Record so far this year - 6 out on tonight's regular Thursday night ride. Ryan back from 'injury' for his second ride, Jon (a colleague of Tony in work) out for his first ride. Also good to see Tony and Ross out - and Jon made his maiden voyage on board a rebuilt Orange Sub-zero.
Dry as a bone so Charity Lane was very quick! Great fun on the hardtail this week, last week's sessioning of the bottom paid off with a lot more speed carried into the bottom corner. Bottom of the Oven was very very loose - I nearly had a VERY BIG off - but somehow rode it out - Ryan said he came over the brow to see a cloud of dust and me somehow hanging on to the bike whilst we both roughly headed downhill all over the place!
Got to the bottom to find Jon had a puncture - and then found the rear tyre had been one of his 'homebrew' tubeless system which had been repaired with a tube at some point 12 months ago - hence the tube and tyre were glued together with the remains of the liquid latex! MAJOR ball ache getting it off but with the pair of us on it, things sped up a little.
Then with time against us we did the singletrack - so quick, and incredible fun on the Cotic - I can't wait to get up to Scotland in September on board!
See you all next week!
