Our convivial group of seven riders set out from Wantage and chatted our way along the spring-line road to the foot of White Horse Hill. Chatting was replaced with panting for a short while as we took on the hill. With that test over we enjoyed the perfect conditions and made good time down to Shrivenham for coffee. Although the cakes were good, especially the banana & blueberry loaf, they could not compete as the centre of attention with Rachel's new bike aka Beppe. After some extended cooing and a close quarters admiration we set of again and aced the flat final leg with some fine group riding. Richard peeled off at Shellingford to go and deal with a mudguard malfunction while the rest of us rounded off the day with refreshments in the Fred's Head (and some more billing & cooing over Beppe).

A nice, chilled ride - they don't get much better than this.