Intro Ride
Look out for our Club Introductory Ride to which everyone is welcome. We try to keep to quiet lanes and cover about 30 miles including a stop at a café for refreshments.
The ‘Intro Ride’ is a flat route. The ‘Hilly Intro Ride’ will be a route that features a few gentle hills.
The aim of these events is to provide a relatively short, easy-paced ride suitable for newcomers or riders who are not yet confident of being able to ride with the main club runs, riders returning to cycling or those who are still gaining cycling fitness.
The rides are intended as an introduction to club cycling, not as an introduction to cycling and a minimum level of fitness is expected.
As a guide, participants should be comfortable completing solo rides of 15 miles in approximately 1.5 hours before attempting one of our introductory rides.
We do not leave anybody behind but a reasonable rate of progress must be made and we expect a minimum average speed of approximately 13mph.
Progression Rides
The Progression Rides are intended to start the journey from the Intros so that new members and time limited irregular riders can build up their endurance and eventually speed to join the regular Club Rides.
There will be occasions on the routes where we will stop to gather the group together and also official extended stopping points to replenish our empty stomachs and refill our drinks bottles. Expect a pace similar to the Intro rides around 13mph.
Club Ride
As a guide, the Club Ride is suitable to anyone who would average 15-16mph on a 50 mile solo flat route with favourable weather conditions. However this is for guidance only to help you find a suitable group. The actual pace of the ride will be determined by many factors including distance, route, weather etc. The Club Ride will typically be 50 to 75 miles long with the odd longer ride in the summer. There will always be a cafe stop to replenish food stocks, drinks bottles and to rest weary legs. Keep an eye on our Facebook page for the route a few days before the event.
Inters Ride
The Inters Ride (aka Intermediate Ride) is aimed at riders who want to, and have the ability to ride at a quicker pace than the Club Ride. As a guide this ride should be suitable to anyone who would average around 17-18mph on a 50 mile solo flat route with favourable weather conditions. As with all our rides the actual pace will be determined by many factors including distance, route, weather etc. The Inters Ride on a Sunday will typically be 60 to 80 miles long with approximately 5000ft of climbing at an average of 14-15mph. On flat routes the average speed will be 18+mph. There will usually be a cafe stop on route. The Inters Ride will be ridden as a group at a controlled pace with regrouping when required.
