08 Aug 2015: Saturday fun ride to Redbourn

The meet: Morrison’s Fleetville  

The destination: the Hub Redbourn  

This week we welcomed a really healthy sized group to the ride; we had 4 of the 5MTF regular ladies and 8 riders who had seen our group on the GoSkyRide site or had spied our own website and decided to give us a go. We are used to riders coming up from London, but this week our fame had spread as far as Wellingborough! 

So at 10am a contingent of a dozen riders followed me along a route I knew well, taking the quiet Valley Road that swings around to the Harpenden Road. We pootled along and took Beesonend Lane, which leads to the fisheries. It’s here that everybody has to do their best at lifting their bike up onto a bridge to get over the river Ver. We made our way past the Redbournbury Mill, which is a fine sight. One of the pleasures of doing these rides is showing people who live in this area just what is sitting on their doorstep, with main roads bypassing a lot of the more interesting parts of our countryside.

02 Aug 2015: Panshanger to Royston

It must have been a good weather forecast as there were 13 of us starting at the Panshanger golf course in Welwyn Garden City. The first (elevenses) stop was at Hare Street, a village north of Braughing in the east of the county. So we were off at a good pace through Bramfield, Dane End and then across the A10 into Puckeridge. From there it was into Braughing and straight up a quiet ‘B’ road past various hamlets until 18 miles from the start we reached Hare Street.

This is a picturesque village with some ancient ‘jettied’ houses. Our stop was at just such an ancient building, ‘The Old Swan’ tea rooms. In fact we sat in the garden next to a pond being entertained by a gaggle of noisy geese.

Route Map

01 Aug 2015: FreeCycle London

South Herts CTC helped out at the Dr Bike session held next to St Paul's Cathedral.