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Re: Norfolking Around the Green Lanes - Picture & Video Thread
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 5:26 pm
by Fern
Glad you got your tyre sorted, shame you needed a new one, but lucky it didn't cause an accident and only prevented play for the latter half of the ride. It was a pleasure to meet you and hear about your travels.
Very true about the weather!
fairyplum wrote:My second attempt at replying so forgive if two appear. Thank you for organising a great day on the green lanes. Shame I got a puncture. Have had to get a new tyre...ouch...but keeping the old one to mend myself as they won't mend a hole bigger than 3mm. Thanks for uploading photos..good to see. I wait for more!
PS woke up to rain , wet and cold here in North norfolk so weren't we lucky??
Re: Norfolking Around the Green Lanes - Picture & Video Thread
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 9:35 pm
by Fern
I've just been looking at the GPX I have from lunch onwards and we did 219 km / 136 miles, from Swaffham onwards. Still aching, so unfit!
Re: Norfolking Around the Green Lanes - Picture & Video Thread
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:01 am
by Elle
Thanks to everyone for a great day out. Hope I didn't hold folk back.
It was a good mix of trails and I learned a lot. Wish I'd discovered riding off road a decade or 2 ago!
Re: Norfolking Around the Green Lanes - Picture & Video Thread
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:53 am
by Alun
Local TRF man Mike looking slightly dubious about the range of bikes and tyres down for the green lane ride out at the morning role call.
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No expense was spared at the ABR rally; James and Gog had arranged for Marcel Marceau to rise from the grave to wave us off.
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And we were off literally. The first lane out of Holt was overgrown, wet and very slippery.
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The green lanes of England were as green as they're ever going to get after a month of rain.
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The further west we rode the wetter it got.
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More to come.............
Re: Norfolking Around the Green Lanes - Picture & Video Thread
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:56 am
by Alun
...........Mike at the northern end of the Peddars Way
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The Peddars Way supplies mile after mile of green lane riding which in dry conditions would be Gold Wing friendly.
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Norfolk is full of pig farms, something we'd have first hand experience of later on the ride
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As we rode south the s became drier and more sandy..............
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...until we hit the fords to the north of Swaffham.
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More to come...............
Re: Norfolking Around the Green Lanes - Picture & Video Thread
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:59 am
by Alun
..........After a spot of lunch we headed south to Thetford Forest.
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Lanes turned into fields
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And fields turned into jungle
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And then the jungle turned into a 2ft deep trough of pig silage......
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…...where one rider stopped for a swim. Nice one Fern.
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Re: Norfolking Around the Green Lanes - Picture & Video Thread
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:02 am
by Alun
...........The XT letting off some steam.
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Next up was over 60 miles of off road riding around Thetford Forest
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All good things come to an end – the depleted ranks of green laners after 230 miles of off road fun.
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More to come.....
Re: Norfolking Around the Green Lanes - Picture & Video Thread
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:03 am
by Alun
The XT had a good time too.
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And last but not least a big, big thank you to Mike for being an all round good guy and leading a fantastic ABR green lane ride out.
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Re: Norfolking Around the Green Lanes - Picture & Video Thread
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:16 am
by Fern
great photos Alun. Watching Mike chuck that GS around was a delight. He was fab.
I took my trousers out of the washing machine last night and they still smell
And the splashes of poo went inside my helmet. That still smells, despite copious amounts of disinfectant.
Re: Norfolking Around the Green Lanes - Picture & Video Thread
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:17 am
by GB
Alun, do you have the co-ordinates for that ford, its not the one at Castle Acre which is north of Swaffham as that has a wooden bridge?