Tuesday ride - othg

Today was a new destination for the othg. The people who own the cafe at Four Elms have opened a new Cafe in Hartfield. Today's ride was brisk but steady, John rode on the front most of the way and he was flying :)

Strange but true related fact - Hartfield is where Brian Jones was found dead floating in his swimming pool, also strangely enough it's the home of the invention of 'Pooh Sticks' - a game that involves floating sticks .......freaky!!


I suppose this is how it happened:

'What is it Pooh?'
'Dunno, it's something floating in the water'
'Gives me a good idea for a new game, but we could use sticks instead of stones'

lco signing the papers :)

lco - gets a good deal and manages to palm off the old red wreck on some unsuspecting car salesman :)

Lco's new car

tuesday ride - othg

Another road ride today, two weeks running!! It had rained in the, and so was wet on the roads. Puncture days!! I added a spare tube to my pocket just in case. At the top the second hill Matthew punctured and then again 10 mins later. we stopped to fix it, but they said ride on, so me and Chris rode on hoping to catch Gary who'd pushed on. On days like this it's better to push on in two or threes when the punctures become frequent. Otherwise you all get cold and then all stop again and nobody gets anywhere. It was getting late and Chris had to get back so we rode to Camelia Botnar. We attacked the bumps through Nuthurst hard and it was great fun. We didn't stop for tea, just rode back the same way!

Pen Cerrig

Yesterday we went for a quick hike over Pen Cerrig. We saw another two people making there way farther across.

on the way up it was pretty grim - a bit damp and quite windy.



At the top after a coca cola, the sun burst through dragging beautiful blue skies with it!


Then we had toast and tea cakes in Crick Howell.