seen as john said he was going to do the report this week and nowts “appened, well what a good turn wasn”t it?   Did anybody get a head count sunday because maybe 30 riders set off from Dewsbury.     There were martyn, Martin,John,Dave,Jonathan,Craig j, geoff, the  2 Phils,Richard, Paul b,Ben,Jim,Neil,Jeremy ,Les, and many more , can somebody help if ive mist out a name.    For the benifit of the thorpers who had to stay at home due to broken bones or do some more hills in prep for next week, we all set of at a steady pace, dragging the sowerby lads up the only climb of the day, where once the summit was reached our first mechanical hit us, my advise jon would be to take it to Chris at spen velo in cleckheaton, he”s a very good repair man.  Anyhow sadly that was the end for jonathan, who had to turn back after only doing a couple of miles.   The second mech” happened to Dave h with a blow out only just down the road which led to the group now splitting up into smaller groups. I know i”m boring you all with mechanical stuff but it comes clear soon.   Anyhow, the middle group of John,Geoff, jez[jeremy], and the 2 johnsons sped of for Cawood at a blistering tempo reaching the check point in great time with a 19.5 mph avg.  At this stage i think we all thought we might knock it down some but we were swamped up by a large group from Otley who pushed the big ring hard ,which made for good riding all the way to pocklington. And so it came to pass soon after this we had our third mech”, where our new member jeremy showed us how to flatten a  roadside cone at speed!   Once at the cafe it was nice to meet up,  i”m not going to bore you with the journey home but the only high light was watching ben doing a track stand on his bike and falling off, brill.    See you all at 8 next sunday. phil j