Blue skies and sunshine, but still a bit chilly, and a new elevenses
venue for the Easy Riders - the Bike Beans cycle café in Ashtead. I have visited the café several times before so I was pleased to be
leading a run from there.
Arriving just before eleven I found several Easy Riders already there
enjoying refreshments, and more arrived in ones and twos, including Mark on his
electric bike. By the time I thought we should be moving off, just before 11.30 there there were about a
dozen of us. We headed off for the level
crossing at Ashtead station and then on to Ashtead Common. Our route took us through the woods and
across the common to The Wells, then via Epsom Common to Stamford Green and The
Cricketers Inn, a short but pleasant ride.
Here a number of our group bade us farewell to to hurry home, leaving four of us to take food and drink in the pub
and the three sandwich eaters to find a bench in the sun and watch the
ducklings on the pond. Ron kindly
offered to lead the now small group back towards Ewell by a “pretty way”, for tea or home as they wished. Yours truly headed across the south side of the
common and home via Leatherhead, Fetcham and Bookham. I clocked up only 16 miles door to door, no doubt the rest of the group will have
recorded many more miles, I expect Ron’s
usual map will show just how many.
Mike Withers
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