2009-06-27 Sat Midnight - Overnight to Brighton

Did anyone else witness the mad overtake? Somewhere round Reigate I think. I think it was a taxi that decided to overtake a car that was overtaking us. It drove clean up onto the pavement which could only have been just about wide enough to fit and flew down it at 30-40 mph. Not as if the roads were busy, stunning level of impatience, you almost have to respect such bad decision making, almost.

I didn't hear about that on the ride, but yes, the Reigate one-way system is a bit of a low point on the ride. Glad nothing else happened there.

They've filled in some of the dangerous potholes but left other completely untreated, so you still have to be pretty careful when coming off the speed buzz down Reigate Hill. When I recced that part of the ride, I decided to always stop the ride on coming into Reigate, just so everybody could regain their focus and come out of the blur of descending at speed. Also, moving into the one-way system as a group definitely makes movement through it easier.