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[steve_sordy]

Spring in BC and the drizzle will turn to rain until next weekend when the sun comes back. Until then, checking out new places...View attachment 136945

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Atmospheric!

 

[Arminius]

Atmospheric!

Same place, 5 minutes before:

 

[Mcharza]

Pictures of fixes that shouldn't have worked but did.

About a third of the way into our ride Wes cracked a rim on my lender bike and it wouldn't hold air anymore. While I laughed at him he proceed to wrap the area in electrical tape, threw on a couple zip ties and somehow we finished the ride and only had to stop to top off the tire twice...

Rim separated at the seam from an impact btw.

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Nice MacGyver hack

 

[Stihldog]

Exercised the Fuel EXE today. Almost 30km.

Trails in good condition …before the monsoons hit.

 

[Nicho]

Same place, 5 minutes before:

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[Just gan]

Plan didn't quite work out at Lochindorb . Weather turned during the night. I'll be back. Nice to be somewhere you can just lean the Levo against the car all night and know it will be there in the morning.

 

[steve_sordy]

I don't care how isolated the location; I would not sleep unless the bike was in the van with me!

 

[Just gan]

I don't care how isolated the location; I would not sleep unless the bike was in the van with me!

Got to have trust in the human race occasionally. Left it for 6 hours in the heather once.

 

[TimC7]

Got to have trust in the human race occasionally.

That and the perimerer trip wire and claymore mines . .

 

[Just gan]

That and the perimerer trip wire and claymore mines . .

Steady on Tim its only a bike haha. Seriously I don't normally do that but that road i parked beside would not see cars in the middle of the night. There are still a lot of people round my area who's doors are left unlocked when the go out keys left in cars . If you go to some places there's kayaks and things like that just lie beside the waterside. Just like the good old days.

 

[DieBoy]

Short (25km) and not especially interesting ride today, though didn't have much time spare and it was good for breaking in the new saddle.

Windy but stayed dry.

Tad jealous of the forest @KnollyBro has.

 

[Just gan]

Another wet ride . Womans Land Army memorial. Some may remember the old style phone boxes.

 

[steve_sordy]

I used to ring my girlfriend from one of those call boxes at the top of the street. Happy days!

 

[The Hodge]

I used to ring my girlfriend from one of those call boxes at the top of the street. Happy days!

Yeah so did I once you'd gone ...

 

[Koban]

Few days a week I'm working from home. When I can I do a short Lunch break ride. To free up my mind for the next meetins ;-)

 

[Arminius]

Few days a week I'm working from home. When I can I do a short Lunch break ride. To free up my mind for the next meetins ;-)

Fake! There are no hills in NL!

 

[Koban]

Since when is Klever Reichswald in the Netherlands ? Yes it is close to the border with NL.

 

[Just gan]

Few days a week I'm working from home. When I can I do a short Lunch break ride. To free up my mind for the next meetins ;-)

Since when is Klever Reichswald in the Netherlands ? Yes it is close to the border with NL.

When I click on NL it gives me Newfoundland so not sure where you are. I was off down memory lane as I did a job there.

 

[Arminius]

Since when is Klever Reichswald in the Netherlands ? Yes it is close to the border with NL.

All Europe! To be honest, I did test rides on bio MTBs at previous Canyon Test Center in Heerlen, NL (@Binhill1 The Netherlands) and remember nice trails in the local hills.

I was wondering if your pic would be Aachen region as the hole to your right looks like a typical bomb crater.

 

[etoni]

Simmental, Switzerland. Sahara dust, in the Air.

 

[RustyMTB]

Damnit, I'm going on after Toni again. Fifty feet out the door & it's obvious something's up with the gears. Chain is drooping on the ground & it turns out the plate axle has seized. Two hours stripping & rebuilding the mech wasn't on the menu but I still got the classic Chanctonbury water trough piccy anyway. And I got to wear my CRC fire sale Nukeproof pants.

 

[Just gan]

Damnit, I'm going on after Toni again. Fifty feet out the door & it's obvious something's up with the gears. Chain is drooping on the ground & it turns out the plate axle has seized. Two hours stripping & rebuilding the mech wasn't on the menu but I still got the classic Chanctonbury water trough piccy anyway. And I got to wear my CRC fire sale Nukeproof pants.

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Got me there with the plate axle please don't try to explain what it is . I have two goosed sram dérailleurs in the shed not sure if I can make one out of the two . Your pretty clean looking though considering.

 

[RustyMTB]

All it means is the pin that joins the two halves of the derailleur had seized. Failed seal let water in, looks like a Russian scrapyard in there.

 

[Just gan]

All it means is the pin that joins the two halves of the derailleur had seized. Failed seal let water in, looks like a Russian scrapyard in there.

Ok pretty reliable dérailleurs really if you can manage not to pick up twigs . I burst a spoke yesterday don't know how didn't notice till I got home. Luckily i have a spare wheel . Have to order a few it's easy to lose a week waiting for spares.

 

[Nicho]

There are still a lot of people round my area who's doors are left unlocked when the go out keys left in cars . If you go to some places there's kayaks and things like that just lie beside the waterside. Just like the good old days.
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Steady on Tim its only a bike haha. Seriously I don't normally do that but that road i parked beside would not see cars in the middle of the night. There are still a lot of people round my area who's doors are left unlocked when the go out keys left in cars . If you go to some places there's kayaks and things like that just lie beside the waterside. Just like the good old days.

 

[Hattori-Hanzo]

Is it still a mud bath up there? @RustyMTB
I went over the old lions trail last week and it was sloppy!

 

[Just gan]

Imagine going back to the 20s for a month

 

[RustyMTB]

Is it still a mud bath up there? @RustyMTB
I went over the old lions trail last week and it was sloppy!

It's rough where there's shade, so the Lions trail will be a mare still but drying out ok on the exposed main drags, then you come across entire lakes where the trail used to be

 

[steve_sordy]

Imagine going back to the 20s for a month

Beer for a penny a pint!
All steel (but not in a good way!) bikes, rod pull brakes, rigids.

 

[irie]

Went past there again today. No prizes for guessing what I saw.

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And now it's hit the news big time!

Chichester river pumped with 273 days of non-stop waste

Untreated sewage was discarded into the River Lavant in West Sussex for 6,542 hours last year

inews.co.uk

"A rare West Sussex chalk stream is on the cusp of “an environmental catastrophe”, campaigners have warned, after it was revealed as being the worst-hit river in England for sewage overflows.

Sewage was allowed to pour into England’s rivers, lakes and coastal areas for 3.6 million hours last year, making 2023 the worst year on record for sewage spills, according to official figures from the Environment Agency (EA).

The EA data revealed a wastewater treatment works near Chichester discharged untreated sewage into the River Lavant 286 times in 2023.

In total, Southern Water’s Lavant Wastewater Treatment plant overflowed for 6,542 hours, the equivalent of 273 days of non-stop sewage.

Chichester harbour, a designated area of outstanding natural beauty once known for its oysters, is among the areas impacted by the sewage overflows."



Took the above picture of sewerage being pumped into the river Lavant in West Dean just 2 days ago as rode past with a buddy. There were actually TWO tankers parked up doing this!!!