Saturday 18th August

10 miles plus a few extra technical loops added

Six of us Mick, Simon myself (Des) Ben and two of his mates Chris & Matt had an entertaining ride, Ben showed us a few extra loops which had us pushing in one or two places due to the steepness off the drops, he also lived up to him being mental when he came down what can only be described as a cliff edge on his x/c bike with no protective gear apart from his helmet (see photo) Ben also gave us a laugh when he tried pushing his bike across a ditch and ending upside down with his bike on top of him in a puddle. (couldn't get the camera out quick enough to show you) Later in the ride I nearly ran over over him when he attempted to take a short-cut and went flying over his handlebars (laugh a minute) In the past three years that I have been riding with Mick I witnessed that he is human afterall (too many glasses of red wine Friday night) we actually had to wait for him as he was running on empty (remember this was an easy ish ride could our leader and master be a spent force?)  Simon turned up on his newly built bike the lightest bike i've ever picked up with plenty of expensive gear on it (I cant remember all the technical jargon but a very nice bike)

We had a change of venue for our lunch, we went to the Dog & Partridge at Tosside which I can recommend especially the rump steak burger & chips washed down with a pint of ewe tosser (local ale) 

Saturday 14^th July            Gisburn Forest      10 Miles                                                  

There were five of us this weekend of us all raring to go on the 10 mile trek around the forest, all following Mick around the trees!! We were joined by a team of four from Blackburn, one of them was only 10 and loved the route’s through the trees and thought Mick was cool!!! But he still doesn’t hold the yellow jersey….haha, sorry Des but had to slip that in.