first sunday in weeks where a 9.30am start would have been handy as the thermometer dropped and there were some signs of ice Lower down. The Garw was tropical this morning though coming across the common it dropped to -1 and there was some ice on the climb past Rockwool
Madely texted to say he was going to out later due to the ice though we all did wonder did he want an extra hour in bed.
Rob also texted to say he had made a schoolboy error while fitting a new chain swift return to thread it correctly.
Me
Angelo
Mr Prosser
Paul R
Nigel
5 Left Brackla and with the thought of ice, we changed the route slightly to avoid the lanes up and down pentyrch.
out to Pontypridd and up Nantgarw hill where we caught up with Rob C. through caerphilly town through the lanes with a small climb where Angelo did his best to get past and I was showing off the gains of my long-distance Zone 2 ride:
which lead to some questioning had I actually had an Ebike built up
on Newport flats where as usual we all had a go at putting the hammer down.
onto Penarth where we managed to find all the steep climbs - coffee stop at brod where we were met with Mr Madely already tucking into his danish pastry.
a slight detour on the route where we went through sully barry porthkerry country park. this is where Rob saw that his rear tyre was low on PSI and doing his best cyclocross impression.
though the lanes back to Pencoed.
Good ride today.
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