Saturday, 1 March 2014

Club Ride Saturday 1st March 2014



The new MCCC coffee wagon is finally revealed!

Eight riders, well over a third of our membership, gathered this morning at our usual muster point in brilliant sunshine, by which time the odd patch of ice here and there had already melted away.

It was good to see that our latest recruit Gary from Crudwell, had returned, even if it did cost me the price of a cup of coffee, as I had promised.

We seem to have cracked the tricky issue of getting two groups to the same location at around the same time. Our port of call was to be Lyndsey’s (formerly the Two Toads) in Tetbury. Most of us, including myself, took Jim’s longer route whilst the others followed a more direct path.

With some members planning to take part in the Reliability Ride the following day, no one wanted to force things too much and so we soon settled into a fairly relaxed pace.

We rode out to Sherston , up through Knockdown to Leighterton and then across to Tetbury. Some of these roads were new to me and so made something of a pleasant change.

Amazingly, demonstrating  the sort of timing Len Goodman from BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing would score highly,  the two groups managed to merge seamlessly  just around the corner from the cafĂ©.   

After an enjoyable cup of coffee we remounted and once again went our separate ways. 

Continuing with Jim’s course we cycled north up to Cherrington before turning for home via Oaksey and Charlton.


Mileage: 32.32 miles

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