Back from Platsa (unfortunately...)

[Andy R]

that last pic looks a fab run,how long is it.All day riding anyway....In a hot country...where its famed for its cuisine,scenery................ :evil:



How do discs deal with the hot weather and long descents :?

That loop up into the Taigetos was about 65kms (so about 40 miles, I suppose). I was out about 5 hours, but that was with a few photo stops - the elevation profile (for me) was start at 400 metres, climb constantly to around the 2,000 metre mark, descend to sea level and then climb back to home at 400 metres again.

I've only got a disc brake on the front (Avid BB7, 180mm) and it copes fine on the descents - on the more fireroad-ish stuff you just let it go anyway and only really use the brakes to set the bike up into the corners, and on the slower, technical stuff heat build-up isn't an issue anyway.
I must get around to brazing on a rear caliper mount though, as the rear wheel is disc ready.

 

[Andy R]

poli orea

Ναι, είναι όμορφο - σ'ευχαριστώ φιλε !

 

[Andy R]

I always imagined Greece to be very dry but it looks very green .

is it far from the sea ?

You only have to go a little further South (into the Mesa or Inner Mani) for the landscape to become a lot more arid. Platsa is at around 400 metres and about 4kms from the coast at the nearest point, which is the little village of Agios Dimitrios.
The photograph shows where Platsa is in relation to the coast - the other photo was taken only about 15kms further south, near the little village of Χοτασια, already it starts to look a lot more barren.
Nothing but rocks and thorns.....

Of course, up on the edge of the Vassilki forest, where the mountain photographs were taken, it's like a different world - even in the middle of July or August it's cool and green.

 

[magas]

Of course, up on the edge of the Vassilki forest, where the mountain photographs were taken, it's like a different world - even in the middle of July or August it's cool and green.

agree with that. When I was stying in Volos during summer, we often went into the Pilion mountain villages and enjoyed there the cool breeze and the green scenery.