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yen_powell

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I walked on my state sanctioned exercise period yesterday, thought I'd pump up the tyres on my push bike and take that today. I've not been out on a push bike since Augustish when my fiendish mate tricked me into riding too bloody far along the old railway line to Great Dunmow and back. My legs had stopped aching by about November and my bum had stopped feeling like the saddle was permanently inserted into my arse by early December.

I thought I'd have a little ride over my local park but ended up riding into the town centre. It was bloody freezing, especially on my fingers and ears. Maybe a hat and gloves next time, which should be about June ate current rates.

Took some pictures of my old heap of a push bike, a water tower turned into a house, the old Victorian town lock up for drunkards, some of the old silk mills, a statue showing its bum, the town church, our Famous Five type railway station (one train an hour if you're lucky) and working my way through one of the town centre 'gants' which are small alleyways squeezed between various houses and shops. Apparently they are only called gants in Braintree.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gants-of-braintree

 

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Great shots @yen_powell........but can you get back up that railway line again so I can get a good look?

And this is going to sound really weird ME saying this.......but why is the place deserted? It's like a Ghost Town.

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16 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Great shots @yen_powell........but can you get back up that railway line again so I can get a good look?

And this is going to sound really weird ME saying this.......but why is the place deserted? It's like a Ghost Town.

It's Sunday and freezing cold. Everyone is either indoors staying warm or walking in the park. I saw a few kids on the skate park, brave little souls.

That link above led me to this, I have to go and see this now, it's only up the road. Americans upsetting our dead witches, how very dare they! Oddly enough the cross roads by the pub in the link below was the scene of my accidental wheelie on my DR350 when I had to pull away onto the main road with no clutch cable after it broke whilst trail riding. I'd managed fine by revving it and knocking it into gear to pull away when required, but at this location it all went a bit Pete Tong as I shot up onto the back wheel and nearly ended up on the wrong side of the road as a lorry was coming towards me.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/witch-stone-great-leighs

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1 hour ago, skyrider said:

yes modern push bikes arn't the most comfy of vehicles, as the guy on the old advert used to say that saddle looks like a razor blade

That's the replacement bigger saddle, a cheapy from Lidl with a built in air pump

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1 hour ago, boboneleg said:

Brilliant Yen and all that done on a Peugeot ?

It's okay, it's not proper French, made in Canada apparently. Bought it second hand when I had my stroke and wasn't allowed to ride/drive for 6 weeks, about 16 years ago now. But I never used it because I discovered all flat roads are in fact fiendishly sloped, always in an uphill direction for some unfathomable reason.

Left it locked up at work for about 8 years so it didn't take up valuable garage room, but they cut the lock and removed it as abandoned a few months after asking for all staff to identify their bikes which I did, even including photographs. I tracked it down before they destroyed it and I brought it home before lockdown.

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1 minute ago, yen_powell said:

Bought it second hand when I had my stroke and wasn't allowed to ride/drive for 6 weeks, about 16 years ago now.

Yeh.....I remember that!

Wasn't it when we had an offroad event in South Wales on DSUK/MB?

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