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Category 3 ride led by Graham Knight

Seven riders today - Hurrah! The route to Café 19 in Duxford was from the club's RWGPS archive, at least it was until I decided to give it a little tweak to include a favourite road. Sadly the tweak also routed us down an apparently notorious piece of road which seemed more suitable for a tank proving ground than a bike route. Don't tweak!

Category 3 ride led by Graham Knight

A nice sunny September day and a pleasant ride, much of it over the flat-lands of Essex. We welcomed back Augirdas Panka after a long absence. He and his spectacular Cinelli were both in good working order. 

Category 6 ride led by Ian Bailey

Ten riders turned out at the shockingly early hour of half past eight, despite yellow weather warnings for rain and wind, for an early assault on Mount Robins Nest and elevenses at the golf club.

Category 6 ride led by Claire Gopolous

A band of seven happy, if slightly jaded, souls met at Allenbury’s just before 8, missing Tony, our leader, who was feeling sadly under the weather. Claire stepped in to lead the ride to Bretts Café and set off promptly using her excellent navigation skills. Obviously, having the route pre-loaded on Garmin helped a bit.

Category 3 ride led by Graham Knight

Seven riders today - Hurrah! The route to Café 19 in Duxford was from the club's RWGPS archive, at least it was until I decided to give it a little tweak to include a favourite road. Sadly the tweak also routed us down an apparently notorious piece of road which seemed more suitable for a tank proving ground than a bike route. Don't tweak!

Laura and Brian rode. Laura 26:40, Brian 28:26.

It's getting tight between the men and the women!

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Barry was the only Wheeler! He produced an excellent time of 25:33 and increaseed his lead at the top of the men's table.

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Claire is well ahead, Barry leads the men. The women are well ahead!

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Category 3 ride led by Graham Knight

Last week's road closure saw us hacking our way through swampy pampas grass past a flood in order to avoid going back down the long hill we had just come up. This week we were confronted by a giant chasm in the road up to the Dream Bean café. The proprietors of this hole had surrounded it with tall metal fences and omitted to leave any convenient corridor for cyclists and pedestrians.

Category 3 ride led by Graham Knight

Just three riders again for cat 3 after a recent flurry of increased numbers. We must rely on quality not quantity, therefore. The three who turned up were, at any rate, brave enough to defy forecasts of thunder, lightning and torrential rain - none of which materialised.

Category 6 ride led by Tony Dos Santos 

If this were a daily tabloid the strap line would be “It’s all about Kev”. Intrigued? Read on. 

The National 400K Audax took place this year on the weekend of 28th June. It started in Great Dunmow and followed a route described as "a tour of Essex, based on the Kingdom of the East Saxons route, featuring chalk uplands, market towns, Constable Country, the ancient port of Harwich (home of the Mayflower), the Sunshine Coast and many estuaries."

Round 7 on 17th June saw Oliver Lea and Claire Gopoulos competing with Oliver (26:27) coming in ahead of Claire (27:50).

Claire (60 points) has extended her lead over Davina Gutteridge (27 points) in the women's competition. Lea (10 points) is now second behind Barry Page (20 points) in the men's table.

Category 3 ride led by Graham Knight

This was our second successive foray into the Chilterns (Pyreneen trip looming for some of us!) 

This time we started in Ware under gathering clouds which delivered rain once we reached Hertford. This persisted while we bounced uncomfortably over what passes for a road surface on the B1000 to Welwyn but soon eased off. 

There was a good turn out this evening with 19 riders in all which included 6 Wheelers.

Barry was fastest again with Arron not far behind.

Results

Barry Page - 26:25
Arron Emms - 27:11
Phil Smith - 27:22
Brian Hill - 28:50
Claire Gopoulos - 29:52
Davina Gutteridge - 32:34

Category 3 ride led by Ian Bembridge

Something a little different this week. We decided to start from the free car park in Wheathampstead so that we could focus on riding in the Chilterns rather than riding to the Chilterns. So, Graham, Brian, Peter and Ian headed west from the start up the hill past the Brewhouse.

Four Wheelers took part in this round with Barry Page and Ian Campbell-Gray joining Claire Gopoulos and Davina Guttridge.

Barry made an impressive return to competitive cycling with a 26:50 making him the fastest Wheeler and 6th overall. Claire was not far behind, though, knocking nearly 3 minutes off her round one time with a 27:43. Ian was just one second behind Claire while Davina improved on her earlier time by a minute, finishing in 33:15.

Thanks as usual to the North Road club for organising.

Club ‘10’ Time Trial League – Brickendon

Time Trial season is now upon us and as you may know we are joining North Road CC this year with our own league competition in their 16 races on the 10-mile Brickendon circuit on Tuesday nights from NEXT WEEK, 6th May.  All dates are below, so make sure they are in your diaries,   race starts at 7pm from the club house in Brickendon.

Strava Competition winners for the MARCH KICKSTARTER MEDALS 2025 -AMENDMENT

Apologies for an error in last month’s announcement, Chris Boulton’s total mileage for March was in fact 984.2m and not the meagre 719.3m reported in last month’s newsletter!!  Apologies for the error Chris, you are the absolute and undoubted winner of this competition.  Well done!

Well done to Strava Competition winners for April who are:-

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Road Riding

Two Wheelers took part in the first North Road CC TT on the F7/10 course based on Brickendon. This course, just shy of 10 miles, takes a hilly route along the B158, up Robins Nest Hill to Little Berkhamsted then back via Bayford.

Claire Gopoulos got round in 30:28 with Davina Gutteridge finishing in 34:17.

Well done both and thanks to the North Road club for organising.