The girls came out to Bolton for a night ride tonight. Kate was meant to come to mine first but since she was running late I took the light to the meeting point. Only I forgot the mount, a buff and three zip-ties and it was fine and stayed that way the whole ride! On the way up there was a lot of faffing by a boy! His light was on the wrong sized mount for his bars, eventually with the help of a first aid kit it was sorted. Due to this I decided to leave the Pike, we still did the ice-cream run and of course finished with the Belmont descent. Before heading to the pub for a quick drink. I then free-wheeled most of the way home while they set off of the M60.
18.51 miles @ 8.5 mph
640m ascent
boy faff is the worst kind ;) .....i manged to be in completely the wrong place for our ride yesterday-but we don't talk about that!
ReplyDeleteAt least you got some riding in, I started riding (at Riv) and had to abandon due to my rear brake binding on. I thought my legs were just complete toast so I was relieved it wasn't just me!
ReplyDeleteThere were a fair few groups out, think I saw two other biggish groups! It was a nice night!
ReplyDeleteyour legs probably are tired from all the running! You training sounds like it is going well!
There were a few groups out, lots of lights up at the pike and it was almost perfect night riding conditions too.
ReplyDeleteHas the STW rivi niteride (I've still not made it to a meet yet) switched to Weds nite then?
ReplyDeleteNo that is a group of girls from south manchester that I ride with sometimes.
ReplyDeleteNot heard anything about the stw ride in a while. Be ideal for me if it started in Belmont!