... shit in the forest, like the bears?
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We loaded up Rob's (from Les Sorbiers) mini bus, with our bikes plus Richard (a guest at Les Sorbiers), Pingu, Mrs Pingu, Dave, Peli and me, hmm this rings a bell, like I typed this before...
... and back from Hautacam.
We set off at 9:30 with Rob (from Les Sorbiers), Richard (a guest at Les Sorbiers), Pingu, Mrs Pingu, Dave, Peli and me.
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We had a great ride down the gorge into the head wind which were nice to...
... of 120miles should do.
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Roadkill the maskot has been attached onto the bike and the bike is nearly fettled ready.
A couple of things needs to be done e.g. mudgards, finishing up the bartabe and a couple of other small thin...
We had a bit of a lie in today, I was more in the mood to just be lazy. But Peli's nagging got me up and after breakfast we headed out. The original idea was to cycle to Roskilde along the national cycle route 4.
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With the help o...
We managed to talk Bam and his son Kev, into joining us for a ride. Of course we picked the hottest day of the year so far, 25c, to do the ride in.
We decided to head up the coast, past many of the wonderful beaches in CPH and past where people with money to spare live.
](https://woollypigs....Was an very early start as we wanted to squeeze in a quick ride before we headed over to CPH. So me old man gave us a lift out to Nibe, a small fishing town 30km west of Aalborg.
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](https://woollypigs.com/uploaded_images/dsc0...My best mate from way back when joined us on a ride around town where I used to live and go to school.
We set off from my folks house and headed south and then up one if the steepest hills in the area, Nøvlingbakken at 3.1%, to get to Gistrup, where I started to go to school and kindergarten.
We got up early for a lovely spread and got ready for today's ride. My
old man gave us a lift to the start around 40 miles to the north of
Aalborg. We set of 500m from the beach around 3km from Hirsals, in
glorious sunshine and the wind in our backs.
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... pond ?
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This afternoon this lovely couple paid us a visit.
I hope they were just resting on their way to a pond, because they could end up as number 24 at the local Chinese, knowing this neighborhood :)
... the fear of time.
Over the last few months every time I look to see what time it is, be it on the phone, PC, cycling computer or a clock on some building that I was passing.
It has freaked me out, not that I'm scared of time pieces or time passing, but in the kid of way that that something m...
Since I had today off and we were thinking of something to do, a ride was the order of the day.
Split between FNRttC or testing out our new tent and mats which was screaming use us, use us.
We then decided to ride for 17 odd miles into a beautiful sunset and found a campsite. We rode ou...
... joy joy ;)
Brixton Cycles just called to tell me that they got a 58cm Surly Long Haul Trucker in the shop for me to try out.
Bouncing of the walls ;)
... here in London!
The weather have just been lovely, I even managed to enjoy it while I was sick. Just the last 2 days have been just beautiful there is no reason for me to go back to work in doors.
Looking forward to more spring, summer and riding on our new bikes, here in the UK and abroad :...
In my dream last night I was getting someone to run across a dried out lake in a forest in Denmark.
I woke up enough to to go "I'll better check it out on Google Earth, because I can't remember that there was ever a lake in that forest".
For then to go back into the dream where I continued to us...
This is mad less than 3 weeks after we had the most snow in 18 years in London. We have been out on 2 mild and sunny rides. This time we headed out to Woking and have a spin around Send, Ripley and Cobham. In Cobham I had what now has become my favourite ale to drink ...
Before we zigzagged ou...
10 of us went out to Windsor, on a cold day. Well it was cold at the start in Richmond Park, but as the day moved along it became nice an warm'ish. With a quick cup of TEA (Traditional English Ale) in Thames Court, Shepperton, on the Thames around 15 miles out. We arrived at the other pub (which n...
Top ride indeed, 35miles'ish with a little detour over to Wycoller.
This is Peli on the Packhorse Bridge at Wycoller.
There was a wee bit of ice on the roads and plenty of other cyclists out for spin and we were lucky that the car users had decided to go shopping in the sales instead of an...
... was done in great style. I think it was the biggest turn out we have had on a pootle ever on yacf. And my folks and Peli's mum was here and got to see all our mad cycling friend and they got to meet each other too.
The ride started at Tower Hill ending at Westminster, 38 of us I think th...
Time to pack and relax, as we have a early start tomorrow in order to get to the airport and some of us have to be back at work on Saturday. Speak to you all when back in the big smog.
Yawn, it started early. Well, we had to get up before Peli's mum and go for the fresh pain, croissants, tarte aux myrtilles and newspapers. She had been doing that for last nearly 2 weeks and it was her birthday after all. Wink
So, after breakfast in bed for Peli's mum we went to the local Bareges...
Our surprise attack on the Tourmalet failed Sad
Pretty much every day we have headed out on a ride down the Tourmalet (2115m) and disappeared into the hills for a day's riding. But today we were planning to surprise the Tourmalet by going down the mountain and then, about turn, right away up it. S...
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We had a sleep in and headed out for a 4 hours walk up Montagne Fleurie right behind Bareges. Though it was hot, very humid and us being tired from yesterday we decided to cut it short. We got to walk down the old road leading up...
We got up fairly early by holiday standards, and started to get ready for a ride. The classic Tour finish of the Hautacam! The route which would take us from Bareges (1250m) down through Luz St Sauveur (696m) and the long gorge descent down to the foot of Hautacam (453m) and then up to Hautacam (152...
Well we got really bitten by the holiday bug. So bad that we stayed up until we were falling asleep into our books. Peli was taken by "Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson and I was finishing off Bill Bryson's "Shakespeare" and then started on "John Deering - A team on the run".
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