Supersuperleeds
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Today was the day for the Leicestershire posse to go back to Nice Pie.
@13 rider had plotted a route circa 67 miles from Market Bosworth and back. As well as the usual reprobates, @Lilliburlero @Chris Doyle @tallliman @13 rider and myself we were to be joined by @PeteXXX @Serge and a mate of chris doyle (Martin)
Meeting time was 8:45 so wanting to get some miles in before the ride to make it an 100 miler I set off at around 6:20 with the plan to do a steady pootle and do 32 miles to the meet up.
That went well, I totally ignored the route I had plotted and ended up doing 35 miles and getting their about 8:30 13 Rider and Petexxx were already there, so I shouted to them I would be five minutes and did a loop around Market Bosworth to round the miles to 36.
Eventually everyone rolls in with the exception of tallliman who we were meeting on route and Serge who we found out had had a mechanical and turned back home. A few of the riders were flashing around their British Cycling phone case that they got for finishing a Strava challenge, I said I'd got a letter from them and thought it was spam and didn't know what I'd done with it.
Long story short, the weather was brilliant, we did some climbing, the company was brilliant, Nice Pie was brilliant.
By the time we got back to Market Bosworth @Lilliburlero had just enough miles home to hit his 21st Century of the year
I was 10 miles short of doing a double metric and to be honest I wasn't going to do them........ however............
13 rider had miscalculated and was going to be 10 miles short of an imperial century so he had to find the miles. Now when we do a Market Bosworth ride, the two of us at the end ride to either Ratby or Kirby Muxloe before parting ways. Today we got to Kirby Muxloe and 13 rider wisely suggested we stop at the shops for more fluid. He goes in the shop first and I watch the bikes and also phone number one son. His mam had gone to pick him up from uni today and they were still there so I had time to kill.
Just about to set off from the shops and 13 rider has a flat, so the ten minutes it took to change (might have been quicker) I recovered a bit and decided to do the double metric.
Ending up parting ways with 13 rider at Thurcaston and I rode home finishing on 126.95 miles - didn't go back out to round it up
but did find the letter from BC with the phone case in it 
As usual a great ride in great company, I'm still yet to meet someone on a CC forum ride that I've thought was a nobber, well with the exception of..........
https://www.strava.com/activities/1659478287[/USER]
@13 rider had plotted a route circa 67 miles from Market Bosworth and back. As well as the usual reprobates, @Lilliburlero @Chris Doyle @tallliman @13 rider and myself we were to be joined by @PeteXXX @Serge and a mate of chris doyle (Martin)
Meeting time was 8:45 so wanting to get some miles in before the ride to make it an 100 miler I set off at around 6:20 with the plan to do a steady pootle and do 32 miles to the meet up.
That went well, I totally ignored the route I had plotted and ended up doing 35 miles and getting their about 8:30 13 Rider and Petexxx were already there, so I shouted to them I would be five minutes and did a loop around Market Bosworth to round the miles to 36.
Eventually everyone rolls in with the exception of tallliman who we were meeting on route and Serge who we found out had had a mechanical and turned back home. A few of the riders were flashing around their British Cycling phone case that they got for finishing a Strava challenge, I said I'd got a letter from them and thought it was spam and didn't know what I'd done with it.
Long story short, the weather was brilliant, we did some climbing, the company was brilliant, Nice Pie was brilliant.
By the time we got back to Market Bosworth @Lilliburlero had just enough miles home to hit his 21st Century of the year
I was 10 miles short of doing a double metric and to be honest I wasn't going to do them........ however............
13 rider had miscalculated and was going to be 10 miles short of an imperial century so he had to find the miles. Now when we do a Market Bosworth ride, the two of us at the end ride to either Ratby or Kirby Muxloe before parting ways. Today we got to Kirby Muxloe and 13 rider wisely suggested we stop at the shops for more fluid. He goes in the shop first and I watch the bikes and also phone number one son. His mam had gone to pick him up from uni today and they were still there so I had time to kill.
Just about to set off from the shops and 13 rider has a flat, so the ten minutes it took to change (might have been quicker) I recovered a bit and decided to do the double metric.
Ending up parting ways with 13 rider at Thurcaston and I rode home finishing on 126.95 miles - didn't go back out to round it up
but did find the letter from BC with the phone case in it As usual a great ride in great company, I'm still yet to meet someone on a CC forum ride that I've thought was a nobber, well with the exception of..........
https://www.strava.com/activities/1659478287[/USER]
, which is by far the easiest and fastest ton i`v ever done, with another quality CC ride to bag my first back to back imperials 
. I know I was a bit quiet today, but that was down to doing something that i`d not done before and for me it was a step into the unknown 
but she soon got into the sprit once we got the climb onto the tops and got her feed and watered at the lion inn at Blaky ridge 
