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Went for a ride to suss out another way up to top of Bishop Hill that didn't take 2 hours from Kinross via the Loch Leven trail, John Knox's Pulpit then round the back of Bishop. Rode from house to Scotlandwell to ride up a forestry road that would take me up through woods just below top of Bishop. Big mistake, unrelenting 13%+ gradient ALL the way, several stops "to look at the view" later I did a runner stage left near...ish the top of forest road, couldn't take any more :roll: . Knew I was about 200 metres from the downhill path/trail I was heading for that runs from top, that's 200 horizontal metres no up the way. :mrgreen:
The weather radar globe I was heading for at top of woods, pushing/riding up trail to this point where pic taken just below Kinneston Crags was far easier than riding up the forest road.
Western end of Benarty across road from ma hoose is in middle of pic in distance.
Sun starting to head for it's bed across other side of Loch Leven.
Also added a couple of pics from ride earlier in week.
Tuesday this week, Benarty trig point with Bishop Hill beyond. It was a braw day.
Tuesday, blue skies over blue loch.
These are from ride earlier in March.
End of 1st week in March, not a blue sky day.
Nor was the loch blue.
Only pic I took during the cauld and snaw in January
Middle of January, some snow, frozen hard ground, no much snow that day compared to later on when I next went up, it was knee deep.
Luckily that day walkers had already flattened a trail to follow but it wandered aboot like a drunk man, ended up just pushing bike in straight line to trig through the snow as it was quicker.
Went for a ride to suss out another way up to top of Bishop Hill that didn't take 2 hours from Kinross via the Loch Leven trail, John Knox's Pulpit then round the back of Bishop. Rode from house to Scotlandwell to ride up a forestry road that would take me up through woods just below top of Bishop. Big mistake, unrelenting 13%+ gradient ALL the way, several stops "to look at the view" later I did a runner stage left near...ish the top of forest road, couldn't take any more :roll: . Knew I was about 200 metres from the downhill path/trail I was heading for that runs from top, that's 200 horizontal metres no up the way. :mrgreen:
The weather radar globe I was heading for at top of woods, pushing/riding up trail to this point where pic taken just below Kinneston Crags was far easier than riding up the forest road.
Western end of Benarty across road from ma hoose is in middle of pic in distance.
Sun starting to head for it's bed across other side of Loch Leven.
Also added a couple of pics from ride earlier in week.
Tuesday this week, Benarty trig point with Bishop Hill beyond. It was a braw day.
Tuesday, blue skies over blue loch.
These are from ride earlier in March.
End of 1st week in March, not a blue sky day.
Nor was the loch blue.
Only pic I took during the cauld and snaw in January
Middle of January, some snow, frozen hard ground, no much snow that day compared to later on when I next went up, it was knee deep.
Luckily that day walkers had already flattened a trail to follow but it wandered aboot like a drunk man, ended up just pushing bike in straight line to trig through the snow as it was quicker.
for an old mtb it coped remarkably well with the rougher stuff, although I did overcook it a bit near the end and punctured the front tyre... oops!! 
modern tubeless does have its benefits! Fortunately all I needed was one tyre lever and the the tyre came off easily, new tube in and a blast of CO2 and I was back riding in a few minutes
