We had 8 people out tonight for the introductory ride (Tom, Majken, Suzanne, Jack, David, Toronto John, Sandy and myself). It was good to see that some new riders had come back for more after previous visits!
We headed out along the Westie and up to the top of Rocky Rooty before heading over to Hole In the Wall and up for a loop of the moors and Jacqui’s Root before heading back from Khyber Road and down Snakey. We had some great views of the Campsies in the warm evening sunshine and kept the pace relaxed to keep the group together. John (visiting briefly from Toronto) was having a great time despite the improptu tumble onto the road and then the broken rear mech hangar forcing a singlespeeding bodge to get him back (thanks to Jack and Sandy as the pitcrew). Hopefully he’ll return to Toronto with some good memories of his evening biking with GMBC.
Leaving just after 7pm and getting back pretty much bang on 9:30pm it was into the hall for a cuppa and a chat just as the handful of 7:45pm riders got back. From the feedback it sounds like everyone had a good time and we’ll hopefully see folks again on future rides.
It was good to see people out on such a lovely night, but as one of the 3 riders who were out on the 745 ride, a big surprise to see so few people on what used to be the ‘main club ride’. Ruaridh and I left bang on 8, as we were not quite there for 745 when Sanny and Donald headed off up the Whangie. We met up with Pete at the Castle, as he had ridden from home. We also bumped into Liam and another rider (sorry forgot your name..) and the 7pm crew. A couple of hours of lovely fast and dusty riding, and, as Graham says, back to the club in time to catch the end of the banter.
Looks like between the 7pm, 745pm, 737pm (Liam) and 8pm ride we had about 15 club riders out, which isd good, if not quite reaching the recent large Tuesday numbers.
Did anyone do the Knockie Buckle ?
It was just me and Gerry doing the Knockie Buckle last night. Just a sprint up to the first trig point then a lovely quick descent. Great fun although the downhill is never long enough!
Euan
Plus on the southside we had 1 for the 5:00pm and 3 for the 6:45pm ride 🙂