Funny how the weather can make even a 3 hour cycle turn into a micro adventure. Take Sunday and it was damp and overcast and real cold with an easterly gale blowing cold air out of the North Sea.
The ride to the coast was a workout into the gale, but least i had the tail wind home to look forward to!...
I had walking boots on with gators but soon added the lightweight Alpkit paclite trousers and along with under gloves (Ron Hill running gloves) i was toasty, even if the weather was not!,
The beach was near deserted the 2 hours i rode the rocks and dunes and doing some filming with the Go Pro Hero 4 session and mono pod...
Must have been a meter or so of sand moved here to reveal all these rocks and this WW2 Anti Invasion Glider pole that i have never seen here!, makes you wonder what else is buried on the coast and will maybe get revealed one day...
Sea foam...
Sandblasted as the wind ripped through the flat areas of beach i was glad i remember to fit ear plugs to keep the sand out!...
Driftwood blasted clean...
After some zig zag riding through the dunes i had enough film so continued along the coast below the dunes where the recent high tides have again ripped out the sand blown in over the past winter...
Seahorse?...
The roar of the tumbling surf was incredible and once again the power of nature leaves you in awe...
Back home and bike washed and sand empty out everything and a short film edited,
Song is `Je Suis le vent` by Working For A Nuclear Free City
Sandstorm Cycle; Peffersands from coastkid71 on Vimeo.
More soon...
Hi coast kid...I have been checking our your blog this past week. thanks for sharing your pictures and videos. I am live in Canada so I decided to get a fat bike this year so I can ride in the snow as our summer season is so short here. I have been having a blast! Given our winters can be long I do take a few trips to the Caribbean each winter for a couple of weeks at a time. I purchased the fat bike with this in mind and even bought a second set of wheels and tires for the beach as my winter ones are spiked. I went for a 9 day trip a couple of weeks ago and had an amazing time on the beach with my new (and very expensive) bike every day. Problem is that salt water and sand went got into the bottom bracket and hubs and started to cause damage to the bearings and other parts. My frame is carbon and so are a lot of the components. But my mechaninc spent over four hours cleaning it up and had to replace the bottom bracket because everything was seized up. Cost me $300 in parts and labour. I was surprised the sand got past the seals and caused so much damage. It would be really appreciated if you could make any suggestions. I thought that these bikes were made for this type of use. I am shocked that I had to replace such expensive parts and that so much damage was caused after only a week of riding. I don't want to stop riding on the beach. that not an option.
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Hi, sorry for late reply, i wrote a blog post on prepping a Fatbike for beach riding, how i found through experience to stop stuff seizing from exposure to a coastal environment;
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