Lark Ride to Betley 8 Dec 2018

The lights were shining through the windows early doors at Wheelers HQ for a pre-dawn meet and talk as the club’s in-house meteorologists and cartographers touched base offline to rule that it was too windy to head up country to Eyam today.

So we picked the low-hanging fruit, hung low but didn’t see Gordon, and did a flat ride to Betley instead: 55 miles at an average speed of 14.8 mph although, as it turned out, Mow Lane wasn’t actually flat.

I hope the Risk Assessment Team will allow us to do the Eyam ride next week.

I expect to move kick-off back to 10.00 am after Christmas assuming that the weather is colder then, but this is a democratic team and I shall take soundings, and bungs, from all interested parties.

Chris Lark

Team Lark in full winter plumage, L to R: Simon, Steve, Jochen, Russell, Mark, Darren, Monica. Note the image’s complete lack of my finger, phone case, etc.

Our new Membership Secretary takes time off from his introductory forensic analysis of the membership ledgers as part of a grass-roots, meet the people, grand tour. Watch out for him on the Sunday Easy Ride too; he’ll just love it when you wave your membership card at him.

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