Gerard Deeley

Good day out today, hope everyone else enjoyed it too. It turns out the cakes were a thank you to the Jets for pacing me up the Haylie?!

I will be there for the middle route. I will bring some baking for afterwards.

Today I will be mostly hungover, I will be in a better state on Sunday.

Lovely to see Bike’s first pictures, it has been a long wait since you first announced you were expecting a new arrival. Hope to see you two out and about soon.

What is the plan and route. I could manage a couple of hours before ruining it all on a lunch out.

I have had better starts to a ride, not getting onto the bike track proper before puncturing from all the glass shards. That meant a bit of a push on my own to catch up with everyone else, not helped by me not paying attention to the route. There is something quite amazing and heartwarming to see everyone waiting for you, so a big thank you to everyone who was there, a new measure of reliability. Maybe I should also post up recipes for Paul Leavy.

Meeting up at the ferry in Goirock for a wee run around Ardentinney and Loch Eck if anyone else wants to join us.

I plan on bring out for the 0900 group, that is where the cool guys hang out.

My main issue is that of segregation v integration. For a relatively short section of road the proposal favours removing bikes onto their own dedicated lanes. I strongly feel that this will just move and concentrate issues of road sharing and safety to roads before and after the cycle track. We have all been on bike lanes that abruptly stop before junctions, where they are most needed. I know the section of road and there is ample room for a bike lane on both sides of the road. Make sure it is painted with a solid line so that there can be stricter enforcement. At junctions have the bike box at the front and a dropped kerb onto the pavement, giving cyclists the chioce of staying with traffic or usinf pedestrian signals. This does appear to be very much a box ticking project that has access to funding because of the bike provision and will do little to benefit the local people whilst massively increasing congestion I could go on and on...but I am in favour of safer roads and appropriate good quality provision for cyclists. Yet as we all know it is dangerous, inconsiderate drivers that are at the heart of this issue.

I will get round to it next week.

I have had a look at the proposals as this will directly affect my commuting route and they are very poorly thought through. I will be venting at one of the public consultations, pop along at the same time for the entertainment at least.

You will not be expected to wear something like this then...

Thirteen years of not using the proper Campagnolo tool! There ought to be some sort of penance for this.

Take care and mend well Ian, news like this gives us all a fright.

Will the lovely bike be too shiney to ride in sunshine and the glare from all of the chrome, yet at the same time too good to ride on overcast days when there is even the slightest risk of rain? It does look marvellous, just the job for a cycle in the Yorkshire Dales.

Amaretto for 0945, then Bowfield, Stewarton and the dams back to Paisley.

There is a group of us that meet up on Tuesdays, often meeting at 0930. I will put up the details unless you have a plan already.

I will be out with the 0930 group, but I may be down in time to join the 0900 group and make up number (if there is one).

I have three passengers so my bike rack is full, but do not be stuck if I can help out in any way. Just need to get some crayons and juice pouches to keep everyone occupied.

That is my car and bike rack full, Chung, Carol and Robert now have several hours of my music to suffer.

I got the small double in the Kings Head Inn, Kettlewell. They offered the standard double too, so I assume it is still available. Booking.com had very little available so accomodation is getting harder to find. Still plenty of places left for the actual ride though.

That is my entry in now, I will have to do some tr**n*ng I suppose. I will be driving down on the Saturday, so I am open to offering a lift.

I am buying a new chain tomorrow now.

Sub four minutes! Can this unique segment be done in either direction?

I clearly cannot handle a night out, will be out another day.