{"id":3094,"date":"2016-02-16T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2016-02-16T21:53:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:53:01","slug":"thursday-11th-february-dans-birthday-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=3094","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 11th February \u2013 Dan\u2019s Birthday Ride."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/24630581249\/in\/album-72157664642691825\/\" title=\"IMG_7111\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1569\/24630581249_4cb9ded0c8.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_7111\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Words by Eric, Pics, and G&#038;T by Pete<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crew;<\/strong> El Pres, Slim, Doog, Butty, TJ, Stunt, Dunc, Big Nick, Gee (with beard !), 3 Sheds, Croxy, Coley, Eric,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Route:<\/strong> BL, OBR, Zig sans Zag, Murderer\u2019s entrance to Tegg\u2019s, Leather\u2019s, Concessionary B\u2019way, Narnia backwards, Charity, Snickett, Standing Stone, Nessit, Middle descent, Leather\u2019s again<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conditions;<\/strong> Dry at last, Mackintoshes not required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats;<\/strong> Slim, minor chain faff<\/p>\n<p><strong>Offs;<\/strong> Non reported<\/p>\n<p>Pete was right, we should remember Dan\u2019s birthday, not the other; and so it was an appropriately large crew who gathered at BL tonight. (wholly Eric approved on this particular occasion)<\/p>\n<p>It was a blessed relief to be riding without waterproofs although most people admitted to overestimating the cold and as a result we were sweating by the bottom of the zig. Part way along the zig Slim remarked to your correspondent that this was the very location where the Presidential chain had shuffled off it\u2019s mortal coil only the other week when \u2013 b\u2019doing, so did Slim\u2019s. If you didn\u2019t know you\u2019d say we were being watched by mischief.<\/p>\n<p>The descent from Teggs proved to be a little sketchy with front wheels following their own calling on the muddy bit at the bottom. An old rally driver friend of mine always used to say \u2013 \u201ccrash backwards, it hurts less\u201d. A short stop was made at the Leathers to order food and then it was on up the long slog to the bridleway and the witch\u2019s cottage. Here we had to let the traffic pass; gets busy on a Thursday evening these days, before crossing to Narnia. Not sure who thinks that walking up here is quicker and more fun than riding round the other way but walk we did. Back on Charity we had to wait for the traffic to pass before joining the route \u2013 gets busy on a Thursday evening these days.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/24904930451\/in\/album-72157664642691825\/\" title=\"IMG_7101\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1524\/24904930451_9b3d843410.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_7101\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The snicket is now nicely washed out, almost back to where it was a few years ago. With time moving on faster than we were, it was every man for himself up to Nessit; sadly your correspondent, considering himself to be well placed mid pack took the scenic route only to find the rest of the crew assembled at the benches, Gin poured, ice and slice in, but anxiously awaiting the arrival of the tonic mule \u2013 oops sorry chaps. With all tonic used to the full, the gins still felt rather robust, with the second sliding down exceedingly easily \u2013 MARVELLOUS.<\/p>\n<p>Soon thoughts turned to Katie and the girls, and to Dan and all the sunshine he brought to us and to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was time to go.<\/p>\n<p>Some reported the ensuing downhill went very smoothly \u2013 others simply reported \u201cwhat downhill\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Very soon we in our spiritual home in the Leathers, with the usual cheery banter; Dan would not have wanted it to be any different.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maccaustinsorguk\/24702695750\/in\/album-72157664642691825\/\" title=\"IMG_7116\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1475\/24702695750_b33422f609.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_7116\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words by Eric, Pics, and G&#038;T by Pete Crew; El Pres, Slim, Doog, Butty, TJ, Stunt, Dunc, Big Nick, Gee (with beard !), 3 Sheds, Croxy, Coley, Eric, Route: BL, OBR, Zig sans Zag, Murderer\u2019s entrance to Tegg\u2019s, Leather\u2019s, Concessionary B\u2019way, Narnia backwards, Charity, Snickett, Standing Stone, Nessit, Middle descent, Leather\u2019s again Conditions; Dry at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tnrs-2016"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}