OUTSTANDING!!!

17 Moos - the biggest herd of the year. It's been a fair while since the Legion car park has been so full of it!

Noteable returns were:- Paul 'every little helps' who has been busy training hard to compete in triathalons, this showed too as he traded blow for blow at the front with our fitter Amigos.

Dickie Watkins was the other returning after a long lay off due to work commitments. He has just managed to raise his shutter of retirement for a littlte while longer. Now chalk and cheese springs to mind for our returning Moos. Dick when asked "has he been looking after himself?" replied with"Absolutely, pie and chips, six pints and an ice cream every night before bed". This was very noticeable as his dress size is now a 16-18.

The herd led by Ade headed towards the Maen via our normal singletrack + bridal path route, unfortunately though, not 50 yards into the wood the first off was taken by Scrippsy. The strange thing is he was stationary at the time, even stranger was the distance he travelled? It was as if he`d been mowed down by a Steam Train. Very Strange. Repercussions were to follow.

Up past Blips' leap (the wrong way) and on to the Maen lane singletrack. The first ligitamate fall occurred here with the unlucky Moo finding the only bog of the entire ride to forrage through - No names mentioned.

On the reaching the farm up Ridgeway the earlier threatened revenge started in the form of spitting. Now Mr Scripps can't spit too far in fear of losing his dentures, however, he was determined and landed some excellent projectiles on our unsuspecting skipper who was claiming his innocence of the first incident saying "the old fella made a meal of it".

What was to follow however was RUTHLESS. As the 'Phantom Flan Flinger' returned after many years in the wilderness to devastating effect. These flans were no custard pies either. The smell of COW S**t seemed to follow the herd like .... well... like a bad smell for the rest of the ride.

   

This entailed a climb up to Caerphilly Mountain, a superb downhill to Pescis followed by another climb up Rudry to stop off for a couple of swiftees in the Maen before finally reaching HQ to yet another first for a long time; Monthly Awards:-

Rider of the Month with no doubt should have been Marty for his excellent progress this month moving from the rear of the herd to be challenging up the front, however his early exit from HQ meant that another worthy Moo was chosen. It was decided by the hierarchy to reward O.B.E with his outstanding clubmanship over the past weeks looking after the 'rear of the pack' riders.

T**t of the month was taken out by Steve Hart, well deserved as it was he who stitched up O.B.E.

Stunt turned up showing his war wounds at HQ claiming a broken toe nail (Ah Bless!).

Thanks Guys. See you all next week for the Goon's ride. Meet at 6:00 at the Ffwrwm car park.

Honoured again.

Geoff Davies O.B.E