morning All,
I was exactly the same, absolutely dead on Saturday night but thoroughly enjoyed the day out doing something different.
Cheers CLubby for the excellent breakfast roll and choice of route. 36 miles over the rolling Angus countryside with some excellent views and barsteward climbs with a fair sprinkling of lovely simgle track. The coffee shop was also a most excellent choice.
Ended up a longer day than most of us thought with a 10am kick off until the 4pm finish pretty much pedalling most of the time apart from that sweet swooping downhill which felt like the run down to eau rouge! (well to me anyway)
Highlights of the day
Peams Pissflaps - or mudguards as he called them. and the endless rattling. which was never mentioned at all (quoting myself "does aluminium burn")
Views over to Forfar.
Haggis and "flet" sausage roll as we say in cowdenbeath
Tangledfeets impressive gravelista beard.
Lowlights
My 1st puncture on the gravel bike due to a stealth pot hole
My 2nd puncture on the gravel bike due to me being an erse and not checking the tyre
Trying to keep up with Clubby who thanks to his miracle weightloss was fair scudding along on the roads.
Sunday Shona and i cycled down to the coast, i ended up on the gravel bike again as my solaris seatpost has given up the ghost having went from sagging to not staying up at all so its going for a service this week. Worst case will be taking the gravel bike on holiday with us.
Good to meet
@tangledfeet and welcome to the madness. Mind you, you did tell the sh!test joke of the ride with your 3 imaginary tiny women prank on Peam. One thing i have discovered is that Peam does like to tell a story almost as much as OCP!
Pics of the day attached.
heres to the next one