The new calendar is now live. The new format reduces clutter and adds some additional functionality, the most significant of which is the ability to filter to show, for example, only club rides. Below is a guide.
6, including newbie Lucy, set out on a lovely ride to The Woodshed, Eastnor. Using the Highnam bike route got us off the busy A40 for a bit. At the end Theo decided to show me the non- hill bit through the Estate. Unfortunately, my Wahoo did not like it one little...
Three gathered at the Square in cool but dry conditions. We were soon joined by a fourth rider on the ascent to Highnam. From here it was on familiar lanes to the steep ascent of Glasshouse – a taste of things to come. The descent to Aston Ingham is as poor as usual...
The ten riders were keen to get started, and it was a fast pace down the A40 to Birdwood. It all settled down in the lanes, caping up at Soudley and removing them again before Parkend. Descending “The Rocks” near Clearwell was interesting, but disc brakes...
The Magnificent Seven rode out of town, progress hampered not by gunslingers but by traffic on the canal towpath: cyclists, runners, walkers, dogs, pushchairs, and a mobility scooter. The Wild West it isn’t! Too eager to leave this traffic behind and get onto quiet...
Today was the final and hilliest day of the Tour de France Femmes. It was also the first road stage of the mostr brutally hilly of the grand tours, the Vuelta a Espana. To honour these two events, the ride leader picked a particularly brutal way onto the Cotswolds....
