We discovered cake at the Discovery centre

About 10 ladies and gents joined us for an enjoyable ride. As usual a good variety of bikes out, Matt's new Trek mountain bike in alpine white is a beauty.

Our route took us through some lanes to Notley Garden Village (I think that's what they call it, I call it Brantree). We rode through the houses on a cycle path which took us straight to the cafe.

It was windy at times, on the way back but the group looked after each other. the photo shoes the usual suspects, I think the ladies prefer not to be photographed eating cake.

About 15 miles ridden.

The next ride is saturday afternoon on the 18th 1pm start from the school.

We hope to get some new riders out with us this year, dust of your bike and come and join us.

If you need anything checked over then come round to Dickeymoors from 11am on Saturday 21st january 2012 and we'll see if we can help get you on the road before the start of the ride.

The first rides of the year are planned to be on the dates below:

Saturday 21^st January 2012

Saturday 18^th February 2012

Saturday 17^th March 2012

Saturday 21^st April 2012

Saturday 26^th May 2012

Saturday 23^rd June 2012

This Saturday we will be heading to the Discovery Centre cafe at Notley all on quiet roads and only a couple of Essex inclines. A circular route too!

End of the year!

There goes another year.

We've found that the summer slipped through our fingers like a pro cyclist at a doping control, with summer holidays and the organisation of the fun run to do we just ran out of time to organise anymore rides.

All our rides are ridden by us first and fully risk assessed so we don't have any surprises on the day, and it's this that takes the time. We don't test the cakes...........honest.

The cycling group will be joining in with the Christmas Tree Festival in our church this year so ride on down and vote for our tree.

Also with the tree will be the schedule for rides this year, for interested riders to take away, so no more excuses from us!!

We're keen to hear requests for the style of rides people would like.

We've a plan for ladies only rides, as well as the scheduled rides over shorter distances to encourage those bicycles out of the shed, I'm a level one Cytech bike mechanic and am very happy to check your bikes over before you venture out, this is free with the support of Essex County Council.

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Merry Christmas.

Flower power bike ride turns into cake power bike ride!

Thanks everyone for coming this morning.

We welcomed two new riders this time, Jackie and Jane.

Eleven riders set off at 10am from the school amidst the preparations for Walthamstock.

We made our steady way over to Pleshey through High Easter and on to the Axe and Compasses at Ayethorpe Roding, it was quite breezy against us, but there are two good things about this one is that the ride home is easier and secondly the cake feast that awaited us could be consumed without guilt. The folks at the pub really did us proud laying on tea, coffee, marmalade cake and coffee and walnut cake. I believe some people tested both cakes.

Once fully cake powered we wafted back to town with a tail wind arriving in time for the first act at Walthamstock. another succesful pootle around the countryside.

Flower Power Bike Ride 25th June 2011

Our next ride will leave the school at 1000 am, this is the morning of Walthamstock so we will be back in time for the start of the music.

If its your first time its really helpful if you get there 15 minutes early as there is a quick form to fill in.

There will be a tea/coffee/cake stop at High Roding. The route as usual will be on quite roads at a gentle conversational pace and will cover around 17 miles.

Hope to see you there with flowers in your hair.

Led ride 22nd May 2011

Thanks to everyone for turning out this morning.

A group of twelve riders completed an 18 or so mile route. We headed north to Rayne station helped along by a strong tailwind. here we paused for a while to take on fuel like tea and cake.

We then headed along the very leafy Flitch Way and we could relax our formation a bit as its traffic free and a very safe place to ride your bike.

We had to battle a stout headwind on the way home, that's the price you pay for a friendly tailwind earlier I guess, but everyone did great.

Thanks for the positive comments at the end, planning is already underway for June's ride we'll let you know when we have a date.