Yep, I think it was you Wow. We kicked off at Shenfield station, then McGarrys Antiques and tea shop in Blackmore, then the Black Lion, then one near Ingatestone on the way back and I think I broke for home before the crowd went to the Viper. It was 2007, June for Midsummer I believe. You remember those you see, good times with good folks
Was my son-in-law with us? He came on one ride. Someone lent him some chain lube somewhere near Highwood Church.
That may have been the ride that when we arrived at the Viper, Bob & Erron were well into their umpteenth pint, having set off from Chelmsford on what was supposed to be a multi-day tour. I think it may have ended in the Viper.
Edit: I have found some photos of a High Roding ride that My Dear Wife and I did in May 2007. That also involved the Viper. Tellingly, I have two photographs of the menu board at the Black Lion, and I would only have done that in anticipation of another ride. Annoyingly, I have no photos from the other ride. But, as Jurek says, it was much longer ago than I thought and would have been pre-YACF.