Getting off the saddle after 1436 kilometres felt like I had just been released from prison. Don’t get me wrong it was amazing and epic and long and hard and lots more. I knew what I was taking on because…
A Taunton Summer Solstice 400k Sandwich
Thursday, (half a slice) an early start with a drive to Stokenchurch where we left the van. Myself, Farmer and Paul set off to ride to Frome. Nice steady ride, a few stops and some 85 miles to our digs.…
Gran Canaria Training Week – March 2017
This year saw 14 of us turn out for this annual Crest extravaganza. Our all inclusive package meant that many hours were spent sorting out the world’s problems in the hotel bar, talking about the day and giving people new…
An interesting tale
I was talking to a club mate, who will remain nameless. Well he was talking to me actually, he was describing that his local traffic light sequence had changed. Maybe the new sequence had been introduced by the local council…
Tandem weekend to Bedford and back
Chalk & cheese. It rained a bit Saturday, all day in fact, but we all put on our brave tandem faces and got on with it. Do you know what? It was actually fun! A pretty route, shame we couldn’t…
A Greek tour with our MAD friends from Maldon.
This was a tour that I would do again, with family and the like. Nice hotels & food, no need to use sleeping bags or sleep in bus shelters. Ron and I went a week early, because we could.…
Crest Tour of East Anglia, July 2016
Ten intrepid explorers (plus some hangers-on) met at Alec’s Restaurant in Navestock Side early-ish on a bright and warm Saturday morning. The first puncture was suffered within the first few minutes (yours truly), even before we met the Savages (Mick…
Mersey 24 hour
That was a proper event, old school characters riding and running it, passing up bottles. This event is certainly one of the oldest and certainly one of the toughest. It takes place on rolling roads south of Liverpool, it is…
The Ardechoise 2016
The Ardechoise c’est un sportive comme je ne l’ai fait avant.. Come on Cresties, learn some flipping French. You can choose your distance and the amount of days that you want to do it in, c’est bizzaar non? The…
Retro Ronde 2016
Old geezers and old birds on old bikes. Lots of clanging about on the cobbles of Flanders. Eight Cresties turned out for our annual Belgian beer fueled retro ride. En route we spent a night in Ypres including a visit…