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A Climb and descent of Col de Spandelles near Argeles Gazost

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Cycling up the Tardebigge Lock Flight

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A Climb of Cambasque by Bike

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A Descent of the Col du Portalet by Bike

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A Climb of the Col du Portalet by Bike

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The Peak Forest Canal and Marple Locks

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Cycling down the Tardebigge Lock |Flight

A video of me cycling down the Tardebigge Lock Flight on a beautiful Autumnal day
Tardebigge Locks or the Tardebigge Flight is the longest flight of locks in the UK, comprising 30 narrow locks on a two-and-a-quarter-mile (3.6 km) stretch of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Tardebigge, Worcestershire. It raises the waterway 220 feet (67 m), and lies between the Tardebigge tunnel (580 yards or 530 metres long) to the North and the Stoke Prior flight of six narrow locks to the South. The Tardebigge Engine House is also on this stretch.
The video is running at 2x speed but shows the whole length. Clearly a popular route with all the anglers, walkers and cyclists
A great engineering achievem...

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A Climb and descent of Col de Spandelles near Argeles Gazost

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A Climb and descent of Col de Spandelles near Argeles Gazost

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A video of a climb and descent by bike of Col de Spandelles near Argeles Gazost A bit of a damp day all in really so not particularly good views and really quite cold on the descent The video show fairly random parts pf the route (both the climb and descent down the other side) as the visibility wasn't that good. The climb from Argeles Gazost is probably the easier side with longer shallower gr...

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Cycling up the Tardebigge Lock Flight

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A video of me cycling up the Tardebigge Lock Flight on a beautiful Autumnal day Tardebigge Locks or the Tardebigge Flight is the longest flight of locks in the UK, comprising 30 narrow locks on a two-and-a-quarter-mile (3.6 km) stretch of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Tardebigge, Worcestershire. It raises the waterway 220 feet (67 m), and lies between the Tardebigge tunnel (580 yards or...

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A Climb of Cambasque by Bike

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A Video of a climb of Cambasque in the summer of 2024 Starting in the village (town?) of Cauterets, the video shows at 3x speed an ascent of the small but challenging Cambasque - ~5km and 400m of ascent Passing through Cauterets you can either turn right after the village for the Cambasque as I did, or carry straight on to the Pont d'Espagne I was staying in Argeles Gazost and the climb from th...

A Descent of the Col du Portalet by Bike

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A Descent of the Col du Portalet by Bike

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A video of my descent o f the Col du Portalet in the Summer of 2024 2 hours of climbing 27km to the border between Spain and France meant only one thing - the chance to ride 27km of continuous descent back to Laruns It was awesome - perfect roads, little traffic, beautiful weather and clear skies. The only down side was how windy it was at the summit and at 30 mph descending there were some hai...

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A Climb of the Col du Portalet by Bike

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The Col du Portalet - An awesome climb - just over 27km of relatively gentle (for the Pyrenees) climbing through impressive scenery including tunnels, canyons, dams, villages, avalanche tunnels and open valleys all the way from Laruns, France to the Spanish border on the top of the pass We'd driven up it about 6 years previously and I immediately put it on my cycling bucket list and finally got...

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The Peak Forest Canal and Marple Locks

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A beautiful Autumnal ride with my son on the Canals around Manchester Starting from Droylsden we rode along the Ashton Canal seeing many interesting bits of Canal engineering and architecture as well as the colours of Autumn in the very rural setting We then turned onto the Peak Forest Canal and rode due south. Again a very rural and beautiful route with very little urban environment We had to ...

Hatton Lock Flight on the Grand Union Canal

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Hatton Lock Flight on the Grand Union Canal

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A video taken whilst cycling along the Grand Union Canal on Hatton Lock Flight Heading south first passing the Shrewley Tunnel with its separate towpath tunnel with steps to the side Then onto the Hatton Lock Flight top to bottom (at 4x speed). After another few miles we get to the Aqueduct over the River Avon. Then a climb at normal speed back up the Hatton flight to enjoy (hopefully) the engi...

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Hautacam by Bike

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Hautacam - another beast of a Pyrenean climb, Starting at a junction just outside Argeles Gazost it winds its way up and up seemingly endlessly with long stretches of over % gradient I've ridden it before but found it even harder this time - but that may be because I'm 6 years older! From the start of the climb proper the road surface was like glass - beautifully smooth and even. However after ...

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Luz Ardiden by Bike

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This is a video of my climb of Luz Ardiden by Bike It's another might Pyrenean climb. There were some roadworks in Luz-St-Saveur, so I had to take a small detour the Gave de Gavanie valley and back again to approach the start t took me 1hr 25m to get to the summit and it was at times painful with some long steep sections at 10-12% It's a ride of 2 parts - the first 2/3 or so winding up the side...

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A Climb of the Tourmalet by Bike,

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Here's a video of my most recent climb pf the Tourmalet in Summer 2024 Starting in Luz Saint Saveur it took me 1hr53 minutes to get top the summit. It's a beats of a climb with an undulating change in gradient including some pretty steep places (for example exiting Bageres). It was a glorious and warm day and not too busy whilst I was climbing. Many more people were climbing whilst I was coming...

A Day at the Swindon and Cricklade Railway

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A Day at the Swindon and Cricklade Railway

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We spent a sunny August day at the Swindon and Cricklade Railway (swindon-cricklade-railway.org/) Despite being very short track of around 4.5 miles with only 3 "stations" it was a great day out. Plenty of keen volunteers working hard to keep the railway in good order and improve the experience. Really good value for the tickets as well The video shows the engine swapping ends at the 2 terminal...

Le Train d'Artouste in the French Pyrenees

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Le Train d'Artouste in the French Pyrenees

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While on holiday in the French Pyrenees in 2024 we rode on Le Train d'Artouste - the highest train in Europe apparently The journey starts off pretty uniquely with a 15 minute gondola ride to get from the lake to the railway. Then 2 trains set off about 2-3 minutes apart on the journey that takes them to the Lac Artouste. The trip starts immediately with passing through a tunnel of about 400m a...

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Puig Major by Bike

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Here's a video of my ascent of Puig Major in Mallorca in April 2024 I rode it about 5pm in the evening meaning a cooler ride than it would have been earlier in the day and with light traffic and this made it a great experience. It was in the week before the 2024 "312" so the roads near Port Polenca were incredibly busy so to ride on this quite ride was an improvement I missed starting my GoPro ...

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Riding on the Mersey Express

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We went on a Vintage Trains trip (not sponsored by them, we bought our own tickets) from Tyseley to Liverpool Lime Street on 1st June 2024 The Steam locomotive used was the 5043 Castel Class "Earl of Mount Edgecumbe" with a back-up Class 47 diesel D1755 / 47773. An excellent day out with an early start from Tyseley getting in at Lime Street around 12.30, and the departing around 7.15 and gettin...