Midweek Cycle, coastal trails...

Autumn is on it`s way and still be some lovely sunshine through September,
Take today, rain all day Monday and real `Driech` as the Scots say, then this morning the clouds broke up and stunning blue skies....

After work i grabbed the bike out the van and headed down to the grassy dunes and along the coast...

Bullet the blue sky...

Rock crawling on 29+ wheels while clipped in keeps you on your toes!

From Yellowcraig it was back to the van through the woods...

:)

All this to mow tomorrow!...

Hour fix... job done and bike back in the van...

Here is some film.
Song is `Rifles` by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club


Coastrider; Surly KramPug 29+ , Archerfield coast from coastkid71 on Vimeo.

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Harvest Weekend Pt3..

Sunday morning and out on yesterdays harvested fields, never seen fields harvested, bailed, bales lifted and fields disc ploughed so fast,  wonder where the arriving Pink Foot Geese will go this year when they soon arrive from Greenland...

The local Parish fields of Athelstaneford and bales galore ready for filmimg...

Snooze and you lose... and the harvested fields up on the Ridgeroad have been disc furrowed so i rode east to Pencraig...

Great views from Pencraig south across the Shire...

Ace descent waits here north of Pencraig, but straw still to be bailed so a no no...

On the other side of the road though was more harvested fields waiting to ride...

Down into the village and time to head home...

And some film,
Song is `Underwater Love` by Faith No More...


Surly KramPug 29+  Harvest Cycle Pt8 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.

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Harvest Weekend, Pt 1

With two dry days and a dry weekend forecast the main harvest is in full swing in the Shire,
Always hard to go cycling on a Friday evening once home from a busy week at work, but like when it snows you have to get out and enjoy it as never is for long, so a couple of phone pics while i filmed around a few fields...

Looking forward to the weekend and more harvest cycling..
In the meantime a wee film,
Song is `Low Place Like Home` by Sneaker Pimps


Surly KramPug 29+  Harvest Cycle 2018 Pt 7 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.

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Midweek cycle...

Pics from Go Pro Cam...

A dry week and Combines have been out harvesting again,  groups of fields same crop all cut and some even baled by the time i went out for a quick cycle,
Was cloudy so no golden light on the fields this evening, so a quick spin around 3 fields together...

Surly Krampug (a Surly Pugsley Fatbike with 39 x 3" plus tyres) is ideal for this type of riding...

Wee film,
Song is `The Fun lovin` Criminal`  by Fun Lovin Criminal


Surly KramPug 29+  Harvest Cycle 2018 Pt6 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.

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Weekend...

Was an ace weekend, home and a quiet Friday evening, then out a walk with M at Gullane and surprised at the lack of sand under Gullane cliffs!, look at the exposed rocks!

I have made films riding right under the cliffs!...

Down to NB and Hendo`s 50th Birthday,  the Posses unmasked...

Home early evening and good friend Mike arrived,  up for a couple of days doing the Uplift at Innerleithen,

Now when Mike comes to stay over he always bring some sweet bikes,  and along with his Surly Ice Cream Truck Fatbike for a beach ride the next day he had his downhill rigs he had used today and Friday, and like me he sources stuff secondhand and likes to be a bit different...

Lucky to see another Diamondback Downhill bike... and with tuned suspension...

And his Enduro rig...

And that PUSH tuned coil shock cost the original purchaser around £1000...

Sweet ride...

Time to fire up the Chiminea and open some Ciders...

A Combine was out until near Midnight...

As were we sitting out until dark and a full Harvest Moon rose... and a nice Rum to night cap the evening...

Sunday and despite the forecast of heavy rain we were out on the Fatbikes and so far it war more or less dry with just light drizzle...

Some film riding through some of Binning Wood,
Song and artist unknown...


Coastrider; Binning Woods Aug 2018 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.


Peffersands, and some dune surfing...

No sand under Ravensheugh crag...

Here is now ride able after some rain, was real soft sand during the drought...

Along Secret Trail, always a fun trail and with Mike to film ideal for a non stop film of the trail...
Song is `Butterfly` by Crazy Town


Coastrider; Secret Trail, Aug 2018 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.


Cafe stop at Tyninghame, then home along the Tyne then a blast down a harvested field to round off a fun day`s cycling...

Here is a 3rd film, an edit of the days ride,
Song is `Culture of Fear` by Thievery Corperation


Coastrider; Tyninghame Woods, Aug 2018 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.

An ace weekend...



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