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Just back from a Box Hill loop with Bernie, Al, Branwen and OLC, followed by nachos and Guinness in some dive pub in Streatham. Glorious sunshine the whole day. After grinding my way, red-faced, to the top of a small incline on KTBee's generously loaned road bike, Al suggests that I might like to drop my gear. "Use the small ring", he says. "Oh, is that what that's for?" replies some chump.
After doing what I was told I wasn't able to get the shifters to go back into the big chainring so had to spin morosely downhill for the next 30 miles like a madman. Good fun, though.