With a proper tropical deluge under way at 8am, and scheduled to continue to 9, the Captain decided, in his wisdom, to defer the ride to 9.30. And then to 10am, when the weather reports suggested it would be safe to be outside. Good call! As it turned out, this was...
I set off for King’s Square in heavy rain, hoping that nobody else would be foolish enough to be out, and I could creep home. However, one other mad fool showed up, and so we set off for Ross-on-Wye. The weather soon started to brighten, and capes came off...
A cloudless autumnal assembly in Kings Square, with fewer knees on view than of late, found ten willing A and B Club riders vainly searching for their designated leader. Exercising his persuasive powers, our Captain diplomatically encouraged an elderly volunteer to...
With the designated ride leader recuperating from Covid in Cyprus and the Vice Captain on a training camp in sunny Spain it was left to the President to “lead” the Sport Ride in sunny Gloucestershire. Those absences, and a few other missing regulars, limited the...
Nine enthusiastic early starters began from an overcast Kings Square making, hopefully, the final by-pass of the Brookfield Road bridge closure. Passing through a series of traffic works in Churchdown and Kidnappers Lane the ascent of Dowdeswell – more cones on...
Six souls braved what was the first chilly and autumnal day of the year for the AA ride to Tewkesbury; windproof jackets were the order of the day as we left Gloucester by the usual route to Maisemore where we turned off by the pub to skirt round the back of the...
