Joining us today where two new riders, father and son, David and George Morris, brought along by Dan hanlon (on only his second ever early bird ride).The ride was a modified version of the 'mad jack fullers' reliability trial and was a new ride for all of us. The first half of the route had a an awful lot of climbing on small narrow country roads. It had rained heavily in the night and so we had to watch out for wet gravel and mud. At the bottom of Stonestile lane it was flooded with about 4 inches of water! I kept thinking how glad I was that I had declined the offer to do the South downs randonee with Malcolm and the others. George was rivalling konrad up the steep ascents and David was only a little way back with Steve Denny who had tired legs from too much running in the week.At one point Dan's tyre packed up with a large bulge in the sidewall, fortuitously he was carrying a spare trye with him, so we were up and running in no time. The ride was supposed to be 54 miles but we took a wrong tern at brightling missing off the western loop so the ride became 40 miles in the end. This was probably a good thing as George and David appeared to be flagging a little at the end but had done well to complete a tougher than average 'early bird'.
Distance 40 miles
Av speed 13.2 mph
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