Today we rode with Stefano whom we met in Italy last year. He is one of the organisers of the Rally di Romagna. Me and Jane rode to Cobham to meet him and escort him back to Dorking where we met Paul. ( JD has damaged herself and so couldn't make it today)
I'd pre-ridden the bare bones of the route with Roger last Tuesday. It hadn't really rained much since then and was reasonably dry under wheel. There were some bits of mud, but the idea was to avoid it :)
I'd decided we should show Stefano some of the best bits of singletrack that hold up well in the wet. Up over Leith to Summer Lightning, which had dried since Tuesday and was fast. From there we went to Friday Street and down by Belmont School to Holmbury. Once on Holmbury we did The whoop di whoops,Telegrafo,a few bits and then over to Ronnie Barker. We stopped at Peaslake for a foto shoot and for Stefano to have a look in the bike shop. Then it was pretty much straight home via Rad Lane and the Roughs.
Stefano seemed quite impressed with the amount of bikers we saw and quickly became the centre of attention on his Niner 29'er. I think it was seen as unusual because it is a full sus with gears, rather than as most in the uk a fully rigid ss ;)
We left Stefano smiling on his way back to Cobham via the A24 cyclepath.
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