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didn't quite do the run I'd planned today as unfortunately, Madame MooN doesn't live in the same space / time continuum as the rest of us mere mortals which means that we often eat at unorthodox hours... To be fair she's currentlt doubling up as telephone information service for friends and family wanting updates on her mothers state of health.

I managed to finish the washing up by about half 2 and get out of the way before her bestie turned up for the afternoon...

I had set the gps to take me south into the morvan with the Dam at the Lac de panneciere as a waypoint and Mont beuvray as a trunaround, back lanes and minor roads only on the way out and a faster trace to get back home. It kind of worked, I still found myself on some very stony tracks, not a probel in itself but not what I wanted really and the gps clearly thinks it's a road.  I got a quick drenching on the way back which wasn't forcast either so I had no waterproofs with me ( unusual for me, I usually carry them all the time) but I managed to avoid the worst of it by boxing round the showers and I'd ried out again by the time I got home. 

 340 km in 6 hrs ( that's an average of only about 55km/h :thud:

some piccies:

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Dam!

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Here's your "Boeuf Bourguignon"... on the hoof, as it were...

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Just the other side of this junction I would be liable for a 135€ fine... 100km as the crow flies from my domicile. 

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15 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Superb Chris!

Are the cops doing checks there.......cos they are here?

They are if you don't know how to avoid them. I saw none in the entire 6 hours I was out, but I was on single lane backroads for most of that time.

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Averaging 55kmh in 6 hours of country roads is good going, you're stopping and enjoying the place a lot so it's hard to go faster than that. 340 for an afternoon ride is also quite a distance!

 

Nice pictures, pretty area you live in.

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3 hours ago, boboneleg said:

Nice one Chris, no matter where you go in the French countryside it always looks great.

Absolutely! It's a good option if you don't have the testicular fortitude to hack it in Spain! :classic_laugh:

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20 hours ago, Grasshopper's Ride said:

Some lovely photos, the French countryside is so beautiful.  With no cycling to watch this July I would love to see more of your ride pics.  ?

I will se what I can do. though with going back to work the multiday rides I had planned are compromised.

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