Wednesday Portishead

Might be the warmest day of the year so far so bring your cossie for a dip in the Lido at Portishead.

Route out via Wrington, Cleeve Hill, Nailsea, Belmont and back along the coast via Clevedon.

9.00 start at Priory.

i'll be out see you at 9.Hope i can hang on.

Pace should be fairly relaxed

Cream stop in clevedon

Sunshine but a cold NE wind saw 10 riders leave Priory with Adrian tagging on at the last minute.  Our usual rant up Wick Road to the A370 (we approached 15mph at times) caused Adrian to decide the pace was too high for him and left us to do his own thing.

The climb up  Wrington hill was won by Tony or Martin or Malcolm or Sam, (I think) but the leaders were so far in front I can’t be sure!  After regrouping we dropped down to Cleeve and on to Nailsea.

We waited sometime at the top of Belmont for Pete but, unknown to us he had missed the left turn at the bottom and continued on as far as Flax Bourton before realising his mistake.  He eventually made it to the café and received a round of applause for his perseverance.  Once again it was a café without jam. Or marmalade. Or much else.  We were offered toast with cream!!!  Really?   Some of us settled instead for a bacon sandwich which was surprisingly good.  Those hoping to ogle the waitress from last time were disappointed as she had been replaced by a more down market version.  

Malcolm left us before the café to head back early but the rest of us had an extended tea break before heading home via coast road then Clevedon and Yatton, except for Tony who decided Kingston Seymour would be a nicer route.  A light tail wind helped us achieve a nice average of 24.4 mph on the Congesbury to Wick Road segment, arriving back a lot warmer than when we left.  

See you all next week.

I took the day off for the promised delightful views from the Portishead cafe stop.
Luckily the company there and back made up for it.

Pete Thompson as opposed to Pete G

pedrospedros wrote:Pete Thompson as opposed to Pete G

Yeah. I think we all knew that but you can be known as Rapha Pete from now on!

Are we renaming the Dandy Highwayman??

Maybe. He's not been the same since the devil took his stereo and his record collection. Oh oh you may think....

And they're pretty easy to distinguish. The other Pete qualifies for next year's old age pension.

I had considered nicking their bikes, thereby preventing further confusion but concluded there was no point in robbery when nothing is worth taking.

Anyway the Rapha prefix has been reserved for non-welsh paul, he just loves wrapping himself in clumsy boots and peek-a-boo roots that people think so dashing. Even though he fools his soul his colnago will be mine.