Taking a day off work to enjoy the tail end of Hurricane Katia which hit the UK on Monday evening, only loons would go out cycling in this...
Pugsley No 5 around here rolled onto the beach on Tuesday,
Dave got his bike last week and after a bit prepping it was time to hit the beach,
We rode out 2 miles to the tideline at Aberlady Bay then winched out in the lowest gears at around 4 MPH into the force 8-10 Gale, at times your were blown nearly 90 degrees
The bay was all shaped into large smooth craters from the previous days swell and in places smooth with sand blowing across...
Like i said, very windy...
Eventually we got out to near the Peffer Burn Estuary, had a breather and then the fun part, a tailwind assisted flat out blast across the 2 mile sand bar to Aberlady Point, we averaged 21 MPH on Jasons Endomondo though we topped out a lot faster as i ran out of gears in places!...
Riding through the blowing sand was kind of surreal, i wont forget this day for a while...
We just kept riding the 7 miles to North Berwick, was a few dog walkers out, that was it, and a couple of windsurfers...
Dave is very happy with his new pugsley...
Some film,
Songs are 633 Squadron theme, followed by `Data Italia` by Skatebard
That first photo is brilliant!
ReplyDeleteAmazing video!
ReplyDelete"There" or "They're breeding again"????
Racing the sand. Nice!
ReplyDeleteThey`re i think doug!,
ReplyDeletenow changed!, thanks!
I was nearly going to jack in blogging the other night after a private message with a whole load of corrections on my last NTR blog post!,
Lol... sorry Bruce, I'll not point out the spelling stuff again as we can't have you jacking in the Blog - just give me your password and I'll sort them out without you even knowing (mild OCD kicking in) :)
ReplyDeleteThe sand blowing across the beach looks really cool in the video, never seen it picking up like that before. Aberlady Bay is great.
Sorry, I'm not sure why I felt the need to correct your grammar. Lord knows mine isn't correct most of the time. My sincere apologies.
ReplyDeleteHey dont worry about it!, i dont worry i cant spill - i mean spell that well! -:)
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