This is one of my very favourite lanes, it’s a decent length and almost always deserted. It’s also, almost always overgrown like this (and full of birds / insects):
This one is nearby, flat, shorter, and much harder to ride. The bit of open ground along under the hedge isn’t really wide enough to pedal properly, so you kinda either have to scoot along or do some cack-handed (cack-footed?) 1/4 pedal-stroke-bobbing-along-malarkey. You can’t ride in the central ditch as it’s not wide enough to get your pedals in, and it’s too deep to do any of that partial pedal-stroke business above the height of the ditch – other than that it’s a great lane. 😛
As a consequence, I often come home looking like this at this time of year.
Still, “Red badge of courage/Toughen up princess” and all that eh?
Next week – Fully rigid, drop-bar’d single-speed 29er’s, beards, sandals and tie-dye or Star Wars t-shirt? 😉
No, err, ok then, what about Fly-tipping?