8 February 2021, 15:06
PS- i learnt the hard way to keep my trap shut some years ago when our cycling club entered a 100-mile Reliability Trial in the dead of winter.
At the start I was foolishly showing off my small rucksack full of food and drink, and during the ride people began pedalling up to me to beg stuff from me after their own insufficient supply ran out, but I said "sorry i've only got enough for myself", which didn't make me very popular, but I survived the course and they didn't, and only me and a few others finished...
Below: me in my cycling glory days-
At the start I was foolishly showing off my small rucksack full of food and drink, and during the ride people began pedalling up to me to beg stuff from me after their own insufficient supply ran out, but I said "sorry i've only got enough for myself", which didn't make me very popular, but I survived the course and they didn't, and only me and a few others finished...

Below: me in my cycling glory days-
![[Image: mick-bike-glory.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/Pt6mmCw/mick-bike-glory.jpg)