Well I made it down there, complete on commuting bike with rack and pannier
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I have no speed in my legs at the moment so was thinking I'd hang on for about 10 seconds. With George, Paul H, Adam, and Marcus (NP) in attendance this was very likely.
In the end I hung on until the M23 turn off but the last bit of the drag up saw for both myself and Kevin and the elastic broke. We carried on and continued our own little charge to Redhill, looped round and headed back.
Well worth doing as I got some extra miles in (50 on the clock when I got home with the commute) and had a hard workout even if I couldn't hang on for that long. Mind you there are a bunch of good 2nd cats in that group so no great surprise.
On the way back just before the Merstham drag we rode through a lot of smoke due to a crash on the motorway. The worst bit was the large gathering of sickos who'd stopped their cars to look over down from the bridge and have a good rubber neck, some taking photos. Unbelievable.