3000 miles off road, up on the ebike since new! And how very hot weather affects some people.....

It was about this point on Wednesday night when I was out with Dougie that I clocked up the 3000 miles mark on Ernie the ebike! I started on it in the second week of November last year so it hasn't taken that long to bang up the miles and 90% of them will have been off road.

The warm weather we enjoyed for a few days certainly makes some folk act strange, the last thing I expected on Tuesday afternoon in the Pentland Hills was to meet a guy striding towards me wearing a nothing but a pair of speedos, he had quite a way from there to get a swimming pool and I wasn't hanging around to ask him where he'd left the rest of his clothes....

Saturday morning and things on the weather front were more or less back to normal as Barrie and I decided on a Pentlands ride rather than Glentress as the weather looked a bit dodgy and so it turned out. I could have boiled an egg in the water that came out my shoes by the time we had finished,to make matters worse my Garmin decided to switch off at one point as well and I must have done 5 miles before I noticed....cant say I blamed it, the weather was pretty dire!

Out with Clive this morning, Sunday, and no great improvement in the weather either, it started of misty, got quite foggy and then chucked down rain for the last 10 miles home, never a dull moment mountain biking in Scotland!!

Back from holiday.....back on the ebike!

 

Kefalonia where I spent a week in wall to wall sunshine....not something a Scotsman experiences very often in his life! A  great time had by all concerned but a week of intense heat made me hanker after an ebike ride in the cool Scottish hills!

A week of dog sitting followed the holiday, looking after Barries mutt, and who couldn't be charmed by this little rascal who's obedience is legendary (in that it's non existent)

There was however time for the odd ebike ride in the Pentland Hills in between dog walking (and rain showers)

Some days the sun even shone and made it even more enjoyable....

I came across the sheep being clipped at Castlelaw farm, a different set up to how I did it as a young man with the bladed hand shears, there wasn't as much blood being spilled as there was when I used to do it

Down to Glentress this morning, first time for a few weeks, and we met up with two guys from Fife at the Mast at the top of the black route.

All in, a good week back on the bike with just short of 100 miles ridden and over 10000 feet of climbing, hope fully more of the same next week.