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| No more technical trail for Steve |
It must amuse those who can be bothered to look at the tracks on Strava and see we go thesame direction over the same route week after week with only minor deviations. Thedifference is with bedgebury you have to concentrate all the time to avoid hitting trees or misjudging berms etc.
Three weeks now with variable attendance, three the first week , eight the second week, last week just me and Ivan
Steve makes no secret of the fact he loves bewl but finds Bedgebury single-track too technical (preferring the much wider tracks of the family trail) .Two weeks ago myself and others persuaded him to have a go but unfortunately within 10 minutes he had managed to lose control and his left shin received a severe raking from the pedal pins, ouch!
Eventually Bewl should come back into good condition and then we will probably alternate between the two.
This report is just to gloat .Last Friday was great . The weather in Hastings was torrents of
rain. We went out to bedgebury anyway and by the time we got to robertsbrige the roads were
completely dry.
Ivan and I had nearly 2 hours of dry riding in the forest and the road riders got soaked.
Ivan had expected to meet the road riders for the usual beer at the Robert at nine but found he
was on his own. A quick call to drag Malc out solved that but it shows how localised rain can
be and always be optomistic when it comes to weather. It also proves MTBer’s get better
weather than road riders.
Anyway I got my comeupance when I entered the annual hastings harbour to pier and back
swim on Sunday. I have neglected my swimming for cycling and it took me 92 minutes and I
came last. Some of you may know Jamie L. He won it in 42mins!!! He has threatened to join
us at bedgebury on fridays so watch out.
Derek M
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