Thanks to that nice chap Dave at Crockerton getting prissie last year (we are officially no longer welcome) Porkers moves on.
Being made welcome has it's draw backs: rides can stagnate and riders become blazé, familiar and perhaps contemptuous.
My lazy loyalty costs.
Dave prompts us to be adventurous: to strike out to new lanes and inspect more tractor scrubbed paths: to take in new villages, green, and golden stoned: to go through farms of rusted rustic bruin liberally rapt in the aroma of exhausted cud. Good old Dave!
New phases have been formulated, crafted and polished.
Statistically there be 5 added km and more ups and downs. Some massif central will be sadly missed but there is still the fun filled continuity of getting to Corscombe and crossing the valleys there after.
Riders will notice the gut wrenching climbs of the past few years have been replaced.
A few km of proper road has been a necessary evil, but Porkers remains the adventure, the challenge, the daring-to-do for exploring AUKs.