Showing posts with label midweek cycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label midweek cycle. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Midweek cycle after work...

 


Midweek after work and out a quick solo cycle before sunset around John Muir Country Park (JMCP)...




Lots of sand removed here with recent swells...



Devoid of people... perfect...





WW2 (fired and safe) Hispano 20mm cannon shell dug out by someone digging bait for fishing...thanks!





Into the woods as it got dark and on with the lights... These Magic Shine 852 lights must be 6 or 7 years old  now and still going strong, so no need to replace them until they are done...







Wee film before sunset, song is `E13ab E13ab` by Zenobia


Into the woods was a lot darker although there was still light in the sky so I managed to get some footage with the Go Pro bar mounted behind the lights...






And another wee film, Song is `Bad Radio` by Leftfield and Tunde Adebimpe


Ace wee cycle and good to stretch the legs...




More soon...

Thursday, 23 September 2021

Midweek cycle; quick spin after work...

 


So I think we have just passed the last official day of summer - hello autumn...

sunset is getting earlier as winter looms but we got autumn first and still some fine warm days cycle to come yet before the early dark evenings...

Tonight I went out a wee solo cycle to JMCP before sunset and took the Surly Moonlander as closest to the door...

Seafield bridge is the official name for this Bridge which usually is  referred to as Belhaven Bridge, or The Bridge To Nowhere...

The high tide was just on the return of an hour or so and I just got over the bridge avoiding wet feet, which did mean a near deserted beach  on the other side but following a very high 4.9 meter high tide - corrasponding the full moon that evening the bay was very soft - in other words beachriding when mid tides is more favourable for dryer firmer going across the sands below the high tide mark, though you won't be getting as far out in the Bay here...  


And why I took to the side of the salt marsh, with next to no footprint left from 4.8' tyres on 4' rims the Surly Moonlander wheels - which are the same wheels G and I use on the Surly Pugsley 2.0 frames, leave less of a footprint than a human does... and who probably visits the area in a car... just saying...


Evening sun was lovely...



I filmed out to the remains of the WW2 Matilda tank wreck, before returning down the soft beach, now getting more visitors nearer Seafield Bridge as the sun had now come out and the tide retreating...



1942 stamp on a bolt dates this as a Matilda II tank...

Wee film, song is Rue The Whirl` by Boards Of Canada,


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Thursday, 5 August 2021

Midweek Cycle; local beach... local treasures...

 


Back on JMCP a beachride after work and while Belhaven Bay is mobbed with day visitors  by mid afternoon it is quieter by 6pm when most have headed home and you can enjoy the beach in relative solitude/each other...








Massive sand movement along the estuary so no doubt sand had been moved in the bay and will expose some WW2 artefacts so we went for a mooch about...








And as expected we soon found some souvineers from the former WW2 War Barnes Ranges..


3 Hispano 20mm cartridge shells and half a dozen .303 shells along with a pristine undamaged bullet...



Add some brilliant cleaner and some nice finds...



Wee film from a fun wee cycle, Song is `Sunset Always Comes Around` by UNKLE




More soon...