September and typical weather for harvest time, often mist and v light rain and we were in too minds wether to meet P and A for a local overnight camp at Tyninghame with the forecast unsettled but decided to just go as soon as I was home from work on Thursday and we set off along the John Muir Way (JMW) across to Tyninghame where we met P and A and cycled out to camp at Sandy Hirst Point...
We cooked up dinner on our gas stove while P fired up his box stove on a flat rock and bring cast sandwich toaster made toasties then tents pitched before dark we lit a Swedish Candle I brought, bulky but light it would give us a couple of hours light and we sat toasting marshmallows and hip flasks as the tide receded and the air was filled with calls of birds feeding on the salt marsh...
Next morning it was still misty but warm and dry and we again cooked breakfast...
The remains of theSwedish candle now cooled was broke up and we left no trace of any fire, unlike the rock circle fire pits people insist on building in the woods - this is not responsible wild camping doing so...
P cooked Pancakes while we had our usual Porridge in a Bacofoil bag soaked from the previous evening...
Fed and packed away G and I went a wonder along the coast line and we gathered a lot of sea coal, like the dry Scots Pine wood of the Swedish candle we brought it too was light so it was taken home to use on the Garden fire box some evening soon...
Packed up and leaving no trace of our overnight camp we soon headed off...
Once through Binning Woods G and I headed down to follow the John Muir Way back home, while P and A headed back to their van at the Park...
A loop out to Aberlady Bay and a visit to the sub wrecks out in Aberlady Bay,
The sand is so soft this now above the high tide line and al ot of areas the sand banks have moved ans also real soft, too soft to easily cycle on regular 4" Fatbikes, which i have never seen before on the coast here, for now the Moonlander rules for floatation with its 100mm rims and 4.8" tyres,
Someone in front of use had been along the coast on a regular mountainbike and must have been busting a gut,
Walking here, while the Moonie still cruised along!...
Never seen a pool around the western sub before as it has been for a few weeks now, it has exposed the tow ring at the bow and the rudder and prop shaft that has been buried for the previous winter...
Time to head home, daily exercise done for the day...
Wee film, Song is `Break to the Future` by Phontaine
Another scorcher of a day with little wind so it was warm as we rode a loop to the coast at Yellowcraig and back, low tide was 8.30am so we were up early and out and home before most people would be out for their daily exercise as per UK Lockdown guidelines, stay safe and toch nothing when out is our daily moto when were out...
We cycled to Archerfield befor returning and only passed a few folk out walking dogs and runners also enjoying the empty spaces created along the coast during the Lockdown...
Wee film along Broadsands, Song is `Todas Santos` by Phontaine
Onto the beach and before hand time to air down the big 5" tyres to make easier work of the real soft dry sand above the high tide line, My Surly Moonlander G is riding has 100mm wide rims and 4.8" Schwalbe Jumbo Jim tyres front and rear, they can be aired down to 3 psi! nuts eh?
The Surly Wednesday has 80mm wide rims and a 4.8" Jumbo Jim tyre up front and a 4.5" Jumbo Jim rear tyre so 6 psi in the rear on that bike, but could have aired down to 5 psi ok,
We rode 25 miles on those tyres no probs and as the day went on the comfort of the soft tyres was nice riding home a bit tired from cycling every day for over a week now,
Day of writing up this blog it`s a week to FORTH FAT 2020, sadly cancelled like everything else and here would have been a load of folks from all over the UK...
Were lucky to be able to exercise daily cycling on the coast and keep safe distances from folk, not touching anything and riding safe too - not the time for doing anything daft and risking having to go to Hospital, you wuld not be popular!,
Todays big Moon meant a real low tide and we cycled around to the harbour entrance...
Wee film, Song is `6 Underground` by Sneaker Pimps
Dawn on the coast, and a cycle out to Aberlady Bay and back from NB, around 18 miles,
Stopped for these iphone pics, apart from that it was good to just ride and spin the cranks...
Shot some helmet cam footage of the ride, edited to a song that once it gets in your head it goes round and round and round... `Buckie High` by Boards of Canada...
I live in East Lothian, S.E. Scotland.
I fill my time with my hobbies, interests and passions. Often cycling along the coast here. I ride steel bikes with big wheels, I like to enjoy all interests of the coast, Its scenery, wildlife, local history, with my other interests in art and music when out and about...
I was diagnosed with Relapsing remitting Multiple Sclerosis in August 2018, it`s early days but i plan to continue to live my life as i have and show that having a medical condition like MS does not mean you need to stop enjoying your life,
Please excuse the bad grammar, i am working on it!
