Just a quick report to make sure we’re not forgotten: 13 riders heading out down south and as the others rde off into the distance I stayed back with new girl Christine for the first section, just talking through a few of the basics – good excuse to take it easy on my 17 kilo hybrid. At the start of Shelley re-group point, the two of us headed out first so that we could be overtaken by the others riding as a pack to ‘demo’ group riding and ‘rolling through’. Surprised how far we had got before Jackie leading out the peleton behind us called “bikes back” ; they gracefully slid by and we latched onto the tail.
End of Shelley turn around and all ridng back as a group; Christine sat in, found herself a wheel and did her turn along with the rest.
No chance for the end of Shelley sprint on my lumbering mule – but I still had a go and managed 3rd up the rise with handlebars creaking, soggy front suspension protesting as it bounced up and down with me out of the saddle – looking forward to get my new brakes and the real bike back on the road.
Back to Canning Hwy, and whilst a couple were feeling the distance in their legs, (almost) everyone was fair game for the Applecross deviation and the Majestic climb. Final return to Canning Bridge and as usual the pace picked up along the freeway path heading north – clearly a few could smell the roasting coffee beans. Played sweeper and chilled out with Mike B (SPR hill climb champion) on the way back – he’s joined us for the past 2 weeks to escort daughter Kate out on our ride. Good feedback is that we should probably aim to pick the pace up a little on the roll throughs – so that’ll give us something to work on next week.
Back at the Bell Tower a few expressed interest in the Lancelin Sportif and suddenly we had a “SPR Developers” team for next Sunday – with a couple of Transitioners joining in to add a bit of pulling power.
Cheers Mark _S