Saturday 18th January 2014



Hannah - our Rider of the Week



We kicked of the year with one of our favourite Youth Ride routes, the Penshurst Loop, taking in the infamous Grove Road.  Our six young riders tackled the challenge head on, after some restorative jelly babies we enjoyed the descent towards Chiddingstone Causeway that gave us an amazing view of the flooded fields.  Ignoring the "Road Closed" sign near Weald we experienced first hand a mini flood across the road and there was much whooping and cheering and only moaning and groaning from the adults.  Well done to everyone who rode today, especially Tom and Ellen who were testing out new shoes and cleats and Hannah who was nominated rider of the week for tackling the climbs with confidence and speed.

An hour later we were meeting up again for our puncture repair workshop.  This was a chance to share ideas about the best way to deal with this thorny problem.  Everyone got stuck in and by the end of the session we'd all had a go at repairing a tube and taking a wheel and tyre off to replace a tube.  Just need to keep practising now.

Have you done it yet Mum?

Ashley brought his own thorn (in his tyre), Luke and Toni playing inner tube hoopla

 

Ellen getting to grips with the track pump

 
 

Intrepid Youth Riders who braved the floods