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Some decent whitecaps out there too in that um fresh breeze.
2 years agoHaha, yeah it's really Wales-levels of hilliness. None of them are particularly tall, but it's hard to find a flat surface anywhere. Today we saw a football pitch with one goal 2 metres higher up than the other.
Yep, the mining industry was pretty vast here, but we don't tend to think of it as being a key part of the industrial revolution and it's easy to forget about it now it's gone (not one mine remains open today). 150 years ago it was industry on a vast scale though - apparently at that time there were more pumping engines in Cornwall than in Europe and the New World combined!
Couldn't resist!
2 years agoI’m tired from reading about all those hills.
Glad to see how parts of Cornwall really look from the long history of mining. I’ve never seen photos of that aspect of life there.
Guh-roan
2 years agoThanks Keith, yep I'm finding this out the hard way. I was sort of amazed it would all come apart (and go back together again) without too much trouble. They certainly don't advertise the fact!
I had another experience along those lines with replacing a chainring. I carefully bought a single ring with the right bolt diameter, only to find there were (useless!) plastic tabs preventing it sitting right on my crank. I couldn't be bothered to send it back, so following a lot of filing down (and some bodging involving some copper washers I happened to have lying around) I managed to get it fitted.
Amazingly that worked and I've had no trouble with it (touch wood) for a few years now.
Haha, they're only going to get better!
2 years agoCheers Rich, glad you like it!
2 years agoCheers Kathleen! I definitely bit off a bit more than I could chew for February - but still great fun.
2 years agoGreat ride, great pictures, great journal. Thanks for posting this!
2 years agoSomewhere between Curnards Head and Ding Dong. I love it!!
2 years agoFantastic introduction, and quite an ambitious ride.
2 years agoShimaNO have a clear philosophy of encouraging replacement rather than repair. Their tactics include phasing out perfectly good designs and replacing them with designs that are not notably better, but subtly different enough that they are incompatible with all others.
The riveted cogs are another example. Rather than making it easy to replace a couple worn ones, using the existing cassette body and retaining all the unworn cogs, they rivet the group into a single unit so that less adventurous souls will chuck the whole thing not just the worn bits.
Good on you for having the gumption to swim against their tide.
Great little graveyard, nice little village.
2 years ago
Mad dogs and … you are intrepid, if nothing else, mate. Thanks for an entertaining post.
2 years ago