Now today's Wednesday ride just happened to fall on April fool's day- setting out we all wondered which one of us would be playing the fool. Just 6 of us set out from a very busy shop- sprinting up Ranmore to ride over the tree roll and down into Abba Zabba, Blind Terror and Numb Skull.
Simon hit an energy crisis at Abba Zabba already and was refueled by some Power Gel and water both loaned out. (A busy shop keeper doesn't have time to prepare for his own ride!) We blame the box of chocolate biscuits from John which was supposed to be a post-ride treat but became a pre-ride snack!
Testing out the new benches and bike stands at Peaslake and of course an excellent cup of tea and cake- Simon was banned from chocolate and pop and stuffed with bananas and energy drink- fully recovered we headed up Pitch at a good pace and played on the jumps at Proper Beau.
In an effort to improve take off technique we were rolling in without pedalling in order to compress and pop off the take off ramp to try and clear to the tranny. This was all going fine and then John mentioned how we should pick him up when he hits the tree. Now its a funny thing but when you pre-empt such things they often come about - so he promptly took off over the jump, landed it, squirled into the tree taking the full force of the impact in the saddle area (body and bike- ow!)
And so our fool of the day had indeed been found- yes the redesigned saddle is a picture that tells a thousand hurts! And no these are not for sale at the shop in this design.
John rode back with the saddle just resting on the rails and fastened Blue Peter style by me with some string from the Peaslake shop!
Great weather, good fun, plenty of miles and a few laughs at our fools expense.
Riders: Simon, Phil, Jo, John, Ken, Claire
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