by Jon C C on a Bianchi » Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:53 pm
[quote="marco"]Good ride today - 3 of us met at the station, myself, Bob and Snoop, We headed out through Shirley and onto Shirley Church road taking back streets where possible but unfortunately Snoop was feeling under the weather so took the wise decision to turn home. We headed out down Spout hill and collected HuwG at the beginning of Featherbed. A nice steady ride out on the lanes took us to the bottom of Saltbox where we followed the valley road taking all of the very hilly twists and turns to Tatsfield village on country lanes. From there we went up and crossed the main biggin hill road and followed more little lanes to Berry's Green and then onto Downe Village. Unfortunately the cafe was shut so we did the exhilarating route back to Coney Hall, downhill virtually all of the way and with the wind behind us. Stopped off for a very Agreeable light lunch in Fienna's Cafe next door to Youngs Cycles and then headed back to Croydon from there. A couple of hours riding at a relaxed pace with some testing climbs thrown in and lovely scenery made it a very pleasant if somewhat hilly start to the Wednesday rides.
Nice route (I love that long downhill), and nice one, Marco! Hopefully we can make this another regular weekly ACC experience.