It was a reduced number of Easy Riders who assembled on Drury Lane today. The long ride, led by Tim, pedalled off to Perrywoods in Tiptree, while the short and medium rides led by Gifford and Mick headed off to Kelvedon, via Coggeshall Hamlet. 

Today, I was extolli...

Some of the Easy Riders may know I thoroughly enjoy being a student, and my latest foray has been into poetry.  I’ve struggled writing my essay over the last few months, so decided to try verse, as a different format.  Class members described poetry as ‘a stockcube of...

This week, Bill Twinn and I were leading and tailing the 11 riders on the short ride, heading to Greenstead Green. The medium and long rides went out to the Black Horse café at Earls Colne. 

Bill led us north to Bocking, and we toiled up Bocking Church Street, cros...

My plan for today, was to ride 21 miles to the visitor centre at Abberton reservoir, meet Jim for a cup of tea and elevenses, put the bike in the back of the car to go home, then meet Mick et al at the Scout fete. Famous last words!

About 9am I pedalled off down London...

And today was my first time as Ride Leader. I got off to a bit of an inauspicious start – I looked at the route description, and my map and could not work out some of the instructions. No matter, I thought – I’ll take my map and ask Mick to point it out. Except when I...