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March 8, 2012 at 9:17 am #21639
butcherboy
MemberTwo routes again this week.
1)S9 The iron man long loop 70 miles.
2)W9 Wisemans Bridge and Cresswell Quay loop 24 miles.
See you sunday at 9. Bloomfield car park.
March 8, 2012 at 11:43 am #24571Legaleagle
MemberHi Andrew
Probably out of academic interst only, where can I find the detail for S9?
March 8, 2012 at 6:01 pm #24572butcherboy
MemberSorry. Go to home page then click on Rides and Training.
March 9, 2012 at 6:58 am #24574mark_b
MemberWhich way are u doing the loop on sunday so i know weather to meet in narberth or on route
March 9, 2012 at 11:05 am #24575ValleyMan
MemberI will be wimping out again this week and doing the short ride. Still got 5 foundation holes to dig for the polytunnel….
Regards
Hopalong
March 9, 2012 at 11:58 am #24576butcherboy
MemberMark. We will be riding the same way as they ride on race day. So from Narberth heading towards Princess Gate and Wisemans Bridge.
If you fancy, when we get to Daniels hill in Pembroke instead of going straight on to Castlemartin, we could head towards Angle then left down Freshwest and through Castlemartin. Then take a right through Stackpole and up the lovely hill in Freshwater East. Then on to the ridgeway which is back on the course.
March 9, 2012 at 1:22 pm #24577mark_b
MemberThat sounds good too me got to do fresh east hill , il cycle from my house and be at wisemans bridge by 9.20 if thats ok see you then
March 9, 2012 at 8:13 pm #24578ValleyMan
Member..just be careful of the road closures! I guess we can all cycle the first bit together!
March 10, 2012 at 6:23 pm #24580bianchi.kidd
MemberFinally found my bike again!!! See you at Bloomfield, but I’ll be on the lightweight 24 miler!!!!
March 11, 2012 at 7:58 pm #24581Sweaty Eds
MemberA beautiful morning, sunshine, no wind, a quorum of club members, everything set for a great ride. Who could have predicted that this day would surely see the beginning of the end for one of the club’s stalwarts.
There were early signs, of course, there always are. Explaining Kim’s absence with a dismissive shrug, arriving on time, that sort of thing. If only we’d been alive to the signs earlier, maybe, just maybe, things would have turned out differently.
The ride itself was uneventful. It took a while for Diccon to convince me that Andrew and Roger had not, in the past week, grown to three times their normal size but were, in fact, much closer to me than usual. We split into two groups at the agreed point and everything went to plan until the top of Reynalton hill.
By the time I arrived the others, Ian, Diccon, Graham and Dylan had been there a while. I understand there had bit a bit of funny business with allen keys in a hat and Ian and Diccon were off their bikes and eyeing up each others machines. I knew Ian had never been on a carbon bike and I respect him for that, I shouted to him to remember Zammo and ‘just say no’. I explained to him that, after turning the cranks, he would be hooked, I begged him to think of his family (wasn’t it one of their birthdays?) but he didn’t listen. Before you could say ‘crack cocaine’ he was tippie-toes pedalling on Diccon’s Felt racer towards Templeton. Diccon, meanwhile, was BMXing on Ian’s Bianchi taking care not to knock any of his teeth out with his knees. I knew from Ian’s face he was lost.
I know it’s fun at first. Test riding the latest Cannondale, dreaming about impossibly expensive groupsets, but soon, as we all know, it’s specialist magazines, darkened rooms and hastily cleared histories on the pc.
I hope I’m wrong, I hope Ian can be the one strong one amongst us who isn’t seduced by the word monocoque and who resists the urge to pick everyone elses bike up to gauge the weight and consider the stiffness.
I just don’t think it would’ve happened if Kim had been there.
March 11, 2012 at 11:26 pm #24582ValleyMan
MemberOh the lure of forbidden fruits…
Sent from my HTC from the spare room.
(for the record she was a Felt: just so stiff and responsive)
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