Very windy but mainly sunny local road loop up and around Tow Law area

Todays ride was a very windy / short 26 mile road loop in and around Tow Law area. I took the Cannondale Synapse Neo 1 as the Spec Creo SL is in at Evans Cycles Durham as the knob from the future shock dropped off yesterday! Anyway back to todays road ride, the wind has picked back up yet again 25+ mph and Tow Law is not exactly the most sheltered of locations to say the least. The weather was sunny / overcast and cool. The Garmin was only reading from 9 degrees up to 13 degrees during the ride. I had a headwind nearly all the way out but a huge tailwind nearly all the way back in! The back country lanes were quiet but the road from Crook to Meadowfield was busy and the cars / vans were flying. I had a couple of very close skims, one was within 6" of my handlebars. 1.5m rule, you are having a laugh but then some other drivers give you at least 2m plus. That will never change in this country and you have to live with it. All in I covered just over 26 miles in 1hr 42 mins with 2000ft of climbing, ave 15.3mph. Not bad considering the wind. Below are a few snaps from the ride and a couple of short video clips at the bottom of the blog.