Brrrr - Chilly Run to Beeston

A lower than usual turnout this week, with only Patron, Chrissie, Robbo, Vino, Rocket and Ronnie.

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Welshpool leg stretcher 9th March 2013

Cast - Patron, Robbo, Tudor, Lantern, Chrissie, Brownie, Vino, Baby Brio, Candle. This week's damp and miserable weather didn't do much to deter the Crapi's enthusiasm for the mud spattered back roads of N Wales and N Shropshire. It was also one of those days when you just didn't know what to wear. Not in the Arran sweater vs Tanktop sense (you know what I mean Lantern), but in the 'what exactly do I need to be warm but not too warm' sense. Tudor's unique answer to this conundrum was of course 'summer shorts'. By 'eck they breed them tough in Rhostyllen, I was cold just looking at him!

Sunny outing to Beeston - 2nd of March 2013

The best day's weather of the Winter (or is it officially Spring now?) resulted in the highest Crapi turn out so far, even surpassing last year's Wild Wales! I have to admit that the ever increasing popularity of the Crapi peloton is testing my memory, but if it serves me correctly, reporting for duty were Patron (I've been bad all week), Chrissy and Ronnie (both full of cold), Rocket (full of EPO), Lantern (full of sh*t), Cabbage (gotta get back for the football), Vino, Robbo, Baby Brio, Craig, Candle, Waudy (pink's the new black apparently), Coppi, Chad and Brownie. Hopefully I haven't missed anyone. Despite staying together for the first 15 miles or so, we eventually broke into 2 groups as we hooked up with half a dozen other riders shortly before Malpas. Group 1 then made fairly brisk progress through Bickerton, Peckforton and on to Beeston, and were just starting their full English brekkies when group 2 rounded the corner into the Car Park. A similar scenario was re-enacted on the return leg. Rocket made his trademark attack from behind (sneaky bugger) on the rise just before Bangor on Dee, to which Vino and Robbo responded with gusto. The sudden rush of blood to the heads had however clearly clouded our judgement, as everyone then careered around the bad blind bend into Bangor on the wrong side of the road. If there'd have been a Massey Ferguson coming the other way, the Crapi peloton would have been permanently halved! Fortunately everyone managed to stay upright apart from Waudy, whose combined velocity, trajectory and low centre of gravity served to deposit him in a hawthorn hedge on the opposite side of the road. Fortunately no real harm was sustained by Waudy or his shiny new Kuota. Great ride boys, see you next week!