Tell us about your weekend ride

nice write up clubman (captain)

^^^ Nice report, clubman. Do write up more like this.

For the first time I serviced a bike yesterday with rod brakes. The mechanism is pleasing but it's so cumbersome to remove wheels!

Thanks for your comments, both of you.

As to more reports, not every weekend ride has anything worth reporting.

Servicing rod brakes: This is quite a skilled job - it can be difficult to get the brake blocks correctly positioned, and if the rims are not in good condition (e.g. not perfectly round) the brakes will never work well. With the right skill and tools it is often possible to cure flats in these rims.

I spoke to Ray Miller this evening and as I suspected he is a former racing man. He was very modest about his racing career which he said was the best part of forty years ago, but 'admitted' to having won a number of hill climbs and riding a 238 mile twelve. So racing improves the breed, and its effects can be very long lasting.