At last, today was warm enough, for me at least. Personal records show that this was to be my first ride of any substance for 4, possibly 5 weeks. The snow and ice had largely cleared and it was time to go. Nothing too difficult, a couple of hours would do it and definately stick to mainish roads too boot. The group consisted of 3 riders of differing tallents. One young and raring to fly the other two, old farts you may call them. Not a good mix for a group ride, but still a group of sorts.
Minor problems from the off when it seemed that Race Blade mud guards are not always compatible with all bikes, back tyre rub. Fixing this meant a number of stops en route and luckily the guilty rider was more than capable of catching up. Ten miles in, a puncture. Rider number 2 cursed. These things always take time and mostly involve only the ride thus cursed to fix it. I pushed on up the road to carry out an inspection of a local minor road regarding ice and to have a pee! Road surface not good so decided on a more main road back. More rubbing of said race blade and several stops later steady progress was still made. Did I mention another pee stop? Need to get that checked out!
Notwithstanding the various tribulations still managed 25 miles in just under 2 hours of actual riding. Not really good I know but at least it was 25 miles. Now I only have to another 300ish miles by the 31st to get the 6k in for the year. What chance that I wonder.
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