It seems I have to clarify a few things that Gary "softer than brie"
Eastment has put forward in the email below, he seems to have forgotten some
of the finer details of yesterdays ride. Apparently Gary has some kind of
amnesia possibly caused by his rather sad attempt at riding through, and let
me use his terminology "a rock garden". Now by rock garden most people think
of difficult lines, large slippery boulders and plenty of jagged edges. But
apparently two football sized stones and a pine cone constitute a rock
garden by Gary's definition. Anyhow the basic story is that Monty (ie
EastMONTY) upon puffing his way to the top of the hill for no apparent
reason simply falls off sideways and lands in a pile on the ground (much to
my amusement of course). Off course he immediately blames his "fogged up"
glasses for not allowing him to pick the right line through the "rock
garden". Anyway Monty you should probably invest in some bubble wrap if you
want to come riding with the big boys again.

Mark Trotter

PS If any one is keen to see Gary's "rock garden" we can probably call past
it on Fridays trip, we can probably roll out the picknic rug and have
breakfast there if we just kicked the pine cone and a couple of pebbles out
of the way.

-----Original Message-----
A quick report on this arvo's 'outing'. I can confirm that neither mark
nor myself are made of sugar! Did two laps of the race course we used
last year, at several points the conditions were /#@$%** greasy! We
pushed hard though, and proceeded to cover every inch of bikes and
riders in muck... takes years off your age!! Special thanks must go to
mark "I've been doing some k's lately" trotter, who gave me the
pleasure of seeing him complete a backwards-to-prone-into-puddle
dismount. Vintage stuff. He's still learning that clipless means 'can't
step off like I used to'.

See you all out there,