Friday, June 19, 2020

A Group ride from Walton on 24 June


The A Group ride on 24 June will be from Walton via Ripley (toilets!!) to Blackheath Cricket Ground (lunch) and return via Merrow ( toilet open at the Park & Ride) and Ockham to the Medicine Garden at Cobham ( café and toilets). There will be a section off-road – see below.

We will be riding in groups of maximum 6 to comply with government regulations. Pre-booking your place is essential, and places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Please email me at briangreenwood@yahoo.co.uk to reserve your place, and by Monday 15 June at the latest.

There are at least two sub-leaders to share the leading, and so it should be possible to accommodate up to 18 riders.

Riders should come with a packed lunch and hand-sanitizer and should also follow Wayfarer instructions for safe and legal riding in groups, which can be found here

Our proposed route can be seen and downloaded here
 
We will meet near the café by Walton Bridge (on Walton Lane at Cowey Sale). The toilets are open. Details for A and B groups will be provided on Monday. Grid reference TQ093664.

Lunch will be at Blackheath Cricket ground where there is plenty of space and seats. Adequate country-style facilities but beware of surrounding footpaths to the east!!

The weather is forecast to be warm and sunny.

Offroad: from Farley Heath to Green Lane. About 200m of hard track to cottages and then 500m of bridlepath. Fairly level, mostly earth path. On this morning’s recce we had to walk round one wet stretch of about 20m but rode the rest without getting either the bikes or ourselves muddy. Not bad after all the recent rain. It is forecast to be mostly dry until Wednesday so should improve. I’ll check again on Monday.

I am looking forward to receiving your booking at briangreenwood@yahoo.co.uk

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