Reading Time: 3 minutes Well what a fantastic turnout for the Northwich Pedal Power festival, with a few hundred riders setting off on various length rides this morning. I ended up with a large group on the 70 mile ride, which followed a beautiful circuitous route which criss-crossed betweeen Middlewich, Winsford and Delamere. Jim Williams is an amazing front […]
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Cramming for Llanberis…
Reading Time: 2 minutes We had a large group out on the long run today, no doubt prompted by the imminence of the club weekend to Llanberis in two weeks’ time (eek!) Jim led us out through Davenham and Swettenham to Congleton – an incident free ride other than Heather getting a puncture and Carol being told off by […]
Loggerheads
Reading Time: 2 minutes What a great ride. A large-ish group set off on the long run to Loggerheads and enjoyed an entirely straightforward ride, with, as for last week, not one mechanical or problem. We rode out at a sensible but brisk pace (thanks Jim our navigator!) through Waverton and Chester, up through Higher Kinnerton, up the Treuddyn […]
Jim has a bad day…
Reading Time: 3 minutes A rare shout for the Wednesday Wrinklies! I’m working this weekend so had a day off work, and what a treat it was to join our club elder statesmen on their Wednesday ride. I turned up at Hatchmere at 9.45 – and not a soul was there. Slowly they arrived, in dribs and drabs, until […]
Dagfields in Autumn sunshine
Reading Time: 2 minutes An excellent long run today, to Dagfields in beautiful Autumn sunshine. It was one of those “what should I wear?” sort of mornings as we set off in a thick fog with temperatures of c 5 degrees, but sunshine was promised. It didn’t take long for us to ride out of the mists into the […]
To Tittesworth and back
Reading Time: 2 minutes The prospect of a “lumpy” ride meant a fairly small group of us setting off from the Legion, on a beautiful route out to Tittesworth Reservoir via Congleton. Unfortunately for me the group consisted entirely of good climbers, so I was last up every hill, but I tried to focus on staying positive and everyone was […]
Cheshire Ring Canal Ride
Reading Time: 6 minutes Well this turned out to be one of my best days on a bike. We (our valiant leader Andy B, Paul H, Matt, Derek, Tim and I) set off at the unearthly hour of 7 a.m from the Anderton Boat Lift – along the 100 mile route that is the Cheshire Ring. If […]
A classy caff…
Reading Time: 2 minutes A nice straightforward ride today for those of us opting for the longer ride. Kev and Jules led us out to Prees via the undulating muddy roads around Whitchurch and we all arrived at the cafe without incident (other than a few large puddle crossings). The cafe was as usual full of bikers of the […]
To do the Horseshoe Pass or not to do th...
Reading Time: 3 minutes A great ride today, despite the unpromising weather forecast. We started off ten minutes late: Kev got to Hartford and then realised that he’d set off from home leaving the front door wide open, so had to ride back and sort it, leaving us all twiddlig our thumbs. Doh! And he can’t even blame the […]
Kris and Hildegaard wear pink
Reading Time: 3 minutes A large group was mustered at the Legion this morning, with everyone wanting to make the most of the beautiful weather. Alan sorted us into three groups, one of which included some new members who’d been persuaded to try WVCC out at the Pedal Power festival last weekend – welcome to them. I joined […]
To Holt and back
Reading Time: 2 minutes Well here we all are – gathered outside Holt Garden Centre about to start our return ride. The large group who met at the Legion at 10 am soon split into three smaller groups – this photo (below) is of the direct/steady group which included (here goes) Kev, Alan S, Graham G, Terry, Dave D, Jim, Phil, […]
No-one would go out in that would they?
Reading Time: 2 minutes …oh yes they would. I’d booked today off work for ages, hoping for a ride with the Wednesday Wrinklies. So when I saw the weather forecast I was disappointed, convinced no-one would be out, and decided to ride to Hatchmere anyway to see. I always arrive early – it never takes as long to get there […]