Five riders out today, Bill Kent, Ed Pegg, Cam Watson, Mick Curtis and myself leading. Once again Met Office forecast was for overcast with mist. They must’ve meant overcast with drizzle. We set off the usual slippy slidey route out of Nonsuch Park through the ‘burbs of Ewell and climb gently through Horton Country Park. […]
Saturday 10th February, off road Garson’s Farm Garden Centre
Eight riders turned out for today’s perambulation: Ed Pegg, Bill Kent, Dave Elliott, Sean Slammon, Trevor Hughes, Tracy Caudle, Trevor Kite and myself leading. Given the size of the group I had to move the tea stop venue as the cafe in Thames Ditton was unlikely to have had the space. The Met Office forecast […]
Ride Report Sunday 28th Road Ride to Oxted
On a crisp Sunday morning, with the promise of adventure and camaraderie, a group of cycling enthusiasts embarked on a leisurely ride towards Oxted. Setting off at a relaxed pace. Our route took us through Banstead and winding down into Chipstead Valley via Park Road. The gentle descent offered a perfect warm-up for the challenges […]
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 […]