BathMTB: Re: Ride Report Wds 19 Oct

[Chris Fice]

Marvelous composition and an excellent, if cold, ride. 

I also purchased a pair of endura overshoes and some woolie boolie socks today. I even re-sealed the cleat holes in the bottom of my shoes!

Chris


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On 20 Oct 2011, at 16:52, Steve Gallagher <Steve.Gallagher at futurenet.com> wrote:

> Bravo!
> 
> Cold night, warm toes - recommend the Enduro Mtb overshoes.
> 
> Back home in time for lasagne and Independence Day - top night all round!
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 20 Oct 2011, at 4:38 pm, Aileen Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Remarkable....the poem and the bunker. I heard whispers of this last night but my toes were too cold to care about where the queen would hang out in a nuclear event.
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>> Sent: 20 October 2011 16:21
>> To: BathMTB at topica.com; bathmtb at mtb-oz.com
>> Subject: Ride Report Wds 19 Oct
>>  
>> This weeks Ride Report delivered mostly in the form of a poem:
>>  
>> The forecast was for rain and cold
>> The number brave depleted
>> Chris, Aileen, Steve and Andy
>> the only ones not defeated
>>  
>> They headed out from the town
>> Box Woods the destination
>> Along the canal, across the Meadows
>> Up through Bathford to Kingsdown
>>  
>> From there off-road
>> The trails soft and leafy
>> The grass wet and slippy
>> The knobbly tyres grippy
>>  
>> Before Box Woods Fig Rolls
>> From the Co-Op “They’re the best”
>> Into the woods, lights in the trees
>> UFOs, The Others or the Woodland Trolls?
>>  
>> A group from Melksham
>> It turned out to be
>> How many of them?
>> Just the three
>>  
>> “Where are we?” Chris says
>> Another history lesson follows
>> Above the Secret Underground City*
>> Below the sleepy hollow
>>  
>> Rudloe descent
>> fast and flowing
>> Climb to Colerne
>> Just keeps on going
>>  
>> Along the top
>> The cold beginning to bite
>> Only Steve in his booties
>> had warm toes tonight
>>  
>> Bannerdown
>> they barrelled down
>> Through the trees
>> The carpet of leafs
>>  
>> The London Road
>> Back into town
>> Too cold to stop for a pint
>> Their separate ways they go
>> into the night
>>  
>> In keeping with past this weeks – a link to the history lesson homework:
>> http://www.burlingtonbunker.co.uk
>> Chris asked if it’s possible to get access – not any more apparently, concern now over asbestos contamination.
>>  
>> Finally, Aileen asked where’bouts for Oktoberfest results:
>> http://www.timelaps.co.uk/assets/uploads/EVENTREPORT.aspx?eventid=186AshtonCourt15/10/2011
>>  
>>  
>> Hopefully a few more fit next week? Or are they all ‘tucked up for the winter’ now?
>>  
>> O/O
>> Andy
>>  
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