Time for an update.

Not quite sure how or why, but it seems we forgot to post a June blog, our apologies.

As you may expect a lot has happened in the last two months and a lot of cycling has taken place. We have visited some of our favourite destinations such as Elm Farm in Sutton Green, Bagshot and a longer ride to Brighton and back. In the middle of May we attended our first track day down at the historic Goodwood Motor Racing circuit and Stephen even managed to get a picture featured on the GCN YouTube channel of his bike that day! 

Eight of us cycled in the Ford Ride London Essex event at the end of May, despite a cold and wet start to the day, we all managed to finish the ride within the time limit. Some personal records were broken by our members, so congratulations to those that cycled further or faster than ever before. Well done team!  

Last weekend three of us lined up at the start of the annual Chase The Sun (South) ride, on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. We headed off in windy conditions and managed to cycle 130 miles before we realised that we were not going to make the sunset in Weston-Super-Mare. Deciding to call it a day is a horrible experience, but sometimes it is for the best. I'm sure some of us will try this again next year, although congratulations to Tim, for whom this was his longest ride. Well done Tim!

We host another Beginners Session this Saturday and our Sunday club ride this weekend has us visiting an old favourite, The Queen Stage in Effingham, Surrey. The following day, Monday 8th July, six of us will embark upon our most ambitious event to date, four days of cycling from London to Paris. Keep a look out on our social media for updates as we cross Northern France from Calais to Arras, to Compiégne and finally into Paris. Some of us will then cycle back to Dieppe, to catch a ferry back to Newhaven on Saturday 13th July. The rest of July will see us head to Chipstead and some members may take on the Dunwich Dynamo, an overnight ride from central London to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast.

Coming up in August will be our Annual visit to the Isle of Wight for a day around the island but for most of the month we wil be concentrating on short and medium distance rides, in addition to the Social Laps of Richmond Park and our Beginner Sessions on alternate Saturdays.

We are also in the process of refreshing our website and hope to be in a position to launch the new look in the coming months. This will include additional pages and more fuctionality for members, and moving our planned rides  to our own events schedule on the new site.

If any of the above coming events interest you or you would like more information about our upcoming rides, visit our Events page and RSVP to ride with us.

We look forward to meeting you soon. In the meantime you can use some of the links at the top of the page to view our social media channels.