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| The Turning For Rickney |
Some good mild winter weather for this morning's club ride. Good to see Andy again, he doesnt come out with us very often but he is preparing to do the Lands End to John O Groates next year so we may well see more of him. Rather than head straight down to Bexhill road to pick up the GPX route we decided to head through Battle,along the North Trade road, Boreham Street and Wartling. The sustrans route through Rickney was fine but Ivan and Simon warned us that further to the west is was so muddy you would need to us an mtb to get through so we used the B2104 to take us straight into Hailsham instead. Having been out on Saturday Andy was struggling to keep up and knew that it would only get worse once we passed through Alfriston so we had to leave him to follow the route on his own. 'Hi And Over' didn't seem too bad today but for Ivan on a fixed wheel it proved a bit too much and he had to walk the last few meters. The glorious descent down to the coast followed, then up the long drag alongside Friston Forest before the ascent of Beachy head. It felt like summer climbing through the switchbacks there, as the wind had dropped, the sun was really bright and we were all nicely warmed up. Myself, Ivan and Steve B stopped at the cafe in Pevensey Bay. They used to do fantastic cheese on toast back in the day when it was called the Sandwich inn, now its called the Bay cafe and the cheese on toast is nothing to write home about. I struggled with a sore back today on my SCR so had a quick go on steve's SCR. Now that he has fitted a shorter stem if felt a better fit with less of a drop between saddle and hoods so I will have to start looking on eBay again for an SCR 2 in large rather than medium.
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| Steepest Climb Of The Day |
Ascent 981m
Distance 58 miles
Av speed 15.9 mph
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