Trust, Squirt and Beauty

My 100th post apparently, not bad for an occasional blog I suppose?

It may sound a bit of a dubious title, but bear with me.

Trust in this instance is not believing in something or someone, but an anti-oderant which I have used for years. I don’t like having smelly armpits when working hard on the bike so this is a product that really works for me. It allows you to sweat, works for several days and has no aluminium or other harmful ingrediants. Only drawback is when it fades there is little warning. But I am sure my fellow cyclists and other humans appreciate the effect. It comes in a tiny, tiny jar which seems ultra expensive till, after use, you realise it lasts for months.

Trust – doesn’t seem much but . . . .

Squirt I have written about before. It’s a special dry lube.Our roads are $%£!@(!! round here. They are full of potholes, gravel, mud, puddles, salt in winter etc. etc. So it gives the bike and its components a hard time.

The road out of our village 2 days ago

Chains usually last about 3,000 mile if I’m lucky. Cassettes and chainrings get a bit of a battering too. For over a year now I’ve been using special dry lube called Squirt. I’ve found it excellent, even in these conditions. I recently changed my chain and found it had done 5,000 miles and wasn’t even fully stretched. No need to change the cassette or chainring either, so it’s win, win. One of the other things is cleaning – just a quick hose down and all the gubbins is washed away, a quick dry off and a lube and that’s it! Means the cassette, stays, derailleurs clean off easy as well. And finally, there’s the smoothness. The chain just seems to run quieter and feel better. So definitely works for me.

Squirt, works well for me.

Now for the best – beauty. This is supposedly in the eye of the beholder, if so, as I’ve said before, there is so much for to gaze on round here that it becomes a feast. The scenery, the animals, plants & birds, the skyscapes, the weather effects and some of the human structures are there for the joy of the beholder. But enough of waxing lyrical, I’ll leave you with the second hand experience of a selection of photos.

Amazing clouds at North Berwick

East Linton sunset

A curlew

A patriotic tower, Belhaven

Looking over Dunbar harbour – not exactly native species!!

Now a house, used to be an airfield control tower

Deer in the afternoon

A wonderful sculpture celebrating the Eyemouth disaster. The figures are tiny.

A Gardiner Malloy statue in Dunbar, two men to load, one fishwife to carry!

A ribbon of light along the Biel Burn, flowing under ‘The Bridge to Nowhere’

Sun and shadows at sunset

Tree at sunset, up from the village of Spott.

Dunbar harbour, with a rare Icelandic gull somewhere there.

Mist pouring over Traprain Law

I didn’t cycle this one up to Lawhead

Remains of a bike left in the tree for decades as a memorial, there’s a stone nearby

Cycling past & through brussel sprout leaves

Another sunset ride – Aberlady church

Coastguard on the lookout, North Berwick