We travelled via Langbank, Gourock, and the ferry to Dunoon. George Berwick, who was last seen by me the night before, anguishly bemoaning the fact that he didn’t have a cycle fit to ride on, was simply left behind to follow on later on a hurriedly assembled, newly resprayed, touring machine that is capable of doing 30 miles per hour along the flat, depending on how many Mars bars he consumes before the off!