uneventful ride along the valley. The most significant thing I noticed (apart from the sunshine and the traffic) were the big railway engineering works under way on the Holme Tunnel between Hebden Bridge and Burnley.
A couple of miles further on, I turned right and climbed to Overtown, then took my preferred shortcut to the Long Causeway up the steep and scenic Greencliffe Lane.
For those of you who are fans of Grand Designs ... someone has created their own about 3/4 of the way up the Lane. It is a large modern bungalow with commanding views over nearby fields to distant hills. It has a huge glazed corner allowing in light from the east, south and west to make maximum use of whatever sun that part of Lancashire happens to be getting. It also has a south-facing terrace where thelucky b******s owners can sit and enjoy their views. Jealous, who, me?
It was still under construction when the Google Streetview car went up there back in 2009, but you can get a feel for the building and its location - here.
As I'd hoped, I got a good tailwind on the long drag up to the Coal Clough windfarm.
I had intended to head straight down to Blackshaw Head from the high point of my ride, but it seemed a shame to rush home when the black clouds to the NW still looked about an hour away. And so I did a little detour - right down Eastwood Road ...
... to Great Rock, and then I climbed back up to the village.
After that, home via Jack Bridge, Colden, Slack, and Lee Wood Road. 23 miles in total.
I washed my bike, took it into the house and the clouds arrived about 5 minutes later and rain started. Jammy, eh?
A quick change of clothes, a last minute bike lube, and I was set to go.
I wanted to treat myself to an easy start for a change, rather than having to slog my way up the usual 4 or 5 mile climb very early on. I don't like the traffic on the A646 valley road, but once in a while it isn't so bad as long as that isn't during school runs or commutes.
I'd noticed that a significant NW wind was blowing. I would be sheltered from the worst of that down in the valley as I headed out towards Burnley, and then I would pick up a good tailwind as I climbed up the Long Causeway back towards Hebden Bridge.
It was a pretty uneventful ride along the valley. The most significant thing I noticed (apart from the sunshine and the traffic) were the big railway engineering works under way on the Holme Tunnel between Hebden Bridge and Burnley.
A couple of miles further on, I turned right and climbed to Overtown, then took my preferred shortcut to the Long Causeway up the steep and scenic Greencliffe Lane.
For those of you who are fans of Grand Designs ... someone has created their own about 3/4 of the way up the Lane. It is a large modern bungalow with commanding views over nearby fields to distant hills. It has a huge glazed corner allowing in light from the east, south and west to make maximum use of whatever sun that part of Lancashire happens to be getting. It also has a south-facing terrace where the
It was still under construction when the Google Streetview car went up there back in 2009, but you can get a feel for the building and its location - here.
As I'd hoped, I got a good tailwind on the long drag up to the Coal Clough windfarm.
I had intended to head straight down to Blackshaw Head from the high point of my ride, but it seemed a shame to rush home when the black clouds to the NW still looked about an hour away. And so I did a little detour - right down Eastwood Road ...
... to Great Rock, and then I climbed back up to the village.
After that, home via Jack Bridge, Colden, Slack, and Lee Wood Road. 23 miles in total.
I washed my bike, took it into the house and the clouds arrived about 5 minutes later and rain started. Jammy, eh?
Brandane
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- Costa Clyde
End of November, really? It has been a lovely sunny day here with hardly any wind and only a slight chill in the air 
. I took the new Trek out for a 23 mile local circuit, the route is on Strava, here.
The rest of the ride is best described in photos:
The Trek bought from @CRVFR 3 days ago.....
There were a lot of icy stretches caused by water run offs freezing.....
Traffic was busy on this stretch.....
Loch Thom, the reservoir supplying Greenock. Hard to imagine that this is only a few miles from the industrial wasteland of Greenock and district.....
The view from the hills above Inverkip...
Inverkip yacht marina...
A lot of the transatlantic air traffic passes over this area en route to Heathrow, Paris, Amsterdam etc.. This particular dot in the sky, for the information of fellow users of flightradar24, is Swissair flight 39 an Airbus A340 from San Francisco to Zurich (geek mode off
)..
Looking north over the Clyde to Dunoon and Holy Loch.
Wemyss Bay train station clock...
Over the Clyde to the Isle of Bute (foreground) and Arran visible behind....
On days like this I feel proud to be Scottish, and privileged to live here. Ask me again when it's been raining all day and blowing a gale
.
. I took the new Trek out for a 23 mile local circuit, the route is on Strava, here.The rest of the ride is best described in photos:
The Trek bought from @CRVFR 3 days ago.....
There were a lot of icy stretches caused by water run offs freezing.....
Traffic was busy on this stretch.....
Loch Thom, the reservoir supplying Greenock. Hard to imagine that this is only a few miles from the industrial wasteland of Greenock and district.....
The view from the hills above Inverkip...
Inverkip yacht marina...
A lot of the transatlantic air traffic passes over this area en route to Heathrow, Paris, Amsterdam etc.. This particular dot in the sky, for the information of fellow users of flightradar24, is Swissair flight 39 an Airbus A340 from San Francisco to Zurich (geek mode off
)..
Looking north over the Clyde to Dunoon and Holy Loch.
Wemyss Bay train station clock...
Over the Clyde to the Isle of Bute (foreground) and Arran visible behind....
On days like this I feel proud to be Scottish, and privileged to live here. Ask me again when it's been raining all day and blowing a gale
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Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Lovely photos Brandane, the marina reminded me a bit of Honfler in France.Beautiful part of the country you live in.
Marshmallow_Fluff
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Maverick Goose
A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
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Yesterday was a lovely sunny day and I was super stoked about getting out for a ride........except I had to go and separate 48 eggs, make creme brulees, risotto etc for 8 hours somewhere in Berkshire. And I might even be offered a job too, and it's with some people I'd really like to work for-what can a poor boy do huh? Work, the curse of the Cyclechatting classes
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Marshmallow_Fluff
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Brandane
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Cold custard in heatproof dish, sprinkle with brown sugar and bung it under hot grill until the sugar melts; et voila....
Marshmallow_Fluff
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Cold custard in heatproof dish, sprinkle with brown sugar and bung it under hot grill until the sugar melts; et voila....
You're ever so kind!!! Can I have two please?
(I was more thinking about the traditional one, made from scratch, with lovely vanilla pods and thick burned sugar cracking.. Yummo!!)
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Yesterday was a lovely sunny day and I was super stoked about getting out for a ride........except I had to go and separate 48 eggs, make creme brulees, risotto etc for 8 hours somewhere in Berkshire. And I might even be offered a job too, and it's with some people I'd really like to work for-what can a poor boy do huh? Work, the curse of the Cyclechatting classes
Good luck @Maverick Goose hope you get the job and when you open your first restaurant remember
Maverick Goose
A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
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No problemo Hill Wimp...have some motivational choons on me
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFNZXaBcXkA
...have some motivational choons on me View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFNZXaBcXkA
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I agree, but that marina photo really needs shrinking to a more sensible size - my browser chokes on it!
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