After spending yesterday afternoon worshipping at the shrine of bicycle maintenance (aka Scorpion CS) I knew I was going to need a ride today to check that everything was shipshape and ready to go again.  So I issued a call to arms, and arranged an impromptu ACG ride, mainly because I selfishly fancied a ride in company rather than on my tod.

It  being “my” ride, I decided it should include very good coffee, and that of course, as my regular readers will know, means going to Heaphy’s Café in Glastonbury.  I’d bore you with the details but, “it’s astounding, time is fleeting…” and I have other places to be, so to cut a long story short, I present you with my stats:

Cycling time: 2:08:49 hrs
Distance: 34.30 miles
Avs: 15.7 mph

There were three of us, fairly well matched:  IH, a recent newbie GH, and obviously, me.  Coffee included carrot cake, and the welcome return of Orangina, as well as all the usual joys of a Fairyland Saturday morning.  It was a fairly flat, scenic, sociable, sun-blessed, relatively wind free ride.  The sort of which dreams are made *grin*.  Do you know how lucky we are to live somewhere where other people come on holiday?  Lucky indeed :).

As for the bike, well the saddle seemed a little low on the way out.  I was getting that “knees around ears” feeling so we tweaked it all of 4mm after coffee and it seemed much better on the way back.  The new chain went ’round – always good – and the brake pads seemed to stop me.  In fact the front break is proper vicious now which is nice as long as you remember that!  My lovely new Kalas shorts were very comfy and, by virtue of being a bit shorter than my other pair, helped with my “fade to tan” goal – none of those razor sharp lines for me (see rule 7) *grin*.