It was basically a lovely trip all round! Eight people at the start by Three Bridges station including three people who hadn’t ridden with us before. So welcome to Val, Michael and Gordon – we hope that you enjoyed yourselves and that we will see you again.
As we always do what it says on the tin, we headed off, just after ten, along the Worth Way in pleasant early spring sunshine. We took it very easy and took some stops, including a master-class in gear maintenance from our top mechanic, Bob, eventually arriving in East Grinstead, having admired Rowfant station, Crawley Down (?!) and Gulledge house along the way.
Work has commenced on the new station and temporary fencing has been put alongside the steps preventing us wheeling bikes along the groove at the side. This wasn’t really a problem for the solos (singles), but Marian and I had to take care with our tandem.
Arriving at the Blue bird café we enjoyed a nice break. In some cases with cake! And then reversed our route to Crawley. Some people were quite surprised to find that the whole route
was completely flat, with long downhill freewheels all the way back to Crawley, as promised by the Leader! (Yes, it’s true.) Arriving back in Crawley after about two and a quarter hours we all went our separate ways. For those that care about these things, we had covered 17.47 miles in total. All easy.
Hope to see you soon, now that the good weather is back – go on, you know that you want to!
And an early date for your diaries – this year’s Crawley Family Bike Ride will be on Sunday 24th June; we are planning to start at Oriel School at 10.00 in Maidenbower and do a round trip to Nyman’s gardens and back. Over fifty riders took part last year. Full details will be on our website nearer the time so do check back.
Next weeks ride starts from Horsham Pavilions in the Park at 10:00 hrs and will head to Reigate Garden Centre and should be a fairly easy three and a half hour ride (plus lunch!).
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