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  • A less than perfect day at work fixed with a perfect commute home :-)
  • amedias
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    always amazing how a simple bike ride can lift your mood 😀







    STATO
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    So excited you fell over. [edit] Damn beaten by the edit [/edit]

    Nice pics.

    madeupname
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    Where’s the commute? Beats suburbia!

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    amedias
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    😆

    extended commute via Woodbury Common in East Devon, it’s either over the common for some offroad fun, or along the seafront and estuary if I want it easy, both beautiful 🙂

    el_boufador
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    Looks lovely

    tomhoward
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    Even the worst bike rides are better than the best days at work 😀

    Dibbs
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    Though it looked like Woodbury (nice round pebbles) I used to race there a long time ago (Sid Valley Series) the only races I ever won prize money. 😀

    amedias
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    Even the worst bike rides are better than the best days at work

    this could not be more true!

    nach
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    Lovely! 🙂

    This blue sky is SO WELCOME.

    Dibbs
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    I finished a night shift this morning and spent the afternoon pottering around on the Quantocks, no more work till Monday 😀

    ontor
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    What’s the bike?

    amedias
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    it’s a Specialized AWOL, or did you mean Nach?

    Andy_Sweet
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    Was pretty nice down the road in Paignton too….

    amedias
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    Another glorious day down here today, hope this stays…

    benp1
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    For the second day in a row, I forgot to put my sunglasses on for my morning commute – grrr

    Crisp morning with a low winter sun. All the cars were frosted up with thick ice today

    Will be dark on the way home though

    Alex
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    Nice Pics. Won’t be long before riding home in the light.

    I just went for a skive ride instead yesterday. Got to grab those blue skies when you can.

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/Eh9JBD]Malverns Skive Ride :)[/url] by Alex Leigh, on Flickr

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    [url=https://flic.kr/p/Eqoci4]Malverns Skive Ride :)[/url] by Alex Leigh, on Flickr

    jamest
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    OP – what front rack are you using on your AWOL? Looks like the pizza rack – I’d heard Specialized we’rent bring into to the UK?

    amedias
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    replied direct to your email james 😉

    Hi James, I tried to get hold of a Pizza rack too for ages, but they don’t seem to be easy to come by unless you import form the US, but when they started turning up on the 2016 bikes in the UK I went to the LBS to have a nosey and I’ve actually gone off them a bit for a few reasons.

    1 – they only mount to the low-rider boses and crown, NOT to the dropout eyelets so they’re not as well supported as they look
    2 – the pannier mount bar is actually quite high up the leg, good for ground clearance but unless you are using massive panniers it puts the weight quite high up.
    3 – it’s Aluminium, not an issue for light loads but I don’t think it’ll be robust enough with panniers AND stuff on top, especially given point 1.

    I’ve actually gone for a combo of two racks, a normal front rack with normal width top platform, and a Tubus Tara lowrider rack for the panniers, overall it gives pretty much the same options, but with better support, better weight placement and the only downside is a slightly reduced width top platform, together they actually come in a smidge lighter than most full porteur racks too, and it keeps the loads independent too which is handy at times.

    If you want an alternative to the pizza rack the best one out there at the moment seems to be the Soma Deluxe Porteur rack, the Velo Orange one looks like a good bet if you just want the porteur platform, but it doesn’t have any pannier mount bars lower down.

    D0NK
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    Aye it’s amazing how riding home from a crappy day at the office can completely transform your mood, whereas sitting on the train or (god forbid) sitting in traffic, will do nothing to help.

    More cold weather forecast for tomorrow, see if I can get up early for an extended commute in – last tuesday’s morning mini adventure was brilliant! I’m currently favouring morning rides as the mud tends to defrost during the day with grim consequences.

    longmover
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    I have had a few nice commutes lately

    jonba
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    I enjoy going to work.

    It is a nice ride. It’s just a shame things go downhill once I arrive.

    Great photos BTW. Must take “the interesting way home” now I’ve got a few minutes more daylight.

    jeffl
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    Couple of nice rides recently

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