Wheelbase Party at Staveley

Taywood

"taywood" <taywood@deadspam.com> wrote in message
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> Did I miss anything by not going on Saturday?

No response, thats surprising. Surely someone from this
group went to the weekend bike fest.

I was told the bread shop would close to allow their
forecourt to be closed for bike demo's etc and that extra
staff had been booked by Wilfs Cafe to cope with rush. I'd
had visions of the Kentmere valley and hillsides being taken
over by bike riders. Comeback someone, anyone.

Taywood

"taywood" <taywood@deadspam.com> wrote in message
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> Did I miss anything by not going on Saturday?

So I went. After lunch with friends on Sunday we took them
for a drive in the country.

My wife came out of her doze when she realised we were
heading North on the M6, at speed. I explained we could go
to a farm shop and get a cuppa somewhere. There was no
comment but she had that look in her eye, confirmed when we
got there. The two ladies went to Wilfs caff to sit by the
river. I wandered around with my friend even older than me,
he'd not been on a bike for over 65 years.

There was bike jumping going on outside, riders collapsed
on the tarmac in the heat, riders coming in on demo bikes
and the trade stands almost all packed up, and the bands
had all gone. I had to explain about road bikes,
suspension, hydraulics and so on. His eyes glazed over
after a while and I left him to go look at the sales
offers. When I found him he was in earnest conversation
with some guy about weld beads on the head tube on ally
frames. I went and got a tea for him. By then he had an
audience and was explaining about the skill and expertise
which had produced a Cannondale frame with oversized head
tube, salmon colour, dont know the model. As a former sheet
metal worker he'd turned to industrial welding and had just
about every British welding qualification prior to
retiring. He said he'd worked on everything from jewellry
to large industrial storage vessels but he'd never thought
to put together a bike frame. 97 miles round trip just for
a cup of tea. Well, he enjoyed himself.