What a great session – sometimes these track sessions feel like you’ve gone in a minibus singing along to reach your destination in high spirits with all your mates! Yes, it was one of those – though we had to temporarily dial-up our community “pretend normal” setting to welcome (and not scare off) two great new pilots, Agnes and Ian. Soon it became clear they fit our crazy bunch exceptionally well, so we had 1.5hrs of banter, fun and all-important riding.
As part of inducting, we do like to do the slow race; often, this can descend into mayhem – hence the need to do it within the safe confines of the track! Thankfully, Drew was ready to take charge, lay down the ground rules, tell people off for not sticking in their lane or trying to bend the rules (you know how you are – starting with L and ending on ouise with K ending on athryn! trying to set off seconds after everyone else!) and general refereeing.
We had worthy winners, Nicola and Joanne, who did indeed go very slow, and in the second race, Barney and myself managed to go so slow we were investigated afterwards by Drew to check we played fair – we did. Top tip here: Barney did cunningly stick everything in the lowest gear. Other highlights included Stephen and Agnes whizzing around at great speed and making low-speed mini-handling loops with ease. Drew and Colette also tried to try and break the land speed record on Drew’s mini tandem, and Ian was very brave, too, as he had to deal with me wobbling as hard as I could on the back of his tandem!
Time just flew past, and before we knew it, this great morning with friends was over – thanks, everyone, for coming!
Photos courtesy Stephen & Joanne. Narrative – Judith
A fab induction Judith;) not so sure about the picture of me tho, looking like I’m in pain !!! I think I could be laughing but I’m not sure 😂😂😂
Can’t make next week’s ride as I’m away for the weekend but hopefully the next one 😄