Beware the Moon… :-)

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Would be mega illegal GW :mrgreen:

But… no one would hear you at night on one of these with a couple of Magicshines up front :wink:

Film is around Spike Island at John Muir Park at Dunbar, East Lothian.
Google Earth Dunbar :-)

For tea & cake and a bottle of Strongbow you can ride a 18″ pugsley here :-)

I ride flats as we often ride real greasy rocks exposed at low tide, oh and i ride flats now on all bikes now :-)

:mrgreen:

LOL Al
I usually ride at 8 psi on 3.7″ and 6 psi on 4.7″ on the beach,
I put 25 psi in my pugsley to ride the 10 miles west on the road to the coast once when the car was off the road. I bunny hopped a kerb and clipped it and the rebound nearly spat me off :mrgreen:

Caught the ERC chain gang one night east of Drem and stuck behind for about 200 yards :-) they were all looking up from my tyre drone :mrgreen:

Hicksy – Member
You’ve never been on the moon Khani – no one has – it was all faked – I know, I’ve watched a TV program about it.

You know we did go… here is the proof :wink: :lol:

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Larry on the Moon[/url] by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

I chose the right week for my weeks holiday, nothing to do but cruise on the coast :-)
Mud free and just an airline clean and relube of Squirt each evening, yesterdays ride i tried to film the float of the new Moonie, at the start of the film look at the footprints, then the tyre prints, loads of float :-)
lovin this bike, harder work on tarmac than the pugsley (expected) but unreal on real soft sand and dunes…

GW :mrgreen:
My tyres are that fat i can ride on both the road and pavement at the same time :D

Lunar Activity in S.E Scotland :-)

Aye its tartan MM :D
Up at 4.30am top go ride this beast :mrgreen:

Andy & Jane are organising something this year John, no dates yet, Yorkshire Dales area :-)

Aye Pigface wwwDOTcoastkid71@yahooDOTco.uk :-)

Hi Pigface, no not got any mail here,

Most folk will not get the differance MM, unless they are already riding a fatty on the beach. It is a lot more noisy on tarmac riding to the beach!, and on tarmac its tyres feel more squirmy – until you get onto the soft stuff, then it flies!, it is lighter than a pugsley and seems to fly along nicely on the beach, the float on really soft sand is unreal!, for beach riders its a no brainer, for all round riding then 3.7 tyres will mostly be better, can`t wait to try out its floating potential in warmer weather! :-)

:mrgreen:

Never underestimate the power of the “fat” side… :wink:
First test flight yesterday on the new rig and its amazing on the dunes :D

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Surly Moonlander[/url] by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

There is also another good review by Gomez over on FATBIKE-COM[/url]
Be off to the moon soon too.. :-)

This thread is not complete without GW to comment :lol:

About a week to go still… :lol: :mrgreen:

Rik; fat tyres are bike tyres, get over it :D

Group B fan here :D

big, far to fast and loud! :mrgreen:

the torch in 2nd link above, :-)
£13 light, £17 Joystick mount, + £12 for charger and 2 batteries.
350 lumens…

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Ultrafire p10-R5 350 lumens[/url] by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

Sounds indeed like cable freezing, you putting away a wet bike in the shed?, leave it in house a few hours first, or do not wash if that cold, Alaskan riders have greased the inner cable to prevent it, i did that last year and had no probs with shifting in -14C.
Why not put a Middleburn cable oiler on it?, blast with GT85 and job done :-)

TJ, still have my seized Alfine as a progect for you :-)

I do a blog on coastal riding in SE Scotland, it is not all about riding a fat bike, summer time has more bivi, xc regular stuff, and other peoples films doing the rounds, but it is not really what is main stream and in the magazines im afraid, but feel free to leave comments on anything, it is hard to know what folk want to read about without comments – good or bad :-)
You may find some of the links to other blogs on the side bar interesting,

http://coastkid.blogspot.com/%5B/url%5D

Im busy Sat to go out, but Port Seaton to Gosford Bay then JMW to Aberlady is nice, (Gosford Bothy cafe)

Or Aberlady to NB as mentioned,(Westgate Gallery Cafe is ace. bike parking in wheelie bin compound)

Or Seacliff to Tyninghame,(Tyninghame Cafe)

or John Muir Bay from Tyninghame to Dunbar then around to Barnes Ness,
(Old cafe in High Street)

Or you could just spend all day riding the miles of criss cross sandy singletrack around Gullane, (German Cafe)

Spoiled for choice :-)

Don`t think i will ride the Pentlands again, like riding on egg shells, Nice though if you get it frozen like you did Steven :-)
Slight hijack;
There are similar trails down here at Pencaitland the same,
Kinchie trail is trashed, one long rut, and i know it is all not been just by the local gang (which includes me). i do not blame the walker who has dragged branches across it to try stop cyclists, as it cannot be a pleasant walk now…
Guess thats what happens when you blog and film stuff :oops:
So im bowing out of xc stuff for a while and staying on the sandy stuff…

Druidh were you along the coast Saturday? :wink:
twin Larry tracks from Aberlady point to NB, i know Gary B came later and saw our 7 sets of tracks :mrgreen:
if not you, then there is another… :-)

Watch The Troll Hunter as well as Dog Soliders Pre – ride :D

Here is (if you have time) the full saga of the Doc`s full suss fatty; :-)
http://forums.mtbr.com/fat-bikes/fattening-up-pony-quest-fat-rs-begins-664573.html

Al was beaten to it by Dr Feelygood :D

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UK Fatbike meet, 17 & 18th September Northumberland, 2011 084[/url] by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

North Berwick, for beachriding :wink:

If you could afford it 8O

A very old gate :-)

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Archiefield beachride[/url] by coastkid71[/url], on Flickr

Mantastic, believed to be in orbit, next week or so…

“remember the nightrider when you look at the night sky”
oh that was Mad Max :-)

“Eagle One you are good to go for landing” :D

I may try some nates on my pug once Luner touchdown arrives in Scotland :D
No date from Andy & Jane yet, there visiting here soon, i better get in some good whisky for Andy :wink:

You got nates Callum? nice :D

how is the clearance?

I keep getting followed by white pugsleys :D

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2 days riding on the coast, hit the spot for me,
i often think of friends no longer with us here when i ride, many did not bike but liked the stories, films and pics…

Buckie High by BOC (Boards of Canada) been in there about 6 months now! :D

mooman – Member
I can understand celebrities or top sports people having blogs.
These people sell their auto/biographies, so there is a market out there..

But everyday people doing a blog??
I think their presuming that they are that interesting .. and its more about their ego in that case..

Not at all, there just online diarys, reports of stuff, or photography they want to share, I have met some great friends from blogging, and online friends all around the world,

ego folk are the same in anything either blogs,forums, social events etc… relax… :D

Link to my blog, if you dont like it move along… :mrgreen:
loads of links to other blogs on the sidebar;

East Lothian coastal cycling, a bit MTB, and other cycling stuff;
http://coastkid.blogspot.com/

Non cycling blog, WW2 stuff, Ubrex, old roads, etc:
http://nothroughroad-coastkid.blogspot.com/

We saw 2 bikes going up over Peffersands this affy TJ, you?, we were across the peffer burn, having had a play on the dunes, changed plans from Dunbar ride to Peffersands was good choice with that strong return headwind :-)

Kevevs – Member
must say Coastkid, those fatbike coastal rides always sound ace!

Its a tough job but someone has to do it :wink: mud free trails, fantastic light on the coast and once home minimum cleaning to do :-)
We saw Lucifer`s car :evil:
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Get that scrap outa the view…
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Thats better…
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Dry trails…
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sliding around on er slime…
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Onto the beach…
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And a play on the dunes…
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More of same around the coast a bit tomorrow,
its a hard life :wink: :D

Coaster hub allows you to freewheel rolling backwards,

Seems they have been at them a while in Europe :-)
There is some good comments 8O

Saturday;
Mud free coastal singletrack and then onto beach at low tide down to Dunbar with fellow fatty bike mates, visit Harbour and John Muirs House (Museum) then cafe for tea and cake :wink: then home at sunset for pics looking across to Edinburgh, forcast is clear and windy, ideal for a winters day on the coast, :-)

Sunday;
Off to find some WW2 shells (20mm Hispano) on Sunday (MD on back of bike), hopefully all found will be unexploded 8O