Seventeen of us left Cobham for a bracing and sunny morning ride through quiet relaxing country lanes, wooded paths, canal paths, wartime airstrips, fords and floods to lunch at Castle Green near Chobham. About half way through our meal we noticed it had started to rain, and by the time we re-started after lunch it was bucketing down. The rain made it very difficult to see anything at all thru' the lenses of my wrap-around cycling spectacles, and unlike my everyday spectacles I am unable to peer over the top to see where I am going. This is my excuse for losing my way just after lunch causing us to have to turn round and retrace our steps. We cycled along Gracious Pond River and Foxhills Road to Addlestone and then Weybridge where the party unanimously decided to omit tea and get home into the dry as soon as possible.
Frank H cleverly avoided the afternoon soaking by arranging for Francoise to have a puncture in the morning while we were crossing the airport at Wisley. Not wanting to delay the rest of us, they told us to go on, and, after replacing the tube, they decided to make for home, which they reached at lunchtime completely dry.
John Gould
Frank H cleverly avoided the afternoon soaking by arranging for Francoise to have a puncture in the morning while we were crossing the airport at Wisley. Not wanting to delay the rest of us, they told us to go on, and, after replacing the tube, they decided to make for home, which they reached at lunchtime completely dry.
John Gould
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