Hell of the North (London)

Bloody great ride, can't believe i made it over the gravel descents with hard 23s and didn't puncture.

Anyone else pass the farmers who had apparently brandished a shotgun at a rider for taking a piss on their land? When we passed there was group and the pisser was on the phone to the police explaining the situation with the farmer up in his face and three police cars passed us going in that direction.

I came by just as it was kicking off-I thought the big farmer was going to beat the shit out of him so hung out for a bit.

The guy's missus was frantically trying to fix a double puncture whilst it was all going on so they could get away-credit to him for staying calm with that troll breathing on him. The gist of it was he stopped to take a piss against a fence, the farmer saw him, went inside, got shotgun, fired at/over him and then came down with his family (who later emerged to be retired east end gangsters). Pretty horrible, the old geezer was a total nut and seemed to think that 'breaking every bone in his body starting with his face' was a reasonable thing to do. They then wised up to the fact the po-po were en route and started trying to say he'd 'exposed himself' to their 13 year old daughter (who coincidentally was laughing in the background...) and had shot at a magpie.

wac!

I buggered off when they had fixed their bike and were heading to meet the police so glad to hear they were ok-totally random nonsense for such a beautiful day!
I'd been powering along (well for me that is) up till that point too and had to struggle along by myself for a good 20 mins till I caught up with anyone again, then was totally out of rythym.

Good finale in the pub though ;)