Well the social group met at the Rosette. It was a large group, myself, Houghing Jax, Matt the camera, Lorainne, (After Matt's nickname) Ravenscar Chris, Garth,The baked bean family, lucy, who was out on her last ride for a while, Matthew, Mr and Mrs Smith, (not a catchy nickname, so am working on it!) Siobahn, Buttons, young un Nick, Big Nick, Dave, and….. brendon, phew remembered them all!!!

We set off from the Rosette through Scalby and up past Brian Thompson's. A quick stop for a team photo and on we went. Through Harwood Dale and over the road to pick up some wonderful single track to the Mast at Ravenscar. We all tested our balance skills and some failed! No names mentioned! Tho some should know better by now! Next we picked up a section that was shown to us by local lad, Ravenscar Chris. A really fun downhill, narrow and steep. By now  some lights were on so it was great to see the stream of lights down the hill side. Tho those that were first down were not really looking at the lights, i asked them to move along but no they wanted to stay put,

'so we can see when they fall off' ……….Nice riding with friends eh?!

At this point i told everyone who had them to turn on their lights. Some one had forgotten to charge their battery, i ask you!! Daft thing to do! Ok it was me! I sorted everyone out with a moving, sorry light buddy and we were off.A fab piece of edgy single track and then over a field to some farm track and very minor roads downhill. Time was getting on and it was full on dark. A quick blast on the track and we would be home, well we would have been but for Matthew getting severe chain suck. Took a good 10 mins to free. We caught up the rest on the railway line but we found another broken bike, a snapped chain. I did my bossy bit and took over. Lucy had lost her gold link so i demanded another one, snapped orders left right and centre and a few mins later we were off. Well by now we were down to 7 as most had carried on , Jax and Matt gave us light to Burniston and then we were 5. Big Nick took over lighting up the way. Wonderful new lights he had. Hint hint!!!! I left at Scalby and they were 4. Dave and Lorainne would have pulled off at the Rosette and hopefully Big Nick and Lucy would have carried on and got home safely!  

The fast group met at Sawdon, hope they had a good ride???