Three of us went out today and got soaked through and the top of the windings it was chucking it down with snow I think much the same is forcast for sunday.

I,ve had enough punishment already this weekend

We done the Falcon run via the windings 28 miles hanging on behind Carl and Andy

We noticed you weren't there

I should have just texted Andy really. There were a few riders out, although I missed them as I was in bed (not realising there was a ride) and went out later. I bumped into Andy doing the Falcon run - we were going in opposite directions. Great cycling weather for a change.  Pity about the motorists on the Whitby road who seemed to want to take me out with their wing mirrors.  I almost emptied my air horn, I was cut up that often. I even got overtaken - with inches to spare - on blind corners and before hidden dips. Idiots.

It was nice in the lanes, although Reasty bank was a bit of a struggle on a 68-inch fixed (48×19). But I'll keep plugging away on one gear for a bit. It was spurred by the talk we had on improving your TTing speed some time ago. The bloke giving the talk made one very simple point – that to go faster you need to do one of two things:

1. Pedal with a faster cadence.

2. Pedal a higher gear.

There are things you can do to make these things easier, but if you don't ultimately do one of them (or a combination of both) you won't go any faster. Hence the practice in spinning (i.e. downhill on fixed) and higher gear stuff (uphill on fixed). We'll see if it works.

yes, it will definatly be on crossgates bus stop @6:30pm thursday.