Dodging floods
Heavy overnight rain left a lot of surface water, more or less everywhere. Some adjustments were made to the published route to avoid known flood-spots, but there was no way we could avoid all. A large combined Fast/Tempo group headed south to watch the TT at...
Mr. B.: This Is Your Life
There’s been a lot in the news lately about failures of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete but there were no such concerns at this morning’s destination, the Cotswold Coffee Bar - its lintel had no reinforcement at all and had been condemned, closing the café to...
Crossing the Motorway
Departing Café Chocolate just after noon, after an excellent service, four set off for lunch by taking advantage of an increasing tailwind, heading north to Bredon’s Hardwick. Here, feeling that was quite enough of going in the ‘wrong’ direction, we turned at the pub...
Steady ride to Tewkesbury
Mild temperatures and a dry forecast seemed to bring a lot of riders to the Square, but there were no newbies looking for an easy try-out, so Jim joined my ride. I believe there were 14 of us although I'm sure I counted 15 at one point - however we did seem to have a...