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9.00 am Saturday 29th June - Ride to The Blue Egg Cafe, Great Bardfield, Essex
As well as the usual on this Saturday, there will also be a ride to The Blue Egg Cafe, Great Bardfield, Essex, CM7 5PY
It's been suggested that I mention that on my last visit to this cafe there were about 60-70 other cyclists from 7-8 other clubs, as it's quite popular with cyclists.
The Blue Egg from Ashwell - 36 miles:
The Blue Egg from Royston - 31 miles:
The Ashwell group will leave The Three Tuns at 9.00am sharp!
The Royston group will leave THE ROYSTON SPORTING CLUB, Therfield Heath, Baldock Road, Royston, SG8 5BG at 9.00am - FREE PARKING.
The two groups will meet at Hare Street (where the B1368 crosses the B1038) at about 9.50am.
Alternatively, anyone wanting a shorter ride can park their car at Hare Street and join the ride at this point. The distance to the Blue Egg from here is 25 miles.
As it's an out & back linear ride with a cafe stop in the middle, we may split into a couple of groups to accommodate the pace required by all i.e. fast as well as steady. The return route home can be varied on the day if we wish.
For cafe and route details please follow these links:
http://www.theblueegg.co.uk/index.html
http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/227415141
http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/227405619
It's been suggested that I mention that on my last visit to this cafe there were about 60-70 other cyclists from 7-8 other clubs, as it's quite popular with cyclists.
The Blue Egg from Ashwell - 36 miles:
The Blue Egg from Royston - 31 miles:
The Ashwell group will leave The Three Tuns at 9.00am sharp!
The Royston group will leave THE ROYSTON SPORTING CLUB, Therfield Heath, Baldock Road, Royston, SG8 5BG at 9.00am - FREE PARKING.
The two groups will meet at Hare Street (where the B1368 crosses the B1038) at about 9.50am.
Alternatively, anyone wanting a shorter ride can park their car at Hare Street and join the ride at this point. The distance to the Blue Egg from here is 25 miles.
As it's an out & back linear ride with a cafe stop in the middle, we may split into a couple of groups to accommodate the pace required by all i.e. fast as well as steady. The return route home can be varied on the day if we wish.
For cafe and route details please follow these links:
http://www.theblueegg.co.uk/index.html
http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/227415141
http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/227405619
Comments
And look who was there yesterday.
We can always do another ride later in the year, Nathaniel - & I'd never be able to keep up with you on the ride there anyway!
Good luck with your race on the 29th.
Have a good one anyway. And yes, please do it again when summer comes
Who's up for the slightly pacier version of this hunt for the Blue Egg? Not egg-ceptionally fast though. Wouldn't want to arrive feeling hard-boiled or fried . . .
Not sure I'll want to go with the faster group as I've scrambled up hills for the last couple of weeks, feeling a bit poached.
When we say fast, how fast are we talking?
How long does it take for the round trip (roughly - I know it depends on speed
Where in Royston can I join - should I (a) pluck up the courage and (b) get this to fly past the wife !!!!)
That's all the questions done i will put done the bright light in the face and the rubber hose.
The Royston meeting point is as at the top of the blog, as is the Hare Street meeting point. Driving to Royston will be a possible for you....
Hope to see you wherever
Pete
Anybody else from Baldock/Letchworth want to ride over the same way??
Enjoy!
If I'm late don't wait as I'm out tonight...
hope all groups got back safely.
great caf
Many many apologies from Dave (in the pink T-Mobile top) who managed 3 (yes 3!) punctures - thank you for your patience and those who helped with puncture no. 1 (and David for cycling back to try to locate him during puncture no. 2).
This would have been fine except for the fact that I'd only been to the blue egg once before, sometime in April only roughly knew where I was going. Still with some help from Stef and some handy Essex road signs we managed to get there for some extremely fine cake & ginormous sarnies.
After a quick hello to John's group at the Egg and some directions on how to get back we set off for the return leg which we quickly realised was not going to be as easy or fast as the way out as it was all uphill and into a headwind ! Half of the group split in Newport and headed back to Royston and the remainder of us formed a tidy peloton to work our way back to Baldock/Ashwell.
So, 75 miles @16 when I got back which is pretty good going.
Thanks all for some great company and a great ride. Will def have to do it again before the end of summer.
We had 20 in total (-1 somewhere en-route to Hare Street when Dave suffered his second puncture).
There was a real buzz, or should I say lots of clucking(!) amongst the group when we got to the Blue Egg!
A particular well done to our petite Lanterne Rouge group who held a good through-and-off discipline, which helped considerably all the way home.
When shall we go again...?