Epic bike ride

[ekimeno]

Leaving at about 9am today, I packed my 40D and nifty fifty into the rear pannier and headed out for my first off-road ride ever... Very much an on-road cyclist, this was a little daunting as I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. All I had was my handlebar mounted GPS and a route that I'd downloaded somewhere on the internet. The off road bit was supposed to be around 37 kilometers, but I knew there were 25-kilometers to get to the start of this trail and another 25 back - so about 87 kilometers or around 55-miles. Since I was used to doing around 70-80 miles on my road bike, I thought this would be sufficient.

Well, after getting lost several times (probably because I kept seeing cool looking trails and going off course) I finally made it back home after riding for around 4-5 hours. I'm totally knackered, but I managed to squeeze off a few shots of the countryside. Hope the odd non-landscape is OK for this sub forum. Mods, please move if it isn't. C&C welcome.

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[digitalfailure]

That's a nice set, for some reason I'm drawn to 3 but I can't put my finger on it

Looks like you had a nice day for it, even if the cows were expecting otherwise

A couple of them look a bit bright on my monitor, but nothing major.

 

[ekimeno]

That's a nice set, for some reason I'm drawn to 3 but I can't put my finger on it

Looks like you had a nice day for it, even if the cows were expecting otherwise

A couple of them look a bit bright on my monitor, but nothing major.

Thanks. Some of the shots were a bit funny - dark cloud shadows forced a bit of exposure tweakage in PP... 1 and 6 are example of this.

Those cows were just lording it up...