Photo-story - Where my bike’s been

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Back in the saddle, with dry iced cider served in a Tennents glass.

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On 4/13/2025 at 3:51 PM, StreetCowboy said:

Back in the saddle, with dry iced cider served in a Tennents glass.

And Strongbow at the Elephant & Castle on the way home.

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I followed pretty much the same route this Good Friday, with a detour at the start via the Waterfront and Humber River

 

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Its not like it is back home

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I took a ride down by the waterfront to look at a future station

and while I was about it, I had a look for somewhere to meet my old boss tomorrow afternoon.

1. The waterfront was not hoaching with pubs

2. The shared-use path was quite busy, and I can see that in the summer it will be hoaching and unrideable for the boys on roadbikes. They must have callouses on their bell-fingers already.

I raked up the Don Valley river path, which came out on to a quiet 4-lane stroad, and then back into town on a similar wide but quiet road.  I’m guessing that during the week they are less pleasant to cycle on.  

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I took a ride out to look at a station and some level crossings - the station is in the middle of nowhere, near a park, but the nearby military airport is being developed with leisure and retail complexes.

 Actually, the second level crossing was not on my initial list of attractions, but the bells rang as I was taking photos.  This is the first of two locos pulling 145 wagons, so I would guess about 3 km of train.

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Yesterday I was out for want of inspiration up the Don Valley again, and I aimlessly followed other cyclists and found myself heading down-river on the other side. I came to a blocked bridge, and was about to turn back, but the guy next to me said “You can get through”; I was slightly circumspect about rampaging through a construction site - not A construction site, but THIS construction site, as I thought it might be preparatory works for our railway, and it would not help my career to suffer a mishap trespassing on one of our sites.  But faith in the Contractor’s safety management, and I followed the other bloke through the gap in the fence.  The ground was well-compacted, apart from some material stockpiles there were no obstructions, and no unprotected excavations.  There was one “Caution - Drop and Water below” at the edge of the river, and we had to carry our bikes over some material blocking the path, but we were soon out through a similar gap in the fence at the far end.  Maybe the path is not legally closed, but the contractor who has access would prefer people don’t use it…

Anyway, it was pleasantly rideable, free of cars, no pedestrians and few cyclists