Clear skies again this weekend here on the East coast!, lovely mid winter weather-as long as you wrap up as the wind was biting cold!
Got out for an early morning ride on the 29+ Surly KramPug down to North Berwick on a frozen mud free John Muir Way, then headed west via the JMW again to Yellowcraig and along to Gullane...
Yellowcraig was busy being the last day of the Xmas holidays, hard to get a picture of the Links with no people in it!...
So i took one of the Sea Buckthorn glowing in the low winter sun...
Leaving a busy car park is was up to Dirleton then into Archiefield estate...
Dropping down to spend an hour or so riding grassy trails through the miles of paths here in the dunes...
Google Earth pic of the area...
Zoomed in on a grassy dune you can see a concrete object from WW2 in the centre of the pic...
Puts this area into scale...
After loads of riding it was up to the Pine woods for a loop of more trails...
Then along to Gullane on the Bake Bean trail, met loads of folk out walking, despite only mid morning it was hoaching with folk!...
So i split up to Gullane Hill, you can see the busy car park of folk out enjoying a lovely winter day on the coast...
This pic is from 2009 of what was a base for a WW2 anti aircraft gun emplacement here...
Last year this seat was built on its base...
One of the memorials inside is to Bill Robertson, Head Greenkeeper at Gullane Golf Course when i left school and started work at Gullane No3 Course in 1987,
I attended `Robbie`s` funeral along with many other local Greenkeeper`s and i always remember him pleased when i met him after i too became a Head Greenkeeper. He was a kind and popular person...
Time for some coffee and some Christmas cake!, while soaking up the view over the Links and the Forth Estuary..
Back on the bike and down the trail to Gullane cliffs and then through the Nature Reserve not stopping until here at one of my favourite views, overlooking the WW2 coastal defences and sand dunes...
Again loads of people were out walking so i bailed up to Gala Hill (Quarry corner) and down to ride some of the JMW again then headed through the former Drem Airfield...
Through the woods of Drem Ride and i went to look for something which i find hard to believe is still there...
This WW2 RAF blue ammo box!, think i need to pop by with the BOB trailer and do an uplift!...
Still ice and frozen mud where the sun has not shone today...
The `Pumpkin Pugsley` is a nice Pug to ride in 29+ mode with the Jones Bars, also got some new wide MTB risers bars i will fit next week, then decide if i will keep these loop bars or sell them to help fund a new camera...
And talking of things Orange, i built this bike up for friend Andrew yesterday...
A 2015 Genesis Caribou...
Excuse the red pedals i loaned Andrew until he gets a pair ordered. I rust proofed the frame with frame saver, juiced the tubes with Stans, and de greased the chain and dry lubed it with Squirt so it`s ready to roll on the coast...
A lot of talk about these new cable disc brakes , they pull the pads on both sides, friend Sanny has a pair on his cross bike and swears by them...
Cheers for the Cider for building it up Andrew!...
Happy!
More soon...
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