was supposed to be an all day ride with Mark over 70 miles or even 3 figures, but had to curtail due to rain, started off fine, but rained after 15 miles which washed dirt and mud onto the country roads which we were on, my silver Rapid fire 4 turned brown and Mark's black specialised didn't look too clever either. Stopped near Outwood and spoke to a friend of mine who has a weather station - he said that it was probably going to dry out - which was probably the opposite that we really wanted.

Being that our next part of the ride would have been through Redhill onto Hooley and then London, a 10 minute heavy rain shower would have cleaned the bikes off quite well. But hey ho, we rode back and then I spent about an hour turning my bike back to Silver again !