Saturday 23rd September, off road Clark’s, Leatherhead

The first chilly ride of the start of autumn. Four riders out this morning with some of our usual crowd missing due to taking part in the ‘London-ish to Brighton-ish’ off road ride. Bill Kent, Mick Curtis and Ed Pegg joined me for the ride to Leatherhead. Nothing too exciting, out the back of Ewell, […]

Saturday 9th September, off road Walton Bridge, Wilde Brunch

Four riders met at Nonsuch, Mick Curtis, Ed Pegg, Dave Clarke and myself leading. A lovely morning with bright sunshine and temperatures well into the high sixties (19°C) at nine in the morning. Our route took us out through Ewell and followed the Hogsmill River most of the way to Kingston Upon Thames. A closed […]

Friday 28th July away day, off road Worth Way and Tilgate Forest

Five riders set off from Tracy’s place at East Grinstead: Tracy Caudle, Jackie Townsend, Trevor Kite, Bill Martin and myself. Despite the BBC forecast of ‘No precipitation expected,’ we departed in drizzle! The humidity was high and the temperature in the mid 70’s, so Summer in Britain. Fortunately around half hour later into the ride […]

Saturday 22nd, off road, Walton Bridge

Five riders at Nonsuch today, Bill Kent, Mick Curtis, Ed Pegg, Sean Slammon and myself leading. It was a weather gamble day, overcast, threatening rain and so I chose a direct route to the Wilde Brunch Cafe. Ewell, Chessington South, Claygate Common, Arbrook Common, Thames Ditton and finally rolling out onto the Thames tow path […]

Sunday 9th July, away day off road National Route 21 and 2

It was warm and wet when I arrived at the free car park in the centre of sleepy Hailsham, Sussex. A snooze was in order as the Google Maps travel time advice had quoted 2h:15m and was out by 25 minutes, and so with my ‘buffer time’ I had  a good hour to watch the […]