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Good wee run out today apart from broken chain and clunky gears. Bike in being repaired so hopefully ready for next Sunday. Enjoyed the coffee and chat as always Darryl. Hope Mia for back okay after her mechanical and thanks to everyone who helped me with my broken chain. Was also nice to see some new female faces in the bunch today

Surpassed myself today. Rode out to bishy hill. Met Paul on the way. Then Billy joined us. Nice wee chat. Rode about for a bit waiting for the bunch. Was at summit of hill already to go when noticed I in smAll chain. Tried to put in big ring but wouldn’t go in so got off bike and tried to do it manually. Chain dropped as Bunch past me. Took a wee while to sort then tried to chase down The Renfra bunch. Ridiculous idea. More chance of getting a date with Julia Roberts than catching them. My very good pal Billy MAC dropped off for me and the two of us did a 60 mile + 2 up. We were not that far behind them as they all still in Largs when we rode in. I showed my annoyance by ignoring them all and comforted myself with a bagel basket coffee. Must say though Billy & I give it. Fair lick & think I worked a lot harder as a 2 up. Billy did reminisce about our previous road races when the 2 of us would be with the bunch for a few minutes get spat out then do a 2 up. Ah memories!!! ps as non Jwcc event does not qualify as early contender for hamoc

Good ride and a couple of big groups today, the slush and ice was strangely only really east of Stewarton for about mile towards Fenwick - on the way back we took a slight detour to avoid it (and also thorns on the road from the hedge cutting) but it was slushy there too. But Moscow circuit and elsewhere was fine.

Nice ride out with the 9.30 bunch until we encountered ice between Stewarton and Fenwick. I’m sure folk will report that it was ok beyond that point, but I’m very risk averse these days and once I’d seen the ice it would have been on my mind for the rest of the ride. Me and Iain had a pleasant run back with coffee at the Bowfield.

As I am the nice guy I went back to help him we actually did get close to getting back on and if you’d just held back for another couple of minutes we would have bridged , but at least we didn’t take the short cut saw the four at Greenock , we just carried on round the coast it was actually good fun

Hey Charlie Sorry about your latest and greatest mechanical mishap today - I know I should not jest...its not funny. As you know I had just joined bunch 100m before and was not sure of mood so when I said slow up there was a young man ( not appropriate to name in public) who said crack on its the Renfrew bunch. After some hesitation there was a crack on. Now here's the thing - the same young man punctured in Greenock and had to fall on his sword and get left behind - karma or what Anyway - once you've cooled down - tell the world how you managed to not get on the bunch at top of Bishy hill

Did the role of flapjack delivery boy today and got a wee spin out (not on the track as it was too icy). Good to have a chat with some familiar and new faces at the club rooms. Stuart, I have your keys. I’ll PM you for getting them back. R

Yip too icy for me so decided to do coast run with bogs bunch. Was with them for 1 second but that is another story

Taken more dives than Juergen Klinsmann. Get well soon, Ginty.