Posted by Rob.

So, as Pete mentioned, Juniors was a little ‘light on’ this week. Must have been the fabulous weather and everyone wanting to ride their own ride and left the littlies at home.

This was Morgan’s first Rouleurs ride and she was pretty excited about getting out there. We decided to drive down to the car park though as it’d been a while since her last ride on the racer. She wanted to make sure her gear and break skills were right for group riding – pity it was a dual TT this week!!

Anyway, we set off along the Esplanade and rounded on to the Freeway Path to head south to Mt Henry. The number of bikes out was pretty incredible (Pete’s afore mentioned “warm one”). You certainly get lots of looks riding with a 10 year old on a racer; not your usual rider. I must say, I know where the ladies get their “how many 1000’s of words a day compared to blokes??” – the chatter all the way to Mt Henry was quite something. Rounding back down onto the Esplanade to head for home, we did come across a small group that had three of their own Juniors in the group – nice to see some more up-and-comings out on the treadlies.

The wind picked up a bit toward the end and we were able to get a really nice head of steam up. Oh, and Morgan has just reminded me that she won the sprint along the river to the carpark – doh! Couldn’t even pull off a win against a 10 year old!!

We’ll be there next week too, so if you want to bring the kids out there will be at least one more for the group.