Beach ride from North Berwick - Winter Storm damage

 We rode west from North Berwick to see how much damage has been done from this winters series of big storms...

Music by Boards Of Canada

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A cycle at Goswick Sands...

 

Royal Enfield Classic 350 takes on a road of Potholes!

 

Royal Enfield Winter day big ride out Pt 2

life In The Rain... Cycle to Torness

 

ManCave Update; Mid winter check over the Royal Enfield 350... Brakes

 

Vanlife; Roadtrip; Winter in Scotland; A walk up Ben Wyvis Munro

 

Amazing winter day on a Munro!, Cloud inversion and not a breath of wind allowed a drone flight too!

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A walk up another Munro; Meal Nan Tarmachan

 

Back on the coast cycling!

 

Back out cycling again!, had a real sore shoulder which was probably a trapped nerve/muscle in neck/shoulder but its one of those injuries that your better just trying to keep moving and just get out and about and put it to the back of your mind - too much to get on with in life to sit about doing nothing!

Today we rode around John Muir Park, an easy peddle in no rush and I had another Pugsley I recently stuck together and gave it another rattle can spray job!

These pics are in reverse order but cannot be bothered to sort them around anymore, here is really just somewhere to store all pics and links to films I make and I know a lot of people still come on here for a read and still enjoying reading a blog type format,  thank you all and I will try and keep weekly posts coming!

Will do a post on this size large Pugsley., it will probably be up for sale along with another couple of bikes in the future so get in touch if interested!...

Wee film...

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Ride out on the Royal enfield after Storm Babet!

A wild storm that ravaged the east coast....

Wee film...

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Motorcycle heated gloves! - RST Paragon 6

 

These gloves are great!, I wish I had them back when I was riding to work and it was -6C!

In use these are brilliant!, I have not needed to use them yet on the hot setting but if I had  got them while we got that 2 week cold snap and -6C temps I am sure they would have kept my hands real warm.

With 3-4 hours battery life there is enough for my 3 days committing of approx 25- 30 minutes and enough for a Sunday ride about, so I am real happy with them for the money, and can be transferred to use on the Willy Jeep or even out walking or cycling if real cold...

Wee film I have done on them...

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Weekend up north - two Munros and a Museum visit!

 

Couple of weeks ago G suggested getting away a weekend up north and we headed up on a Friday to stay at a Wigwam/Pod at a campsite near Durrisdeer in Angus. 

Saturday we met up with Al at Glen Doll car park to climb up the Glen onto Mayar where we were rewarded clear 360 views of the surrounding hills. Up here makes you feel real small and realise how lucky we are living in Scotland with places like this just a couple of hours drive away...

We then descended to cross the plateau to ascend to Driesh. It was icy underfoot and the temperature was well below freezing up on the top of the second Munro of today and sheltered in the rocks at the Trig Point we quickly has some cheese rolls and tea from the flasks before descending down to take the Kilbo path back down to Glen Doll. The path was a bit sketchy at the start as we had to shuffle across a frozen snow drift which if you slipped off would have resulted in a major incident for sure but we took our time and picking our way down the frozen path we were soon down to the tree level and out the biting cold wind and warmed up as we returned to the cars. Finishing our flasks Al headed for home and we were back to our pod to cook some dinner and watch a film - it had a tv

Sunday morning we rose later and were away for 10am having enjoyed a great place to stay with a warm comfy pod and clean hot showers - will return there again!.

We headed down to visit one of Gs friends before heading to Montrose and its Air heritage Centre which is on the former airfield that was the first military airfield in the UK and open from 1913 to 1953. During WW2 it was a Fighter station and joined RAF Drem here in East Lothian in the defence of Edinburgh and the Royal Navy base at Rosyth. The Centre uses several hangers of the former base and is full of a lot of great stuff to see and run by volunteers we were both impressed by our first visit here.  We need to return again as we only had 2 hours to look round but there is a lot of stuff to read through and look at.

From a Tornado that arrived last year to a Willys Jeep painted to replicate the Montrose Mountain rescue which Jeeps were used for after WW2 amongst many other roles...

 A fun weekend and good to see the hills in winter...

Wee film of both days...

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