A (bit of a) ride I did last week...

[yenrod]

a ride I did last week (i filmed it on the phone) - 1st time I've did this simply tried it for a laugh, and to see what I looked like on a bike sort of - as for the years Ive rode - never seen myself on film not tha i'm being egocentric just curious ...though I felt a total jerk its a pity i never got the chase by a tractor prior to this section of film..some tractors can really move !

 

[Melvil]

flippin' heck Yenners that countryside looks flat as...notice you have the tri-bars on the bike - you could get some pretty storming speeds in that neck of the woods, eh?

 

[yenrod]

Interestingly, where I am I can have hills or flat (- in various directions)..this is the flat.

flippin' heck Yenners that countryside looks flat as...notice you have the tri-bars on the bike - you could get some pretty storming speeds in that neck of the woods, eh?

 

[Keith Oates]

and everyone has been saying there's been no sun this year, looked to be a nice day there, Yenners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[yenrod]

It was quite ok and very happy that it was good considering I was off work

i'd love to film the chaingang if i had a helmet cam as thats under 2hrs but its late in the year most will be packing in...maybe next finances deciding...

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

Why do you have two computers fitted?

 

[Arch]

Talking to a Dutch colleague at the weekend, I commented onthe flatness of Cambridgeshire. She said "This is not flat..." I gather Holland goes beyond-flat..

Yeah, here in York we can have flat one way and hills the other. Guess which way I always go....

 

[yenrod]

Ones a HRM....

Why do you have two computers fitted?

 

[Haitch]

Talking to a Dutch colleague at the weekend, I commented on the flatness of Cambridgeshire. She said "This is not flat..." I gather Holland goes beyond-flat.

Parts of Holland are as flat as a billiard table, long straight roads, long straight canals and long straight rows of trees. If the sun isn't shining, bike rides can be a bit dull. Having said that, there are a couple of hills on my favourite loop that get as steep as 6% (woo!!). Cambridgeshire, or at least the bits of it that I've seen, has a gentle incline.

 

[Scoosh]

Had a friend who had lived in the Netherlands for a few years and he told me that the Dutch equivalent of the AA have a booklet to tell their members how to drive when 'abroad'.
Guidance included gems like: "change down a gear before you come to a hill", as the steepest hills they have are the approach/exit ramps on the motorways.

and to see what I looked like on a bike sort of

... it's always a bit scary, isn't it ???