The ebike's beginning to feel the strain....

With a summer spent almost continually splashing through water and muck it's no surprise that there's a bit of wear and tear beginning to show on some of the suspension bearings, so the bike's going to 

 have to go in for some work on the worn bits as soon as I can get a bike carrier fit to transport it to the bike hospital.

A bit of fun on Wednesday with first of all Dougie riding through a fairly deep water crossing

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Then Roger at night doing it, unfortunately neither fell off for what would have been a great photo!

Even got Barrie through it on Thursday, but by this time the level had dropped a bit and the weather had improved as well.

Out this morning and it was back to "pretty grim" windy and heavy rain showers, the front wheel stopped dead in a muddy hole and I came off and fell in it resulting in wiping myself "clean-ish" with some long grass, the only thing I could find available....ah the joys of mountain biking in Scotland!

You cant even ebike in torrential rain.....we're due a weather improvement soon!

The week actually started off ok, this was on Monday, but went downhill from then onwards

By Wednesday it was a case of getting out between the thunder storms though the beauty of the ebike is you can pack a lot of biking in to a short space of time

A quick check on the weather forecast this morning and I could see there was to be heavy rain later on in the day so a quick solo ride up the Pentlands was called for and I made it back just in time!

Surely this rubbish weather cant continue too much longer, where's all this prolonged dry stuff that was forecast by the so called experts a few years back....I live in hope!

More strange happenings in the Pentland Hills.... and narrowly missing a cloudburst

Who looses a walking boot in the hills and doesn't notice it's gone, this is a puzzle that had me at least beaten, I've a mental picture of someone hopping down a path unable to work out what was causing their problem....

And what was thing you'd least expect to meet up in the hills on a Wednesday night, maybe four young French folk, but for them to be accompanied by their pet goat was stretching it a bit, the goat however was impeccably behaved and didn't try to eat our bike tyres or such like...

The French goat, who I called Macron, eyed me up suspiciously while Dougie and Roger kept a safe distance...just in case!

Glentress with Barrie on Saturday on a glorious summers morning for a great ride in great conditions.

Sunday and a quick look at the weather forecast for the week and it was back on with the rear mudhugger, it doesn't look like there's going to be many dry days for a while!

Sunday evening and Clive and I went out on the bikes and somehow missed a thunderstorm and cloudburst up the Pentland Hills, more by luck than anything else! However though it was a bit on the splashy side it was a good ride!