Dandy an disappointed you are not going to watch the RWC and see the mighty All Blacks storm the field and squash the frogs. As I have confidence the All Blacks will stomp it you may see me in the morning as well.
Go the mighty All Blacks

Like you, AJ, I'm not expecting a close game, though Les Frogs may make a better game of it than we're expecting. I will enjoy mtb'ing in the sunshine and watch the game later.

I come over for a Sunday pootle around the Surrey Hills and the 'A' team arrive. A great ride, good company, tasty burger and even the M25 was more or less clear on my way home.

Thank you to whoever helped with repairing my chain , I now have to decide whether to keep it, the rest of the chain is fine so I could continue using it but with a link short. It seems there is a reason for carrying around those tools in my backpack on every ride.

Someone asked for a gpx file of the ride ? Sorry, again I cannot remember , drop me a pm but note the file is of my special alternate route back via the Ranmore Road. Thank you to Dave and Lloyd ? for coming to find me.

I did nearly 28 miles in case anyone is interested in the ride length, but that reduced to 26.5 miles once I had edited my gpx file to delete some backtracking.

On the forum write-up for this ride I posted a reply of

"I tried to make the start line, at least to wave cheerily as I grabbed a late opportunity to get some road miles in with a must-be-home-by-10 sort of route. Alas, too much to do early on so I failed to get to Bocketts in time to be sociable for 5 minutes.

I miss the Newlands ride and will make one of them again, I compensated by doing a 30 mile Newlands road route last night. Sorry, that’s r–d mentioned twice now, cough, I will make amends by posting a picture of the mountain bike I photographed at the Box Hill NT cafe on Sunday morning, looked interesting to me."

Here's the bike which caught my attention, looked lighter than the Scott thing which Barrie rides

Looks lethal! Don't let Danny near it.

A pointless, ill-suited mtb (judging by the forks, wheel size, bars etc.) converted to an equally ill-suited road bike (judging by the wheels, tyres, cassette, chainring).

Looks a miserable ride actually.

It looks scary! Probably very uncomfortable as well.

Another profound example of my mountain bike knowledge the, lots of laughs!

And there I was anticipating comments about it being a serious downhill or jumping machine. Back to the castle then...

Oh, I think you're all being a little harsh. I reckon I could get that up the High Ashurst climb with my thighs of steel, and that head angle and stem look just right for Deliverance .... or even tackling a nice rocky Snowdon descent with those rigid carbon forks