The plan, devised in January, was for three of us to ride to the Penrith area and stay in a pub from Saturday June 25th and ride home on the following Thursday. Then I'd have a day to find some clean socks etc and then to load the bike on the trailer and on Saturday head down to the mini meet in that there West Wales. Our leader , who has the most bikes but does the least riding started getting cold feet about the weather.
Will it rain? -
Yes of course it will... that's how it got to be the lake district
I don't like rain ( he doesn't ever go out in the rain and has no proper wet weather gear)
Yesterday, his wife said he couldn't possibly go because the BBC weather forecast was for rain every day except one
He wants to go in his car
I suggested we wait until Friday and if the forecast is wet wet wet then we'll go by car and if it's mostly dry we'll use the bikes.
But no. A wife says she's been worried sick about him going all that way at his age and it just not safe to ride in the rain ( Wives eh!)
So the trip has been postponed until September when, of course, it won't rain. Today's BBC forecast shows that it will be mostly dry but with a few showers on one or two days.
On the bright side it does give me the opportunity to spend two extra days in West Wales prior to the Mini meet.
