FSoTM ride to Stony + Whaddon

Well it was the 1st Sunday of the month and the 1st Sunday of 2010
I wasn't sure how many would turn up as the temp' was hovering around 0c, I arrived at about 10 to 10 and there was one other hardy soul waiting for me. Within 10 minutes another 7 had turned up. 9 riders is a good amount for a cold winter ride and after saying happy new year to each other we were off before we got too cold.

The paths were a bit frosty in the shade so it was a bit slow and steady for a while, I was on the recumbent trike so no chance of falling off for me, Dave also had the same idea and for once I wasn't the only one on a funny bike :-D
Navigation was easy on the first half of the ride to Stony, all we had to do was keep the A5 on our left until we got there. We stopped a few times to re-group along the way though as the ice was slowing some down, rightly so as I don't like having to call an ambulance out to a fallen rider.

We were going well though and got to the pub stop 1/2 an hr before it opened and decided to carry on instead of hanging around in the cold. Further round most people said they didn't want to stop at the pub so close to home so we split up as some were closer to home than others and we took the redways back towards Bletchley.

The redways seemed slippier (is that a word?) the ice on the new tarmac was better to slide the trike around the corners with the back-end fishtailing all over the place.
Yes I know I'm 42 but it's still fun :-D
2 more left as we came to the golf course and by the time I'd got to Bletchley I was on my own again so was home by 12.30

It was good to see so many out on a winter ride and it's why I still do these rides, I'll have to count them up but I think it will be the 100th ride in December.

I've started logging the rides on my GPS and putting them onto Bikely.
Just put fsotm into the search and they will all come up.