Jimbo muscles in on KP's prizes.

10 January 2010 Battersea Beer Festival

Paul M, Paul K, Trevor, Paul W and Ev at the Battersea Beer Fes this week. Preseason training you understand - well it’s advisable not to start something too strenuous too early and strain something! Mind you we could have suffered frostbite because they had left the hall windows open to cool the beer!

Clarencourt Melbourne and Merstham This Week

Trevor, Paul, Isambard & Ev at the Merstham Beer Festival

Jan drags Mick Ward across the line at the end of the Round the Bay Ride

Christmas Lunch The Spring 2008

Barry Gregory's 70th Birthday

Barry Gregory celebrated his 70th birthday with a tea party at Brooklands. It was a smashing afternoon with a mixture of family, work colleaugues and bike riders all wishing him well. The museum was open for us to visit too. Denbo's Mum featured alongside Barbara Cartland and two Clarencourt lads of yester year, Gordon Robins and Alec Watkins got a mention in the results of a race held there in 1935!

Bastille Day Ride 2008

We had a good turnout for the Bastille Day ride that fell on a Monday this year. Our usual pub was shut but at short notice we were made welcome for lunch at the Hollist Inn at Lodsworth. After a late start from Ellens Green we followed the usual back lanes route to the top of the South Downs for coffee at the top of Bury Hill. Then it was on, up and down, around Goodwood race course to West Dean and over onto the South Harting road. We seem to have lost our ability to make up lost time over the years and so we chose the easy route through Midhurst to Lodsworth which turned out to be no shorter (although much easier.) Fortunately the confusion over which pub we were stopping at did not prevent Chris Law, Jim Harwood and Robin Potter from joining up with us there. Suitably sustained we returned to Ellens Green through Gospel Green, Shillinglee and Dunsfold. The weather had been superb for cycling, the countryside as beautiful as ever and a good fete day was enjoyed by all. We'd ridden 77 miles at a speed best not remembered. Grateful thanks to the Blessed Caroline Harrison who in the evening invited us to her place for food and drinks, where we were joined by other celebrants unable to join the ride.