Ten riders started this week’s ride, with two, Marty and I, joining later on to make it twelve. This week it was the turn of that ice-cream slurping, summer dress lifting, lorry driving master Dickie Watkins. Most of the usual culprits were in attendance, with Chrissy making an inaugural appearance this year, and Dai the Shop completing two on the trot (Ryan the Steam’s boring ramblings from last week obviously not putting him off!!)
Of the regulars, last week’s spectacular crasher Jock was missing, so was Johnny Mechanic Wright, although this was not a bad thing as we were able to cover much more ground not having to wait for the Sesame Street favorite! Dez was once again missing; the pre Christmas surge that we witnessed from this conversational colossus is now just a distant memory, Crock did however mention that Dez was on a diet… get on the bike Dez, it’s the best way to lose weight!!
Although the trails were muddier than usual, we still managed a good ride, and also managed to pause at the Maenllwyd for ‘half time’ refreshments. It was here that the wide range of eggs was on show, but probably the most impressive egg was the one that Marty’s wife had provided, a big thank you surely must go to Mrs. Rory McGrath for her wonderful creation, of which there is a photo below!
After a quick re-fuel we were ready for the forestry again, so we took the familiar route through the woods and proceeded on to our new HQ at the Royal Oak, although Chrissie almost didn’t make it as once again he failed to negotiate a ‘run of the mill’ jump and ended up on his head, it seems the balance of power in riding skills between the Watkins’ brothers is slowly shifting, any more poor displays like this Chrissy, and we will be forced to confiscate your bike until you can prove that you are up to the job, obviously spending too much time in Leeds drinking cranberry juice!!
Once safely encamped at the Oak, ‘Lyn the Landlady’ put on a lovely spread for us, which was much appreciated especially by Scrippsy. It also seems that Scrippsy is struggling to come to terms with the fact that he is no longer the Captain, for the past two weeks he has been perched on Owgie’s shoulder like a grey old owl, watching his every move and checking that Owgie is collecting the money and carrying out the other Captain’s duties properly. It seems that Owgie is doing a very good job without you spying on him, so leave him alone Mr. Scripps!!
It was also brought to our attention that 2 riders behaved abominably on the ride. Although we don’t ride on the road much, inevitably from time to time we have to rely on them to get to different parts of the off-road trails, which means that we have to behave accordingly and respect other road users, this was not the case on Wednesday as the two culprits involved committed such selfish acts and showed total disregard for everyone else, this included riding straight into the path of an oncoming bus and riding, albeit for a short distance, on the wrong side of the road, this will not be tolerated by the rest of the Moos, firstly by wearing a Moos jersey you are an ambassador for the club, but, you are letting the rest of us down by giving the impression that we are a bunch of idiots who don’t know how to ride properly, and secondly we don’t want to have to scrape you up off the road when one of your stupid riding displays goes wrong, we get dirty enough as it is, so in order to nip this reckless behaviour in the bud, it has been decided to ‘name and shame’ the perpetrators, so Mr. Gordon 'Bernard Scripps' Thornton ECG, and Mr. Owain 'Gollum Clifford Breath' Crockett, step forward please and consider yourselves severely reprimanded, you have let the club down, you have let your fellow Moos down, but above all else YOU HAVE LET YOURSELVES DOWN!!!!
