Have bike will travel
We periodically run walks and other events for Friends of Nature. Recently I lead a cycle ride along the Troll Trail (as recommended by the Daily Telegraph) to go pond dipping at Birchmore Pond. My first thought on the morning of the ride was to put all the equipment in the car, drive to the pond, drop it off, drive on to Merstone, get the bike out of the van, do the ride, then reverse the process. It took a while for my pea-brain to work out if I dumped half the equipment (which was always going to be more than we needed) I could strap it all to the bike and cycle the whole thing. After all, Dan managed to transport a 3m xylophone by bike. Thus I reduced my emissions to zero, and got some health benefit. As I rode out to Merstone it made me think about again how much more pleasant it was to actually experience the landscape rather than just zoom past it in my tin box.
I rather suspect a few people were rather frightened by the weird man in a cycling jacket, jeans and woolly hat with a huge net and tank strapped to his bike, so I apologise to you all.
I have spared blog readers the sight of me, but here is the simply modified bike come pond survey transport vehicle.
We periodically run walks and other events for Friends of Nature. Recently I lead a cycle ride along the Troll Trail (as recommended by the Daily Telegraph) to go pond dipping at Birchmore Pond. My first thought on the morning of the ride was to put all the equipment in the car, drive to the pond, drop it off, drive on to Merstone, get the bike out of the van, do the ride, then reverse the process. It took a while for my pea-brain to work out if I dumped half the equipment (which was always going to be more than we needed) I could strap it all to the bike and cycle the whole thing. After all, Dan managed to transport a 3m xylophone by bike. Thus I reduced my emissions to zero, and got some health benefit. As I rode out to Merstone it made me think about again how much more pleasant it was to actually experience the landscape rather than just zoom past it in my tin box.
I rather suspect a few people were rather frightened by the weird man in a cycling jacket, jeans and woolly hat with a huge net and tank strapped to his bike, so I apologise to you all.
I have spared blog readers the sight of me, but here is the simply modified bike come pond survey transport vehicle.
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