After bidding Irene farewell (date tba) six Bs headed basically south. The ideal route I checked out a few weeks ago included four nice off-road stretches but I thought ‘Perhaps not today’. We wound our way to join the dreaded A244 (Esher-Oxshott road) but only until we could turn into the peace and quiet of Sandy Lane. The road into Cobham wasn’t very busy, from where we headed to Effingham Junction, Effingham and Bookham via the Lower Road. Today’s hill was Bagden from the north where we pulled in to let a large lorry pass. Soon, when descending, we caught up with the lorry – he had met a motorist ascending and they couldn’t pass. The motorist reversed some distance down Bagden before they could pass. We followed the lorry down, passing the spot where there used to be a notice ‘Beware adders’. The notice has long gone – perhaps the adders couldn’t multiply ? By now Grant had peeled off and we arrived at The Stepping Stones, Westhumble just before 1300. We had had the odd spot of drizzle but were glad to get in the pub where we dried/warmed up and ate very well, maybe a little slow service but we weren’t in a hurry.
After lunch we all decided to head for home and forego ‘threes’, riding together to Leatherhead then parting company, hopefully arriving home before the rain.
Thanks to Tony for tec and use of phone plus Gill, Liz and Stephanie for company.
~ Terry
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