Advance notice: During the video footage it would appear I am having an intense conversation with myself - fear not viewers - insanity has not sunk in that far (yet) - simply us chatting over the bike to bike system.
So Friday comes around again and our weekly date with the green lanes of Warwickshire and locality is upon us, today we don't have a lot of time so we choose a few lanes local to our Stratford HQ and set out (via Costa Coffee for cappuccino's and latte - we are soooo sophisticated around here!) to the first starting point just outside Newnham.
Nice little lane this - apart from the rutted bit which almost threw Ben off, unfortunately he stayed on so no funny footage (damn).
We passed a couple of horses and made sure to slow down and act like grown ups (hard hard) and received pleasant nods in return and exited the lane in Aston Cantlow.
We bottled the ford outside Aston Cantlow and after digging Steves bike out of the loose gravel we traveled on to lane 2.
On to lane 2 at Great Alne which was another easy peasy lane through very pretty hedges and loads of low hanging tree branches.
Short fag break for the addicts and then over a small road and on thru to lane 3 towards Alcester with some again easy tracks which suited the big GS perfectly.
Evidence of hooligans playing off the track was evident on part of the lane.
The next mission was to break our fording cherry and so to Coughton Ford we went - and played at boats (no pun intended) for a few minutes.
And finally the Titanic crossing...
Playtime over, we took lane 4 - our most challenging lane yet (Coughton - New End) - loads of big stones and rocks made the bike buck around a bit giving us an easy transition to learning how to work with the bike rather than against it.
One little muddy bit saw Ben almost off again - but he saved it with some leg waving
Once we had finished that lane it was on to lane 5 at Walcote which was a very nice ending to the day as the lane was a nice mixture of earth & gravelly track.
The gatekeeper didn't charge!
Finally winding up on the Alcester road via our final obstacle course...
Another fab friday frenzy on the local lanes, Alun.. look what you started!
Videos to follow.
