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| Steve B Bags An SCR |
With continual rain forecast all morning, only myself and Steve B turned up at the Harrow for the Sunday Club Run. I had prepared for rain and came with my GPS preloaded with a simple 34 mile route over towards Appledore , looping back through Peasmarsh. Having told Steve how great Giant SCRs are for the money he had been scouring eBay regularly and had got lucky and bagged an SCR for just £260 which is an absolute bargain. This makes four of us in the club with SCRs, the ford escort of the bike world! Cycling down chick hill with the rain was a little scary, I always think of what happened to Colin some years ago,when he ploughed into the white picket fence at the bottom. From there it was flat riding over the marsh with some impressive puddles that needed skirting round. On the Appledore road we passed a white haired guy of about 60 on a fixie, we don't know who this guy was but he gave chase and latched onto our back wheels before overtaking us and taking a turn at the front.The three of us worked together as an efficient unit each rider taking turns at the front, pushing our speed up to around 17mph despite the headwind before we peeled off for Wittersham. Steve was made up with his new purchase and was particularly impressed with the comfort of the ride. Riding behind me ,Steve noticed that my hips were rolling and I told him that I have been suffering some hip/back ache lately so we lowered my post , this felt better and later I lowered it again which felt better still, so no wonder my bike has been giving me some aches and pains! Having now had two very wet weekend rides in a row, I feel that I have become used to wet riding and as long as the route is an open one without too many twisty descents, feel pretty safe. I will leave this one on my GPS as a wet weather back up ride as we both really enjoyed it.
34 miles
Av speed13.8
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