May Round-up And Video

May Round-up And Video

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The general consensus will have to be that May was not as good as it looks on the video. Sunny days were plentiful but the temperatures never managed to match the appearance, a bit of cosmic window dressing to fool us into thinking we could drag our summer riding kit from the bottom of the wardrobe, only to find ourselves shivering on windswept hilltops.

Plenty of Billy No Mates rides for me owing to the non appearance of just about everyone except for The Ginger One and The Pensioner. Thousands of pounds worth of bikes sitting in garages and sheds while their owner's atrophy in the name of domestic harmony.

The Pensioner’s default settings of despondency and misanthropy evaporated with the delivery of his electric bike, leading to the bizarre situation of a grinning OAP waiting for us at the top of climbs and whirring past as we grind it out on the ascents. Such is his new found enthusiasm, he rode six out of seven days on his new toy, just when we were beginning to think the only voltage which would get him going was a defibrillator.

At one point the road bike saw daylight for the first time since Xmas, for a ride, with the anorexics, round the Yorkshire Dales. The 29er was treated to a new drivetrain, joined the modern world and changed it to 1x10 with a 32 tooth oval front ring, another good job done by the lads at Stockton Cycling And Running. On one ride during the month I even managed some good old fashioned Boulder And Bike, a ride round Guisborough Woods, Newton Moor and Easby Moor mixed with a spot of climbing on Cook’s Crags.

According to the weather forecasters, June and July are going to be the hottest months since The Day The Earth Stood Still, although with only two days until June, it is still colder than an ex-wife’s stare.