Seven riders tonight on a warm and sunny evening and a warm welcome to new member Lee on his first evening ride with the club. Good to see Tom out for his first club ride of the summer too.

A rare journey east tonight and a reminder why we don't do that very often as the roads are particularly busy and unpleasant in places. The potholes on the A417 are just ridiculous too.

We did get to try the new tarmac on the Harwell link road which interestingly was completely deserted whilst the narrow road through West Hagbourne it was built to relieve was rammed with boy racers.

Still eventually we got to the much quieter roads in the Vale for a chillaxing end to the ride and a few of us stopped for a pint in the KAH at the end of the ride