Do any Briztolians fancy a gentle pootle up the B2B on Boxing day?

[summerdays]

My pass has been signed and I'm allowed out to play...

 

[Speicher]

So far it's me Spaztex and my Darren for sure, I'll ask around my mates tonight to try and up the numbers.

Please bear in mind that this is a pootle and that the only person who'll be going fast will be Spanders because he falls off at anything less than Warp 9.

That confirms it then, the noise I heard last night was not an express train, but Spandex on a bicycle that goes on railway tracks.

 

[spandex]

That confirms it then, the noise I heard last night was not an express train, but Spandex on a bicycle that goes on railway tracks.

 

[mickle]

bump

 

[summerdays]

See you later - who ever turns up - I will try to arrive at the correct spot between 11.45 and 12. Would the Grid Ref be ST652757 approx...? Or how far past the tunnel is it - would I miss it? Or at the road just beyond that?

 

[mickle]

Just a couple of hundred metres past the tunnel, it's the next thing you come to, the access ramp on the left.

See you later!

 

[summerdays]

Ta - I suppose I just look out for a group of shifty looking men hanging around on the Cyclepath, assuming I'm late of course - well i won't be early anyway.

 

[mickle]

Shifty looking? How very jolly dare you!



Actually you have a point, we'll endevour to look as unshifty as is practicable.

 

[GrahamG]

Well, apologies for not meeting up - we got as far as Easton but felt so rough (cold/flu not hangovers!) we just had to turn back. Hope you all had a good ride, the weather was certainly smiling on you, provided you'd wrapped up warm anyway...

 

[mickle]

It was a lovely ride G, the weather was great although I had misjudged the temp and was a bit under dressed. Sorry you didn't make it. You missed the spectacle of Spandex having to steal cutlery from the pub to lever his tyre off to mend a flat with a borrowed patch kit since not one of us had thunk to bring any tools whatsoever. So on a ride where 75% of the participants were professional bike type people only Summerdays had the foresight to bring a pump.

 

[HelenD123]

ISo on a ride where 75% of the participants were professional bike type people only Summerdays had the foresight to bring a pump.

Shame on you all, apart from Summerdays. Us girls always come prepared.

 

[summerdays]

I wasn't allowed to take photos of the fixing the tyre with the knife and spoon!!! I did feel guilty as I was the only one with an enormous pannier and I hadn't a puncture repair kit in it (in my defence I thought everyone else would have one). I did have hand warmers though (my kids gave me them for Christmas) so we used those at the pub.

I think I slowed them down as I always seemed to be at the back... but it was a very enjoyable 34 miles for me, if very cold too. And I even made it up the Muller Road (big hill if you are me) at the end.

 

[summerdays]

I only took a couple of photos:

The river near the pub we stopped at.

A proper goldfish on the Bristol to Bath cycle path.

 

[spandex]

I wasn't allowed to take photos of the fixing the tyre with the knife and spoon!!! I did feel guilty as I was the only one with an enormous pannier and I hadn't a puncture repair kit in it (in my defence I thought everyone else would have one). I did have hand warmers though (my kids gave me them for Christmas) so we used those at the pub.

I think I slowed them down as I always seemed to be at the back... but it was a very enjoyable 34 miles for me, if very cold too. And I even made it up the Muller Road (big hill if you are me) at the end.

Not at all hun you stopped it being a race.

 

[spandex]

And it was grate to meet you as well.