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First ride this year on my Trice... and first recumbent ride outside this year. Weather up in my corner has been foul, if it's not been pouring with rain it's been snow and ice... and tons of road salt. I qualify the "outside" bit as I have done more miles this winter than ever before on my VTX on Zwift! My hope was that would make the spring riding a bit easier. Sadly I wasn't able to test out the hypothesis as my left knee has been giving me gyp again and it was apparent that my pedalling was not evenly split between left leg and right.
I was going to grab frames from my new action camera for illustration but it turns out that I didn't upload them the other night and the card has now been formatted... I did get a few images though.
So the purpose of the ride was to see the carnage after the Spey viaduct near the mouth of the river Spey collapsed last month. This used to be a regular ride for me but now no longer... until the council figure out some solution, which they at least appear committed to. It's part of the NCN Route 1 and has been long popular with walkers and cyclists of all abilities.
It was a good day to get out for a ride, beautiful spring day, nice ride on quiet country roads. The lead in to the bridge from the Garmouth side had a flapping laminated A4 sign saying the route was closed and given it was a weekday it wasn't surprising that I pretty much had the railway path to myself.
You do get a good if distant view of the bridge from the approaching road upstream... this and the next photos from my compact camera:
It was very clear that I wasn't going to be riding across the bridge though!
I dismounted and took a photo through the bars...
Some of us are just plain stupid and can't be told, but I went under the first section to get a view from underneath...
That pillar in the middle of the shot is, I think, one of the ones that river eroded away the base of the span and caused the sudden catastrophic failure (apparently satellite photos from before the collapse indicate shifts were happening in the month beforehand... but nobody noticed)
Finally a view from the side...
Same place, only a few years ago and a different trike on a cold and frosty day...
Bit of a sad experience, really, but the sun at least helped ward off the emotional gloom.
Rolling on the road back home reminded me why I ride recumbents - I love the panoramic view! But what was that bright shiny thing in the sky?
Distance: 10 miles. Speed: fast enough!
I was going to grab frames from my new action camera for illustration but it turns out that I didn't upload them the other night and the card has now been formatted... I did get a few images though.
So the purpose of the ride was to see the carnage after the Spey viaduct near the mouth of the river Spey collapsed last month. This used to be a regular ride for me but now no longer... until the council figure out some solution, which they at least appear committed to. It's part of the NCN Route 1 and has been long popular with walkers and cyclists of all abilities.
It was a good day to get out for a ride, beautiful spring day, nice ride on quiet country roads. The lead in to the bridge from the Garmouth side had a flapping laminated A4 sign saying the route was closed and given it was a weekday it wasn't surprising that I pretty much had the railway path to myself.
You do get a good if distant view of the bridge from the approaching road upstream... this and the next photos from my compact camera:
It was very clear that I wasn't going to be riding across the bridge though!
I dismounted and took a photo through the bars...
Some of us are just plain stupid and can't be told, but I went under the first section to get a view from underneath...
That pillar in the middle of the shot is, I think, one of the ones that river eroded away the base of the span and caused the sudden catastrophic failure (apparently satellite photos from before the collapse indicate shifts were happening in the month beforehand... but nobody noticed)
Finally a view from the side...
Same place, only a few years ago and a different trike on a cold and frosty day...
Bit of a sad experience, really, but the sun at least helped ward off the emotional gloom.
Rolling on the road back home reminded me why I ride recumbents - I love the panoramic view! But what was that bright shiny thing in the sky?
Distance: 10 miles. Speed: fast enough!
