Saturday 27th January, off road Bockett’s Farm

Five riders out today in the cold, Adam Domaingue, Ed Pegg, Bill Kent, Jenny Lee and myself leading. A little riding through the southern burbs of Ewell got us out towards Epsom Common. We carefully crossed the railway line and headed into a deserted Ashtead Park before the slight climbing started to get up to […]

Saturday 20th January, off road East Molesey Cricket Club

Five riders out today on a cold and gloomy morning: Ed Pegg, Adam Domaingue, Jenny Lee, Bill Kent and myself leading. Our route took us out through a short section of the Hogsmill River and passed some enthusiastic boffins wading around in the river, health checking for invertebrates – rather them than me in this […]

Saturday 23rd December, The Waterhouse Café Kingswood

By Ed Pegg Five riders met at Nonsuch for this ride, Ed Pegg, Trevor Kite and Tracey Caudle, Trevor Hughes and Bill Martin leading. We headed off through Epsom towards Epsom downs. On the start of the trails at Epsom Downs, we met a rather over-excited dog, who started chewing on Bill’s overshoe. Glad he […]

Friday 1st December Peas lake and the Surrey Hills

By Ed Pegg Ed Pegg and Bill Martin took advantage of some spare annual leave days to explore the Surrey Hills. We met at Dorking and set out following a route Ed had programmed on his Garmin. The route initially followed some busy main roads, but we quickly connected with the N22 and were in […]

Saturday 13th January, off road Clark’s Cafe

My first ride of the year started well when I discovered on my return that I hadn’t switched on Strava to record the route we took. So my thanks to Adam Domaingue for providing the map shown here. (I’ve chopped off his ride from home.) Bill Kent, Bill Martin, Trevor Hughes, Dave Elliott, Adam Domaingue, […]

Saturday 28th October, off road Bockett’s Farm, well almost!

It was a bit drizzly at Nonsuch, and only two riders were available today, Ed Pegg with myself leading. The route: Horton, Epsom Common, Ashtead, Staine Street and descending into Leatherhead to the south. At that point came the realisation of the date, 28th October which is ‘Bockett’s Farm Halloween, kiddie mayhem of hell weekend!’, […]

Saturday 21st October, off road Flitton’s Garden Centre, Woodmansterne

Bill Kent, Ed Pegg, Jenny Lee, Tracy Caudle, Trevor Kite, myself, and Bill Martin was leading. A shortish ride due to the unsociable nature of this storm the media have sensationally called ‘Babet!’ Poor weather, raining at the very start. It became dryer for a while, and we dodged a major drenching as we were […]

London To Brighton Off Road

On the 23rd September 5 dedicated members conquered the London to Brighton off road ride. Approx 61 miles if various terrain. The riders were David, Bill, Tracy, Trevor K, Jackie T. Massive thank you to Bill, Trevor and Tracy who had gone down to Brighton day before to prepare transport back for us all. The […]

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 […]