Today’s ride was called Thora Thrill as we were meant to cycle to Thora via Bellingen. Because a majority of our riders weren’t too thrilled with the prospect of riding on gravel or doing a stretch on Waterfall Way, we abandoned the planned ride (with our ride leader’s blessing) and ended up gallivanting out to Glennifer instead, even though we had done the same ride a couple of weeks ago.
Seven riders left BP Urunga at our new summer ride time of 7am, and picked up some later-rising riders along the way. Kerrie and Kirk joined us at Raleigh and Ian and Kerrie cycled out from Bellingen to join us along North Bank Road. Dave Spears, the latest riser of all (blame the soccer game the night before) caught up to us at Glennifer.
Thanks to the earlier start time, which the DUBBUG members decided to adopt for our remaining rides in February (let’s call it adapting to climate change), the morning ride was beautifully cool. It was a real treat to cycle through the forest to Bellingen and then through more forest to Glennifer.