arallsopp
Post of The Year 2009 winner
- Location
- Bromley, Kent
Howdo.
Me and the SMGTe are just back from a loop around Dieppe. 3 DFs and a bent, with me filming as we go. We took in somewhere between 165 - 200 miles all in, with the SMGTe frequently becoming the workhorse for (other peoples) panniers.
Route was (roughly):
Day 1:
Dieppe > Treport > Saint Valery-Sur-Somme
Low miles, getting the group together, settling in.
Day 2:
Saint Valery > Le Crotoy > Quend Plage les Pins > Pende > Gamaches > Saint Germain-sur-Bresle
Highlights would be chasing the train around the bay, getting lost (on a beach no less), relieving my (struggling) buddy of his panniers and forging on ahead with full load, only to find that I'd gone the wrong way and climbed a few hundred metres into the wrong town. Three times.
Day 3:
St Germain > Aumale (where said buddy put his bike and self into a taxi to Neufchatel-en-Bray) > Gaillefontaine > Avenue Verte > Dieppe.
High points: high miles, undulation, good weather, good speed.
Low points: climbing off the Avenue Verte. The bugg3rs.
Recorded the whole thing at 1 minute intervals here:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCwVQu9TJ7A
All in, still very impressed with the bent. One knee is a little creaky (mostly from the climbs with double loads, and picking the wrong gear (is there a right one?) for deep sand. Otherwise, I'm totally fine. Back is utterly pain free. Muscles feel good still. Arms and wrists completely relaxed. Mmmmm
Very pleased at how well she carries a load. Hadn't expected to get my rear rack raided quite so heavily, but she's geared to cope with it and was never anything less than willing to climb.
The beach was another experience all together of course. I'm not sure how much of a sugar deficiency one needs to think that 'a quick cut across the bay before the tide comes in' is a good route on a bicycle.
Still, I did no less well than my companion on his DF. Which is to say, terribly B)
Andy.
Me and the SMGTe are just back from a loop around Dieppe. 3 DFs and a bent, with me filming as we go. We took in somewhere between 165 - 200 miles all in, with the SMGTe frequently becoming the workhorse for (other peoples) panniers.
Route was (roughly):
Day 1:
Dieppe > Treport > Saint Valery-Sur-Somme
Low miles, getting the group together, settling in.
Day 2:
Saint Valery > Le Crotoy > Quend Plage les Pins > Pende > Gamaches > Saint Germain-sur-Bresle
Highlights would be chasing the train around the bay, getting lost (on a beach no less), relieving my (struggling) buddy of his panniers and forging on ahead with full load, only to find that I'd gone the wrong way and climbed a few hundred metres into the wrong town. Three times.
Day 3:
St Germain > Aumale (where said buddy put his bike and self into a taxi to Neufchatel-en-Bray) > Gaillefontaine > Avenue Verte > Dieppe.
High points: high miles, undulation, good weather, good speed.
Low points: climbing off the Avenue Verte. The bugg3rs.
Recorded the whole thing at 1 minute intervals here:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCwVQu9TJ7A
All in, still very impressed with the bent. One knee is a little creaky (mostly from the climbs with double loads, and picking the wrong gear (is there a right one?) for deep sand. Otherwise, I'm totally fine. Back is utterly pain free. Muscles feel good still. Arms and wrists completely relaxed. Mmmmm
Very pleased at how well she carries a load. Hadn't expected to get my rear rack raided quite so heavily, but she's geared to cope with it and was never anything less than willing to climb.
The beach was another experience all together of course. I'm not sure how much of a sugar deficiency one needs to think that 'a quick cut across the bay before the tide comes in' is a good route on a bicycle.
Still, I did no less well than my companion on his DF. Which is to say, terribly B)
Andy.
"K"?
. I sell those ones for £50, they are a good pedal. You do realise I ride a recumbent don't you?
