ride report by josh
with the main group rolling out and 5 or 6 of us uming and aring about which group to ride with we chose the fast group, with the temptation of opening up the throttle along shelly being to much to resist. however we had not thawed out when we rolled through shelly and the pace never hit a high note. no one wanted to roll through so we took turns at the front and pulled our way down leach. on the 2nd climb past the cemetery jason pulled away and the pack chased, then with a perfectly timed attack Johnny leapt of the front with the young fella on a giant(sorry i dont know your name) as we caught jason. we all came back together as we rolled up stirling and then mosman park splinted us into 1’s and 2’s. as we came to claremont 6 of us came back together and mosied on through dalkeith to line up for the bunch sprint. as the dogs where unleashed just before the brewery i kicked a bit to much and found myself in mid air balancing on my handle bars hoping that i would land upright, i thought everyone at this point would be scrbling away and all i could think was to get my chain on and stay with the sprint.
so in all i very sedate ride and most of us prefering the warmth of the coffee shop
until next week…..
photos by darryl, comments by peter
Poseur #3 is that a good thing??
The mercury dipped to just 2.5 degrees at the Bureau of Meteorology’s weather station at Mt Lawley overnight on Saturday, the coldest May recording since 2004.
But around the metropolitan area, even older records tumbled quicker than the temperature.
Perth Airport touched 1.1 degrees, the coldest May minimum in 46 years, while the -0.1 degrees at Jandakot Airport, 4 degrees at Gosnells and 5.2 degrees at Champion Lakes all set record lows for May.
Jandakot Airport broke a record set just a day earlier, when the mercury dipped to just 0.3 degrees.
Further north, the 0.9 degrees recorded at the Pearce RAAF base was the equal-coldest May night recorded there.