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Old 07-25-12, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by robo
Still getting to know the riding since moving here, but the English countryside is beautiful. Rode north from Oxford up to Chipping Norton (could there be a more English sounding town name?) and a bit further, to the Rollright Stones, a group of ~5,000 year old stone monuments at the edge of the Cotswolds.

The bike doesn't look very retro beside a 5,500 year old stone circle!

Admiring the view from a random bench by the road. The muddy wheels and fenders are from an ill-advised foray into Wychwood, where the trails were a mess of sticky mud:
That really appears to be some beautiful countryside there robo. What kind of bike were you riding?
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