Tuesday 10 September 2013

Sunday Morning coast ride; Redheugh Salmond Station...




Sunday morning and i`m  down at Dunbar Harbour and again above is an endless summer big blue sky overhead...





I am waiting on old friend Peter to arrive, with his new fatbike he just built up...


An On One he built this real cheap for a fatbike with used parts on the £500 frames set and wheel/tyres kit...


A quick spin around the car park, even though it is a large 20" it does not ride big. Same short chain stay lenght as a Pugsley so will also make it a good handling trail bike. It has a slacker head angle too.
Good balance point!, Good build for the money...



Down to Berwickshire in Ped`s car and soon riding down an old rough track with a gate hinge that made us both grin...


Were heading down onto the coast to a favourite haunt of Peter`s, somewhere i have not been too...


Low tide...


Below the now empty Coastguard houses...


Is an old cart track the winds down the hill side, just in front of my finger tip is a hairpin bend...


Great to be riding fatbikes with friend Peter. We met when 18 or 19 via motorbikes (Yamaha XT 600s) and have both moved on with other hobbies but remained good friends with similar interests. I was happy to be best man at Peter and Eleanor`s wedding. Ped has been an avid fan of fatbikes since i got my Pugsley over 5 years ago and totally got it knowing how much more riding possibility's it open up around here in East Lothian and further afield,  and has hankered after one ever since his first wee go on my Pug, finally the opportunity came to build one , and it is great to see a new big grin along side on the coast...


Stairway to heaven...




Down on the shore and an amazing range of colours through the rocks...






On One Floater tyres left, Surly Nate right...


The cart road was slight covered by a landslip but here you can see the track cut through the rock...



Down below the cliffs are where were heading...



A nearby hand operated winch once pulled a boat up onto a trolley on the rails that was then winch up inside the boat house which would have had storm proof doors...


Must have been tricky coming into a small gap in the field of rocks...





Up above was a mini hydro electric power station!...



Check this out...


A valve opened would let water from a small loch above at the farm run through a wee turbine...


That then spun up an alternator...


And could send electric up to the farm via an overhead cable, or charge up batteries...



Looks like a switch board from an old Hammer Horror Frankenstein film...




Resident Swallows...


Remains of old bothie and work house...



Be an ideal bivvy spot out the wind...




Dog Frisbee!

Along the beach on foot for a look around, a man made hole drilled in the rock, who knows why...


a good twenty minute scramble over and through lovely smoothed rocks on the shore line exposed by the low tide...









Been a ship or barge washed in here sometime ago, been cut up and nearly all removed, a few bits along a 100 yard stretch...



Seal Skull, ID by my dad -:) ...


Back to the bikes...


Sitting soaking up the peace and quiet with the rumble of surf and sun on our backs...


Peacock butterfly...


Two Ravens overhead, Raven have a triangular tail and bigger than Crows, they squawked too...


Back on the bikes and over the rocks...




This was once all lying horizontal, amazing colours...

Like this...


Along a flat open section of rock...


In the distance a small waterfall...





Another ideal bivvy spot...




Complete with fire pit...



There is a lot more to this coast in Berwickshire to explore by bike and on foot...

Back up the cart track, a 50/50 cycle/hike a bike... and past the cottages to the farm. Old Scooter...


Anyone lost a Moonlander chain ring?


-:)


Back to East Lothian, some rides like today are great, only a few miles cycled , 3 hours or so on the coast...


Peter did a blog post here; Fatty at the Salmon Station check through his previous posts of visits here too...

1 comment:

  1. You are the luckiest person ever to be living by the coast. Your photos are beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

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