On a very windy morning just four wheelers and
the vets group made it to Withy Trees. Jose Pinon-Shaw, Matt Stell,
Dave Littlefair and myself Matt Hoyles (Eddie Stobart) who Dave kindly
mentioned is looking a bit porky!! cheers buddy!!
Well we set of up the A6 towards Garstang
with the final destination being Silverdale. We had an amazing tail wind
and we soon turned off towards Cockerham. By this stage it was clear that
the weather was going to be against us today. The heavens opened and soon
had us wishing that we had stopped to put on our water proofs when it
first started spitting. But on we pressed hoping it was just a shower. It
was at this point that Stelly's bike began to make a awful rubbing. Just a
mud guard rubbing we thought until we finally saw a spoke flailing around
the wheel.
After pulling into a farmers gate to mend
the problem we then had the even worse prblem as to working out how a
spoke key actually works!! we must have looked so silly. 4 cyclists all
trying to unscrew a very bent spoke in the pouring rain! After a while of
trying Stelly decided that he had spent enough time trying and just
snapped the spoke. So much for tools eh Matt!! By this stage we were all
very wet and to be honest not in the mood for much more so we headed of to
Scorton to let the shower pass before venturing out. Shame it never passed
so in the end we all pottered back down the A6 into a blinding head wind
to get home just in time to have some dinner made for me ;-) the joys of
still living at home!! Cant wait to see everyone out again soon. Bring on
the 2006 season!!!!
