2012-08-04 - Exmouth Exodus

A beautiful ride (mental note - must do this in daylight) and a great group of new and familiar faces for me. Chapeau to everyone for remaining so good-humoured, all night, in less than ideal conditions - particularly Hats, who would have been justified for punching me for leading her through a monsoon on a mini wild goose chase to the start!

It was a less than ideal start... we rode up a waterfall!!

It was so wet, my mobile disco only worked for part of the evening and then only half at a time.

Quality tunes though, every touring bike needs a banging sound system. Fact.

There are officially no flat bits between Exmouth and Weymouth, so I ended up spending a lot of the bit after the cafe stop in Exmouth grinding up bits of the A35 at 6mph. Got quite familiar with the sound of my own voice. Also arrived at the sailing about half an hour too late to watch the Ainslie gold medal. Gutted.

I can't believe you did this at the end of the night. I rode up (and up and up) the A35 yesterday and it was horrible. Well done for making it - shame about missing the sailing.