"27 and we're not even pedalling!" Anthony (not Adrian as we were calling him earlier) on his new slicks shouted as we strung out in a line approaching Stuart's house. I think we might even have touched 30 later on judging by the traffic going backwards. So a good night out indeed for nearly a dozen of us surfing the 37mph West South Westerly wind to Hastings. Great to see old friends / new faces Jon Moulton, Charlie from Bell's bikes testing his new old Ambrosio, as well as our hardy regulars - Happy New Year everyone, see you next week : )
Oh, the ride-out? Wasn't such fun - bunch was soon divided by 37 mph headwind which nearly blocked me to a dead halt several times on my overgeared fixed. But I wasn't the only one suffering - Anthony also mulled over leaning his bike against a tree and quitting cycling forever! Popular fantasy that. Nice of the front group - Shaun R, Simon Newell, John and Swavek, to wait for everyone at Cooden. Feeling my post Christmas legs of chocolate I got dropped twice. Wobbled last miles to Pevensey on my own, until I was caught by the Jon Moulton, Simon Grogan and Joe Jenner train. Riding solo into that wind was pretty grim, might have been the toughest chaingang ever, yet probably worth the ride back home with a free moped engine. But hey, we were lucky, no hailstones. And the proper miserable rain obeyed the BBC for once and waited till after 9pm to plop.
Heard some interesting rumours about our local bike shops and maybe a new pub, fingers crossed that all goes well. Does anyone read Cycling Active magazine? I do drawings for it every month and sometimes Cycling Weekly as well, been waiting for right time to use this winter club run image so here it is.
Like the drawing Chris, is it hand drawn or a bit of technology?
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