Scott(y) and 4 Trekies!

Another fantastic day out - 77km on a cold but sunny afternoon. Odd weekend - the forecast was for a dry Saturday and a wet Sunday. As usual completely wrong and it was the other way round.

We were joined by a new member of the Gillespie Wheelers today - a suitable name is up for grabs...

The Bigman had winter kit, Santiago, the new Wheeler and the Fit One were in summer kit and I was in a mix of summer and winter kit. Turned out the Bigman was probably more right than wrong....

We met at the usual junction and flew up Knockhill, it's a cracking climb and helped by a brisk easterly we breezed up the hill. We turned past the Powmill Cafe, up to Yetts O Muckhart and then turned into the cold easterly. We blasted the 8 miles to Milnathort - sharing the load into the wind and keeping up an 18 mph average (aka warp factor 1!) good going. The Fit One was doing his Scotty impersonation - 'she's can't handle this captain she's breaking up!' - the good news is that he has all the bits to repair his bike so hopefully the Scott (Enterprise) will be fully functioning next time we hit the black holes in the road.

When we stopped in Milnathort we paused briefly to discuss which cafe to go to - Loch Levens Larder won the vote hands down especially with the Bigmans discount card bringing down the costs. It was baltic sitting outside so we didn't hang around - I'll post a wee picture I took later. He'd been in and paid so quickly we were stopped on the way out by one of the staff who thought we were doing a runner! We laughed off any embarrassment and were on our way.

The blast home was a treat with the wind helping. The climb up Cleish seemed easier than usual - the bigman breezed up first with me on his Lycra tails. That left the final sprint up to the Bus Museum - 1st Bigman 2nd Fit One 3rd Ironman - I thought I'd timed it perfectly but no chance - left in the wake of the sprinters!

So the ride might not be as enterprising as the title but it was pretty stella anyway!