2 pm and off we set. Didn't know how the two youngsters would fare but Mathew was on Micks old OCR and Andrew was on this old "Vintage" bike that his boss gave him. It soon became obvious that Andrew was not used to cycling and definitely not prepared for Downtube shifters. His bike was clanking away like a goodun and the gearing was something like 52/48 on the front and 7 speed 12/21? on the back so no hills were on this route. I got fed up with the clanking and put him on Boreas for the slope that was coming up and found out that the Index shifting on the rear was just a touch out. Adjusted and fine and that was when I realised that this was a quality bike. No headtube badge but the forks that were in the original paintwork are marked Vitus.

That bike goes. The slope was taken at speed and it was easy to keep at speed so Andrew has a bike to keep. But down to Fusciardis for Pie. What a choice and Cherry- Apple and Banoffie Pie were all that were on offer today as Pie.Gateaux- Cream cakes and what would have been my choice of Treacle Tart were there aswell so I settled on the Cherry- but bought a Treacle tart as backup. The banoffie was Micks choice.



I can tell you that the cherry Pie was worth it but that Treacle Tart was even better as backup.

Route back and we tried to get some training in on the lads. Cut out anything resembling a slope or Busy road and got them drafting. Wish we hadn't as 2 miles from Home and they came past us like rockets. I know that Vitus is good but in the hands of a person that does not ride- it should not have been that fast. Took some hard work to pull him back and we lost Mathew in the process.

So another Pie ride done in the Fun way it is supposed to be done. Got two young lads interested in riding so hopefully we will have a larger group o ride with in the future.