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Sun Jul 15th 2007
| Regular Wantage Ride |
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Leader:Stephen Quartermain |
Start Time:9:30 am |
Start Location:WMP |
Description:A ride of about 50 miles to lunch at the Three Horseshoes, Benson. Over the Downs to Streatley and Goring then along the foot of the Chilterns to Ewelme and Benson. Back via Shillingford, Wallingford and the Wittenhams, Didcot, Harwell, possible tea stop at Q-gardens. Short stretch of track on NCN route 5 into Didcot and route 44 from Ginge. |
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Riders:Richard DivallStephen Quartermain Riders = 2 Report:All started off well. I arrived at Wantage market in plenty of time only to find that the gears on bike did not work properly. Thankfully only Richard D turned up and willingly cycled to Didcot so that I could change bikes. We then cycled from Didcot through South Morton to Wallingford. We then headed on the B4009 to North Stoke and then South Stoke before cutting across to my original route of Ipsden, Ewelme to lunch at the Three Horseshoes at Benson. The main course was very pleasant but nothing could have prepared us for the size of the bread and butter pudding for dessert. I did not manage to finish mine and felt extremely weighed down for the cycle back - thank god it was flat!! We then proceeded to Shillingford Bridge Hotel and took the bridleway to Little Wittenham. Next on our route was Dicot via the Sustrans route 5 when it started to rain a bit. We then cycled to Steventon, Hanney to finished the ride just outside Grove. I cycled back to Didcot via Lains Barn. All in all a good ride with the weather being much better than forecast.Steve Q | ||
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