31/08/2009 by Martyn.

A great ride with good company.

 We left Mirfield with masses of family riders, and thanks to Alex and Mike the ref for turning up in Thorpers kit in support.

The families stopped at Bradley and we then increased speed to climb past Sovereign through Sheffield and via mainly quiet roads to end the day at Lutterworth, south of leicester

 Sunday was bright but breezy and after  some quiet roads we hit the A5 for many miles and our safety was secured by the team bus and trailer driving behind.

Into London via St Albans to drop cars at Wembley, dead opposite the stadium, then all riders rode into Whitehall via Shephard’s Bush ( BBC ),white city, Kensington then through the Royal Parks for photos at Albert hall, Buckingham palace before cutting through horseguards onto Whitehall to hit Downing St.

 We were given a tour of the Houses of parliament, despite everyone being away  before a few of us rode back to Wembley as darkness fell 

Meals and beers and anecdotes followed. 

A good ride and hopefully more cyclists in Mirfield

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31/08/2009 by jack the flying dutchman.

This Saturday, I did the Tour of Spain Cyclosportive in the Netherlands, 105 km in typical Dutch weather, i.e. massive rainfall combined with sunny spells! 10,000 cyclists enjoyed the ride - and the prologue at the TT circuit in Assen was superb, we did the circuit as well, befor starting the sportive - my time was 2 minutes slower then Cancellara (but hey, he didn’t have to take care of another thousand cyclists). At one stage during the sportive I ended up cycling with the Caisse d’Epargne boys, who were out for a warming up ride - spoke to some Spanish guy for a bit, but Valverde was just hanging in at the back - felt like RCC in the Tour of Spain! Bumped into AG2R as well, boy are those new jerseys ugly! Next year it’s TdF in Rotterdam and Giro in Amsterdam, maybe an idea to go with the club and have some more RCC’s on the Dutch roads…

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