Safety First

well done all with the training the w end

unfortunately we had a rare crash on saturday where in the faster group john c,(who was 2nd from the front)hit an object and lost hold of his handlebars,lost control and tim and dingo went down on top of him.

fortunately he is ok and so are the others with cuts and scrapes and a few damaged bike bits.

what we need to do is learn from this so we can reduce any further incidents, so i'm suggesting the following

1)always call if there's a rock or hole even if your 3rd 7th or 8th in the line and can't see although the person in front has called it ... there are so many of the group not calling or giving signals and we need to correct this

2)try to call if you are leading the bunch well in advance, the more time we have to swerve the better, if you can't take your hands off for whatever reason shout as loud as you can

3)if you ride in the bunch with hands on tri bars leave at least a wheel length from the person in front to allow time to brake or whatever if an incident is happening

4)never cross over the wheel in front of you, in case they move sideways which will bring you down and others behind you

JH