Rides
Ride Report – Sunday 8th January 2012 – Back in the saddle
Off to Reigate for a change, a nice simple route for singlespeeding… Read the rest…
Ride report: Wednesday 3 January – slops…
The first night ride of 2012 proves to be wet, windy and all a bit… sloppy Read the rest…
Ride Report: Monday 02 January – Headley Highlights
The first ride of 2012 covers some off-road fun on Headley Heath Read the rest…
Ride Report: Friday 30 December – Shoulders to the wheel, chaps. No Lloyd, not like that!
The last, formally posted, Moles ride of 2011 was billed as a ‘Knackered Old Farts/Whingeing Old Gits’ ride, or KOFWOG for short. Read the rest…
Ride report: Sunday 18 December – Moles Christmas meal
A pre-Christmas ride is the prelude to the traditional Muddymoles Christmas lunch at the Cock Inn at Headley. Read the rest…
Wedesday 7th December – Hill climb records?
The winter was definitely being to settle in as we met at Hylands Garage this wednesday. Huddling against the stif cold wind was a group consisting of Darren (not loving his 80mm winter bike!) Amanda, Kevin, BigAl (on the “Do you have to strap this down to stop it floating off?” Ibis Tranny SS), JohnR, JonH, Lloyd (beating the traffic to … Read the rest…
Ride report: Sunday 4 December – solo at night
Heading out alone for a night ride in the Surrey Hills might not be the gnarliest thing but it does require a certain amount of caution… Read the rest…
Ride Sunday 4th of December – Socialising in the Surrey hills
It was a “select” group that met up this morning at the Bocketts Farm car park. Kevin, Karl, a somewhat under the weather DaveC and myself. Maybe the it was the lack of e-mails prior to the ride or the proximity to Xmas but the 14-15 rider groups of the previous few weeks didn’t appear. Nor the MWB AWOL Matt … Read the rest…
Ride Report: Sunday 27 November – The sick, the lame and the just plain lazy
Today was an Old Crocks ride, with Jem and Dandy (both recovering from long illnesses), Keith (ankle), James Pro (collar bone), Colin (fatigued from having been at it all night long last month) and DaveC (birthday hangover). Together they probably rattled more than their bikes! Read the rest…
Ride report: Wednesday 17 November – New Faces… Old Friends
Mindful of the eponymous JRPM factor, I arrived in plenty of time for the Wednesday night ride. As expected there were some newer riders; Jon H, who has quickly got the knack of posting on the forum to check there is going to be a Wednesday night ride, and Ross along for his second ride with the Moles.
Ride report: Sunday 13 November – is it really mid November?
With Matt once again not being out it’s down to me for the Krypton Factor challenge of remembering everyone who was out this Sunday. So with apologies for those missed. A glorious morning – can it really be mid November? – saw another big group of Barrie, Kev, Karl, JohnR, JohnH, BigAl, DaveC, new rider (another) Matt, DaveS, MarkW, Jez … Read the rest…
Wednesday the 9th – no banana was hurt in the making of this ride
With the evening staying fair the turnout on Wednesday was a little higher than recent rides with Five moles meeting up at the Hylands garage. Lloyd, JohnR, Kev, Matt and Olly. The more observant of will note at this point that my name wasn’t on that list.