Midweek Wayfarers CTC
Thursday, June 05, 2025
OUR BLOGS HAVE MOVED!
The new web addresses that you need to use from now on to access the Wayfarers and Cheam and Morden blogs are as follows:
mwwayfarers.blogspot.com
cheam-and-morden.blogspot.com
The best way to access the blogs is via our main website swlondonctc.wixsite.com/ctcswlondon which you can bookmark for future ease of access. Please note that the Beginners blog address remains the same.
Previously, these blogs have been administered by a past member of the club who has acted as sole Admin. Whilst being grateful for this past member’s work, the committee feel that it will improve management and increase resilience to bring these blogs within the control of the club and as such we have created 2 new blog sites.
The future administration will be by a minimum of 2 current active members of the club on behalf of the Committee. They will have new web links but to all intents and purposes will look and feel just like our existing blogs. You can still view all the historical blogs going back over the years since their creation on the new blog sites.
The biggest task ahead now is to sign members up to be authors on the new blogs. We need to do this in batches and we will start with those Ride Leaders who are leading rides in the next month. The rest of the membership who were blog authors previously will then be invited to sign up over the following months, followed by members who have recently requested to be authors. And should you wish to post something before you are invited to sign up, please contact Tim C or Simon L.
So what do individual members have to do now - nothing! Just bookmark the website and use this to access the blogs.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me.
~ Sue Foster Sue.foster39@gmail.com
Tuesday, June 03, 2025
Invitation to join the B ride to Shoreham on Wednesday 11th June
If you are planning on riding to Shoreham, you may wish to ponder and check with fellow cyclists which group to ride with to the coast, and especially how far to venture back! Therefore I am sending this invitation out a bit earlier than usual.
We shall have three B rider groups, all cycling to Shoreham, but with different targets after lunch ie all the way from Tanhouse to Shoreham.
a) and then cycle back to Leatherhead (71 miles from Tanhouse)
b) and then cycle back to Horsham to catch the train home (52 miles)
c) and then catch the train from Shoreham (30 miles)
Please let me know which route is your most likely one, this does not commit you, but is helpful when arranging the groups.
Please let me know (johnaustin04@yahoo.co.uk) by the usual time ie Monday 9th June.
I hope you can join us for this annual ride.
John
Friday, May 30, 2025
Invitation to A group ride June 4th
We will be meeting at Cobham and riding to Godalming for lunch at the Jack Philips Weatherspoons pub which is 22 miles and 1550 ft of ascent. The return is back to Cobham, 18 miles and 976 ft of ascent.
I do not have ride leaders at the moment, so if you would like to lead a group please let me know. I will be doing a recce ride on Sunday to check the route before posting, however we will be going through Combe Lane (near Shere) both ways. I will split the route into two sections for clarity because some of the route is using the same road.
We have ridden the route before and the roads are familiar so leading from a gpx file should be straightforward. Please let me know if you would like to join the ride and email me by 6 pm Monday Steve D. There is no need for a lunch pre-order.
Steve D.
Ride Report - Weds 28 June 2025
Given the blustery and unseasonably strong south-westerly wind which dogged us all the way to Winchester (it turned out to be a struggle through the lanes, rather than the promised trundle), I rather wished I had joined the group returning to Ripley. You make your bed of nails, and you must lie on it! Numbers were about evenly balanced between stalwarts and pragmatists on departure from our very efficiently organised, and reasonably-priced lunch stop at the Fox and Goose. Christina B, Dave E, Brian G, Neil W, Sue C and Clive joined me for the long haul into the wind and Dave V very kindly back-marked all the way. Meanwhile, Frances led her group off towards home with a helpful tailwind.
Time went by. Chalk streams and thatched cottages were glimpsed through gaps in high hedgerows. At length we arrived rather abruptly in the outskirts of Winchester. Disaster was narrowly averted when the rest of the group prevented the leader from making a wrong turn! I blame delirium!

Thursday, May 29, 2025
B Group Wednesday the 28th.
A good sign-up for the ride, and the weather was good, sunny but windy. 3 groups, with myself leading 1 group and Julie and Arwyn subleading the other 2.
New Haw is a long trek for some, so my route did a loop round to lunch at the Anchor at Great Bookham, don't know the name came from; there are no ships for miles. We/I have not used the pub in many a year; that will change as the food and service were first-class. It was great sitting in the sun in the front garden.
We headed directly to West Byfleet, Send, and then Tithebarns Lane to and along the concrete road, which has gotten worse in places, before joining the Ripley Lane to West Horsley and then taking East Lane to the Drift, Effingham, and onto lunch.
We were early, so hunger satisfied, we set off in groups, with some heading home from lunch and a few departing the ride along the way. About 9 or 10 made it to tea.
A lovely day on the bike with a good crowd. Thank you sub-leaders and back markers.
Tony..
B ride on Wednesday 4th June
Wednesday's B ride will be a 40 mile jaunt in the Surrey Hills from Cobham to Smithbrook Kilns via Coombe Lane, Shere and Farley Green then returning via the Downs cycle link, Newlands Corner and through the woods to enjoy a fabulous descent down staple lane to tea back in Cobham. Smithbrook would like pre-orders to make for a smooth operation so please let me know if you plan to join us along with your menu choice by Monday evening at 6pm. The menu is below. Please specify white or granary bread and any allergies.
Best wishes
Paula
Route to follow
Sandwiches
and Wraps
Served from 12.00pm
Choice of white or
granary bread from the local bakery, “Celebrations”.
Sausage Sandwich £7.85
With warm, free-range, local pork sausages
served with Red Onion chutney
and mixed leaves
Egg Mayo. Sandwich £5.75
Made with free-range
farm eggs and cress
Brie,
Walnut and Cranberry Sandwich £6.85 With
added Bacon £8.85
With salad leaves
BLAT, Warm Bacon, Lettuce, Avocado
and Tomato
£8.95
With mayonnaise
Ham Cream Cheese and Gherkin Sandwich £7.25
With mixed
leaves
Coronation Chicken Sandwich
£6.75
With toasted
almonds and mixed leaves
Cajun Chicken and Pepper Wrap £8.75
With soured cream and
lettuce
Fishfinger Ciabatta £8.75 With home-made tartare sauce and salad leaves
Warm Goats Cheese Ciabatta
With red onion chutney and salad
leaves £8.75
Gratuities are at your discretion, however, for tables
of 6 or more 10% will be added.
The Tri-Vets event
The Committee for the Tri-Vets event are looking for volunteers to assist on the day, Wednesday 18th June, at Dorking Rugby Club, in Brockham. We aim to split the work load into two shifts, morning and afternoon.
Morning shift will involve preparing the lunches for the event with teas and coffees and then partial clearing up.
Afternoon shift, will be teas and coffees, setting out the cakes etc provided by our members, then final clearing up.
Please contact me via WhatsApp (privately) or by email to d.jackson49@aol.co.uk
Also, please bake and donate, if you can, your wonderful cakes on the day. Should you be unable to get your cake to the venue, please contact me.
Many thanks.
Jennie
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Minutes of the 2025 AGM
The minutes of the 2025 AGM held on Wednesday 14 May at Long Ditton Village Hall are now available via the club Information Hub and the hyperlinks below.
Minutes of the 2025 AGM Appendix A (Annual and Treasurers Reports)
Thank you to all attendees, not only for attending but also for generous help in setting up and clearing away afterwards.
Following a brief poll via the club WhatsApp groups, the consensus was to rebook the same venue for Wednesday 13 May 2026. Hopefully this booking will not get lost or cancelled between now and then.
Friday, May 23, 2025
Plans for the 'A' Group Weds 28 May 2025
There will be two groups for the A's ride from New Haw next Wednesday. Both will follow the same, reasonably flat, outbound route (28 miles) to lunch at the Fox and Goose, Greywell (near Basingstoke).
The first group, led by Frances, will then ride back to Ripley (27 miles from lunch), with an intermediate tea stop at The Yurt, Pirbight if required. The route is the same as that used on Clive's ride to/from Greywell last year (https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/162962759).
The second group, led by me, will continue from lunch at Greywell to end at Winchester (25 miles from lunch), taking pleasant country lanes right to within a mile or so of the city centre (https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/352941253). A short detour around the quainter backstreets of the city will then lead us to tea either at Winchester Cathedral refectory (closes 4.00pm) or Wetherspoons (The Old Gaol), as preferred, or the short distance straight to the station. Only about 700m/2,100' of height gain all the way from New Haw to Winchester. There are plenty of fast trains back towards London. Group Save fares may be available for three people or more travelling together.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
B ride, Wednesday the 28th
You are invited to join the B ride, Wednesday the 28th, New Haw Day Centre. Lunch will be at the Anchor Pub (The Hidden Kitchen ) Great Bookham. Around 16 miles. Tea will be at the Pheasantry, Bushy Park, around 16 miles. There is a small section of off-road. Please contact me on WhatsApp direct, email or Mobile on 07770952554
The Anchor Pub Great Bookham
Tony..