Wednesday dawned clear and cold with an air frost and was the first day of March i cycled up to work after the recent problems at work and the return to do basic maintenance...
I gave up commuting due to the recent late winter road conditions brought about by the lorries driving soil from fields at Haddington to Stonelaws and a Quarry being back filled has made both roads i can use to commute becoming a quagmire in the wet winter conditions. Never before seen so bad commuting conditions and along with the drive chain being destroyed by the slop it was the spray off the lorries. I was arriving at work covered in spray. I just had enough of it and started to take the car daily to work.
That and i have seen a different type of morning commute car driver-the type that just bombs through puddles opposite you sending dirty water into the air and over you. 8am starts see these type of people, always in a rush and driving far to fast on country roads, they pass youthe same time whatever the weather conditions!. Yep i look forward to summer hours starting on 1st April and quieter roads to work beforw the idiots appear.
So back to today and with the high pressure weather i pumped up the tyres on the Dawes Ultra Galaxy and rode up to work under clear blue skies...
And it felt good!, if not bit cold, Great to be back out on the Dawes again. This bike was a present from good friend Gary B, and it is a real smoothie to ride...good to have it back in it`s own parking lot in the shed...
Up on the hill and what a lovely morning...
Here is a film i shot from the cairn...my office view...
Whitekirk Hill 360 view from coastkid71 on Vimeo.
Work finished and a short bit of `Roughstuff` across `Becky`s Strip` Byway to North Berwick for some milk...
Now you see plenty of pics of the Bass Rock on this blog...
But how about a real cool film ON the Bass?
Alan Kayaked out to the bass and with permission landed and he took his Drone with him,
Check out this ace film of `The Sentinel of the Forth`...
Shopping done and back home enjoying the springtime scenery, sadly another nights heavy rain last night would see me back in the car today as the roads returned to slop...
More soon...
Agh the joy of a Dawes. I built my Croix de Fer using the measurements from my Dawes and whilst the Croix de Fer is very good, its disc brakes are the decideder..... its not quite Carling! The ride on the Dawes is so comfy.
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