Drew created a very pleasant route starting from Dobbies Garden Centre at Huntingdon and winding for a little over 40 miles through Godmanchester, St. Neots, Gamlingay, Bourn, and St. Ives.Fourteen riders (plus one pillion passenger) on a diverse range of machines turned out for a glorious morning's riding. Brilliant blue skies. Hedgerows laded with blossom. Delightful views (in Cambridgeshire!). Little...
Seven riders met at the Conington Airfield Cafe with Bottisham Airfield Museum airfield cafe (Anglian section checkpoint) as their destination.Neil Diver had already ridden out to the Bedford section relay checkpoint to check they were open at their published start time.After a coffee and bacon roll, we immediately fell foul of the Sunday mainline train service having to wait for...
Somebody loves us is rained all week leading up to the day of our run to Steve's then on the day the sun came out, 14 braved the risk and enjoyed the Cambridgeshire and Essex countryside with a mixture of country roads and some more suitable sweeping bends we all enjoy on our bikes with little traffic to trouble us,...
Firstly, thanks to those who didn't berate me too much yesterday for a couple of wrong turns on the ride out Haverhill way!We stopped for lunch at a new destination - Tarka's Cafe on the A1017 at Baythorne End just beyond Sturmer - and they looked after us wonderfully. You should've seen the size of their goujons! For those who...
John Abraham* Memorial Veteran & Vintage Run – Sunday 23rd April 2023 This was the first year this event has occurred since 2019, due to the curse of Covid. On the preceding Friday the weather forecast for the day was 70% rain, and the event came close to being cancelled. As it happened, we did have some showers, but most fell...