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Revelate Designs Harness in-situ on my Salsa Mukluk fat bike which is set up for bikepacking.
The Harness is a semi-rigid mount designed to carry drybags, packrafts, stuff sacks and other cylindrical shaped objects. I have it mounted to my Jones H-Bar handlebar and use it to carry a drybag with my shelter and sleeping kit.
London at night
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2018 July France - UK holiday: Quai Branly as night falls over Paris. Lots of people out enjoying the lovely summer evening.
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Barclays Cycle Hire is a public bicycle sharing scheme that was launched on 30 July 2010 in London, UK. At launch there were 315 bicycle docking stations and 5,000 bicycles available in central London, with 400 docking stations and 6,000 bicycles being available at the end of summer 2010.
The scheme is also informally called the Boris Bike scheme after mayor Boris Johnson, who was in office at the time the scheme opened to the public. Johnson claims to have initiated the scheme, despite it being announced by his predecessor Ken Livingstone during his term in office. Boris Johnson has said that he "hoped the bikes would become as common as black cabs and red buses in the capital".
An expansion of the project was delayed as Transport for London struggled to deal with software glitches and problems caused by high customer demand.
The project initially covered about 17 square miles (44 square kilometres) of central London (covering the whole of the City of London and parts of eight London boroughs) and will cost an estimated £140 million over six years, although it is expected to pay for itself over time. Barclays' contribution is £25 million.
The bicycles and the docking stations are built in Canada and are based on Bixi, Montreal's bicycle rental system.
Fitzrovia, Wells Street docking station being installed
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said that he "hoped the bikes would become as common as black cabs and red buses in the capital"
The scheme has so far proved popular, with over 90,000 registered users and one million cycle rides being taken in the first ten weeks of operation.[15] The millionth journey rider was awarded four annual memberships of the scheme for five years for free.[16]
However, the scheme has been criticised for having an insufficient free period (30 minutes) and for not enabling transport to the suburbs,[17] although TfL have described the scheme as "best for short journeys".[18] Some users have also found the bikes too heavy, at 23 kg.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barclays_Cycle_Hire
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London Fast Bike - Barclays Cycle Hire at Night
It's a 'must have'
A quality bicycle bell is an absolute safety essential. Bike bells enable cyclists to alert other bike riders and pedestrians to their presence, preventing collisions.
Any cyclist knows just how important it is to have a functioning bicycle bell. In fact, these small — but vital! — bike accessories are actually compulsory in many European countries. In countries where bells are not mandatory, they remain strongly recommended.
Bicycle bells are a necessary accessory for cyclists who ride on roads, as well as those who use country paths popular with walkers and other cyclists. The main purpose of a bike bell is to alert other cyclists and pedestrians to your presence. A clearly ringing bicycle bell is also helpful when cycling along tight paths with hidden corners such as canal towpaths. Bells on bikes keep everyone (including the cyclist themselves) safer, as well as any other road or path users.
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We hired some electric -assist pushbikes for the day and had a great ride out along the coast to Torrox and then on to Caleta de Velez. First time we have used them and it certainly makes a difference on the hills.
A Pake bicycle frame built up as a single speed casually waiting for its rider alongside Success Boat Harbour, Fremantle, the home of Fremantle’s fishing fleet.
A nice set of Giant XCT mountain bikes available for hire or for use on group tours in the nearby hills. We came across a few groups of mountain bike riders at various times whilst completing the walk.
Day 5 of 12 - Le Cheylard l’Evèque to La Bastide-Puylaurent: Walking the Chemin de Stevenson (GR 70 Robert Louis Stevenson Trail) in the south of France.
Nice and bright bicycle rider for the shared path on a gray morning in winter, 2016. I grabbed this shot while waiting for the runners to come through as I was volunteering at the 14km mark in the August 2016 Perth Half Marathon.
No better way to explore than on the pushbike, well least in the absence of a helicopter, mech suit, or rocket-powered jet skies!
Cycling the canal path proved far more challenging than expected! But having got through the 9 or so miles I felt reasonably impressed with myself that I only almost fell in to the water twice!
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From 2005, a Kojima Condor, which I picked up via Nimm via a bring out the dead collection. It was made of Tange CR-MO 900 double butted tubes.
One of a series of images highlighting the Porcelain Rocket Mr Fusion modular seat system and its mounting on my Salsa Mukluk. This is one of three pieces of key gear in my bikepacking setup.
I actually met my fellow bike tourist in Perth at the East Perth Bus Station having arrived from Albany. I hadn’t realised at the time that I had photographed her in Albany. Small world.
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Canon F-1n and long expired (pre-1990) ORWO NP-7, I shot this film at 50 iso and developed it in homemade D23 replenished for 9 minutes.
One of a series of images highlighting the Porcelain Rocket Mr Fusion modular seat system and its mounting on my Salsa Mukluk. This is one of three pieces of key gear in my bikepacking setup.
BikeFreo members with the Mayor of Fremantle, Dr Brad Pettitt on their fourth ride of 2018, riding around the City of Fremantle looking at cycling infrastructure concerns. We stopped on Marine Terrace to discuss issues with the cycling lanes here.
Brighton
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Bike parking on Camel Trail near Padstow. We rode the trail between Wadebridge and Padstow in July 2016.
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Chichester
Rollei Retro 400S stand developed in Rodinal 1+100 for 1 hour. Nikon F2, and Nikkor 50mm f2.
Brighton
Canon F-1n and long expired (pre-1990) ORWO NP-7, I shot this film at 50 iso and developed it in homemade D23 replenished for 10 minutes.
2016 July - UK holiday - On our way to Cornwall, stopped by Bath for a quick “wash” at the baths :).
One of the bike we hired from Bridge Bike Hire in Wadebridge to ride from The Camel Trail from Wadebridge to Padstow. The Camel Trail runs along the banks of the Door Kammel (River Camel) in Cornwall, England, UK.
The Dowr Kammel (River Camel) is in the foreground and Padstow is the town in the distance.
We completed the ride in July 2016.
Bognor
Olympus Trip af50 and Rollei Retro 400S, developed in Kodok HC-110 dilution H (1+63) for 13 mins at 20C.
2018 July France - UK holiday: Vélib' is Paris large scale bike sharing program launched in July 2007. Unlike other bike-sharing programs Vélib' is a docking based system.
We hired some electric -assist pushbikes for the day and had a great ride out along the coast to Torrox and then on to Caleta de Velez. First time we have used them and it certainly makes a difference on the hills.
After a brave fight against MND, the most terrible of diseases, Dave passed away on 2nd November. He slipped away peacefully, Rebecca and Harry were with me. He will be greatly missed.
He was such a knowledgeable man, and really enjoyed sharing photos of his 'finds' with like minded people on flickr. It made his hobby all the more fun, so thank you for your messages and comments, and for asking for I.Ds!
Around 100 people attended his funeral and I thought I would share his childhood friend Peters words, they evoke such a feeling of time gone by and give a real insight into how Dave's love of nature began:
David Maunder
He didn’t have a middle name. I had a middle name, my brother did, my Mum and Dad. I thought everyone had a middle name when I got to know him at the tender age of 6. We were in the same class at Oak Green School and one teacher decided that 2 children at a time could go outside into the small courtyard and see what they could find in the rectangular walled pond outside the window. I think the pond has gone now. Dave and myself were paired together to go outside and whilst everyone else before and after came inside with their jam jars just about empty, Dave and I came back with them brimming with life. That kick started a friendship that lasted about 56 years.
I used to go over to his house on my little scooter, about a mile away regularly to play and see what he had found. I loved playing with his black labrador called Jet. Eating Pop Tarts that his Mum bought (my Mum wouldn’t buy them, said they were too expensive). Fond memories. Then my family moved across town to Broughton when we were 8 and I changed school. It was a long way to go on a little scooter, but undaunted, I managed to get a second hand bike for my birthday and once I’d passed my cycling proficiency test, Mum and Dad allowed me on the roads. It was far too big for me, but like my clothes, they allowed for my growing up of course. Also Dad invested in a telephone too, albeit a party line at first. So it started a renewed friendship with us cycling all over the place. Dave on his pushbike with ape-hanger handle bars. He was almost always in front and maintained a relentless pace that was always just faster than comfortable, at least for me. This broadened our interests from local catches to bigger and better finds. One winter I remember being on my hands and knees just over the Mandeville road from Blenheim Place, before it was built on, fishing in ice covered puddles with my Mums tea strainer for tiny water beetles. Dave had decided he wanted to get to know beetles better. Bunces shop then was built on that spot a bit later. But cycling meant our interest then eventually focussed more onto butterflies and we caught and collected as you did back then. Coombe Hill and Bacombe Hills were favourite spots and all uphill of course to get there. It didn’t seem to slow him down at all and I just struggled to keep up even more. We ran out of butterflies quite quickly so moved over to moths and this started an interest in us both that would last decades. I still remember cycling over to Bernwood Forest for the first time, around 18 miles each way. A big adventure for us both. Dave had a remarkable knack of finding things. So much so, that after a while, I wouldn’t really try looking, knowing that if something was there, he’d turn it up sooner or later, usually sooner.
I was surprised when Dave never joined me at the Grammar school and went to Mandeville school instead. I always thought he was more clever than I. When I then went off to University our friendship lapsed until one day some years later, we bumped into each other at the entrance to WH Smiths in the High Street. “Hello”, I said, “You’re Dave Maunder aren’t you?” And the friendship was re-kindled and so was his moth interest which had also lapsed. I went through his entire moth collection and put all the data onto the computer and into the local and national databases and identified species he hadn’t been able to identify and from then on we chatted regularly via modern methods and met up occasionally for a catch up. I would enter his annual sightings and moth catches each year for him into the Bucks database.
He was a good friend and my best friend for many years. We spent many happy hours together. I can’t ever remember arguing or falling out.. Who would argue with someone that supplied you with Pop Tarts?
Through Dave I was also lucky enough to get to know Jo and also met Harry and Rebecca and know just how proud he must have been of them all.