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A relaxed easy evening ride around Barnet and Whetstone, with dinner at 8pm at Maydanoz Turkish restaurant, N12. There are good choices including reasonably priced vegetarian, meat and fish options. If anyone would like to join us just for the meal, please let me know before 6.30pm so I can let the restaurant know.
LIGHTS ARE A MUST FOR THIS RIDE.
Meet: 7.00pm outside Waitrose, The Spires, Barnet – by the bandstand (NO Tally Ho pickup).
Ride Leader: Kathryn Ehrich, tel. 07757 751896
After the coffee break we will continue round the M25 in the company of Doug Nevell. This is a continuation from the April meeting, and we are keen to hear about the rest of the route round the south and east of London mirroring the M25. All welcome.
Meet: 8pm Carey Hall, Trinity Church Centre, Nether Street, North Finchley N12
In contrast to the short easy ride in May (let’s call that a 1-star ride) this month we move up a notch to a ‘2-star ride’. Longer distance and a little brisker in pace. To allow enough time there will be one start point at The Spires in High Barnet at 10am. The route will go via Bricket Wood and the Gorhambury Estate to lunch at the leisure centre cafe in St Albans park. Distance to lunch will be around 20 miles – there will be a brief ‘comfort stop’ but no coffee! Bring a snack if needed.
Additional info:
There will be an additional, more leisurely ride to Gorhambury and the same lunch stop led by Kathryn, which will also start at 10am from the Spires. Do note this will be only slightly shorter distance than the faster ride so bring a snack if needed.
The route has off-road sections which are suitable for all bikes except road with skinny tyres as there is some gravel. A tea stop is planned at the White Hart in South Mimms.
Meet: 10.00am outside Waitrose, The Spires, Barnet – by the bandstand (NO Tally Ho pick up).
Ride Leader: Talia Ross tel. 07816 767212
A relaxed easy evening ride around Barnet and Whetstone, with dinner at 8pm at Maydanoz Turkish restaurant, N12. There are good choices including reasonably priced vegetarian, meat and fish options. If anyone would like to join us just for the meal, please let me know before 6.30pm so I can let the restaurant know.
LIGHTS ARE A MUST FOR THIS RIDE.
Meet: 7.00pm outside Waitrose, The Spires, Barnet – by the bandstand (NO Tally Ho pickup).
Ride Leader: Kathryn Ehrich, tel. 07757 751896
First Sunday of the month ride – route not planned in advance. Meet, discuss where you would like to go and off you go!
(NB quite a lot of the group will be on the Huntingdon weekend, but if anyone is free this is an opportunity to turn up for a ride]
Meet: McDonalds near Tally Ho, North Finchley N12
Time: from 9.30am for coffee and planning – leave at 10am.
This month:
May Ride
T.U.A.G.
Prudential Rides
Notices
June Newsletter
Where else could you have a year’s interesting cycle rides, and indulge in sociable monthly indoor meetings all for just £10 or less. Just by making such a meagre contribution to Barnet Cyclists funds, all this can be yours plus an elegant membership card.
We do get a grant from the LCC but this only covers about a third of our annual operating costs. So we would like you to dig deep and cough up a whole £4 if you are a paid up LCC member, or if you are an associate of Barnet Cyclists at least £10 would be appreciated.
Ideally we would like you to pay by bank transfer directly into our account. It is “London Cycling Campaign Barnet Branch”, sort code 60 83 01, a/c no. 20225687 and vitally important, give your name as a reference.
If you are unable to do a transfer don’t hesitate, just give us cash or a cheque. (Cheques to “Barnet Cyclists” or the full a/c name as above). As we now have to pay a bank handling charge for cheques please add an extra 50p to cover this. If posting send to: Treasurer, Barnet Cyclists, 38 Glenwood Rd. NW7 4LJ.
So in anticipation and hoping you can do this promptly, by end of June at the latest – many thanks for your valued support, group treasurer – Peter R.
A special visitor Martin Greaves, Senior Operations Manager, Middlesex Association for the Blind will give a brief introduction to the work they are doing for the visually impaired. After the coffee break, John who runs Johns Cycles shop in Greenhill Parade, New Barnet will explain some new equipment and advice for helping cyclists to gear up for the busy riding period ahead this summer. Just in time for you to equip yourself for the fantastic Huntingdon Extravaganza Weekend Away in June!
All welcome!
Meet: 8pm Carey Hall, Trinity Church Centre, Nether Street, North Finchley N12
Saturday 3rd August – Prudential RideLondon FREECYCLE There will be led ride from Tally Ho into central London for the Freecycle event where a circuit in the centre of town will be closed to cars for the day. We need volunteers from Barnet Cycling Campaign to either lead the ride – or act as marshalls.
If you can help as a marshall (training can be given) please contact Charles Jennings on info@barnetlcc.org.
Thursday 28th February
Monthly Meeting: Ride, Ride, Ride.
Tonight we are going to have a group discussion about how we run our rides and how to get more people to lead them. What are the barriers to leading a ride? It is not as hard as some may think once you have a little help. Stating the obvious: no leaders = no rides. We will discuss our Ride Programme (Is it what you want? Do you want more rides?).
We will also try and cover ‘Ride Etiquette’ (or sadly the lack of it at times). We need to make sure our rides are well run and everyone is safe. There will of course be time for usual business round-up and a cup of tea.
All welcome.
Meet: 8pm Carey Hall, Trinity Church Centre, Nether Street, North Finchley N12
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