Sunday 29th January. D ride led by Paul (no longer BC guided)

[CeGi]

1) as of saturday evening there's no external participants registered via Letsride.
2) I have a mechanical on my bike which I don't want to rush fixing tonight
3) So we end up with only Beaconites registered:
Paul Balfe (L)
Dave Cole
Laura Forrest
Colin Hall
Robert Parker

So no real need to stick to the BC guided route. While I'll fix my bike tomorrow, I'll delegate the lead of this ride to Paul.
His desire is to have a D ride slightly longer than the originally advertised 30 miles BC ride. I let you debate this below or tomorrow at the BH. Sorry for the last minute notice. I hope this will not be too much of an inconvenience Laura, Dave and Colin. Sorry again, but keeping riding my bike without fixing it would just potentially create proper damage. Thanks for your understanding.

[PaulB]

JUST ME & CED, No other takers on this wonderful ride then or is the duvet too clingy on these winter mornings

[Dave Cox]

All being well I'm going to do a longer ride to get ready for the Snowdrop

[Laura_Forrest]

Hey, I'm keen to join if it's not too late! Would be good to get back on the bike before spring

[David Cole]

Can I join you for this please?
Dave

[bikercolin]

Put me in please

[PaulB]

OK folks, no Guided ride tomorrow so ill do a D run if ya famcy

Ill do it the democratic way, and being short notice, ill give you 2 D runs to vote on

https://ridewithgps.com/trips/102052982 --- Rowberrys at 46 miles total

or


https://ridewithgps.com/routes/37673474?beta=false....... Whitlenge Garden Centre at 46 miles total

see you at the Black Horse for a 9-15am start

[Laura_Forrest]

Heya, I won't manage that distance after a couple of months off the bike (hopefully soon i will be able to) so will plan another outing for tomorrow have a good ride!
And hope the bike is OK ced

[bikercolin]

It's a bit far for my knee, so I will sort something else

[PaulB]

So, all's well that ends well so to say.

Was going to do a longer ride but then at Black Horse a few of the regulars wanted to do a shorter ride, so we agreed on doing the Umberslade route but with agreement form the other riders i would leave at Umberslade to do my longer ride with Rob

Present were

Rob Parker
David Cole
Adrian McHugh
Colin Hall

All happy, i hope but Umberslade service was poor and queues at counter