HSLCC Weds Chaingang- Year Of The Newbies

Nigel And Kie, Newbies No More!

After some difficult weeks battling into the wind on the way out followed by Strava busting wind on our backs during the return leg, it was a relief to ride in cooler but much calmer conditions. Although we have missed a couple of riders unable to ride with us this season (in particular chaingang master Chris Watson) we have gained more new riders than we have lost. Kie and Nigel are two of them. Kie is so new that he has not been able to build up a winter kit yet and is still riding in shorts and summer jersey (brrrr). Despite the cold this was his best performance so far and Kie was able to lead the slow group most of the way out to Pevensey. Nigel was as strong as ever and despite riding one of the heavier bikes in the club, he can now mix with the'big' boys in the fast group.We haven't seen much of Matt this season leaving Stuart and Sean as arguably the strongest riders of the front group on this calm evening. Our little post ride pub group has grown steadily with seven off us retiring to the Anchor pub in George street to peruse the designs for our new club kit sent to us from Chris W