Author Archives: Margaret Aldis

If, as the Met Office have it, Spring starts on 1st March then the weather was running a little late this year. Several riders from Cornwall braved the torrential rain on 2nd March for the Exeter Wheelers’ Mad March Coasts and Quantocks event.  There is a good account of the ride including pictures of some local bretheren here.

Audax Kernow’s Spring makes a later and hopefully more Spring-like start with the Falmouth Wheelers’ events A Bunny Hop and A Cornish 100.

If you are looking to get some distance in before then, why not take part in CTC Cornwall’s Ride the Equinox for ShelterBox event on 23rd March (two days after the Spring Equinox). There are 25, 33 and 50 mile road rides from Devoran, and also two mainly off-road routes from Portreath – full details on the CTC Cornwall web site.

Details of local events for April to July 2014 are now on the calendar.

This year sees a new event organised by Probus Pedallers to raise funds for the Merlin Centre (Cornwall’s Multiple Sclerosis Centre) at Hewas Water (Merlin’s Coast to Coast).

There are revised routes starting from Devoran for the events previously run from Carnon Downs (The Granite and Serpentine Way, A Lizard Loop and Carns and Killas), and  the “X-rated” 200km and 300km events from Penzance (Many Rivers to Cross and the Four Hundreds 200) are running in July this year instead of over the Easter weekend.

A two-page flyer listing the events is available here to download.

Here’s looking forward to some drier riding conditions and an excellent 2014 season!