Ride London 100 2014

First up, we have a recommendation. If you fancy having a chance at riding the London 100 in 2014, the ballot has opened and is filling up fast. 60,000 have registered already and they will close it at 80,000 so if you want to give it a go, have a look at their registration page.

Early Start : The Benson Finger

For our 8am ride we are revisiting a great route planned by Mr Beezer earlier this year. It starts out pretty lumpy but we are rewarded with a fantastic downhill run and some lovely villages to amble through. The 2nd half is pretty flat so we plan to ride as a group. There is a shop at the half way point for us to refuel.

8am ‘Early Start’ Route

Usual Velos Ride

Mr Bembridge has kindly contributed a ride for this weeks ‘normal start time’ ride. Unfortunately he can’t lead it out so Sarah has volunteered to head up a steady paced group. As is the norm, we gather from 9:45am at the Rose and Crown Ivinghoe with a view to depart at 10am.

10am Normal Ride Route

It looks like tomorrow morning has the best weather of the day, so meet at the Rose and Crown for this weeks tea ride.

Apologies to all the draw for the wine gum raffle was delayed but was kindly drawn by Gary last night after the ride

Results as follows:

#20 – wins a free place in the AMR Bucks 100 on September 15th OR Bottle of Lanson Champagne

#60 – wins £20 Road Room Voucher OR bottle of Famous Grouse Whisky

#51 – wins £20 Road Room Voucher OR £20 voucher at New MayFU

#50 – wins a Box of Roses Chocolates (The Winner is Daphne!)

#03 – wins a Terrys Chocolate Orange

Please contact Jose or Andrew on ajhetherington2005@yahoo.co.uk to claim your prize

Thank you to everyone for your support for Action Medical Research

For anyone who isn’t doing one of the charity rides, we have a couple of suggestions for this Sunday.

8am Early Starter ride

This is a reverse of the big 62 mile loop around Luton and Leighton Buzzard that we did a few weeks back. We will be leaving at 8am and the pace is likely to be swift.

Early start 62 mile route

10am ride

Just in case there is anyone who doesn’t fancy an early start, and is not doing the charity ride, here is a route for a 10am start.

10am 28 mile route

Thanks

Many thanks to everyone who made the birthday tea ride very special for Elke today. We had a lovely cake stop in the woods at Ashridge with a great bunch of friends.

Rose and Crown, Ivinghoe.
Charity Cycle Ride
Sunday 11th August 2013.
Raising funds for Cancer UK

This will be the main Velos ride this Sunday, so it would be great to see a good turn out to support this worthy cause. PLEASE NOTE START TIMES FOR THE RIDE YOU ARE INTERESTED IN. The format is simple- you pay £15 to enter, no sponsorship money to collect, and the Rose and Crown provide a BBQ afterwards. We need people to sign up if they are interested so that the Rose and Crown know how many to cater for. There are three different routes offered- 10 miles, 25 miles both 1:30 start times, and 56 miles 11 am start. At the moment there are about 25-30 riders signed up, so get your places booked.

Register here and put the distance you wish to cycle in the comments box:
link to registration page

Routes and more information can be found on the pub website here:
http://www.roseandcrownivinghoe.com/News-and-Events.html

Thank you for supporting this event.

..but I’m doing my best to string mine out for a whole week.

So this week, the Tea Ride will be the Birthday Tea Ride.  We will be riding over to The Monument at Ashridge (the nice way, not up the Beacon!),  where the lovely Mr Hegs will meet us with a car full of cake.

If you know that you are able to join us, just to give me an idea of numbers, please could you either reply to the email, comment on the Facebook post (Facebook.com/vinghoevelos), tweet us @vinghoevelos or drop us a line using the contact form on the website.  If you don’t know yet, absolutely fine – I’m sure we can find you a slice!

As ever, we leave at 10am on Saturday from The Rose & Crown, Ivinghoe.

What an amazing weekend for the Vinghoe Velos with many taking on their own personal challenges demonstrating the breadth and true ethos of the Vinghoe Velos.  These challenges included:

• Daphne taking on and completing her longest ever ride on the Saturday Tea ride (yes Daphne you did cycle to Leighton Buzzard and back!), thanks Elke for leading 🙂
• Several people again riding out to Silverstone and back – well done Sarah on her longest ever ride
• 8 Velos taking on and completing the RideLondon Surrey 100, “Go Hegs Go!”. Thanks JB for proudly wearing the jersey so good to see it as we climbed Box Hill – great job.
• Mark ‘Bono’ Wilson taking on Chris Boardman’s favourite hills in the Lake District

That all said we were then reminded that we must stay safe when we learnt that ‘Leighton Buzzard’ Dave Dean was airlifted to hospital after an accident – although delighted to report he is out of hospital and on the mend, we are sure everyone wishes him a speedy recovery.

TUESDAY NIGHT RIDE

For those looking for a spin out tonight meeting at Pitstone Roundabout to leave at 7pm for 22 miles (options to shorten on route).  Route here

ROSE AND CROWN SUNDAY RIDE

Those wishing to take part in the Rose and Crown Charity Ride on Sunday can find details and are asked to register early here.  There will also be the usual 10am ride leaving the Rose and Crown for those wishing to do that, details will follow later in the week

Sorry our reminder has been coming up with Ride London (live on BBC1 tomorrow!) and we nearly forgot the local rides….but without further ado and by popular request

8am Start from Rose and Crown for another trip to Silverstone – c.65 miles and considered to be excellent training for the Normandy Trip, Martin Sisley has kindly offered to lead this one

SILVERSTONE ROUTE

 10 am Start from the Rose and Crown a Mr Bembridge flat 24(.99!)

Daves Flat 24

Have fun!

Meet outside the Rose and Crown at 10 am for cycling, tea and cake. Pace set by the slowest rider, no one gets left behind.

Whilst the current weather suggests we may not have many out tonight the forecast I have looked at suggests it may well dry up, that being the case…….

Meeting at Pitstone Roundabout for a start at 1900 a 25 mile ride (which can be shortened!).