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Cycling North After Winter


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L1 - Thanks, that sounds awesome.

 

Holbeck - Nothing of note yet, but it's early days.

 

 

Today I was doing a little bit of repair work on the bike.

 

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With six_cylinder's admonishment ringing in my ears, I thought I'd better go out for a ride to try and grab some worthwhile spots, whilst also making sure I had made the bike better not worse.

 

I'm guessing this won't suffice as a Visa spot Chris?

 

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Me and my travel companion visited some history first.

 

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Unfortunately, today was a day when the spotting gods were not smiling upon me, so please don't expect much of note. Yet another white R4 was probably the highlight.

 

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I passed a local lake.

 

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Which promised much.

 

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But didn't quite deliver.

 

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So I returned to papping anything vaguely resembling interest.

 

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And that was that.

I did have some more pics to add that would have made this a slightly less dull post, but somewhere between there and here they have vanished from my memory card. I'm not best pleased but c'est la vie as we say in English.

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With six_cylinder's admonishment ringing in my ears, I thought I'd better go out for a ride to try and grab some worthwhile spots, whilst also making sure I had made the bike better not worse.

 

I'm guessing this won't suffice as a Visa spot Chris?

 

 

 

I have a Visa card in my wallet, does that count as I have been cycling around France today!

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As I have accidentally bought an Xantia estate  is there any chance you could find half a cheepo dozen Mobylettes 40T, 40V, 50T styles as it's only 6 h 46 min 382 miles each wey and I can get a "free" day crossing to pick them up? I have previous - as the rozzers say. Then I'll forget that  Surrey Benny Hill Removals want their fleece back.

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Do you still have the place?

Yep.

Well I think so anyway.

 

This was the last time I was there.

 

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And the summer before, with more floor trees.

 

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The view from my balcony*.

 

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Once you climb the most of the mountain, this is the entrance to my driveway*.

 

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Apologies for anyone (ie: no-one) who remembers these pics from my other spotted/travel thread.

 

As for the winter conditions there, these are a few pics from the winter I spent living a kilometer or two further down the mountain from my holiday home.

 

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-30C at worst and three solid months of no higher than -10C. This explains why this year I was aiming to go somewhere warm for winter.

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I am hi-jacking this thread as I reckon that this is chod spotted in the area.

 

When I first got here, one of the antique shops had a WW2 Jeep on display in the window. After a couple of years it was replaced by something more French, but about 10 months ago it vanished.

 

Today I agreed to pick up a "Boite de lettres" for a friend from one of the local shite antique shops and afterwards went for a look around some of the others. At the above mentioned antique shop I spotted the previous star exhibit in a shed at the back of the shop. The shop has changed hands, and the previous owner has moved to bigger premises, but apparently does not want to sell the car. I will have to track him down and see if that is true.

 

Shite photo, but anyone care to guess what it is?

 

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