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  • surfercyclist
    surfercyclist Posts: 894
    What photo hosting do you use to post photos on here as a matter of interest?
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Flickr is best
  • kawaspresso
    kawaspresso Posts: 106
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    What photo hosting do you use to post photos on here as a matter of interest?

    I use imgur.com because it's quick easy and don't require to register an account.
  • milemuncher1
    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
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  • milemuncher1
    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    What photo hosting do you use to post photos on here as a matter of interest?

    Imgur is the easiest. It’s full of trolls, but as long as you keep the permissions tight, they will bother someone else.
  • milemuncher1
    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Just use tinypic.com if all you want is somewhere to upload pics you can use on here then forget about them
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Some lovely looking scenes there MM.
  • milemuncher1
    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
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    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Not the best pic ever but it was a great ride:
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    This is just about at the point on the road from Braemar up to Glenshee where a slight uphill becomes a proper one, and the headwind was rapidly ramping up from annoying to plain bullying. It's normally quite an easy climb - 15km at 2% or so - but it took me over an hour into the wind, compared to less than half an hour to gain the same height from the other direction.
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    bompington wrote:
    Not the best pic ever but it was a great ride:
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    This is just about at the point on the road from Braemar up to Glenshee where a slight uphill becomes a proper one, and the headwind was rapidly ramping up from annoying to plain bullying. It's normally quite an easy climb - 15km at 2% or so - but it took me over an hour into the wind, compared to less than half an hour to gain the same height from the other direction.

    Nice work Bomp, good to get the thread back on track
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,284
    MM, nice pics but that cockpit would drive me slightly mad!
    Advocate of disc brakes.
  • Cheshire Cat
    Cheshire Cat Posts: 309
    homers double wrote:
    MM, nice pics but that cockpit would drive me slightly mad!
    How many photo's of the same handlebars can you have in one thread?
    “Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.” Hunter S Thompson
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Cheshire Cat wrote:
    homers double wrote:
    MM, nice pics but that cockpit would drive me slightly mad!
    How many photo's of the same handlebars can you have in one thread?
    Maybe he’s only got the front of the bike.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Not the same bars. One is all black and one is Black/Red with green elasticated light mount.

    Scroll back a couple of pages and you'll see he has a few bikes.

    Obviously the pics are wasted on you if you're not even paying them attention.
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    bompington wrote:
    Not the best pic ever but it was a great ride:
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    This is just about at the point on the road from Braemar up to Glenshee where a slight uphill becomes a proper one, and the headwind was rapidly ramping up from annoying to plain bullying. It's normally quite an easy climb - 15km at 2% or so - but it took me over an hour into the wind, compared to less than half an hour to gain the same height from the other direction.

    How's the surface fairing up on that side? There were some terrible sections just out of Braemar when I went up and down last spring which took the fun out of it a bit. I'm thinking of heading over again this Monday coming.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    How's the surface fairing up on that side? There were some terrible sections just out of Braemar when I went up and down last spring which took the fun out of it a bit. I'm thinking of heading over again this Monday coming.
    Nowhere desperate, no big potholes or anything. But it is quite worn in places - that state where the stone chips are mostly still in place but the tar has receded so it's quite knobbly.
    I hit 80kmh and sustained over 70 for quite a long while, it didn't feel completely unsafe but not comfortable either. With the tailwind I had I would have have expected to go at least 10% faster on a decent surface.
    I came up the old road by way of a change - now that's a surface. I reckon probably last resurfaced in about 1940.
  • figbat
    figbat Posts: 680
    bompington wrote:
    I reckon probably last resurfaced in about 1940.

    By the Luftwaffe?
    Cube Reaction GTC Pro 29 for the lumpy stuff
    Cannondale Synapse alloy with 'guards for the winter roads
    Fuji Altamira 2.7 for the summer roads
    Trek 830 Mountain Track frame turned into a gravel bike - for anywhere & everywhere
  • JTUK
    JTUK Posts: 67
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    Trek Emonda on Col du Galibier a couple of years back. Perfect day, warm and clear blue skies.
  • kawaspresso
    kawaspresso Posts: 106
    Last Saturday at Col de la Croix de Fer, just the day after the public opening of the pass.

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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    More slacking from home

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    0 points for those who know the location.
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Couldn't wait until Monday for the first crack at the Cairnwell Pass this year. The weather was amazing apart from the usual headwind when ascending from the North.

    The top of the Crathie Pass with the evil that is The Lecht snaking up in the far distance:

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    And looking south from the Cairnwell. The view was so incredible today that I binned a fast descent attempt and stopped to take a pic half way down:

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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,313
    kawaspresso wrote:
    Last Saturday at Col de la Croix de Fer, just the day after the public opening of the pass.

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    nice!
    left the forum March 2023
  • JTUK
    JTUK Posts: 67
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    Couldn't wait until Monday for the first crack at the Cairnwell Pass this year. The weather was amazing apart from the usual headwind when ascending from the North.

    The top of the Crathie Pass with the evil that is The Lecht snaking up in the far distance:

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    And looking south from the Cairnwell. The view was so incredible today that I binned a fast descent attempt and stopped to take a pic half way down:

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    :shock: no Strava segment!! :lol:
    Looks like a cracking day.
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    It's a superb sweeping descent and you can hit the 50's no bother - but that view needed to be enjoyed :-)
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    It's a superb sweeping descent and you can hit the 50's no bother - but that view needed to be enjoyed :-)
    ... or even 60s, but not in the headwind I had last week :(
  • Ian78
    Ian78 Posts: 24
    You could call this scenic I suppose.


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  • crantinope1
    crantinope1 Posts: 9
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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    @cratinrope1, is that a Winter scene or have you done something funky with software to make the grass look like it's frosty? Also that looks like a big frame you've got there. I only mention it because I'm 6'5" myself and my own bike is similarly massive!

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