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Well, it looks as though we've got a useful little group for our 'Day in June', as it now turns out to be.
A more imaginative name could be an improvement here.
As discussed above, there's no need to decide the exact route and cafe stop - we'll see who turns up and how we feel on the day. I will try to check before hand that all the possible cafes are open. We can talk about possible road hazards before we set off, but I will mention now that we are likely to go down Winter Hill (shortly before Marlow) and this is a fairly steep descent with a longish straight section followed by a sharp hairpin. Be careful of this one!
Something which may encourage us to go for a longer distance is the possibility of riding the Veteran-Cycle Club's 'Classic Century Ride' on the 14th July. I'm tempted to have a go at this although it's a long time since I rode 100 miles in a day. If you're not already in the V-CC I think,
with your interests, you would find membership a worthwhile investment.
I stand corrected about the current popularity of tubs (at least in this group). But on this subject have a look at the attached pic. It dates from the mid '70s and was taken by Bernard Thompson (a well known Cycling photographer and journalist at the time) it is one of my all time favourite cycling photos. He titled it 'On Rockingham Hill', but I'd be inclined to call it 'Jeff Demonstrates the Superiority of Tubs'. Jeff Marshall is the rider near the centre with the black and white panelled cap - he looks happy while most of the others look as though they are being tested, and they are on heavy 27" pressures which are really better suited to the grit strewn February roads. The riders on heavy tyres were also on single gears - mostly fixed.
I wasn't on that year's ride, but I did go on some subsequent ones (it was an annual 'training' weekend, 100 miles on Saturday, same on Sunday back home), and I can tell you we had an awful lot of puncture trouble with light tyres.
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