We did have a NEAR MISS when Chopper over cooked a corner. A heart-in-the mouth moment followed as he narrowly missed a head on with a green van!
Climbing Isoard I went with Paul Miles from O&M – a very fast boy! Isoard on a Saturday morning is like Brands Hatch! Motorbike racing about everywhere! Lethal! It is very steep and very narrow with motorbikes coming at all angles but really stunning scenery though!
I waited at the top with Chopper in hot pursuit; once he arrived we spent some quality time together at the top. We waited in time honoured tradition for the all Fireflies to make it to the top. They sipped Orangina and Coke followed by a visit to the pick’n’mix stall to buy mad French sweets.
Once the crew reassembled we descended Isoard together. Fast, beautiful. Chopper and I and a motocross racer, whoever took them on hairpins! Chopper had a moment with some shiny tarmac as his front tyre floated at 50mph! Top speed was Paul who clocked 55mph but did not pass our boys! For the next leg the recurring theme of being at the back returned. Porthos had a pedal problem! So we all waited patiently by the bus stop whilst he picked pork from his cleat!
Down further into a head wind the peleton of Olivia, Claire, Sue, Adam, Dave, Chopper, Mareika and Neil found them returning to the back breaking wind for the girls. Neil, Cat and Mareika dropped away as Neil had a problem with his knee. We cruised on then Claire needed a wee. Not an easy affair with skin tight bib shorts of finest Lycra!
The Golden Arches appeared just in time and so our Musketeers feasted on ‘Royales with Cheese’. Not a great idea on the following hill as we were certainly weren’t ‘Lovin’ it’. This hill took us to a lake, where we stopped for a drink then passed over the lac du serre-poncon on a bridge, arriving in Gap to be greeted by a mad motorbike festival right outside the hotel door - they were pulling wheelies, endos - all very impressive. Then Dinner and Bed.
No comments:
Post a Comment