Saturday – 1st October 05

It seemed like a poor showing at first, with only Eamonn and myself making the trek up from the YH, but we rounded up Steve, Marcus, Brian, Alexander and Nigel, on his knee-tremblingly gorgeous Kona in the carpark. The route for the day was decided but 3 chain-breakages and 2 punctures for Steve meant several modifications were made, as time was getting by. As all the group had some experience, the beginner spin became beginnerish by name only. We took in the steps, the climb to Kilmashogue, Daggets Track, the bonshaker and the carpark trails.

Legend of the Day award certainly goes to Nigel, who blindly followed me down the entire car park trail from top to bottom at full speed, laughing out loudly as he hit everything, bombholes, jumps and berms, before flying straight down Daggets rock, possibly becoming the first person ever on a Saturday spin to do it without first stopping to look at it, and then in between fits of adrenaline filled laughter, claiming that it was a conspiracy theory of mine to get the old guy to fall off…….Nigel, I look forward to your talked about revenge on me in the future!

While the drivers then headed back to their cars, Steve, Eamonn and myself headed across to the lower portion of the boneshaker, and headed home via Lamb Doyles.

Sean