This weeks Night Rider saw another new face.
He was pretty sluggish (we reckon he’s over 20stone) but made for the perfect ride leader with his crazy bright light suit / beard / head…(must be over 5000 lumins all in)
Not sure he can make it next week though as he’s gonna be busy the following day.
Check the website to see where the ride will start next Tuesday.
We’re pretty confident with the format now so here it is: The BCC Tuesday Night Ride.
Tuesday 16/12/2008
Meet at The Horse & Groom (East Woodlands) for 7:00pm start (theres’ limited parking available so please share transport).
90-120 mins of riding followed by a couple of drinks at the pub.
90% XC off-road however some road does mean that a rear light is needed.
Decent front Lights are mandatory.
The ride is open to anyone, not just BCC members, so wrap up warm, bring a fiver for the pub and we’ll see you there!
Oh and do check the website for details each week as the start point will change from time to time
(Got no lights? Join up as a full member and get 10% discount at either AVC or Live2ride!)
Where indeed did Will get to before our ride? Well I can tell you where…… everywhere but where he should have been! You see Will managed to take a country lane tour of the villages between Frome and Warminster before ever finding his way to the Horse and Groom. By the time we’d found him he’d probably done enough riding for most people but as we’ve come to realise with Will- he’s always happy to be on a bike. He just smiled and got on with it, up at the front of the group mashing his way up those hills. Quality.
The ride was good, just over an hour and a half, with only a slight alteration planned for next time; bypassing the soul destroying quagmire that is Sheppards Woods, in favour of the faster rolling trails around shearwater.
We had no mechanicals and everyone came back in one piece. I say that but Rich from Live2ride managed to aggravate a shoulder injury meaning that when sat in the pub he moved a little like Herman Munster. Oh and his light ran out of battery with 20 mins to go (my fault as I’d lent them to him)!
Was great to see new riders coming along, with even more coming next week it looks like the BCC Tuesday night ride is here to stay!
Oh and the fire in the pub was nice….
Last night was our third weekly night ride.
It seems that the promise of seeing Chris go over the bars was enough to entice a further 6 people to attend!
We started at the Bath Arms in Crockerton, all 8 of us raring to go after waiting for my forgotten battery to arrive (courtesy of Chris Snell).
We only had a 200 yard wait before Will managed to go over the bars on the very first off-road section. Good stuff.
The route was claggy and slow going, but Will kept us entertained with short bouts of speed before suffering a mechanical, falling off or flipping into a puddle.
We finished after just over an hour and a half, wet through but pretty happy.
Great beer, lush crisps and some very muddy kit!
Last night we ran our second weekly night ride.
It was wet and very cold.
This week only 2 of us showed up, Chris Sheppard and I.
Chris managed to go over the bars twice, and I managed to come to a standstill mid way through a large axle deep puddle resulting in two wet feet and a jammed mech.
There was ice on the ground by the end of the ride and even the trees were shivering.
We rode for exactly 1.5 hrs by which time my lights ran out and my right foot ceased to feel as if it was a part of my body.
We finished at the pub by the open fire with a pint and some chips.
We’re still scoping out the best route but once we’re happy we’ll publish the details of the ride so that more can come and join us each week…