Yesterday Geraint decided to test out the skills of our freshly trained Ride Leaders by crashing and breaking himself a bit. What he didn’t realise was that one of our newest members and first time Tuesday Night Rider was a Doctor. No need to flex any AVPU muscles then…

Big thanks go to Mark Vose for his help and for actually having a triangular bandage!

Anyway, here’s Geraints take on what happened:

Me and my big mouth…no sooner had I said the words ‘airborne’ and ‘faceplant’ to describe my mountain bike riding style, than I tried to jump a log and went headlong into a course of events which includes, paramedic, A&E, sling and pain! Clavicle broken in two places, MTB off the menu for 6 weeks! Sorry to stuff up the best bit of singletrack on the ride, the sling from the RUH isn’t much different from trail side first aid. Got my beer in at 12.30 when we got back, but that shirt will have to go….

Well we are there a lot! That’s right, last summer when getting ready to go on one of our Tuesday Night Rides the Google Street View car drove past …

Eat porridge

Put bike and kit in the van

Pick up Simon (whilst eating rest of porridge)

Arrive

Faff with lights

Ride

Puncture

Ride

Mechanical

Drink

Mechanical

Try to drink (mouth piece frozen)

Ride

…

…

Eat wine gums (impossible to chew)

Try to ride (jockey wheels frozen)

Pub! (drink, chat, eat crisps…)

Try to drive home (windscreen frozen)

Sprayed the windscreen washer by mistake (windscreen immediately more frozen)

Home

Faff with muddy kit (whilst waiting for toes to regain some feeling)

Shower

Done

Tuesday Night Riders!
We are planning to ride for the first time in 2010 as normal at 7pm from the Horse & Groom in East Woodlands. However, more heavy snow is predicted so I will post something here before 6pm in case we have to cancel, please do check back…

Tuesday 22/12/09 Night Ride is cancelled.

After boasting “whatever the weather” in my last post, we  won’t be running tomorrow’s night ride because of the severe weather warning issued by the met office, and the fact that we can’t guarantee that we will be able to get there to run the ride ourselves.

We will try to hold a Night Ride before Christmas, so please check back here / on the forum if you’re interested.

Now I might have left this a bit too late, but… I hope to put together a 2010 Black Canon Collective Calendar which will be ready in time for Christmas! The calendar will be sold for a reasonable sum to raise funds for some of the projects which we are working on (skills area and Groovy Blue trail). Now we are dealing with a very short time scale and I need pictures FAST! I want the calendar to show all the different aspects of bike riding (XC, DH, Velodrome, cobble wobble) digging, racing or general ride related faffing that BCC members get themselves into. The only rule is that the photo must be of a BCC member and it must be of sufficient quality to be printed on A5, but the rest is up to you. To have any hope of this project working, I need YOU to get all your best photos and upload them onto the Black Canon Collective Flickr account before Sunday 15th November.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/blackcanoncollective/pool/

A select panel of judges will then select the finest 12 photos for the Calendar.

If you have any questions please e mail me on simon.truelove@blackcanoncollective.co.uk

Ta

Simon

This weeks night ride will be starting at 19:30 from Burrington Combe, from a bus stop called “Blagdon Car Park (NE Bound)”.

Click here for a map.

It’s about 45 mins away from the usual start point, hence the later start time, and the ride should take about 1.5-2 hrs.

See you there….

Pretty pretty…