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Took my first "real" ride on the Moulton Lava today. The ride was up to Mt. Hamilton in San Jose. It's the highest peak in the San Francisco Bay Area. Basically, you ride straight up 5,300ft for about 20 miles, then turn around and fly down :D
I went with a group of about 30 or so Northern California Bike Forums people, including MsIncredible, who frequents this sub-Forum. The Moulton performed wonderfully, especially on the descent. Boy, it was nice having the suspension! gathering at the meeting place http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...y/P8310001.jpg beginning of the ride http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...y/P8310011.jpg about halfway up http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...h/IMG_3441.jpg 1.5 miles left to go! http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...h/IMG_3444.jpg view from the top http://www.zensurweb.com/bikes/hamilton006.jpg SesameCrunch at top of Hamilton http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...y/P9010018.jpg http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...h/IMG_3449.jpg Pootle certification: My average speed was 8.1mph up the hill. Slightly faster on the descent.:innocent: http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...h/IMG_3451.jpg |
Originally Posted by snafu21
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... Folk round 'ere do say that the definition of a Bampton virgin is a girl who can run faster than her brother ...
Regards T |
Originally Posted by SesameCrunch
(Post 7384941)
Took my first "real" ride on the Moulton Lava today. The ride was up to Mt. Hamilton in San Jose. It's the highest peak in the San Francisco Bay Area. Basically, you ride straight up 5,300ft for about 20 miles, then turn around and fly down :D
The ride down looks incredible - would love to try it (though I think I'd need a freewheel right? :)) |
Good job SC! That's quite a ride, both up and down.
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SC: the bike looks fantastic, the ride as well! Did you whip any roadies' ass?
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Originally Posted by jur
(Post 7389767)
SC: the bike looks fantastic, the ride as well! Did you whip any roadies' ass?
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Originally Posted by SesameCrunch
(Post 7390518)
Pootle handbook explicitly prohibits such talk, but *nudge nudge, wink wink* there were some who arrived after I did :p
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I have completed my Healesville Spring Ride 6 September 2008 pootle photo essay. Check it out by following my sig. :)
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by the way... here's how my bike looks now after an upgrade. a day after the ride
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It's been a long time since this thread was updated. Was one of my favorites. I thought it would be good to acquaint some of the newer members of the forum to it. (Sure miss our dear Snafu, who started it, but who has since dropped out of sight).
With winter descending upon those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, I thought I would brave the elements and take my Moulton TSR for a Pootle. I live along the Pacific Ocean just south of San Francisco. My riding paths take me along the ocean, up rolling farmland and deep into the vaunted redwood forests of California. Quite a variety in scenery. The weather was bitterly cold today - in the mid 50's F :p. Add on the fog and coastal breezes and it must have felt like, oh, 52 degrees or so. But, the frigid temperatures would not stop me from my appointed Pootle. Leaving the house, the Moulton posed with its stable-mate, another British vehicle of distinguished lineage: http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...ch/cousins.jpg A few miles from my house, I started climbing up a notorious hill in these parts - Tunitas Creek Road. 10 miles and 2,300 ft of climbing through gorgeous redwood trees: http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1.../redwoods1.jpg http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1.../redwoods2.jpg After reaching the top of the climb, we reached another famous local hangout - Alice's Restaurant. Don't know for sure if this is the one made famous by Arlo Guthrie, but on weekends, this place swarms with both bicyclists and motorcyclists: http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...unch/alice.jpg On the way down, we left the redwoods behind us and rode through some bucolic farm lands: http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...unch/hills.jpg http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...runch/barn.jpg After zipping back down the mountain, we ended up along the coast again, where the Moulton posed for some glamor shots: http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...nch/coast1.jpg http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...nch/coast2.jpg All in all, the Pootle was 45 miles and 4,000 ft of climbing. I confess that I exceeded the official Pootle speed limit, but what the heck, Snafu isn't here to chastise me anyway. Happy New Year to you all. |
Nice Pootle Alan! :thumb:
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Originally Posted by msincredible
(Post 8142077)
Nice Pootle Alan! :thumb:
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Originally Posted by SesameCrunch
(Post 8142261)
Next time, you're pootling around these parts with me! :)
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Originally Posted by chainstrainer
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Looks great there Sesamecrunch. So glad to see the 'Lava' being well looked after.
Here's a slide show of a pootle I did on my old mountain bike. It isn't a current pootle, I took these about three years back in May. The location is about forty miles north of where I live in the Cheviot Hills a band of wild country that forms the border of Scotland and England. These areas used to be wild and lawless about three hundred years ago, replete with robbers and bandits, cattle rustlers and murderers who preyed on passers by, not that too many people were up there for a 'pootle' in those days. I suppose my ride was about ten or twelve miles on the day and I doubt that I ever climbed more than about 1800 feet above sea level, though there was a lot of up and down, some of it quite steep. As you will see, this being the far north of England, there is a lot of water up in the sky, even though it is early summer. I think if you open the link below, you'll get a slide show: http://picasaweb.google.com/Volpoon/...68848183473666 |
Beautiful countryside, EvilV. You and I are both very fortunate to live in places with such natural beauty.
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Part of that ride of mine goes through a military artillery range. They shoot up old tanks, strafe from the air and drop bombs up there. Those warning signs about military debris and not messing about with it are needed. The days when they are doing that you are not supposed to go there, not that you'd want too - it sounds like WW3 when they get going. You can hear it from twenty miles away.
You can move a little to the south west on this map and find the ranges. Two clicks on the SW button will do it: http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/...tring=ALWINTON |
Originally Posted by msincredible
(Post 8142077)
Nice Pootle Alan! :thumb:
Originally Posted by SesameCrunch
(Post 8142261)
Next time, you're pootling around these parts with me! :)
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Originally Posted by BruceMetras
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Hey, me tooooo some! .. don't forget your NorCal friends... :thumb:
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Happy new Year Sesame... Vintage pootling - looks just great. I love the Redwoods - when we were over a couple of years ago we went to Muir Woods in Marin county, (just north of SF over the bridge) and I was just blown away by the majesty of them.
That and the feint possiblilty of seeing an Ewok ;) The Jag... V12? What a classy boat! :) I've been pootling to work on the Mercton over the past few days - it's seen it's first real ice, snow and salt. Poor thing looks like it's been on the Paris Dakkar rally. Running nice with a [slightly] narrower Ti BB giving the perfect chainline it didn't quite have, and all the more fun now I can never get lost with my iPhone GPS. I shall endeavour to get a pic of it next to a Dalek. |
Originally Posted by SesameCrunch
(Post 8144162)
You're on! Better clear your calendar :lol:!
I'd be up for another ride there, it's very beautiful. |
Originally Posted by yangmusa
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I've been for a similar circuit just south of there. Up from Pescadero over the ridge, amongst the trees, and back over the ridge again.
I'd be up for another ride there, it's very beautiful. |
Originally Posted by pm124
(Post 8155789)
I'm in for Feb 10th or 11th. But I know how the weekdays are.
I'm free on weekdays. Why don't you pick a day and time that works for you. I'll start a new thread and throw and invitation out there. We'll see who can join us. |
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Afternoon ride in -10C. Testing new setup on this bike and new studded tyre / chain.
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Can you give more info on the chain (which looks like a segmented plate-like thing)?
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The type used for key chains or dogs choaking collar. Twisted and flattened in a way. I decided to use nylon line in stead of metal wire to hold it together. Chain is totally ok and much kinder to bags, cars boot, flors and so on than studds.
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http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...SP_w_Ferry.jpg
So glad that this pootle thread has picked up again... well, here is my Speed Pro awaiting to board the ferry from Changi to Tg Belungkor, Johor, Malaysia. Did a 106km round ride to Desaru, a beach resort. Tested my touring version of the SPro - 2.0 Big Apple in front, 1.6 Schwalbe Marathon Supreme behind. Extremely comfortable and very pleased with the setup. http://lovethefold.blogspot.com/2008...lly-yoked.html |
Originally Posted by SesameCrunch
(Post 8156340)
Great! You'll be visiting from NY?! Where will you be staying? In SF? We could do a ride over the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Marin headlands (if you don't mind a little climbing). Stunning views of the City and Ocean.
I'm free on weekdays. Why don't you pick a day and time that works for you. I'll start a new thread and throw and invitation out there. We'll see who can join us. Great! I'm looking forward to it. I love climbs. I'm in Thailand at the moment and will visit family in the Bay Area before heading back home. I can take BART into the city and we can start from there. Any time is fine with me. |
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