My bike and a canal

[FrothNinja]

A thread for posting your pics of bicycles and canals - ideal for long and short rides along the artificial waterways that give us access to grand views, nature, history, and culture.
And it's on the level They also give loads of photo ops for all sorts of threads on the forum 📷🛶
Only two rules(ish): 1 - Has to contain a bike (or part thereof) and a canal (or part thereof);
2 - Has to be either your pic, or contain you or your bike if taken by someone else.
Sogginessabounds

Folda on ice - Leeds & Liverpool Canal

 

[wiggydiggy]

Waterloo Mills on the Huddersfield Broad, in Huddersfield.



As good a place as any: the two barges that were nearly washed away in the breach on the Llangollen Canal have both now being recovered. There's some good videos online about the operation.

 

[FrothNinja]

Waterloo Mills on the Huddersfield Broad, in Huddersfield.



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As good a place as any: the two barges that were nearly washed away in the breach on the Llangollen Canal have both now being recovered. There's some good videos online about the operation.

Saw some of that footage - quite spectacular and at least the owners can now say they have flying boats.

 

[wafter]

 

[Dadam]

Woodlesford Lock on the Aire and Calder Navigation

 

[bluenotebob]

A couple from the Nantes-to-Brest canal in Brittany:

The ladder of locks at St-Gérand (bike just visible against the wooden railings). This is a section of ‘real’ canal that links the canalised Oust and Blavet rivers.

Much further east – the canalised river Oust, north of St-Congard

 

[a.twiddler]

HPV Spirit at the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port.

 

[wakemalcolm]

Crinan Canal. A beautiful, if short, stretch of water on the west coast.
The basin at Crinan itself if idyllic, but I had other destinations in mind on this day.

 

[a.twiddler]

Linear on a bench at the basin at Ellesmere, Salop. This small country town once had big ambitions, linking by canal to the Mersey at where Ellesmere Port is now. Ellesmere Port is now immense while Ellesmere itself remains a small country town. Such were the fortunes of industrial Britain at the time of the Canal Mania.

In Ellesmere tunnel on the way home from that trip. Unusually, this tunnel has a towpath through it, saving the boatmen from having to take the horses over the hill, and having to balance on a plank and "leg" the boat through with their feet on the tunnel sides.

 

[bluenotebob]

Another from the Nantes-to-Brest canal – this one is of the canalised river Blavet.

Photo taken at the écluse de Guernal between Pontivy and Guerlédan (in October 2024).

 

[wiggydiggy]

I was having a rummage through my photos and have gotten all the pictures over the last 15 years or so I have that qualify, I've got a lot that don't as well!

Rather than drop them all, I'll group them up a little:

Rochdale Canal
One of my favourite canals to ride, its pretty much good to ride all year round now thanks to various parts of the towpath being improved. Its one of the prettiest canals as starting in Manchester you get lots of industrial heritage, which opens out into beautiful countryside before being swallowed by the Calder Valley.

This is one of the overflow drains, an unnusual design I've only seen on one other canal - best to get off and push when in water as can be very slippy!

2012


2017


2024

 

[Dadam]

prettiest ... starting in Manchester

 

[wiggydiggy]

Ok from Manchester the first few miles are a bit grim, but it improves a lot very quickly!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Misread title as “My bike in a canal”

 

[Dadam]

Misread title as “My bike in a canal”

That would qualify for the thread