Keith and Naomi’s 3 star ride to Slough
Posted on Sunday 14 January 2007 by Keith Butcher
11 of us turned up on a perfect winters day, and probably set a record distance for a Central London 3 star ride of about 120k. A pretty gentle daylight spin through Burnham Beeches and Cookham to lunch, and then back through Windsor park should have meant we got home early having done about 80km, but … the distance was inspired by Great Western trains who due to a train breakdown couldn’t tell us when a train would next run into Paddington, so we cycled up the A4, all the way home. It even looks not that ugly after dark, though Heathrow smells pretty evil with all that duty free aviation fuel, thanks Paul for backmarking as the traffic flew along the A4. Thank you to everyone for staying together and for staying cheerful when things began to go wrong.