Members benefits
I have added a new Members' benefits page to the website which lists the benefits club members enjoy. If anyone thinks I have missed anything please let me know.
I have also added our 2008 champions to the home page.
Tim's patented toe toasters
At this time of the year, when the temperature drops below zero, I find that it is my hands and feet that suffer the most. Overshoes help, but sometimes you need extra insulation. I had for many years wrapped aluminium foil around the end of my cycling shoes which are kept in place by the overshoes over the top of them.
That was until my wife complained one Sunday that there was no foil left for the Sunday roast. Since then, about seven years ago, I made and have still been using my home made toe warmers. Here's how ...
1. Wrap the end of your cycling shoes with cling film.
2. Cut aluminium foil into short strips.
3. Start sticking the aluminium foil with a waterproof epoxy resin in layers, rather like papier-mache.
4. Keep applying layers until its a couple of millimetres thick.
5. Wait to dry.
6. Remove from shoes and trim off excess cling film.
Voila!
Weekend off-road rides
This weekend Trailbreaks are organising off-road rides at QE (Queen Elizabeth) Country Park. Saturday is just an off-road sportive, whilst Sunday is a Navigator race. That's a cycling orienteering event.
Details here -
Saturday,
Sunday
It must be Christmas!
Sinterklaas and Swarte Piet
King Sven beaten by Vervecken
Note Erwin Vervecken's wheel is off the ground.
Koksijde
I'm surprised you haven't put your top flight foil fangling skills to use making an under the helmet electromagnetic psychotronic mind control carrier deflector like so: http://zapatopi.net/afdb/