Spotted...

Cunt.

I was out with the club this morning, except I was sporting a fetching Rapha/Paul Smith 'Le Grand Depart' jersey (green with white strip) if anyof you lot saw me.

To be fair I was getting annoyed with some of the riders in my group, overtaking people and cutting stright into them. On a number of occasions the non-Dynao riders had to brake to aviod impact. I always have a word with guys that do this.

We ride from 0830 from the central car park now - a decision born out of the fact we always seemed to be in the way at the roundabout so we are conciousness.

For us it's somewhat annoying that people get upset with us. Yes we ride fast, but the Sat morning ride is a club training ride. Summertime things get difficult (as per today) there are a feck ton more riders out in the park. But we ride Sat mornings all year round and it's only 3/4 months when things get so crowded.

AS a club the Sat riders are the most popular and therefore the most important in bringing the club together, individuals being able to meet each other. The number of people who are now in the club compared to 5/6 years ago when we only had 25/30 is testament to how well the club is run and how good it is.

To some degree we are are a victim of our own success.

Every single rider I know and have ever met at Dynamo (bar none) have been top people and are all about their sport. Sometimes the Sat ride gets crowded (at one point today climbing up the steep part of Sawyers Hill there must have been 35 riders climbing up at the same time), but we tend to be overtaking, so we are off on our way fairly quickly.

Sorry rant over, but please realise the club is good, but like you (i'm sure) I believe our courtesy in the park could be improved. This I think I will put forward to Jason and see if it can be worked on.

If you re-read my post you will see the word "mainly" so there was some dumb behavior from LD and also from others, the main incident I refer to was not actually in the park. (Though drafting a 4x4 down the hill and all the way along the bottom at speed looked pretty poor TBH, I wouldn't trust drivers not to do something stupid and brake hard causing a massive pile up) As I say, I know plenty of dynamos, I like the club but today did give me an insight as to why many people seem to have a problem with them, the overtaking and cutting in thing only really matters if you're not used to riding in a group, but I suppose many saturday morning park riders are not.

And please don't call me a cunt unless you would like a punch up?