Spoons To 'Spoons (A ThNRC Affair)

it was always going to have to be a special proposition to bring me out of TNRC retirement. and this delivered on all counts. it put a massive tick against every TNRC criteria:

• riding in the dark. riding through the dark.
  
• great route. as with all the TNRC routes this one was perfectly honed by local expertise and experience of the lanes. massive thanks to those that pulled it together, both those on the night and those who had pulled it together in earlier rides
  
• a group of determined colourful riders. all with a lack of respect to the benefits of sleep
  
• great leading and pace making on the road - thanks @cgg for the first part and @cagimaha for the second part. there were moments when I would have been happier rolling slower. but was just right
  
• epic visuals as night turned to day
  
• good beards
  
• shit beers
  
  

was a pleasure to ride with the few of you I had ridden with before @middleofnowhere , @Rodmunch, @cgg (gsiad) and @youramericanlover (we rode together in 1948) and meet the new generation of strong TNRC riders.

the main revelation to me and the thing that occupied my mind in those early hours was something that i know has impacted me in ways i cannot yet foresee. but it is the fact that no two Wetherspoons carpets are the same. I need to revisit my life.