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Sat May 10th 2025
| 2* Saturday Half Day Ride - Oxford Special | 2* |
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Leader:John Tranter |
Start Time:9:00 am |
Start Location:OMH |
Description:Note the 9.00 start to minimise the traffic.Please pre-book for this ride by contacting the ride leader. Half day ride (45-55km / 30-40 miles), with a tea stop, at a riding pace of 18-20km/h (11-13mph). A route reintroduced last year - one of the most fascinating and cunning ways to get into the centre of Oxford almost entirely on off-road tracks. We head across the Vale for Appleton and Cumnor, down Cumnor Hill before hitting the back roads and trails to get us to the river by Osney. A lovely river crossing before we hit the centre of town. Coffee stop with the opportunity to see inside my old College, St Cross. Then we head north out of town on the canal towpath to Wolvercote, loop around Port Meadow and head for home. 41 miles / 65km at a nice steady 2* pace. |
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Riders:Des HiggsHuw Palmer John Tranter Lorna Swanton Nick Portsmouth Stephanie Haddrell Steve Swanton Riders = 7 Weather: Report:Always a fun ride to lead as we find all of the most cunning routes into and out of the centre of Oxford. All went well and we had some lovely sunshine and cloudless blue skies. We picked up drinks and cakes at Taylors cafe and enjoyed them in the peace of St Cross College's Blackwell Quad. Everyone managed the climb of Cumnor Hill extremely well and we even had a hint of a tailwind to help us home. Particular kudos to Huw for his longest ever ride and to Nick and Lorna for longer than normal efforts.Thanks to all for a loverly morning. | ||
Distance:65.98 km (41.00 mi) | Ride Details:https://ridewithgps.com/trips/281050633 | |
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| Proposed Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/47689685" | ||
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Sat May 10th 2025
| 3* Faringdon Special | 3* |
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Leader:Katherine Boyce |
Start Time:9:00 am |
Start Location:Gloucester Street Car park, Faringdon, SN7 7HY |
Description:PLEASE NOTE CHANGE TO STARTING TIME: NOW 9AM.Please pre-book for this ride by contacting the ride leader. Monthly 80-100km (50-65 miles) all-day touring ride, lunch and possibly tea stop en route, at a riding pace of 18-22km/h (11-14mph). Not suitable for irregular riders. This is a route that starts and finishes on familiar routes but after coffee at Fairford takes in unfamiliar areas. We will go north east to traverse a trio of Amney's before picking up the White Way. Lunch will be in Northleach, with the final third of the ride being reasonably flat (unlike the morning!). Please let me know before Friday lunchtime if you are coming so I can finalise lunch arrangements. Parking is Pay and Display and according to the website, 6 hours is £6 which can be paid with cash or cards. |
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Report:Splendid days cycling. The first part to Fairford was on many familiar roads and we swiftly arrive at 7a Coffee Shop which not only had a lovely garden but also very tasty coffee, cakes and vegan sausage rolls!The roads to lunch were mainly unknown but all agreed lovely. We knew the stretch before lunch would be hilly and boy were we right! Thanks were given to very patient, encouraging motorists who stopped and turned there engines off to allow us to inch our way past them on some interesting parts of the steepest hill and to the driver who stopped at the bottom of the next hill to allow ascending to be accomplished without pressure. The Prison Cafe at Northleach had very good food but overwhelmed staff due to the numbers that had descended on them. We enjoyed sitting in the sun whilst waiting for our food. After lunch the hills gave way to lighter descents and an interesting intermittent headwind. A final climb up from the Thames to Faringdon, the navigating of the one way system and we were done. Thanks to a lovely group to lead  | ||
Distance:100.61 km (62.52 mi) | Ride Details:https://www.strava.com/activities/14437459340 | |
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| Proposed Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50640013" | ||
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