Saltmarsh cycle, John Muir Park...

 

Sunshine burning through a sea haar and a short cycle around the Salt marsh at John Muir Park...

Wee film, Song is `Epigram` by Tycho,

More soon...

EL MTB #11 Ware Road (JMW)

Another section of the John Muir Way (JMW) as varied as the rest of the Long Distance Trail as it passes through East Lothian to it's end in Dunbar, birthplace of the famous Conservationist... 

Marked on the OS map and signed `Ware Road` this is one of three Ware Roads in East Lothian,

Ware Road is a Seaweed Road, when horse and carts once transported washed up seaweed gathered on the coast inland to use as fertiliser on farmland crops...

Again this corner has a unique landscape - drained for Agriculture in the 1700`s you could be forgiven for thinking your in the Norfolk Broads as you pass drained flat fields with ditches...

Wee film, Song is `American Dream` by Jakatta, 

More soon...

Cycle to the Serpent`s Head...

 

The Serpent`s Head...

A grey but dry Saturday and a cycle with the now growing local Fatbike gang, friends of G that have embraced Fatbikes and another friend Lucy today tried out the Surly Moonlander while G rode my new Surly PugLander build...

I was out on my old original Pugsley, a bit tougher on the rocks with first generation 65mm wide rims and the original Surly `Endomorph` tyres both ends, but I was enjoying the challenge on the rocks here east of Dunbar...

And here it is!, G discovered this the other week, when out looking for trails to link up the coast,

If you want to go find this you will need to get your map out and find `The Dry Burn`  and follow it down to near the coast,  happy hunting...

Wee film, song is `White Cyclosa` by Boards of Canada...

More soon...

Tomorrows Harvest... Is there a new BOC album coming soon?

 

Harvest time soon in East Lothian, when the county turns golden brown as fields of Wheat and Barley are ready for the Combines to do their work, I love cycling through harvested fields as much as cycling on the coast,

You can get away from people and explore corners of the county with no tracks that often make them  unapproachable by bike the rest of the year...

BOC...

So... the internet is full of gossip of a possible new Album on the way by Boards of Canada, probably my favourite music to use on cycling films for my blog.

Social media pages are full of reports of something happening, wether there is something happening or not it gets the pulses beating as would love some new music to add to films,

Boards of Canada have a unique music which I love, it is music I would describe where you can lose yourself and find yourself when immersed  in their unique sounds when out cycling,   cycling to their music in headphones I can zone out when along the coast, dunno but I can't quite put how it makes me feel in words, but can experience a zone out feeling... oh if you know me then you will know what I am on about...

The Brothers live here in East Lothian and are seen going about their lives, to many others unaware who they are, legends in the Electronic music world,  respecting their want to just be out living a quiet life I have observed from a distance but never said hello, guess that is what I am also like, riding Fatbikes brings you strangers questions and I find it awkward to speak to strangers, once you know folk they will tell me they cannot shut me up!, but that's just my passion for the coast here and cycling in East Lothian.

It was a surprise though for myself when I received a copy of their last album Tomorrows Harvest a week before it's release date...

You can read about that Here...

This year has been a year of unusual circumstances with Covid 19,

3 months lockdown and self isolating, what better chance than to go to ground and get creative and produce some new music?, the local cafes were closed and so plenty of time to lock down and produce and refine stuff... in these uncertain times for many with The Covid and job security fans would be more welcome than ever for some new listening...

My year has certainly been a different year!, I became single at the start of the year,  wandering about a bit lost and unsure of what to do, sell the house?, jack my job?, pack a bike and just start cycling with my world possesions on me and go looking for answers?, always I have been looking for answers when things have fallen away, from Relationships, to jobs,  to receiving the news I had (a mild) MS condition, then a Kidney Tumour Cancer last year. I had a lot to think about last year after that Operation when off work 2 months.  

I then met and started started dating G just before lockdown in February and you know? it all just fell into place, I have met my Doppelganger partner and i now know everything is going to be ok whatever life throws at me.

And we then spent 3 months together in a bubble when lockdown was announced , staying away from people, and staying safe and and escaping with bikes to places far away from all the chaos...

And were still together as strong as ever, I moved in with G last month, my house will soon be sold, and I plan to work part time in the future to enjoy life out and about more here in the Shire cycling and blogging with a real big coast cycle planned for next year; Cycling and Documenting the whole Scottish East Coast mile by mile, which will take most of the year doing it a few days at a time - more of that in the Springtime next year...

But for now I hope to get in some harvest cycling next week when back off work on last week of Furlough...

And keeping my fingers crossed for a new BOC album soon!...

More stubble stuff soon...!