Falmouth Wheelers
Non-OGIL ride Wednesday 11th November 2020. Wednesday is OGIL day, even if we are in lockdown, so I bravely declared on WhatsApp my intention to be at Union Corner should anyone wish to brave the elements for a two-up to a destination in a south-ish direction. Consulting the weather forecast later had me wondering whether I had been premature in my declaration: it promised 23 knot winds (that’s nudging into a force 6 for you sailing folk), with gusts of […] Read More
I bumped into Jan outside Pets at Home who just happened to be riding the exact same route as myself and with a slightly iffy forecast we had both decided not to travel too far from home. It was an earlier start of 8.30 due to the pending rain and we started the ride from the bottom of Truro Hill. Coming across a closed road sign at the top, closed to cars but plenty of room for us on our […] Read More
According to Dominos there’s Joy Or there’s Missing Out. And it was all Joy this morning, for both the fact that on the strength of a fair forecast we were Poldhu bound, and that we welcomed Steve Lightfoot into the Union Corner fold. Having retired on Friday he had his priorities just about right. Through the miracle that is the OGIL Whats App group we had a full complement of six; Phil1, Kath, Sylvia, Jan, Steve and myself, as the […] Read More
October Meeting Here we are again, another month on and the meetings are sadly still in written form and we are not meeting as a group in Woodlane Social Club. There was hope that this would be the month that would see us back together again and it’s not looking too hopeful for November or December either but more about that later. As usual we’ve all been busy despite the current restrictions. Clive and I even managed to get away […] Read More
OGIL ride 28 October 2020 Dean had another brilliant idea for a destination – Julia’s café at Camborne station. Probably not the most attractive of venues, but with poor weather forecast the idea of sitting inside in the warm trumped any concerns about the aesthetics of the place. With a full complement of six at Union Corner, we set off to test the nice new tarmac on Hillhead Road. We were not disappointed, and on reaching the Other Place waved […] Read More
We were 15 going on 16 on Tuesday evening; as good as it gets for any OGIL ride; but Mystic Meg literally put a damper on things over night – “Its going to be Wet, Wet, Wet” and our fair weather friends found other more interesting things to do. Colin hasn’t quite worked out what a winter bike is for, and after last weeks comment about “light weights” made early use of his Wimp card. It was raining, there was […] Read More
OGIL ride Wednesday 14th October 2020 It was a lovely sunny but chilly morning as the appointed group gathered at Union Corner. The WhatsApp chaos of last week had, for some reason, not recurred, so the group membership had been decided in a fairly orderly manner, overseen by Papa Dean. Everyone was in longs except for Iron Legs Kath, who claims to still be swimming in the sea in just her neoprene bikini. Us wimps were attired in near full […] Read More
With no Audax or Pathfinder rides this year I thought I’d try and whip up some enthusiasm for an away day ride where a different starting place would give us an opportunity to cycle on different roads…. how many more times can you go up Halvasso? So, with a favourable forecast and many messages later, five of the OGILs I usually cycle with planned to meet at the lay-by just past the Chinese restaurant near Perranuthnoe at 9.30 to make […] Read More
OGIL ride Wednesday 7th October 2020 With the Rule of Six becoming a reality, the usual method of organising the OGIL rides of everyone turning up at Union Corner or the Other Place and then debating what the destination should be and what route we should take obviously cannot continue. But the default replacement method of using the OGIL WhatsApp group to negotiate numbers etc was clearly not ideal. Simon noted a total of 60 messages on the group about […] Read More
The forecast was looking grim but with 45,000 people participating in the virtual London marathon I thought I ought venture out. If they can get out there so can I. Jan was taking part and her finish line was Portreath so I decided to use my old mountain bike and go down the Bissoe trail. It wasn’t raining for most of the ride on the way there, just a few lovely puddles to ride through. As I arrived at Portreath […] Read More