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Sat Jan 13th 2024
| 2* Saturday Half Day Ride | 2* |
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Leader:Roger Postbeschild |
Start Time:10:00 am |
Start Location:OMH |
Description:Please pre-book for this ride by contacting the ride leader. Half day ride (45-55km / 30-40 miles), with a tea stop, at a riding pace of 18-20km/h (11-13mph). Not likely to be very hilly. Might be a struggle for new or irregular riders in winter months.Another go at the ride last Saturday that I cancelled due to floods. Hopefully, said floods will have receded! Coffee and cakes at Blake's Coleshill. UPDATE FRIDAY PM. The temperatures have increased sufficiently to mean that we should be frost free. The ride is on. |
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Riders:Barry StantonDavid Jackson Des Higgs John Tranter Roger Postbeschild Roger Turnbull Stephanie Haddrell Steve Swanton Riders = 8 Weather:  Report:Well, this proved to be an eventful ride!It was good to be able to actually run a ride after the icy conditions of the past few days (more of this to come, I think). The run out to coffee at Blake's Coleshill was uneventful enough - your ride leader was enjoying his new oval chainring. Blake's coffee and cakes proved up to standard and the service was very efficient today - it was very well staffed. The troubles started after we left Blake's. I followed the one way system but Barry didn't. We all went down the hill as planned but Barry went back up the hill. We realised some distance up Highworth Road and Des set off to find him on his e-bike. Reunited, we set off down the hill to Shrivenham. That is to say that most of us did...... Steve had a stop to sort an issue as we set off again and decided that the route must have been via Watchfield. This time Barry turned back in search of our lost soul but returned, eventually, empty handed. Having managed to make phone contact with Steve, we agreed to meet up in Shrivenham High Street. By now, John, having an 'engagement' back home, had set off alone. Eight became seven. Just past Baulking, Steph collected a rear wheel puncture. Des, with another appointment to meet, set off alone. Seven became six. A squirt of foamy stuff failed to fix the puncture - apparently Steph's tyres are not the easiest to get off but it was decided there was no option. David stayed behind with Steph to fix the puncture to avoid us all getting cold. Six became four. Remarkably, we didn't lose any more riders and the four safely returned to Grove. | ||
Distance:56.00 km (34.80 mi) | ||
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