Pugs in the woods...

Enjoying a few days holidays, nothing to do but ride every day, so far dawn night rides to sunrise, some night riding, and yesterday riding woodland single track and messing about on some jumps in one of our local woods, a former coal pit, as you can see by the black spoil,
the trails are riding great this now, more to come...

Thanks to good friend Mike for wearing my Go Pro Camera...


Song is `Whiskey` by Guttermouth...

click on 720p to watch in HD

How the Dutch got their cycle paths

Informative film i found on Youtube from the land of the bicycle...

Sunrise at the coast

Up at 6 am and got in an hours night riding on trails to the coast then at first light i set the Go Pro on the tri pod and did a time lapse of the sunrise across Belhaven Bay and the town of Dunbar...






Sitting for an hour at St Baldreds Cradle watching the sky change as the sun rose was quite mesmerising, Watching the cormorants fly past just above the sea, and that relaxing noise of waves washing on the shoreline...










Saltire sky...




These 2 pics were taken on low light settings...











Then home for pancakes and honey for breakfast...

Some film riding along some of the coastal trail,
song is `Infinite Regression` by Quantic



And timelapse Film with the Go pro at setting r5, not photos but an hour film then speeded up to 1 minute, song is `Dream Afterlife (intro)` by Jakatta...

Midweek Sunset beachride...

With the promise of a nice sunset one evening last week i again headed to Aberlady reserve and out to Gullane Point,
We have been robbed of good sunsets in the last month or so, always a cloud bank across to the west which swallowed up the sun and all the sunset colours,
Not tonight, but it was blowing a gale and i could hardly ride the narrow sandy single track that runs along the ridge of the tops of the dunes, the tri pod kept blowing over trying to do some ride by filming so i gave up and just did some helmet cam film - but it was set too low, Doh!, Sandblasted too by the blowing sand,
So i just rode about some of the many paths behind the big dunes until sunset,
Don't surf down the dunes here as it is a Nature Reserve,
I managed to get some film night riding after sunset with the Go Pro camera on r2 setting which lets in more light, this is with one Magicshine 872 light so when the 2nd light arrives next week then we should be in business for some night riding films, the one seemed to work before all the light had disappeared above...

6.30pm...








Sand blasted again crossing the dunes to head back across the reserve...


Great to see the Pinkfoot geese coming into the Bay, must have been thousands that came in just as it got dark...




Some film, song is `6 Underground` by Sneaker Pimps

Apricot Morning...

Is how i can best describe Sunday mornings sunrise...
A big ball of Orange popped out the North sea around 7.10am. Autumn is a lovely time of year when the suns out, Not a lot of colour on our trees yet except Horse Chestnuts but a couple of mornings frosts should help turn them,
Down Early to North Berwick, not many folk about yet at 8am,
harbour has had summer yachts lifted out for winter...


Crews of the 2 racing skiffs were out for training...


Memorial to WW2 Coastal Command...


For a change i rode west above the coast line on the many sandy single track trails, a very strong wind was getting up so a good way to make forward progress along to Gullane, only one pic riding west but i was filming along the trails...


Then flew back down on the low tide hard sand back to NB for an ice cream, lots of pics from the saddle on the return ...

























Film of the ride west, song is `Apricot Morning` by Quantic... (extended for film)

Saturday Beachride...

I let Mike ride my pug at the weekend to kickstart him again to save/scrounge/steal/beg or borrow the money to get my old pug frame built, we headed down to Peffersands, my local beach at Tyninghame, i rode the 29er...


Mike wanted to do a film, so i took my Go pro along and did some film of him on the pugsley then he took the SD card away to add to his film of the ride,
along to St Baldreds Cradle...




Turns out (surprise surprise) there is a Geocache here, and Mike went and found it,
i don`t know much about Geocaching but Mike says this is a geocache coin which he will now put at another location of another cache...


Sounds fun and if it gets folk outdoors and about then it cant be a bad thing, how about a series of cache`s in WW2 Coastal Defence artifacts?...








We rode from the Secret trail following someone Else's tyre tracks?, a square block mud tyre by the look of it (bike geek tyre ID mode setting in...) then through woodland paths and along to the dunes at Peffersands, It was worth the leg burn and pushing through the soft sand up past the high tideline to get Mike down those dunes,
Mikes grin after he rolled down his first dune was priceless...

"Why are there not more folk doing this?" he asked, shoo sh... -:)

Here are some ace pics Mike took with his Nikon D80, you can read his story of the ride over on his blog; Mikeworld...













And a great film Mike made, nice editing...