Today’s ride was to be organized by Norm L who lay awake all night checking and re-checking the weather charts. 7.00am was decision time, plotting the trend lines of relative humidity, cloud ceiling, PoP, prevailing winds and adiabatic lapse rates he bravely distributed an email to say “The ride is ON”. A few moments later, while sitting at breakfast looking out over Lime Bay and the Straits of Juan de Fuca, he was already having second thoughts, the weather looked downright gnarly. Meanwhile some potential riders in other parts of the city were experiencing a heavy shower or two. Not without reason, they figured Norm had lost the plot and a number of riders decided to stay home.

Since Norm L had failed to pick up his bike from Trek before closing time on Monday, he could not collect it till 9.30 at which point he was supposed to be at Michell’s Farm to start the ride around the airport!

David A., Doug and Cy took off from Michell’s with Norm intending to join them somewhere along the way. That plan may have looked good on paper, but it was faulty in execution. Norm started his solo ride at the McTavish roundabout under sunny although a tad coolish skies. No matter how fast he cycled, Norm could not catch up with the “three amigos”. He checked in at Belinda’s, the coffee stop for today, but could not find Doug, David and Cy. The rest of the ride could only have been improved with good company - the cycling conditions were excellent - although there has been a lot of precipitation in recent days, the trail was mostly dry, although there was the occasional shallow puddle.

Solo Norm finished his abbreviated ride at the infamous roundabout, happy that he had been out on the saddle under excellent condition, but disappointed that he had failed to connect with David A, Doug and Cy.

And in other cycling news.......

A start up company in Utah has come with the "never flat" tyre!

And a way to let cool heads prevail!!

To see what the Old Cranks have been up to go here.