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A ride of many different parts this morning, led by the famously outed brompton rider, on whose bike the Argos respray was looking glorious. Eight of us left Oxford station at midnight, but after watching the ISS passing overhead as we paused in Cowley, someone's gorgeous Burls Ti fixxxie developed a slipping seatpost and rounded bolt, so he and his partner bailed and got the Oxford Tube back home. The remaining six skimmed along quiet starlit roads to Thame, where there were the usual drunks and a big police presence at one pub.
Then the climb up Chinnor Hill, by which time the ISS had completed another orbit and sailed past, a bit lower in the south. Some gorgeous (if slightly dark and gravelly) descents brought us to Smalldean Lane. I was on the 1989 Rockhopper Comp and so had the gears needed to get to the top (slowly). Then down through Naphill to another crazy descent into Hughenden Valley, more comedy drunks falling over, picking each other up and dropping each other in High Wycombe.
We invaded Tesco at Loudwater for sustenance before heading up to Beaconsfield, through Chalfont St Peter, Harefield, Ruislip, Greenford, Ealing and then breakfast at Paolo's in Acton where we were greeted by four friends, including a couple of folk from on here. Then a slow plod home. I could do with sleep.