My apologies for ommitting that bit. Seems I had repressed, I mean
forgotten, about it.
On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 11:46 AM, Mark Trotter wrote:

> 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,
>
>
>
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