With the 2015 Sportive season truly underway and with two of the big local events already having taken place, what I have seen from members interested in the Sportive scene is very encouraging! Wiggle “No Excuses” Firstly, we had the Wiggle “No Excuses” at Huntingdon Racecourse on a blustery Saturday […]
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Wiggle Mendips – Alec Rankin The Wiggle Mendips sportive starts and finishes at Cadburys Chocolate site (the home of Frys chocolate) Keynsham which is between Bath and Bristol. I choose to ride the epic route which was 91 miles of very undulating hills which took us through the Cheddar Gorge […]
Finally after months of waiting, it was time to head off to France for my one and only big sportive of the year, the L’Etape du Tour. This sportive, organised by the A.S.O, it gives the public the opportunity to ride an official mountain stage of the Tour de France […]
More reports from club members who took part in sportives during May and June, including one who stopped for lunch and a pint on the way round, and another with an interesting item being auctioned for charity. Evans Ride It Series: King of the Downs – Dominic & Alison Bowles […]
Time: 07:00, Location: Feltre in the Italian Dolomites. Andy Wylde, Jack Burgin, Gary Stevens, Alan Moules, Roger Tyler & Richard Neil gathered nervously in the starting pens with approx. 4000+ other riders, seeming to comprise mostly of immaculately turned out Italians for the start of the annual Sportful Dolomiti Granfondo […]
Welcome to the May/June edition of the sportive newsletter. Now the warmer summer months are upon us, many of you are taking the opportunity to test yourself with long or difficult rides, not just locally but including some of the toughest and longest in the UK too. Great reports including […]