Fantastic weather for our early bird ride this morning. We were following an extended version of the 'Hard Riders TT course'. At Rushlake Green Paul suddenly lost control of his steering, his stem had come loose . Fortunately we were going up hill at the time (a few minutes before we had been moving at speed down hill). After sending for the Calvary (Malcolm) were were on our way again. Mike had our first puncture on the long narrow road across the marshes towards Chile farm. After fixing it we set out again only for Paul to have a puncture one minute later. We duly fixed Paul's puncture as well but just four minutes later Paul lost control going round a bend and came off. luckily he landed on a muddy verge and no harm was done to man or machine. It turned out the reason he came off was that he had had another puncture due to a piece of embedded flint. On closer inspection we could see his tyres were knackered and new rubber was called for (I would recommend Continetal four seasons). After fixing this last puncture we proceeded without incident to the excellent Chile Farm. It was nice and sunny by then and felt more like late September rather than November. The rest of the ride proceeded without incident. We had a chat to three cyclists on the cycle path back to Hastings and told them about the blog; new recruits?
Distance 39 miles
Av speed 15.2 mph
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