I'm loving this, so far the path looks good, quite a lot of unpaved but wide and unthreatening. So far the music is more prog rock than most of your videos, really enjoying it all the same. I'd imagined you cycled it clockwise, for some reason I always seem to cycle routes clockwise, maybe I should blame Midnight Express, but you seemed to go anticlockwise. I've got the last 30 minutes saved for the next work out - can't wait!
The paths were pretty good - a bit overgrown here and there but to be expected at this time of year. Yes, stuck a bit of Camel and Rick Wakeman in - long tracks to save me thinking of even more shorter ones to put in. It's usually wind direction that influences which way I do these loops - I prefer to have a tailwind at the end.
Indeed - I knew as soon as I made the turn to Wolverhampton I'd be on firm ground. Just uploaded the last video in the series - Birmingham to Worcester.
As a Midlander currently confined to indoor cycling (eighty plus years and Covid risk conspiring against me) it's good to have a run around canals I know, on your two latest videos - and the added Camel track's a bonus as probably my favourite band, years ago. Keep them coming, and how about something from way up north?
Thanks - I've got a few videos up set in my native Northumberland - but they're mainly just around those places nostalgic to my youth. I've got one more video to do from my Midlands tour when I rode from Birmingham to Worcester. I think my favourite Camel track, 'Song Within a Song' might work well as background to riding down what seemed to be the endless flight of locks at Tardebigge. Good to hear you're keeping the pedals turning.
Thanks - yes, a good loop to do. I use a Garmin Edge having first assessed the route on Google Maps
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Dear Reader, Of course the Russian Baikal 'Sea' and the American Rocky Mountains are awesome, but this is nature and culture on a human scale; immediately recognized by the brain as comforting. At least it works that way for me, the silly dutchman. Michel F. van den Brun Homebound philosopher
I'm loving this, so far the path looks good, quite a lot of unpaved but wide and unthreatening. So far the music is more prog rock than most of your videos, really enjoying it all the same. I'd imagined you cycled it clockwise, for some reason I always seem to cycle routes clockwise, maybe I should blame Midnight Express, but you seemed to go anticlockwise.
I've got the last 30 minutes saved for the next work out - can't wait!
The paths were pretty good - a bit overgrown here and there but to be expected at this time of year.
Yes, stuck a bit of Camel and Rick Wakeman in - long tracks to save me thinking of even more shorter ones to put in.
It's usually wind direction that influences which way I do these loops - I prefer to have a tailwind at the end.
Finished watching the video this morning, the final third looked very civilised. And now I know what a Northumberland flag looks like😊!
Indeed - I knew as soon as I made the turn to Wolverhampton I'd be on firm ground. Just uploaded the last video in the series - Birmingham to Worcester.
@@duveleffe1701 Thanks, I just noticed the new video and that's lined up for the next workout - can't wait!
As a Midlander currently confined to indoor cycling (eighty plus years and Covid risk conspiring against me) it's good to have a run around canals I know, on your two latest videos - and the added Camel track's a bonus as probably my favourite band, years ago. Keep them coming, and how about something from way up north?
Thanks - I've got a few videos up set in my native Northumberland - but they're mainly just around those places nostalgic to my youth. I've got one more video to do from my Midlands tour when I rode from Birmingham to Worcester. I think my favourite Camel track, 'Song Within a Song' might work well as background to riding down what seemed to be the endless flight of locks at Tardebigge. Good to hear you're keeping the pedals turning.
Looks great! What navigation do you use?
Thanks - yes, a good loop to do. I use a Garmin Edge having first assessed the route on Google Maps
Dear Reader,
Of course the Russian Baikal 'Sea' and the American Rocky Mountains are awesome, but this is nature and culture on a human scale; immediately recognized by the brain as comforting.
At least it works that way for me, the silly dutchman.
Michel F. van den Brun
Homebound philosopher
The canal network really was an engineering marvel of its time.