Isolation Cycle 84; Peffersands - SURLY Pugsley Updates...

4 Weeks ago...

Thinning down the Fatbike fleet and selling two Pugsleys, both i have owned a for a while and been well used but maintained as you will have read about here on the blog,
Both bikes have been sold locally and will soon be seen with their new owners...

The green bike sold shortly after and both bikes could have sold a dozen times over with the interest..

Down to four;
With 4 bikes remaining i  am now riding two old and two new bikes,

My original pugsley was set up as a single speed a couple of months ago, but i have not really been using it as such so decided to retro fit all my old parts onto this one bike and make more use of it again,

Rear wheel was rebuilt with the spare Shimano Alfine 8 spd Internal Gear Hub (IGH). full `Big O Manufacturing` mudguards, the IGH Thumbshifter i have, and those Nito Moose bars...

G took the Moonie and we cycled to Tyninghame, i guess you could call this a `Fat Retro` cycle!...

With yellow lines the full lenght of the access road to the still closed (on date of of ride and writing this post 9th June) is going to be a money earner for Traffic Wardens when it reopens,
Personally it serves folk right for irresponsible parking here prior to the lockdown...

In bloom...

Onto Peffersands beach and all quiet, not looking forward to the car access reopening to be honest and the return of hoards of people, their litter and dog poo left, and the irresponsible camping behaviour of trees cut down etc...

Been a peacefull couple of months in the bubble here...

One last thing to change once back home on the old Pugsley was the handlebars as they proved far to low on the old Pugsley with 4" headtube despite extra spacers, back on with some old riser bars...

Wee film of the ride, Song is `Inform - Educate - Entertain` by Public Service Broadcasting,





More soon...

Midweek Cycle; More green lanes...

More green lanes again today and i cycled up past Pencaitland from Longniddry,


This old Weigh Bridge is stamped `Henry Pooly & Son, dated 1939,

On through Boggs Holdings and Winton Estate and beyond...

One of many Mines marked around the area which once used the railways here...

This track was a bit overgrown but not to long to slog through, then onto a better track...

I was heading to Peaston Farm for some pics at the old row of cottages

Sadly they are being renovated as were very scenic, though this is not surprising as East Lothian continues to expand everywhere with houses...

Some 1980`s nostalgia lying in rubbish cleared out a house...

I rode a loop on tracks  back to the old farm to return to Pencaitland....

Wee film to here...
Song is `Seeya Later - 2014` by Boards of Canada


Surly KramPug IGH; Greenlaning (3) from coastkid71 on Vimeo.

From Pencaitland it was more trails through Winton Estate to join some of the old railway lines to Macmerry...

Crossing the A1 it was another old green road down towards Longniddry...

Big Sky day in the Shire...

A nice cycle,

More soon...