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[MightyMitre]

Hi Annie - I haven't had any luck trying to find a picture of my vest. ( The sportful website is www.sportful.com and there should be a little flag on the right for English) However it doen't show the vest anyway.

I'll try and describe it - you know those grocery bags you can get made out of brown string like a net, well similar to that, only NOT brown eek , but white. The holes are a bit like fishermans net only smaller so it traps air round your skin and keeps you warm. It's made out of soft wicking material and is quite handy before or after racing if it's very hot, as you can walk about with it over a crop bra top and keep cool while not feeling totally naked.

Up till December we generally have a tea- stop on our club rides. There's a few little cafes dotted around, some in the most unlikely places, and they all welcome cyclist.

We sometimes base a ride around a cafe agreeing to meet up at a set time, so the stronger riders can go off and do more while the less strong ( usually me ) can take the shorter route.

A lot of motorcyclists groups use them as well - not quite biker boys - more your middle aged man whose finally earning enough to buy himself the big flash motor bike of his dreams. It's nice and sociable to have a stop for a cuppa and in the winter it's bliss when it's freezing cold or wet.

It's kind of a British cycling tradition, left over from the days when cycle-touring was popular in the 50's, when big groups of boy (and girls) would go out on long touring rides for the whole day. A suprising number of the older members of our club met their husbands/wives this way.

After Christmas, things get a bit more serious in our club, in the build up to the new season and we don't always stop but's nice when we do.