Saturday Beachride

Yeah i know ive posted a ride from Sunday before Saturday...
I dunno why, i just have!, anyway, weekend at home, and car free as being doing too much driving lately and was it just good to ride from the back door,
1st bike i always seem to reach for is the pugsley, it is just so much fun, so i always end up at the coast, this now i can ride various loops from home and stay offroad using grass field boundrys, stubble fields, woods and trails to the coast,
After last weekends big wide smooth beaches of Northumberland i fancied some techy riding so headed to Seacliff, and the rock fest to the east from there along to Peffersands.

Heading to the coast on varied terrain, from the all weather surface of a section of the John Muir Way trail...








To farm tracks...


An ancient Byway which was once a stage coach road with an Inn..




Passing Horse Chestnuts, always the first trees to turn in Autumn, Oak are often the last...




Along grass field boundrys, soft in places but easy to ride on the pugsley...


Past a small lean - 2/gang hut/summer house in a small wood...




The mesh above the swing must be to stop pine cones falling on your head when on the swing!...


Then it was 3 stubble fields east to the ruins of Tantallon Castle, pearched on the cliffs...


If you want to read more information then have a look at my friend Gavin`s Blog... If your interested in historical stuff in East Lothian you will find it of interest, it is well presented and does not get the views it deserves so go check it out...







Near the castle is an old track cut into the cliffs which descends down to the beach...






Dont go flying down this as landslides have peppered the track with large stones that lie in the long grass, an off could be a bit nasty with the drop over the side...




A view on film of the coast here...





I wonder where the other one has ended up?...


















Across the small bay is mostly rideable then once through the narrow gap in the rock again there is a line through...






This bit too, and then you have to walk it through...












Some film, just the noise of the sea and seabirds...





Back onto easier and grippy rock to ride across to the Gegan, the name of the rock here and the harbour, cut into the rock, there was no one around, it was only about 9am, the harbour is owned by the Dale family who run a creel boat from here as well as one from North Berwick, the harbour is reputed to be the smallest commercial harbour in the world...




























Just offshore was the larger and new creel boat of the Dales...










Time to get rolling, along the beach and it was deserted...









Stunning morning...



No stopping for pics for the next half mile as i rode the rocks round to Peffersands...






There was a faded set of pugsley tracks on the beach, the rear tyre was an endomorph, most likey was friend Davie...


Down the beach at Peffersands, and could not pass the big dunes without one ride down...


Then along the nice sandy singletrack to St Baldreds cradle...


And then along the secret trail...




Then through Tyninghame woods , the ferns are dying back now and turning a golden brown in the sunlight which gets through between the pine trees...






Onto the trails of Binning Wood, muddy in places but the pugsleys wide tyres smoothen the horse hoofs and footprints out...




And that is a wrap... a half days ride from home over a nice variety of terrain...