Well that was an experience,good to meet all the cc'ers and put faces to the names.
Col that was really bad luck and there was no way you could have rode home,you did the sensible thing there.
Big thanks to Bromptonfb who got me back from Blackpool,really wouldn't have made it without you,absolutely shattered at the end,but I've now done my first 100+ mile ride,here's to the next one
Good effort!
cheers potsy, no problem. i 'm pretty sure we did about 120 miles, but i'll work it out tomorrow, my mate just left and i'm knackered. you did really well to say you bonked and had a.. hehumm...incident.
colin, how many miles did you have on your garmin from rochdale to the train station, please?
glad you got home safely colin, you were lucky that the wheel held.
nice to meet you all.
i am well chuffed with myself, my second +100 miles this week (without embarrassing myself, as well), on a brompton!!
Great effort from you too Shaun. The more cycle commuters I meet who are surging ahead in fitness relative to me, the more I see the benefits of regular shorter rides rather then the occasional mega-hilly ones I tend to do.
Station-station was 54.6 miles. I did an approximate check of your route (not knowing exactly which way you rode back. If you went straight up the B-road to Longridge, then Hurst Green, Mitton, Whalley, Padiham, Rossendale Road. Manchester Road, I reckon with the extra you did to Rochdale that is about 112 miles. Allow a few miles messing about in Blackpool and you probably did about 115.
Yes, it was good wasn't it? As Trio writes, Blackpool was a nightmare of pissed-up stag parties, we couldn't get to the sea so no swimming and we couldn't even find a chippy that wasn't Harry Ramsdens. In the end a cyclist told us about one in a back street and we found a nice little square to sit and eat our chips. The ride back was good with a mostly tail breeze helping us along. It was good to meet other forum members and put faces to names.
I'm miffed about not getting that tailwind!
Talking of names to faces - I was struggling yesterday because there were so many new faces in one ride and then people started taking jackets off or putting them on so their appearance kept changing. I'm also convinced that one or two riders joined us at certain points that I didn't know about! Well, I know about new CC member CapnAhab, but who was it wearing grey shorts and riding a yellow bike, for instance? He was with us when we left Longridge but I couldn't remember where he'd joined us.
Here's the group photograph that I took. Could anybody identify 'A' and 'B' for me (apologies guys, I think I remember 400bhp though I'm not sure, and I've clean forgotten who the other rider was - there was just too much going on yesterday for me to take it all in!)
Kneeling: Fluffy.
Left to Right: bigjim, Fiona N, trio25, 'A', 'B', Garz, Svendo, bromptonfb, Globalti, CapnAhab (joined CC today after chatting to us up there!), potsy.
Trio and Gobalti will know what I mean...) I took advantage of the tailwind to do a very quick few miles to Lancaster. The tailwind had the regrettable (very shortly) effect of making me feel much better than I probably was so I turned off the A6 and headed off through Caton and Hornby to Kirby Lonsdale. Those familiar with the area will know there's a very substantial hill between Kirby Lonsdale and Kendal and it was grovelling up this that I quickly came to regret my enthusiasm in Lancaster. Anyway, I was home ca. 7.30pm after about 187km, so a very satisfying day out.
