Midweek Cycle; Sunset cycle

Cold high pressure weather this week, Full Moon so high/low tides, not ideal high tide times being late afternoon but still always somewhere to cycle on the coast. Finished work i quickly headed down the coast wrapped up with the raw onshore north easterly wind which has kept temperatures below 0 at night with morning frosts and midday temps not over 6 Celsius....

Half an hour to sunset at Gullane Point...

Enough time for some pics and film along to the Reserve point...

Was real cold cycling back to the van,
Here is a wee film, Song is` Kreatin` by Frost...


Sunset Beachride; Nov 2019 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.


Back home and some tinkering required on the Pugsley, with stainless steel spokes/Brass spoke nipple, and alloy rim a chemical reaction causes corrosion with the salt water environment, an often repair is a corroded broken spoke nipple...

Here is the beauty of using a split tube `Ghetto tubeless set up; you can just deflate the tyre roll back the tyre with split tube and roll the foam and rim tape to remove and install a new spoke nipple.

Cannot do this with a sealed tubeless tape- folk say just cut a hole then repair with Duct tape, but that will eventually leak as the tyre sealant breaks down the tape glue...

Old spoke nipple removed from the rim, then the spoke...

New spoke nipple tensioned and tyre inflated and pressure set to 6 psi...

Job done and ready to go...

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Autumn in Binning Woods...

Lovely colours this now in Binning Woods, i rode along across frozen ground avoiding the worst of the mud on the trails which are soaked after recent days of heavy rain showers...

Around the woods are for the 1st winter ride able on the new all weather paths put in over the last two years.  This ride is one of my night time rides so it is nice to show it in daylight pictures...

Beach tree- `Queen of the forest` and although light cloud this morning the leaves almost glow in the light...

The lone Copper beach in Bruce`s Circle standing proud, some of Dads ashes are here under the tree, Beach trees were his favourite trees, esp in Autumn, stopped off here at the bench for 5 minutes to say hello and tell him were all ok and life is good...

On down towards the northern edge of the wood...

The perimeter trail along the north of the wood is unsurfaced and wet in places  though the beach leaves provide a carpet to ride along ok...

Riding home along a short section of road after a real muddy field boundary trail and a low sun came out from the clouds. Wish i was back on the wood again where the light now would be amazing in the Autumn gold...

Shimano Alfine 8 speed hub drive chain ideal for winter conditions, i don't often wash bikes but having daylight to do so makes it an easy quick job to do...

Wee film in the woods, Song is `Nylon` by Phontaine


Autumn Cycle; Binning Woods; Nov 2019 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.



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Into November; 1st big waves of winter

After a week of strong onshore wind and heavy rain a big swell came in from the North Sea bringing huge waves along the east coast.  Always spectacular to witness every Autumn you see the true power of the sea, pictures or even film don`t show the true force of the power of the sea but to witness the size of the waves noise and taste the salt in the air as the first big storm of the coming winter....

Wood barrier being craned in to seal the harbour entrance...

The Barometer never lies...

Some film along the east Beach and from the Harbour, Song is `Undertow (Spooky Remix)` by Lush


Coastrider; Autumn Storm cycle at NB, Nov 2019 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.


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