Nearly Ready For Winter
As I said in my last Editorial, the good summer has meant that we’ve had lots of dry dusty rides to look back on from this year. Therefore winter shouldn’t come as such a harsh shock this time. I was wrong - no matter how ready you think you are, nothing really prepares you for the first day after the clocks have gone back. Suddenly it’s dark well before six. Lights are an essential accessory now, even for Sunday afternoon rides and the tops of my radiators at home are already starting to fill up with damp kit drying.
Despite all this, though, I was still riding in short sleeves on Sunday and only got soaking wet feet once or twice (which obviously were still damp by the end of the ride). The weather was good enough to sit on walls and watch the view and sSunday lunch at the pub was eaten outside in the beer garden. I’ve still got a couple of weeks then to dig out my winter gear - it’ll soon be ’sheltering behind a wall and sharing a soggy chocolate bar’ weather - but not just yet…