Explaining the mythical bacon butty (or a view of the rear)

'So why do you put butter on bacon and name a ride after it'.  I scratched my head trying to work out where this line of enquiry had come from. Then it dawned on me on me something must have been lost in translation and our American cousins Gerry and Barbara were clearly struggling with the Queens English. I tried to explain ' soba on on this side of the Atlantic is thick and juicy and comes attached to a side order of fat unlike the crisp like substance you refer to by the same name, and it's not butter it's Butty a colloquialism for sandwich.

That cleared up we were ready for the off with about 20 or so ILS setting out from Di Paolos shortly after 10am.
The ILS refers to the more usual MAMiLS acronym used for most club rides until Shirley became a regular and with Gerry a septarian and Finley both on board middle aged just wasn't accurate.

The BBR re-groups at the top of Boreham Street !

Rotating the pedals in the conventional fashion clockwise if viewed from the right and anti clockwise when viewed from the left we made our way along west Bexhill seafront and onto Cooden. The pace started slowly but picked up once we reached Little Common with such a large group gaps were inevitable and we regrouped in Hooe.

Andy Lancaster an old hand of the club had volunteered to escort Celia an ex club junior now a little more mature out on her first ride on her new bike. Leaving me the honour of looking after Gerry and Barbara and Pete Baker playing Shep. Rotating from the front to the back again making sure everyone was Ok

The next regroup was at the top of Boreham hill and Gerry an asthma sufferer was finding it tough with the short sharp hills and cold damp air, neither features he was use to in New Mexico. We reached the rest of the group at the garage many of whom had achieved PRs for the segment including Gareth riding his heavy winter bike and having already done beachy on the PRE. Gerry decided discretion was the better part of valour and decided he would go back at this point and despite Andy offering finding the hills tough (although I'm told quick on the flat) said she too wanted to head back and would guide Gerry down through Wartling to Pevensey and back via the people's republic of Normans bay to Bexhill.

The rest of the group cycled through some very picturesque countryside (Sussex is quite beautiful ifyou haven't got your head down, teeth gritted, and heart rate in the 170s going for a Strava segment) on the Tilley lane variation. Regrouping at Chilleys farm for coffee and of course Barbara's first Bacon Butty.

Patrick