A change to the advertised lunch venue due to the probability of the cafe being overwhelmed and only inside seating. So lunch will now be at the Rural tea room Goulds Green, about 11 miles from 11's and tea TBD. Some slight off road. I will take a sandwich. A suburban ride to pastures new, for most.😁😈
Author: Tony
Tony's planned 8 November ride to Pinewood Nurseries has now been brought forward to 1 November but the elevenses meet will be at the Pleasure Grounds Cafe, Runnymede (instead of Magna Carta Tearooms).
Details for 8 November will follow next week.
Author: David W
Maybe we looked at the wrong forecast; it suggested that overnight rain would ease by early morning. At times this seemed to be true. So at least five set off from home in steady drizzle! and surface water; only three made it to the Cobham rendezvous. The "Waitrose" bus shelter was dry but surrounded by a veritable moat of standing water so I continued to the cut-through where Simon huddled under an archway. Sometime later Pam arrived.
By 11 the rain had stopped and Simon headed home. To rebut accusations of two easy points, Pam and I rode through Downside, Ockham, Send and Cartbridge to Old Woking. After a safari into suburbia we emerged in Woking Park beside the bandstand. Soon it commenced to rain attracting a mob of unruly kids.Hurriedly finishing our snap (as they say in Yorkshire) we headed for the station. The subway is no friend to Pam so we veered onto Victoria Way to inspect the improved Chobham Road bridge (not quite finished!). Leaving the canal at Monument Bridge Sheerwater, Woodham came next and then Liberty Lane where we went our separate ways at the A318 junction.
I was home before three which rather wasted a perfect autumnal afternoon. 40+ miles door to door.
Author: RaasayWarden
Dear All,
A cautionary word.
Today I received an email purporting to be from one of our former members, saying ’hi’ and inviting me to click on a link.
This member’s name is Harold Fifield. Some of you may remember him.
I mention this only because he died several years ago.
Beware!
Jeff
Author: Jeff
RaasayWarden 23 October 2020 at 10:08 BST
You're not alone. I frequently receive emails from Simon Legg and Brian Greenwood (amongst others) presumably taken from a copy of their contacts list.
Names are real, the rest is faked usually a shortened email address which is where this story ends. Clipping such a link may well lead you to somewhere you didn't want to go!
I mark them as junk and delete them in the hope that one day web providers will significantly improve their filtering software.
If you're interested in what Cycling UK is doing and what its priorities are, this presentation from the AGM gives a good indication. The voting results are here.
The first ride of winter will start from Cobham. After that extra hour in bed I'm hoping you'll arrive earlier rather than later.
If it's dry we'll assemble on the "cut through" between the main road A245 and the RBL where there's seating. If wet there's a bus shelter opposite Waitrose but if October 4 is anything to go by...
Ride will go through Woking to Addlestone or Walton Bridge. Once again lunch will be the bandstand beside the Woking Leisure Centre.
If there's any interest we could try out the new bridge over the canal in the town centre.
Author: RaasayWarden
Change of lunch stop. Lunch will now be at the small tea caravan inside Blacknest gate at Windsor Great Park. The original stop would not now be viable.
Tony..
Author: Tony