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@lia that's an awesome sunset

A sucker for a good sunset 🥰

Found a new route today to get out from one town and to a neighboring city. Tried it out and got some pics. The majority of it was following a towpath along a canal. Here's the best ones 🥰

Beginning the canal stretch of the journey Stoke Bruerne. Pretty village although not really a fun place to be so I don't stick around long.

A common threat on canals and beside a lot of farmers fields is blackthorn bushes. The bushes are fine, it's the clipping. Lazy trimming ends up leaving loads of massive thorns that can be like 2cm long just laying like spike strips. On 3rd party tires these will just cleanly go through the tire. Thankfully I'm still rolling stock rubber so it just ignores even these evil thorns. That said... can't be mad, view is still beautiful.

Bank gets slimmer and path gets less defined in a lot of spots. Not nearly the worst spot but a few later on were barely traversable safely on foot so riding was out of the question. Definitely have to scrub this route from the planned route with some of the other women I was planning >.>

Another pretty little village. Ended up chilling here chatting to a chap moored up for a bit about things. Nice guy and had a cat that wanted cuddles so was well worth the trip.

This was atop of an aqueduct entering the edges of Milton Keynes. Very pretty

So I made it into MK. No pics to share since it's not a super picturesque place at least where I ended up.

@puzz360 Aha right? Do like a good challenge.
Makes me confident I can do the same to my old XR that is bound to be in no better condition 😅

@lia The things we do 😉

UPDATE!
It works! The bearings unfortunately did need replacing in the end. Just too far gone sadly despite getting them spinning freely and smoothly. It did however need the hall sensors replacing too but other than that it's happy.

So yes, turns out a motor as rusty as that can be restored.
That is of course if you're willing to spend hours with penetrating fluids, ultra fine abrasive scrubs and a bin full of rags.

Spring is round the corner!

Saw dome geese fly overhead last night which is usually a good indication the weather is going to be good again 🥰

@lia Hah, just chilling with Paddington lol.
It was deceptively cold, we had some blue sky and managed to dodge the showers.
We took a chance going this time of year but the roads and sights were pretty empty 😉
We had most of the remote places to ourselves 👍

@puzz360 Looks like a shockingly nice day for winter!
Did you stop at the pub there? Any good or just chilling with Paddington 😊

It's been a while since I've got any slightly worthy shots... Yes, the weather has been as usual. Rainy.

Here's a few from a recent trip...
I also seem to be the first that's recorded a float at John O'Groats and also the shortest street in the world 😉 🤣