Just two customers turned up for last Saturday's shorter ride - Katie and Rosanne - both experienced riders, but they only wanted a 20 miler. Five others also didn't fancy the sizzling pace of Mr.Tom's ride, so a medium paced ride of 30 miles was set up for 8 people and 23 miles later we were back in Ashwell to drop off Katie & Rosanne, The remaining 5 rode on to do the 7 or so mile station loop. Don't know what happened to Yvonne at this point!
As we passed the CCA Grass Track someone decided they would like to a look at the track and the rest of us followed. We were met by the ever enthusiastic CCA Mr. Duckett (never one to turn away 5 new potential grass track customers!) he promptly fixed us all up with track bikes. Protests such as '..I've never ridden a fixed wheel bike before!' and '..haven't you got one with brakes?' went unheard and we were soon all taking part in our first grass tack eliminator race!
Thanks to Tim and his fellow grass trackers for making us so welcome and for your instruction. I think we may have lost one of our new riders, Ollie, to the Saturday morning CCA Grass Track, he may never be seen doing tarmac & potholes again!
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Just two customers turned up for last Saturday's shorter ride - Katie and Rosanne - both experienced riders, but they only wanted a 20 miler. Five others also didn't fancy the sizzling pace of Mr.Tom's ride, so a medium paced ride of 30 miles was set up for 8 people and 23 miles later we were back in Ashwell to drop off Katie & Rosanne, The remaining 5 rode on to do the 7 or so mile station loop. Don't know what happened to Yvonne at this point!
As we passed the CCA Grass Track someone decided they would like to a look at the track and the rest of us followed. We were met by the ever enthusiastic CCA Mr. Duckett (never one to turn away 5 new potential grass track customers!) he promptly fixed us all up with track bikes. Protests such as '..I've never ridden a fixed wheel bike before!' and '..haven't you got one with brakes?' went unheard and we were soon all taking part in our first grass tack eliminator race!
Thanks to Tim and his fellow grass trackers for making us so welcome and for your instruction. I think we may have lost one of our new riders, Ollie, to the Saturday morning CCA Grass Track, he may never be seen doing tarmac & potholes again!
Keep pedalling..
PS I note that no navigators have 'doodled' for future rides - see: http://doodle.com/iigmwfnrgsuichbk
Susan
Back to normal next week