Not the most successful of rides, this one. Half way to Brighton, somewhere near Caterham, we hit a patch of totally invisible black ice and everyone except me, sitting off the back like a good little lazy fecker, hit the deck. Poor Des went down hard enough that he broke his collarbone. 🙁
We walked Des to Caterham train station so he could visit the doc and the four of us rode home, deciding the rest of the route to Brighton would be too dangerous. The crash was on a fairly open, slight right, slight up-hill. There were big, dark, tree-lined descents follow – not a good idea if we’ve already found it to be icy! Ended up with around 80k on the clock for the day. His new Wilier Mortirolo is ok he tells me. Get well soon Des!
being two miles behind is slightly more than ‘sitting at the back’ ya lazy git!
sounds like you,re putting in plenty of base miles fella… not done a lot meself since the spill but off to the track tonight so that should be a giggle
I was saving myself for my hillclimb victory over bmmf on Ditchling 🙂
385k done this week. That’s 240mi in your outdated measuring unit. Get out there lad and crank out some kays!
You’ve done as much this week as I’ve done all year. Damn!
Yeah, but you are still faster and I am now suffering for my excessive enthusiasm.