Saturday 23rd Jan 9.30am club ride

Comments

• SimonM

  January 2016

  Will be there if my kitchen is delivered in time!
• Jenny

  January 2016

  We're not out tomorrow...have a good ride
• Sirlez

  January 2016

  Sorry..Fencing (en guard!)
• AdamR

  January 2016

  Should be there
• GWD

  January 2016

  Hi, I'm going to give it a go... See you there
  
  Gareth
• GWD

  January 2016

  Thanks for the ride, even though we both had to bail halfway being a pair of "sick notes".
  
  Great to meet more new club members & some more familiar faces, although didn't get much chance to chat.
  
  Will definitely be out as soon as I can but maybe not until March (spring!!) after the next operation.
  
  Gareth
• Jane

  January 2016

  Good to see you back, Gareth
  
  And good luck with the op
• DavidJ

  January 2016 edited January 2016

  Another good turnout for today's sat club ride. Headed west on a sort of version of the ride above, so out to Cardington & back up the pretty tough (on a winter bike anyway) Everton hill & down Northfields.
  
  Ride was all going well until until Vic doomed it by mentioning the P word over and over again at the 1/2 way stop. Still it was all ok cos you could never get them on conti 4 season tyres....... So obviously we had two flats about 5 miles down the road - both on conti 4 season tyres. Nothing to do with the tractor that was cutting a blackthorn hedge of course, clearly it was Vic's 4 seasons curse
  
  Also, today's lesson to learn is that no matter how muddy every other road is, Northfields road is the spinal tap of filth and turned the mud score up to 11 !! Not sure what was going on down there, maybe they are creating some sort of mud factory Close run thing to decide if Fin or DaveN were most covered when we got to the end, think Fin might just hav pipped it by turning his white and green bike pretty much totally brown !!
  
  So 40miles @ 16. Thanks all for a great morning and apologies for my dodgy northfields decision. Think that road will be out of bounds till at least May !!
• timA

  January 2016

  Yep good ride, even though I was one of the puncturees - as you say though, nothing to do with me not spotting the thorny twig, all Vic's fault :-)
  
  My bacon-guard (tm) mudflap is now fully operational, so we'll see if that reduces the spray factor at all on Saturday...
• AlanT

  January 2016

  If it works, will you go into production?..or sell the design?
  Could be mandatory for club rides.....
• timA

  January 2016

  Maybe, but you may not be so keen when you see it!
• DavidJ

  January 2016

  Looking forward to seeing this engineering marvel.
  
  Let's hope that all essence of bacon has been removed, and Tim doesn't turn into some sort of bicycle Pied piper of Ashwell and attract every village/farm dog in a 3 mile radius
• Jane

  January 2016

  Streaky or smoked?
• timA

  January 2016 edited January 2016

  Lol, smoked (of course :-), but in hindsight probably should have gone for gammon - bigger packet you see...
  
  First road test today on the commute and it stayed on, so a promising start so far.