Falmouth Wheelers
Raymond was born on Saint Mary’s Isles of Scilly, 25 August 1962. His parents were Robert & Eileen Tucker. His dad was a Baker, then went on to building work. Raymond was raised with sister Wendi & brother Dez. A few years later the family moved to Saint Keverne which has remained home for Raymond ever since. Raymond attended Saint Keverne primary school, completing his education at Helston Secondary School. When he was sixteen years old he joined the Merchant […] Read More
Sunday ride 30th August 2020 The Sunday Long Ride group on WhatsApp had already agreed to Ian’s suggestion of Wheal Coates via a zigzag route – “the right roads but not necessarily in the right order”. I’m not sure exactly what happened, but all twelve of us that congregated at HQ just followed the Pied Piper of Penryn when he set off, including us slouches as well as the fast brigade. We probably did so just out […] Read More
Last month I was a week early with the meeting, this month I’m a little late. That’s the joy of the flexibility of the internet. We toyed with the idea of holding an outdoor meeting and it nearly happened but the good old British weather soon put paid to that. The forecast was dreadful and we cancelled, so here I am typing this while the sun shines through the window, typical!! The meetings in real time look as if they […] Read More
Due to the forecast of Heavy Rain for Thursday we have made the decision to cancel the proposed Meeting for Thursday 27th August. We will commence the meetings as normal in October when Woodlane Social Club will re-open for business. I shall continue with the format of putting the meeting notes on the Website as I have been doing since Lockdown.
In fact, yesterday’s ride was one of the best for a long time – the slower group set out for Hell’s Mouth cafe, led by Trevor who can be relied on to take an interesting route – and not so slowly, either. We went via Halvasso, round Stithians on the east side, right towards Lanner and along the Great Flat Lode cycle track, where we turned off at the metal gate (infamous for confusing riders on the Mines and Minerals […] Read More
We are going to attempt to have our August meeting in real time. The venue will be Woodlane Social Club Car Park and the start time will be 7.30 pm. Please don’t arrive before 7.15 pm and please ensure that you are socially distancing prior to the meeting. You will need to bring something to sit on, Chair or Blanket so that we can be kept 2 metres apart. I would like to discourage standing as we may be inclined […] Read More
With a wet forecast and various excuses being posted in advance, I was pleased when Dean and Simon responded favourably to my intention to ride today. I was in good time and made my wife a second coffee before I left, only to realise I’d forgotten my water bottle. Hastily returning, I was now running late but not as late as Simon who messaged to say he’d meet us at our destination. Dean and Paul were waiting when I arrived […] Read More
On the way back from a circuit of Stithians lake yesterday, I took the opportunity to check out the new cafe at the Via Ferrata site on the Halvasso road, next to BF Adventure. The huge granite quarry has been converted into a challenging climbing course, with high wire bridges, abseiling descents and zip wires. The cafe ‘The Cornish Barista’ overlooks the quarry and has a good range of hot drinks, a full menu and a range of scrumptious looking […] Read More
OGIL ride 12.08.20 Despite ominous warnings of thunderstorms, Wednesday morning didn’t look too bad weatherwise after all. A number of fellow OGILs obviously agreed with this and turned out for the ride to Helston. This had been suggested the day before on the assumption that the day was going to be a wash-out and we needed somewhere inside to sit for our coffee and victuals. The fact that Ian also turned up proved our suspicions that it was not going […] Read More
Well, I’m not quite sure what happened last week but I managed to put the meeting out a week early. The advantage to that is that you get another meeting this week and it gives me a chance to add anything that I had forgotten last week. I forgot to mention the Polpear Cafe on the Lizard on our ‘getting it right list’ Liz went recently and said that they were welcomed as special guests. Liz says that they have […] Read More