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Louise Harley

Louise Harley

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Yeah about 45-1hr hour driving away but we have rides all over the place, this year alone we have had two that went round the forth, two around perth and 1 in glasgow which left from Xscape.

Only one problem and that is that my car can't take a bike carrier
 
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Louise Harley

Louise Harley

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barrhead
Still it in the boot with the front wheel off thats what i do :thumbsup: Also there is always somebody who could help you get to the start of a ride and if that all fails then there is always the train :ohmy:

You have no idea how small my car and boot are. I have a 2 seater convertible. I think it would have to be the train :sad:
 

Col5632

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Cowdenbeath
You have no idea how small my car and boot are. I have a 2 seater convertible. I think it would have to be the train :sad:

That prob wont be big enough :laugh: I was going to say cause i managed to get mine into my gf's tiny clio once :hyper: There might be rides over your way in the new year you could join in on :smile:
 

MisterStan

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Welcome along :welcome:
 

Saluki

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HI
Welcome to the forums.
At the moment, light wise, both hubby & I have bike lights from Clas Olsen and we have 2 on the front and they are really quite good. We live out in the sticks and can see where we are going with them, potholes and everything. Our nearest streetlight is about 5 miles away from us so we do rely on our lights. So far they have been really good and not expensive.
We generally have at least 2 lights on the back plus our little micro LEDs somewhere on us or the bikes, flashing away. We have one solid light on the back and one flasher for the 2 main lights.
We have been known to use flashing reflective arm bands too, depending on if we can find them in the kitchen or not. They double up as flashing collars for the dogs so that we can see them as they disappear over the fields.
We also have spoke reflectors on our MTBs and on Hubby's roadie. I have got odd shaped spokes so I have a couple of those plastic reflectors that you clip in to your spokes, on each wheel.

As for clothing. I have found some of the female specific to be a bit pricey. My base layers were a fiver each from Go Outdoors, men's ones. My thicker cycling jersey is a Men's 'large' size and its great. Its ladies counterpart was 1/3 more & I am on a budget here. My shoes are Shimano MTB shoes and Lake road shoes, I am guessing that they are men's shoes but they are a really good fit and my feet are not especially wide. I have a couple of pairs of long cycling trouser things from Lidl (Mens) but they fit fine and several of my cycling jerseys are from Aldi or Lidl and they are 'unisex' so the lady in the shop told me. So that'll be 'mens' stuff again but its fine. I get a size bigger in a men's size than a woman's size for boobage (as hubby calls it).

My Night Vision jacket is also a men's jacket as the ladies ones were in not too bright colours and I want to be seen when I'm riding my bike in the dusk and dark. Its fluro-bright-council-orange and hubby says that he can see me all the way from the gate to the top of the drive in it. Our drive is over 1/4 mile long as we live on a farm.

If you get cold hands. Go Outdoors are doing an offer of dayglo-catsick-yellow Sealskinz gloves. Toasty warm and waterproof too.

Happy cycling.
 
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