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Sunday Club Ride 26th June 2016

Sunday Club Ride.
 
"Around the the lakes"
 
The route for this week: https://www.strava.com/routes/5489790
 
Start 9am from Priory School.
Total distance: 45.31 mi
Max elevation: 577 ft
Min elevation: 9 ft
Total climbing: 2558 ft
Total descent: -2558 ft
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Sunday Club ride 19th June 2016

Sunday Club Ride - Bristol Sky Ride. As per Steve Barnes suggestion, the plan for Sunday is to ride up to Bristol to show our faces at the Sky Ride event and ride around the shortish designated course. I would suggest we aim to join the course via the access point at Gaol Ferry Bridge and do one full lap and then a partial lap to leave the course at another access point, at Brunel Way, near the Cumberland Basin, and then proceed on the homeward leg of the route. Anyone who want to loiter for Sky related fun is welcome to do so.
The course opens at 11am, so if we just make a steady pace on the way to Bristol, we should just about arrive in time for when the course opens. Here is Steve's course: https://www.strava.com/routes/5319849 Here is an edited version without the Sky Ride course, for the map watchers (That'll be me then): https://www.strava.com/routes/5382983 And here is the Sky Ride route - as much as I can make out from the official map; but it should be obvious once we are on it;https://www.strava.com/routes/5383076

New Kit! Sneaky Peak!

The New Kit is on its way, below are a some screenshots of the latest draft.

Wheelers Wye Valley Ride

This week the Wheelers visited Wales and Forest of Dean following an exceptional course designed by Paul Stone. Although not the longest ride we have accomplished it had sufficient climbing in it to be entertaining for those who enjoy defying gravity followed by some awesome descents for the adrenalin junkies. A group of 13 set out in what rapidly became glorious sunshine to cross the Severn on the old bridge and begin a swooping drop into Chepstow. What goes down must go up and there following a long drag up towards St Briavals punctuated by splendid views across the Severn estuary. The Wheelers are not a regimented road gang, we go at our own pace and always wait at the top or the bottom to regroup; nobody is left hanging off the back on their own. We followed an undulating course northwards through the beautiful Forest of Dean above the River Wye before a truly exhilarating drop down to Monmouth, taking a left before the bridge and following the western bank of the Wye towards Chepstow. Sections of this road more resemble the cobbles of Belgium than a proper British road, but we navigated them successfully with only a single puncture between us. The road crosses the river just before Llandogo and climbs the wooded eastern bank with glimpses of the Wye below us through the trees. The calls for coffee and cake became louder and more persistent and so, on the recommendation of Chrissy, we stopped at the Old Station at the foot of the descent into Tintern, which proved to be an excellent suggestion; the courgette and lime cake and the bread pudding are highly recommended and the espresso is strong but mellow. Another up and down saw us passing Chepstow racecourse and making our way towards the bridge, crossing on the upstream side this time with a halt for photographs midway. The Wheelers were pleased to welcome three ladies, Katie and Chrissy we had met during the Somerset 100 last month, but Rhiannon was a stranger to us all but who was one of the gang long before we finished our first climb. We hope all three will continue to join us and we encourage any others, male or female, who wish to take a spin with us to check out our website for details of the next ride.

This weeks ride totalled 43 miles climbing 3000ft at an average speed of 14.5 mph. A big thanks to Paul S, Paul G, Andy P, Andy J, Rhiannon, Jonathon, Pete G, Steve, Pete M, Andy F, Alex, Chrissy and Katie.