@IWARTS sounds like you are getting plenty of practice today...
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Tweedbank to Portobello CCE Outing
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Posted 4 years ago #
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I'm an 85% yes. Depends how I get on with the final day of pond digging, I might be utterly dead tomorrow. I'll report back with a form yes/no on Friday evening.
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I am researching! Would an old tricross with cx tyres do it? Mtb flat bars not so good for my wonky arm!
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I'm planning on taking my cross bike, I believe this should be okay.
On my last tire change I ended up with some very smooth tires. Hoping that something more grippy arrives in the post.
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I'm not using particularly knobbly tyres - one Armadillo Nimbus at the back (with which I managed to get round Arthur's Seat when the road was icy a few years ago) and a Marathon at the front. I am taking a couple of spare sets of brake blocks seeing as IWRATS has mentioned brakes so often. I'll also be taking a spare 9-speed chain and an extra spare set of powerlinks amongst my pannierful of crap. I can't do much about the still-slightly-lumpy rear tyre except hope that the terrain is uneven enough to mask it.
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wingpig - I'll be running on Marathons as well, mainly due to being too lazy to change them for the tractor-like tyres in my shed. I reckon we should be okay, ground condition wise.
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There was no mud on the way. Loose stones at worst, and an unmown field.
Somebody text me when you're approaching the pub?
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possibly the tire change is excessive, but I guess some tread is preferable. The advantage of not having Marathons is the change only takes 5 minutes.
Assuming that someone has IWRATS phone number, we will try and provide an update.
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I have IWRATS number, but confused as why we need to text him as surely he'll be in the peleton somewhere?
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I will also have a tyre jack with me, in case anyone needs to re-fit a Marathon en route.
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I'm in. See you at the station.
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Weather is looking good. See you at the train station stop for the oh five fifty
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Pasty shop doesn't open until 06:30.
I'd always imagined these ran from platform 3, but it seems to be platform 1.Posted 4 years ago # -
Only just spotted this thread and have stuff to do this weekend, but stranger things might happen than my appearing tomorrow morning, assuming I sleep ok. Don't be waiting for me though because I will most probably be fast asleep...
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No-one else here yet. How far along the platform does the train stop?
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Somebody text me when you're approaching the pub?
Small chance I'll be nearby around that time - can someone post here too?
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I'm at the Dalriada. Can't stay particularly long though.
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MapMyRide reckons only 2,700 calories as far as Eskbank, where my phone died. I'd have thought a bit more, but then the app didn't know about my pannierful of crap.
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Frenchy - you have a DM!
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Standing by - forlornly - for news.
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They did their best IWRATS. We will remember them.
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Wing pig put good photos on facebook
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Trying to get them up to Flcker just at the moment. Proper camera would have been better, especially for the steaming agricultural heaps beside the first hill.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmGNbLp3Posted 4 years ago # -
I hope you all had permission to ride through that farm building.....
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Assuming we didn't, I take it the landowner now has the right to shoot us the next time any of us come within three furlongs if their boundary?
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That baying you can hear is the landowner's hunting hounds on your trail. They can flush you to - at most - two eagles and a yeoman with a crossbow.
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We acquired an forgotten packet of Twirls from The Dalriada.
My kids say thanks!Posted 4 years ago # -
That was the best thing I’ve done in a long while. Completely epic. Great company & such a nice mix of riding. I think we covered everything from A roads to native woodland single track, with a few fields, Landrover track & river crossings in between.
Thanks to IainMcR & chrisfl for navigating
And maximum kudos goes to those who completed it on rigid bikes
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How many bikes on trains?
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Six on the outgoing 05:55. Three other people not including the train staff got on at Waverley - didn't notice any others joining our carriage during the journey.
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