Sunday Ride

Following on from last Sunday’s fantastic ride in beautifully clear, autumn weather, the forecast looks dry again for tomorrow so, if you haven’t been out for a while, it’s going to be a great day to get back in the saddle.

Many thanks to Dan who has volunteered to lead the steady paced ride (with stops if needed).

As always, we plan to depart from the Rose & Crown at 10am.

Velos Route

Mid-week Rides

We would also like to remind everyone that we have regular mid-week, off-road rides on mountain bikes that are open for anyone to join.
On Tuesday evenings the ‘Pitstone Loonies’ meet at the corner of Rushendon Furlong and Marsworth Road at 7:30pm. These rides are energetic and can be technically challenging so would appeal to more experienced riders.

Thursday evenings is when the ‘Pitstone Puddlers’ meet. These rides are far less challenging and so suit off-road riders of all abilities. We start at Pitstone Roundabout (where Marsworth road meets Vicarage Road) at 7pm.

With both of these rides, good lights, a helmet and a spare tube are essential equipment.

We here at Velos Towers have word from the Met Office that tomorrow’s ride will be somewhat fresh due to the recent drop in temperature. Please do wrap up warm and join us for what we hope will be a good ride to help shake off those colds and general malaise that hits us around this time of year.

As always, we will be meeting at 9:50am with plans to depart around 10am.

The Route

Looks like we might have a gap in all this rain to have a dry ride out tomorrow morning. As always, we meet at the Rose & Crown from 9:50am.

Velos Route

Safe cycling.

Firstly apologies for the late communication this week for the Sunday ride.

Owing our tardiness this message is clashing with X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing so we will get straight to the point.

Sunday Route

We haven’t yet got around to organising the rota to lead the steady pace version of the ride so we suggest that everyone have a discussion before the ride to collect ourselves in to the relevant groups.

Safe cycling.

This week’s ride is the same one we published last week as we swapped it on the day for a “Normandy Landings” Training Ride. Again we are welcoming all abilities and plan to have a fast and normal paced groups leaving the Rose and Crown at 10am tomorrow.

The normal paced team will ride together as a group at the pace of the slowest person, so if you are concerned about how fast you can cycle, please don’t feel that you won’t be able to keep up with us. There will be an experienced lead rider who will know the way and also can assist with any punctures (but do please bring your own spare inner tube).

Planned route

Cycle safely.

Calling all Tea-Riders!

Following Mary’s multi-county churches excursion last week, we will possibly be sticking a little closer to home – or at least not clocking up quite so many miles!  Well done to all those who completed all or part of the Historic Churches Bike & Hike (37 miles this year) and a “Thank You” from Mary for the funds raised for Mentmore Church.

So, 10am at The Rose & Crown.

Tea & Cake? Or a breakfast fry-up/brunch?  The choice is yours!

In celebration of what is turning out to be a hugely successful 2012 Paralympics, we here at Velo Towers thought that it would be fitting to plan a route this week that takes us close by it’s birthplace, Stoke Mandeville.

Our resident bike mechanic, Dod, has kindly volunteered to lead out a more relaxed paced 12 mph group so … if you haven’t been out with us for a while and want to gently ease yourself back into cycling, this is a great opportunity to catch the decent weather and stretch those legs. We will be meeting at the Rose & Crown Ivinghoe on Sunday (2nd September) at around 9:50am with a view to setting off at 10am.

Velos Sunday Route

Cycle safely.

Cycling’s High Point of the week – hoping for a sunny one again tomorrow…

10am, The Rose & Crown.  Come and enjoy some gorgeous Buckinghamshire countryside with a good helping of Tea & Cake along the way.

And a reminder that next week is also the ‘Ride and Stride’ event – Saturday 8th September.   This is open to all Velo’s riders – Mary will put together a route visiting a few churches who will be serving tea and cakes.

First up, many thanks for everyone who came out today on the Saturday ride tea ride. It continues to be popular attracting members as far afield as Antwerp and Long Marston.

Tomorrow we are blessed with a new route designed by our in-house Olympic Routemaster, Dave Howe.  It is a tad longer than usual but we are assured by Dave that there are absolutely no ‘hills’ whatsoever. Please make sure you bring a copy of the ride with you either on your GPS device or, in the more traditional way, on a piece of paper. Looks like it will be a warm 25 degrees as well so please bring something to keep you hydrated. The meeting place is the Rose & Crown, Ivinghoe as always and the time is 9:50am.

Velos Sunday Route

Stay safe.