Ealing Friday Riders

Tony's ride to Dinton Pastures country park. About 75 miles, stopping at Datchet, Dinton and possibly a third stop for tea on the way home. Tony..

Great ride today from the Birthday. Loads of parks and open spaces.

This Friday we will be riding to see the amazing view from Alexandra Palace and back, via a large number of green and pleasant parks.   About 39 miles round trip from Ealing, and only two  three hills. On the way there we'll visit Hampstead Heath and the Parkland Walk - several miles of disused railway track in the heart of London.  Be prepared for a bumpy surface.   This takes us to Finsbury Park, from where it's a hop, skip and a climb to Alexandra Palace. The route back follows Pymme's Brook towards Barnet, passing through Arnos Park, Brunswick Park and Oak Hill Park; and back south along Dollis Brook and the Dollis Valley Green 'Walk'.  At some point this becomes the mighty River Brent and we go past Brent Reservoir and Brent River Park on the way to our tea destination, the historic Ace Café near Wembley (and not too far from Ealing either).   15 miles to 11s, then 20 to tea, with an optional stop in the middle, to be decided by refe...

Niall led the first sunny ride for this year. Jenners Maidenhead for 11's then Moss end for lunch. Tony..

Well what a day. A good turnout at Cafe Nero. A friend of Rachel's turned up to rie with us but her brake cable snapped. Off we set and Guy's front wheel bearing started making  a hell of an awful noise so he headed for home.We reached Egham for coffee at the cafe "Egham on Toast", great cafe and very helpful! Started raining just before we left and the guy from the cafe came out with paper towel to dry all our saddles! It now rained continuously to Brooklands so I took a shortcut and shaved off a mile or 2. We were all very wet when we got there and the place was packed so a queue for food,. Once full a short period of wandering to take photos and then back out into the rain.  Lunch at Brooklands I decided to take the most direct route which everyone great-fully agreed on,so many large puddles to miss! Through Hamworth and the puncture fairy struck Paul. We sheltered in a bus shelter while Paul and Cici took shelter in a garage to repair the puncture, it ...