A warm welcome to Athony who joined us for the first time on the chaingang having got in contact with us through the blog. Adrian was riding a brand new Pinnacle cross bike with disc brakes. It also had some cross tyres,we old timers 'tut tutted' at this as we knew it would slow the bike down.Apart from John none of the Eastbourne contingent were present so it was a bit like the old days, despite this there were still twelve of us including a guest appearance from Pete Tadros. On the way out the group split into a fast group (Simon N, Simon G, Ivan, Pete, john) and a slow group (me, Adrian, Tim, Jay) with Joe and Duncan in no man's land.As the other day on the Friday chaingang I felt stronger than normal and did much of the work leading out the slow group (it turned out to be my best average time of the year at 19.0 mph), so by the time we had reached Pevensey we had managed to reign back in Joe and Duncan. Also going strongly was Ivan, Pete was paying the price for all the junk food he has eaten lately and had to bury himself twice in order to beat Ivan on the way out. Adrian did brilliantly despite the cross bike tyres and was only a little slower than myself, with proper road tyres he will be one of the front riders before too long, he really enjoyed it so I think we have another regular there.
S.C
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