It's been a while....

Hi all, so slow to post lately as life's been busy when you get a poorly toddler. Finally my bamboo bike was ready to ride, so in honour of this myself and Jay decided to ride Surrey Hills. I have to confess being a wuss with my old lady knees I have only ever managed 2 hills in one ride, so the 3 hill challenge of Pitch,Holmbury and Leith was on...... We started at the youth hostel climbing up to Holmbury first and I was astonished to find that I rode in the middle ring climbing a very unusual thing for me, this in turn was thanks to the lightweight bamboo which made a huge difference to my riding. After yoghurt pots we headed towards BKB, the work the guys at Hurtwood have done is commendable, BKB was fast and fun I even got air eekkk but there's a lot of braking bumps going on....climbed up Pitch next and over to Winterfold near the gorgeous Windmill Jay pushed me to do new trails and steeper trails, having never been here before it was fun albeit a bit gloppy, back up to Pitch down a T trail (not sure which) we then stopped at the bottom at Peaselake stores for a cuppa
The bamboo turned a lot of heads there as u can imagine and we bumped into Lesley and wheezy so had some company to slog up to Leith throwing in yoghurt pots and telegraph en route, I have to be honest I was just at the limit coming up to the tower but because of the cold we didn't hang around too long!! Back down and up Holmbury once more and another spin on telegraph at a quicker speed the new bike was amazing flowing off the steps really well. I was pleased to find 3000 feet roughly of climbing done, there was the odd steep trail that spooked me but a good ride! Have managed to get out yesterday briefly now my son is better also and a family ride before work tonight is due, I decided not to race today as I can't justify spending the money on short racing at the moment