Second of our Ride Socials, brilliant turnout again considering the weather. Some familiar faces, a couple returning again from last week and a couple of new ones, eleven of us in total venturing out in the less than hospitable conditions, brave or foolish, you decide. Nice coffee stop at Brandreth Barn, need to back there again sometime! Ride wasn’t too bad actually, rained for about 30 minutes that’s all, other than that it was just windy. Hats off to Carole J furthest she’d ever rode by quite a distance, plus she was determined that Farley Lane wasn’t going to get the better of her, stayed on the bike all the way up, gutsy effort. Thanks for coming along everyone, hope you enjoyed the ride.

Final thanks to Mark for back-marking and to Anthony for hanging back at the junctions to make sure we didn’t lose anyone, certainly made my role a lot easier fella’s, much appreciated.

Ready for what surprises the weather had in store!

50 years married and still side by side!

Half way up Farley Lane, little did Carole know what was to come!

Beginning to realise perhaps!

She did by this stage!

So did this lot, almost at the top, job done!

Smiling faces once more, Farley Lane not what its cracked up to be!

Just an idea of the undulations we encountered. Great downhill to start with, couple of even greater uphills to finish off with!