Vic's Ride Oct 31st

31st October Group”A” Ride. Surrey Cycle Guides 1&2

We left Shepperton at11.10, for Chertsey Bridge, St Anne’s Hill, Ruxbury Road,Lyne Crossing Road,Trumps Green,Chobham Common to Windlesham, Bagshot, across A30 to College Ride and a taste of the old Bagshot Scramble course. There was a quick photocall in Bracknell Road, the continuation of College Ride to re-cross A30 to lunch in yet another Wetherspoon’s in Camberley High Street by 12.43 John S. had to leave us to get back for Hallow’een. The rest of us waiting at the level crossing for the London train to leave had a Schadenfreude moment watching him try to cross the pedestrian bridge to the correct platform in time. Then, Upper Park Road, Church Hill & Crawley Hill to the M3 fly-over. Youlden Drive led us to The Maultway , a long descent on Red Road which had Frank C. twiddling his legs off ,then West End to Chobham,Stonehill Road, Holloway Hill, Chertsey and Shepperton for tea ,at 3.00 p.m. exactly. The Group photograph was posed in front of the TV Relay Mast on Bagshot Heath, which is tall enough to be visible from Staples Lane (on the bearing of 320°) 12 miles away.