it was raining at dinner time with a strong southerly wind as i rode along to my local garlton hills into that wind... looked forward to the return ride home...
i soon forgot about heading further to haddington and up to gifford as planned as i was soaked after 15 mins road riding...i remmembered a grass field on the western end of the garltons which is grazed with cattle..if theres cows then there`s cow trails- singletrack to us mountainbikers...
after walking up the side of a sown field- waiting for the local farmer barlymow to acost me trampling his crop (subisdised by us tax payers) i reached spied grazing field and found this...
oh please please please go down hill...
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thumbs up:)
oh yes ...
then something really sore but funny happened...setting up the camera on a post for this shot i leant onto the single strand electric wire you can see in the pic!...aaaarrrrgggghhh!, wet clothes and because i was taking a drink at the time i got a sore electric shock through the bite valve!!!...my tounge was a bit numb for a while...
with the rain now off the helmet camera was rolling... heres a song that reminds me of high school disco`s...
nice to find something new on your doorstep...
although spring is a bit late this year some of the trails are soon going to be overgrowen soon like this trail to the coates farm...
oh by the way 29er`s dont offer any more clearance from nettles than regular 26" mtb`s...my legs are burning tonight as i type this...young nettles have a real sting!...heading up to byres hill around the garlton monument where i filmed the southside descent before riding home...
nice views out to the coast despite being overcast...
the whin`s bushes are out in flower... if you live in england you will know these as gorsh bushes...
oh... this sign is for a motorist trail... this is scotland...not the netherlands!...
i pushed up byres hill and filmed the 2 descents in the wood you watched at the end of the first film...
then headed up to descend the ridgeroad... here near my bike a mound with a small crater...it is the only surface remains of a cold war ROC bunker...strange to think all that work to make it then they bulldozed it...but the bunker is still here underground...
heading for home down the ridgeroad with a sweet tail wind...
happy days...
That track sounds like Ex Human League frontman Phil Oakey, am I right? I've never heard that song before though, pretty good! I'm of an age when they did the LPs "Being Boiled" and "Dare".
ReplyDeleteGorse bushes, the great smell of coconut!
Sounds like a Billy Connolly story....Ah wis cycling whin something really loupin bit funny happened...I wis setting up th' camera, oan a post fur this shot ah leant onto th' single strand electric wire ye kin see in th' pic!...aaaarrrrgggghhh!, drookit claes 'n' fur ah wis taking a dram at th' time ah git a loupin electric shock thro' th' bite valve!!!...Fuh'king hell! mah tounge wis a bawherr numb fur a while. HA HA HA
ReplyDeleteclive; aye its the human league - all i ever wanted...some 80`s music isnt too bad!...
ReplyDeletetommy; your scots tounge is improving! lol...
U zult vervolgens worden Iers leren!
(me?...i use google translater!)
Sweet single track! No cow droppings on the path?
ReplyDeleteHave a unpleasant memory of passing a muddy puddle in the Austrian mountains and the taste of the mud I got in my face was not only mud...
Can almost see Billy Connolly in my mind!
That's something you won't forget in the first place?! ;)
Have to look that song up in Spotify.
//harri; i got covered in bulls**t!!! lol....
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