Where did you ride today?

[Hooli]

Glad to hear your wife is so concerned for your well being 

[Tony Nitrous]

Had to happen I guess Tony. Do you have emergency access, phone, beacon just in case?

No. I really should have something. I don't go anywhere real remote although some of the places I go phone reception is pretty on / off.

My wife and I both share our location with iPhones.
The find my phone thing that you can share.

Most of my bikes have air-tags.

Some rides I let her know what direction I'm heading.


It's something I should look into.
Not because I'm off conquering the wilderness, but there have been a few folk left the road on bikes and who weren't found for quite a while.

I love my solo rides, they are my escape and are just what I need, I don't get the same from riding with others, but it has its downsides.

[Tony Nitrous]

Glad to hear your wife is so concerned for your well being 

I tried (with a very straight face) to explain that the scratch on the front guard and the one on the bark buster hand guard may mean the bikes now a write off and I may have to buy a new bike.

That didn't go down real well either... 

[Pommeroy]

I have a personal locator beacon that I carry when tramping and I occasionally take it when I'm going somewhere on the bike where there may be dodgy (or no) mobile signal...despite what the telcos advertise, there's a few such places here in NZ!!

I also have the What3Words app on my phone, which can identify your location to 3 metres...useful for more than emergencies. I recommend it.

As they say, better to have it and not need it etc.

[grog]

Good to have I Phone , text to satellite is always there if 000 not working or no phone reception.

[Mr Gee]

Finally, made it down, to Cheddar Gorge today.

Nearly, came a cropper in the process, twice.

First, I was going around, a roundabout when some old    on a pushbike, came straight out in front of me. 
Managed to dodge him but hit a large stone that was lying in the road in the process, which sent me into the kerb of the central reservation, on the way off, the roundabout. Luckily, the wheel followed the line of the curve. Scary moment. 

Second, going through the Gorge and a car came around a corner, on the wrong side.      Number 2

Don't think, I will be going back, for some time. 

On the plus side, after scraping out my pants, I'd lost a few pounds.     

[Dwain Dibley]

That's a place I've always wanted to go but never have,

I might not go on my pushbike tho............

D.D.

[lurch]

Had to happen I guess Tony. Do you have emergency access, phone, beacon just in case?

No. I really should have something. I don't go anywhere real remote although some of the places I go phone reception is pretty on / off.

My wife and I both share our location with iPhones.
The find my phone thing that you can share.

Most of my bikes have air-tags.

Some rides I let her know what direction I'm heading.


It's something I should look into.
Not because I'm off conquering the wilderness, but there have been a few folk left the road on bikes and who weren't found for quite a while.

I love my solo rides, they are my escape and are just what I need, I don't get the same from riding with others, but it has its downsides.

I bought a Garmin Inreach for this purpose. I tend to do some solo riding in remote locations and am sometimes "off the air" over multiple days. It allows the wife to keep an eye on me / stay in contact / locate my remains etc and also has an SOS feature for emergency services.

Checking in with messages via satellite from the middle of our Simpson Desert for example gives the wife (and me) some peace of mind. Downside is that there's a monthly subscription cost to devices like these, but most can be paused month-to-month.

[Hooli]

Finally, made it down, to Cheddar Gorge today.

Nearly, came a cropper in the process, twice.

First, I was going around, a roundabout when some old    on a pushbike, came straight out in front of me. 
Managed to dodge him but hit a large stone that was lying in the road in the process, which sent me into the kerb of the central reservation, on the way off, the roundabout. Luckily, the wheel followed the line of the curve. Scary moment. 

Second, going through the Gorge and a car came around a corner, on the wrong side.      Number 2

Don't think, I will be going back, for some time. 

On the plus side, after scraping out my pants, I'd lost a few pounds.     

Nice place that, I've ridden it once on Stroppy years ago.

[Eric GSX1400K3]

First tin tops to wirry about, now Lycra lemmings too...

[Will14]

Had to happen I guess Tony. Do you have emergency access, phone, beacon just in case?
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Had to happen I guess Tony. Do you have emergency access, phone, beacon just in case?

I love my solo rides, they are my escape and are just what I need, I don't get the same from riding with others, but it has its downsides.

I can relate to that 100%, my time I call it especially Friday evening, sort of closes the working week and opens the weekend & is usually followed by a few beers while listening to the radio & cleaning the bike ready for the next outing
I love my solo rides, they are my escape and are just what I need, I don't get the same from riding with others, but it has its downsides.

[Tony Nitrous]

Today......









... and the view from my front gate as I pulled back in.
There is a planned burn not far away from here, but I don't think this is it.

[Tony Nitrous]

I've seen 4 of the Louvre Van rail carriages recently on my travels. I have the perfect spot to put one next to my shed and it'd be easy to paint in the same shed colours.

Bit of a slim chance of finding one. I don't want a timber carriage, or a huge long one, and I don't want one across the country as transport is a killer.

Don't really need one, but if I spotted something locally I'd certainly find a home for it.

[Pommeroy]

You could always park it up on that dead-end siding outside your place! What's the story with the road to nowhere Tony?

[Tony Nitrous]

You could always park it up on that dead-end siding outside your place! What's the story with the road to nowhere Tony?

Where I live has been resurfaced now.
New neighbour thinks he's special so got the council to resurface it, even though it was fine.
Was a through road, neighbour got the end closed off, a few of us have forced a track through and are using it as we then get to drive past his house... 

The one in the pic was just a place I was exploring. I think it was an old highway where they took the bridge out.