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WEEKEND RIDE REPORT – SATURDAY 7TH FEBRUARY
According to one well known online weather source (who will not be named), the forecast was due to be set fair. Relatively warm, no rain and frost free. If I was to say come Saturday 7th February it was the complete opposite, it would be an understatement. As a motley crew of riders arrived at… Read more
ColVelo – Alps Trip – St Gervais, France
ColVelo – Alps Trip – 23rd July – 27th July, 2015 We are pleased to advise the dates for the ColVelo Alps trip will be 23rd July to 27th July, 2015, so please mark the diary. We will be travelling on Thursday 23rd, riding Friday 24th, Saturday 25th, Sunday 26th and travel home Monday 27th. Making… Read more
WEEKEND RIDE REPORTS – 24TH & 25TH JANUARY 2015
Saturday 24th January 2015 Following recent cancellations the ColVelo Collective were excited by the predicted weather forecast for Saturday 24th January, 2015. Six degrees Celsius and winter sun all of the day, what a fantastic opportunity to get up and out! At 0830 we left Velo, the main roads leading out of Colchester were great, nearly dry… Read more
WEEKEND RIDE REPORTS – 10TH & 11TH JANUARY 2015
In the week immediately following the New Year, our Sunday ride was foiled by some particularly wintery conditions. A sharp frost left the roads coated in ice following the deluge on the Saturday. Ice and rain, two of the three foes we encounter throughout our winter. This weekend it was the turn of the wind…. Read more
Weekend Ride Reports – 3rd & 4th January 2015
Saturday 3rd January 2015. The first ride of the new year. Never an easy prospect if the weeks preceding have involved a whole heap of festive excess. Many will have attempted, and some even completed the Festive 500. Chapeau to you. Many didn’t. And three quarters of the riders in attendance on Saturday had been… Read more