A wet and soggy ride to Brooklands
Well what a day. A good turnout at Cafe Nero. A friend of Rachel's turned up to rie with us but her brake cable snapped. Off we set and Guy's front wheel bearing started making a hell of an awful noise so he headed for home.We reached Egham for coffee at the cafe "Egham on Toast", great cafe and very helpful! Started raining just before we left and the guy from the cafe came out with paper towel to dry all our saddles!
It now rained continuously to Brooklands so I took a shortcut and shaved off a mile or 2. We were all very wet when we got there and the place was packed so a queue for food,. Once full a short period of wandering to take photos and then back out into the rain.
I decided to take the most direct route which everyone great-fully agreed on,so many large puddles to miss! Through Hamworth and the puncture fairy struck Paul. We sheltered in a bus shelter while Paul and Cici took shelter in a garage to repair the puncture, it got so cold that some of us headed off but the others caught us up at Hounslow.
Home and a warm bath.... What awful weather but a good ride, 47 miles door to door.
Tony..
It now rained continuously to Brooklands so I took a shortcut and shaved off a mile or 2. We were all very wet when we got there and the place was packed so a queue for food,. Once full a short period of wandering to take photos and then back out into the rain.
Lunch at Brooklands
I decided to take the most direct route which everyone great-fully agreed on,so many large puddles to miss! Through Hamworth and the puncture fairy struck Paul. We sheltered in a bus shelter while Paul and Cici took shelter in a garage to repair the puncture, it got so cold that some of us headed off but the others caught us up at Hounslow.
Home and a warm bath.... What awful weather but a good ride, 47 miles door to door.
Tony..
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