30/5 HSLCC Fri Night Ride- Steady Eddy

As the last Fri night ride before some of us switch to Bewl Water it was bit of a shame that there were only four us out, still its always good to do this ride whether its one rider or thirteen. Malcolm was using his Eddy Mercx time trial bike on the ride for the first time. This bike has only a single chain ring so Stonestile was going to a struggle for Malc who announced that he was going to TT the circuit and would see us at the top. This was seen as a challenge for Marcus who announced he was going to try to get some Strava PBs and would stick with Malcolm. This left just myself and  Steve D, happy just to potter around the route. Neither of us had completely recovered from the early bird ride the day before but I was feeling more  jaded than Steve. Sure enough, Malcolm and Marcus were soon out of sight , while myself and Steve rode most of the way around together. On reaching the Stonestile approach we were very impressed to see that the council had done a massive amount of work repairing the whole road, no more would the sounds of 'hole' startle the local wildlife in the depths of winter. There are now freshly  laid large areas of smooth tarmac covering up what was a mass of nasty little holes, this will help all of us to improve our Starva PBs for the Stonestile approach (which sure enough Marcus did). Unbeknown to us Malcolm had an unpleasant verbal  encounter with a stroppy motorist which put him off his stride on the Stonestile climb, Marus managed to avoid this altercation and was able to bag The KOM  (1:06:28) for the complete Friday night Chaingang segment just beating Nigel by 20 seconds.

Eddy Bags Stonestile!