Mountain Night Ride Baiku
Driving home the car tells me its 3 degs C…brrr…many layers required tonight…discover I still own a fleece balaclava at bottom of drawer…decide not to risk overheating and stick with bandana…into shed and hmmmmm decisions as both bikes painfully clean…lights onto Avalanche and spin along the road…beep beep beep ‘single file’ shouted from a car…Mike pops a defiant bunny hop in the middle of the road…dart down the footpath…fancy a hard ride tonight so wind the pace up…a muddy section appears alarmingly quickly and I swerve all over the place...up the hill down the track and onto the road once more…bike and I are both filthy now…into the woods and Mike puts the hammer down…out the other side and onto the farm track the pace doesn’t relent…down the field footpath a hare is awoken by our lights and runs alongside…into the woods again and ouch I am slapped in the face by a branch...it hurts more than normal due to the cold…race Mike up the short sharp climb then back onto the road…discuss the next ride before Mike peels off for home…slip onto the big ring for my fast ride home…admire the mud covered Avalanche before locking the shed…MrsGT serves up meat pie with potatoes various vegetables and gravy
…best ride of my life 
Driving home the car tells me its 3 degs C…brrr…many layers required tonight…discover I still own a fleece balaclava at bottom of drawer…decide not to risk overheating and stick with bandana…into shed and hmmmmm decisions as both bikes painfully clean…lights onto Avalanche and spin along the road…beep beep beep ‘single file’ shouted from a car…Mike pops a defiant bunny hop in the middle of the road…dart down the footpath…fancy a hard ride tonight so wind the pace up…a muddy section appears alarmingly quickly and I swerve all over the place...up the hill down the track and onto the road once more…bike and I are both filthy now…into the woods and Mike puts the hammer down…out the other side and onto the farm track the pace doesn’t relent…down the field footpath a hare is awoken by our lights and runs alongside…into the woods again and ouch I am slapped in the face by a branch...it hurts more than normal due to the cold…race Mike up the short sharp climb then back onto the road…discuss the next ride before Mike peels off for home…slip onto the big ring for my fast ride home…admire the mud covered Avalanche before locking the shed…MrsGT serves up meat pie with potatoes various vegetables and gravy
…best ride of my life 
