It’s years since I rode a bike. In fact I wonder if I still can, though I do remember the precise moment when I first mastered the skill and forward momentum suddenly happened. Just like that – after hours of wobbles and falling about. What a sense of freedom. And so I’m thinking if I had a handy beach I might well give it another go. Softish surface to land on for one thing. But what joy to whizz over tide-washed shores, sea wind in one’s face, gulls wheeling in their own particular way.
Looking at this photo now I’m beginning to feel envious of this unknown cyclist caught plying Newborough sands a few Christmases ago.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: cycles – one, two, or three wheelers
Tish Farrell 
Try it. Riding a bike is something one never forgets… (Or so I,m told)
First I need the beach 🙂
True. If memory serves me well, Shropshire isn’t that close to a beach. (And I have no idea how the beaches are on your Eastern side…)
Kwaheri sassa.
No beach in Shropshire – you’re right. The nearest to the west is about 100 miles. As for east, getting there is something of an English anomaly, at least from the Midlands. You have to go a long way north or south first. But there are beaches there – long and windswept.
I had to go to the map. I placed you more to the east… 🙂 Well, 100 miles is not too bad, depending on the roads. I guess you can drive there and back in a day?
Yes, it can be done there and back in a day. And lovely countryside all the way.
Sounds nice.
I adore bike on a beach photo. Wonderful entry for this week. 😀
Thank you, Cee 🙂
That’s something you seldom see on our beaches, Tish. You have to ferry to our closest ones so I guess that’s a disincentive 🙂 🙂
I don’t recall ever seeing them here either, apart from this one.
Would have to be packed sand I would think. Tiding a horse would be fun too.
Yes, could fancy a good canter too 🙂
I used to love riding a bike, but now my balance is perilous, I no longer can….7plus years since my last ride, on the ramparts of Lucca
Sorry your biking days are behind you. But that is one fine memory, Sue – riding the ramparts.
It was! And plenty of adventures in the distant past…
Crikey you’d need firm sand!
Btw fabulous photo
It was!
Actually quite hard work biking on sand. Been there done that…🚴🏻♀️
Great photo, Tish. It must be hard to bike on sand, just as running in sand. But excellent exercise!!
janet
Welsh beaches in the winter are pretty compacted below the high tide mark. Anyway the guy in the photo seemed to have found some solid stuff. He zoomed by. Though he did also have a good following wind that day.
They say this side of the ocean you never forget how to ride a bike. You would need to try away from the beach. The sand would take all your energy
Thanks for the tip, Mak!
It must be tough to cycle in sand!
It’s pretty firm below the tide line, but yes cycling in soft sand would be very taxing.
Pauline is right; hard work but lots of fun. I’m quoting the Big T here who also considers mountain-biking fun and has the scars to prove it. I think any future cycling I do will be on an e-bike — preferably with a little basket for carrying wine and other goodies home from the market.
Oh now that’s my kind of cycling 🙂
I can remember my experiences – about 11 yrs old in Christchurch, NZ.
I’m working on getting my knees back in shape to get back on my bike again, it may never happen, (they’re a right mess) but you never know. 😀
So sorry about the knees, Widdershins. Wishing them some replenishing ‘reinforcement’.
🙂
The light on the wheel spokes is wonderful.
A chance capture 🙂
A lovely photo. I don’t think you ever lose the ability to ride, but the fear of falling becomes greater. I do look on with greater interest than I used to at people riding bikes with small electric motors on them. Hills seem so much easier.
Yes those electric motored bikes look v. appealing, and as to bike riding in general, you’re certainly right about increased falling-off anxieties. I definitely don’t bounce as well as I used to.
A sense of freedom, indeed. Your photo says that. 🙂
Thank you, Amy.
My Favorite thing to do in my past time, but could be a bit difficult when cycling in soft sand.
That was the most amazing thing,but cycling in ice that for sure is 💯 lit