Meldrews

Another Sunday and another Meldrews Sunday breakfast.

This time we were meeting further north to give the more northerly members a shorter ride. So it was the turn of Gibson's Farm Shop. 

It's only about twenty miles for me. The countryside through Sene Valley and Elham Valley is rolling downs dotted with sheep and vineyards on the south facing slopes  The downs here are chalk just like the famous Champagne hills to the south in France.

Sadly the sun brings out all kinds of pests. The biggest is cyclistese lycracladious.  They can be found either individually or most commonly in large groups. And it is these that annoy everyone, whether in a car or riding a motorcycle.

The arrogance level is through the roof. It's almost impossible to measure but it is evident as soon as you close on them.

That aside. The weather was warm and sunny and with us now officially in Spring riding is so much better.

Breakfast and chat over it was time to get back home. Almost the same route back until Lyminge when there was a holdup and I explored a new route across to the main Canterbury road. 

In places both routes have very narrow sections that are mirror banging narrow and other sections of long sweeping bends and short straights.

Superb on a Rocket.

Once home.

So. Another 40 miles under the wheels. Pitiful but I need to do better!

Earlier in the year I zeroed Trip 2 and will leave it for the year and see how many miles I can do.