Nice little run

No way. Bruce, OK, Jean bought a peach - far cleaner than mine - for
about £1600.

No, they're a piece of piss. £14 each, and an hour to do both. If that.
The only problem is knowing the correct tension. There's a tool to set
them, but once they're set, you just feel the play with your fingers and
thereafter you don't need to use the tool: just set them to the same
'feel'.

A couple of grand.

 

Agreed.

Now that I commute pretty regularly on the bike, the aimless weekend
rides are fewer and farther between.

The downside to the commuting is that the majority of my rides now are
in pretty heavy traffic, so every so often a longer & more scenic route
to/from work is called for.

 

*ding*

unless Champ would count as a "flimsy excuse" that there are several
roads that I know well and enjoy riding on[1], within a few minutes of
my house.

[1] without there necessarily being anything at the end of them[2]
[2] I can think of several roads that I'll ride one way, and then turn
around and come back on.

 

hmm. Well, on the BOTAFOF run, the destination is usually High Beach,
but the route is rarely the same i.e. we don't run "from South Mimms
to High Beach" in anything like an efficient way.

 

On Saturday morning, I went down the road to the Black Forest with six
Germans. I discovered that I'm not quite as bad a rider as I thought I
might be but (a) I have a lot to learn about twisty roads and (b) I
don't think a Pan is quite the thing for the conditions.

 

It certainly adds something to a ride, particularly in company, given
that the sooner you arrive, the sooner the beers can be started, but
I've always also hugely enjoyed solo riding, even touring, for the
very reason of having no deadlines, no destinations, no distractions.
It's one the areas in which I liken biking to skiing, which is also
why I'm surprised to learn of your odd[1] views on this.

[1] To my mind, that is.

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Is this to GYKD? Don't they have proper bends round your way?

 

The only time I can do truly aimless riding is if running-in a new or
rebuilt bike. Even then I prefer to have a destination in mind for a
reasonable length stop if the run is more than a trivial distance. The
route to and from may be circuitous and be changed/extended as the
journey progresses, but I have to have a destination in mind.


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When I was running in the Sprint ST I managed 700 miles in 6 days.

Apart from three days of commuting (35 miles round trip normally) the
route was always from home to home.

 

Any pub will do as a destination. You don't even have to know it's
there until you see it.

I like just heading off in a general direction and looning around for
an hour or two. Admittedly I'm hardly at home to do this at the moment
and the only time I get to do any miles on the bike is when we go away
for a weekend.

 

In a word, no. If I'm prepared to ride quite a few miles of
arrow-straight roads then possibly, but I get the distinct impression
that the Romans had a lot to do with the original road layouts round
here. It's ideal Harley country.

Also, to be fair, I'm not very good at it and can only do so when I'm
feeling really confident, which means wide clear curves with excellent
visibility.