Club Ride Diary
An unwelcome Santa
A dozen or so of the club's hardier members were huddled in the shelter of Iceland's entrance as the last of the overnight showers blew across Kings Square. Seven joined the Tempo ride and we made good progress along the well travelled route through Brookthorpe and...
Ride cancellations on Sunday 24th November
All today's rides are cancelled becuase of severe weather. Be safe out there.
The afternoon ride, finding geology hidden by the morning’s leafy route
Following the President's departure to the heights of Mount Pleasant, instead keeping to the lowlands, five continued north on the Valley Road to Steam Mills, then Drybrook. The climb to the cutting was more gentle than expected – maybe a tailwind assisted? The tower...
A BiCycle ride with an AlphaBetiC theme
Ten of us left the Square, but only nine turned toward Westgate. The other chose Winchcombe as his destination! Heavy traffic burdened us from Westgate Bridge to Whitehall Lane, whose numerous potholes were considered preferable to the presence of motor traffic. A...
Beautiful views and excellent cake.
Firstly, I must apologise for the lack of a photo of the cake (a rich fruit cake topped with glacé cherries, candied orange, and almonds) but faced with a choice between eating it or photographing it I'm afraid I opted for the former. We started out with nine through...
Steady Ride Report Sunday 10 Nov
A mighty fourteen left the Square at 9am for the steady ride to Tetbury. Heading out to Matson we took the back lanes through to the lovely tarmac after Haresfield. It was clear along this route that with a couple of riders on recovery rides we were going to be a bit...
Large Peloton
With the fast riders joining us, a very large group, way beyond my counting abilities, left King's Square. We stayed together. at a brisk pace on the lanes through Saul. Frocester Hill split the group, as was to be expected, and we were joined at the top by an...
Circumnavigating Newent
Despite a very dull day, a host of riders were assembled at the square, with 14 opting for Emma’s ‘easy’ ride to roses, near Newent. We zipped along to Highnam and Tibberton for the quiet lanes to Taynton. Here a newcomer, finding the slopes a bit too hard, was taken...
The disappearing President.
The Club President has a reputation for disappearing and riding his own ride, but today he assured me that he would stay with the group. While I was suspicious that this may be a politician's promise, I was rather surprised when he left us in Maisemore. The...
A Magnificent Morning
A magnificent seven riders had assembled in the sunny part of the Square before 8:30 (feeling like 9:30 due to the clocks falling back overnight) but as we were thinking of setting forth more arrived and made a nice round number of 10. It was a fairly chilly start but...