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Llani Boy
An absolutely glorious Autumn day for a bike ride, cool, breezy with blue skies. We firstly went out to Flagg and over to Earl Sterndale, Crowdicote, Brund, Warslow and down into the Manifold Valley. Back up to Hartington and along the gated cowshit covered road to Pilsbury and then up to Parsley Hay where refreshments were taken from the Blueberry Kiosk.
Whilst enjoying a Date Slice we were approached by two fit young ladies who asked if we had a pump. One of them had found on taking her mountain bike out of her car that her rear tyre was completely flat. I managed to inflate it with my little Lezyne pump, which surprised me as it was pan flat and was I expecting it to be punctured.
I asked the girls if they were local, as I was prepared to let them have my pump and they could drop it off at a later date. Local they were not, they had driven up from Leicester that morning for a ride on the High Peak Trail. FFS.
Then there was a heated argument between a dog walker and a cyclist including the lines of "you nearly killed my dog you arsehole" " no I didn't you deaf twat, I rang my bell". It went on for a few minutes and was getting close to blows being exchanged. One of the Leicester girls chipped in with "look you two no one got ****ing killed". Nice.
I then realised that I knew the dog walker, who regularly marshalls and timekeeps on some local fell races so my friend and I intervened and managed to get them both to agree to disagree!
Back on the bikes we returned to Earl Sterndale, Chelmorton, Taddington and a nice blast down the A6 to Ashford in the Water and Bakewell before the uphill drag home.
An eventful day of 50 miles, 4,934 feet in a steady 3hr 42min.
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