Seven gathered at Halvasso weighbridge, destination Lamorna, weather fantastic and an easterly wind to speed us outbound, what could possibly go wrong!? We hadn’t even got to the Helston road before Steve diverted us from our smugness and announced a deflation in the road interface department, this has to be a record? Offering to remain to provide moral support, Robin prompted the remainder to push on, which we did only to be caught and overtaken in Praze. A familiar route […] Read More

“Where are we going?” Respectfully asked the 9 OGILs of Chairman Fred. “Let’s vote” said Fred, offering the single choice of Lakeside which was eventually carried five to four – the four dissidents still await their sanctions. Theresa politely asked if she could join the group, clearly intimidated by the racing snake physiques around her, claiming she might not be as fast. Next spotted chasing Ian to the top of Halvasso, her claims of being “relatively new to this” are […] Read More

The May Meeting was held in Queen Mary gardens, Falmouth, as we’re now allowed to gather in groups of up to thirty out of doors.  Despite a grey and rather chilly evening, 24 members attended, although it seemed that most had flasks of hot drinks rather than picnics. Apologies were received from Phil Conroy, Peter Williams, Ian, Sonjia, Sheila and Sylvia.  Fred chaired the meeting and reported that the Pathfinder ride from Longrock on Sunday May 23rd had been cancelled […] Read More

I’ll take up the story at the other place. It was decided that having more OGIL than you could count in one go it was decided that we would split into two groups, each making their own way to Portreath. Ian lead off the first group with the parting words, “you know where Portreath is?” We had a visitor this morning, Sarah J, a friend of Sarah P, who first joined us last week but was not put off. Sarah […] Read More

Despite the forecast poor weather which had postponed the planned Pathfinder, six brave souls were at HQ looking forward to a wet and windy ride. “Not too far”, “not too long”, “Muddy Beach” were just some of the requests and after a shorter than normal planning meeting our explorers set off for Helston boating lake. Cabbage patch, Buddock, No Man’s Land and up to the cross roads gave us a chance to warm up, get the first soaking and talk […] Read More

I was woken up early on Sunday morning by a torrential downpour slamming into the bedroom roof but then it cleared up and I put my winter cycling clothing on. The forecast still looked pretty grim but I arrived at HQ 08 45 in the hope that other slightly mad Wheelers would join me. It was no surprise that Danny arrived a bit later closely followed by Phil and then Adrian. I was disappointed that Amanda did not join us […] Read More

After appropriate (and distanced) milling about at HQ, the Wheelers eventually split into three groups. I inserted myself into the ‘mid-crowd’, heading for St Agnes and led out by Sylvia, who had decided to abandon the ‘pro-group’ in our favour. At some point after cresting Truro Hill, we lost Sylvia and never did find her again, which throws up a slippery concept – did we abandon Sylvia or did she abandon us? Whichever, after a brisk ride via Chacewater and […] Read More

The long ride is not all about distance – it’s also about time. On Sunday the 9th we went to the Lizard and stopped at the Holy Mackerel cafe in Helford for an early coffee. It was around 11:00 am and we’d been going for around two hours – mostly uphill! Our average speed wasn’t very much at all. And we were just a few miles from HQ as the crow flys. Crows are inherently lazy and as a result […] Read More