Sunday road bike rides.....

Hello everyone, I am keen to get out and ride the road bike every other weekend. It seems to me that the local clubs take up too much time and cycle far too far for me to get any fun out of it. Stops for cafe breaks is all very nice but not when your partner is at home waiting for your plans for the afternoon out..... Plus, with a young child, I just don't get the time.

If you fancy a ride on a Sunday morning at around 0830-0900 meet up for a 1-3hr ride then get in contact. Routes centre around 10-30 mile routes from Portishead and getting in the car and going slightly further afield. Of course, I'm open to suggestions.....

My previous riding mate relocated abroad sadly and I miss the chilled out chats. I'm guess an average speed for me is around 13-14mph so quite steady. Fitness is currently low ish.... Really, it's about getting out if the weather allows and enjoying some fresh air.

I also have a MTB so when the weather is poor I tend to use that on road rides too, or some local trails should people want to do that. I don't want to tread on the toes of the Gordano MTB group of riders.....

If you fancy riding every other Sunday then get in contact @ portisheadcycleclub@hotmail.co.uk or @PortisheadCC on Twitter


Thanks

I find double riding painful as I watch my wife who has recovered from serious illness double up the Sheepway rail bridge past the fox and badger and down over the sheep pasture, I used to ride alone when young which means never having to look over your shoulder for safety of another as passed by local traffic unless turning right and wobbling at Cabstand Battery Road, so never had to compete! I blame the modern bikes, too smooth and technology, while mine used to be taken apart most weekends and rebuilt with fresh grease and Simper's equipment sales much to my Dad's horror ... he'll never get that bike back together again! that is where my pocket money went and the cat's relaxation in the Conservatory lean to. Black grease in mother's washing, then road test it right on tea time. Anyway it survived University College and a train journey and then was exchanged for a new out of a catalogue when working Cheltenham, I only rode it to the College once and was covered in mud, we had a small staff room, no changing facility, the derailer fell apart and all the nuts came loose, so I should have kept the old damaged paint from the Clevedon second hand shop Pa bought me for O' levels, at the base of the junction by the roundabout west of the hospital. He learned carpentry there once, a little along the rise. Good bike, like the watch lasted more than ten years. So enjoy your rides, free country go where you want as long as it is a marked ride and you do not fall in a pit of scoured track, follow your wife's rear disappearing over the hill and try the Strawberry Line Mendip if you can park car start at the cemetery, that is good exercise. Best wishes does not answer your query but we have done little this year due weather (heat) and masses of relative's care etc. so may pick up again this season, in the good old days we used to ride wind hail snow rain floods and yacht style tacking to Salthouse and see a few do so now on training. But I don't think you can tack to Clevedon now probably get mowed down by somebody trying to avoid the traffic queues M5, I used to climb Naish and Beach Hill now one way down and West Hill just to get to the top and ride the Coast path that takes some effort, then went rowing at UCW as I had legs that could reach the cross bar in Rugby as Fulll Back at school and you need to push that trolley back in the boat as my arms were not too strong, not being Steve Redgrave and Matthew with pace, so good stuff cycling for fitness and training. A friend used to ride Penglais Hill to reach lectures from downtown early morning Hall of Residence at the beach and I tore down to Philosophy in ten minute break and up the long slope from Geology lecture at the Campus. Plus the views, daughter rides too. Mike

I'm lost for words after that.... Reminds me of a Jeremy Clarkson Sunday Times car review...