A Saturday ride to remember

Today's ride was shaping up as pretty routine one. Gav had put the call out mid-week for a Ford Road ride of about 75ks nothing too exceptional there BUT it proved to be anything by routine. We hadn't banked on the following factors:

1. Brad "Spartacus" Scriven who had talked up his form all week doing a no show at the last minute
2. Lucie "the gun" joining the boys
3. Dammo hitting the drink for 6 hours on Friday afternoon but still turning up
4. Some very funny text messages between Brad and Dammo's wife (Brad on the drink actually thought he was texting Dammo!!)
5. Kent complaining of a sore knee (HTFU)

So how did this all play out??

Well firstly Dammo and Kent quickly adopted the second wheel position allowing Gav and Lucie to do all the work for the first 35ks!!! I admit to feeling a bit guilty but Lucie had us all working hard. Great effort as we certainly didn't feel up to it. In fact Dammo followed Gav's wheel for 45ks.

Secondly Dammo had us in stitches as he recounted the texting incident from the night before.Without going in to details bottom line was that Spartacus thought he was texting Dammo who had by now passed out after 6 hours of drinking leaving his wife to respond to the text messages. For some inexplicable reason Brad continued texting as if Dammo was on the receiving end and well for those of you have seen the TV ad for the beer economy lets just say Brad would be up for a few cartoons!!

The ride itself was great. Clear sky beautiful morning and back for coffee by 7.45am. Lucie joined us for coffee and we had a good laugh reliving the texting incident from the night before. Brad even called in to defend himself but we were having none of it.

Great work by Gav and Lucie for doing the bulk of the work on the front and a big thank you to Brad for providing the entertainment even if he couldn't make it along for the ride.

It was a Saturday to remember!!