Gritty, grimacing, gunky photos

[yashicamat]

Best one I've got (given I've only been cycling properly for about 4 months) is this one, end day 3 of my first cycle tour after spending all day cycling 65 miles uphill (start of the day was at 25m above sea level, end was 200m) with a strong headwind . . . plus the superb aerodynamics of massive, fully laden rear panniers.

It is I on the right and my LHT on the left:

 

[Perfect Virgo]

I'm afraid that I don't have any grimacing photographs (not enough proper hills in the New Forest) but I will try and get a pic of me ascending Frost lane, which is the nearest thing to a hill round here (2 metres to 36 metres in 0.77 of a mile (Butts Ash hill might be a bit steeper but it's shorter)), and grimace on that.

Before moving to Canada I lived in Dibden Purlieu for 25 years. I agree Frost Lane is tough but I think the steepest gradients I found were the climbs eastwards out of Lymington and then out of Beaulieu. Tough near the end of a round trip to Bournemouth!

 

[craigwend]

Grrrrrrrrr hills

Grrrrrrr dogs

Grrrr fallen off!

 

[yashicamat]

Grrrr fallen off!

Liking the "this way up" symbol.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

 

[cheadle hulme]

I take it you were taking a rest Shaun, rather then injured?

Having never worn a hydration thingie, are they OK to lie on? I always assumed they would be quite fragile.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

i was fatter then and had been conned into the rivington carnage. i was knackered as i had just made it up to darwen tower from winter hill.after setting off from rivie. 3 bailed, but not me. was 33 of us that day. approx 40 miles loop.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

ps,

the bladder is really tough. just as tough as a bottle.

 

[magnatom]

Good pictures Shaun. I especially like the look of fear in your eyes!

So lets add fear to the list of picture requirements!

 

[Stig-OT-Dump]

Fell a few days before a duathlon and it was still weepy for the race. Then I stopped a football with my chest -leaving a perfect print

 

[Scoosh]

Shaun looks like he's clipped in to the rock.

 

[palinurus]

I haven't got many pictures of me cycling. There's this one but I'm not dirty- the mud was frozen.

Here I'm a bit dirty, and travelling at about 3 mph on account of the leaves stuck in the forks and seatstays. Is that a grimace? I'm not sure.

 

[HLaB]

How to ride with your eyes shut !

 

[Spinney]

Me at the top of Blakey Bank.

(and no, I didn't manage to cycle all the way up it, but someone had told me that the photographer was lurking at the top, where it levelled out a bit...)

 

[Dave Davenport]

Me at the top of the (2802m) col de la Bonette.