A ride to Chappel Beer Festival.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
Organiser: Jeff
It will be a 9.30am departure from Colchester. Meet at the junction of King Coel Road/Halstead Road (by the footbridge over the A12).
Our route will take us via a refreshment stop in Halstead and into the wilds of North West Essex, finishing up in Braintree where we will return on the 6.00pm train to Colchester.
Our annual ride to Norwich Beer Festival with an overnight stop in Beccles along the way.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
Organiser: Robin
Friends, Romans, Cycalists, lend me your ears!
On 6th December our annual ride to the Harwich and Dovercourt Winter Beer Festival takes place.
Depart from Leisure World at 10 and meet up again at Wivenhoe Station at 10-30 for those who prefer not to use the Wivenhoe trail. Route is Sustrans 51 as usual.
No pubs on route - just beer and food at the festival. Option to return by railway for the inebriated or too tired to cycle back.
Thanks to Greater Anglia there's no trains to return from Chelmsford on so the planned ride to Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival has been switch to a circular ride to Maldon and back.
The ride will be just under 40 miles in total with lunch in Maldon and a few pub stops along the way.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
A ride to Chappel Winter Beer Festival. Don't forget your festival tickets if required.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
This month’s cycale ride is a tour of South Suffolk pubs (and a bit of Essex), calling at (probably) Mistley (tea stop), Pin Mill, Harkstead, Tattingstone (2 pubs), East Bergholt and Manningtree. Lunch will probably be at the White Horse at Tattingstone (now under the same ownership as the Black Buoy at Wivenhoe) – please let Jeff know (via email address below) in the next few days if you are lunching, so I can book with the pub.
Total distance should be in the region of 45 miles, with a shorter option of about 35 miles if anyone wants to return by train from Manningtree.
A ride to the Easter Beer Festival at Mersea Island Brewery and Vineyard.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
Robin is leading a ride... destination to be confirmed, possibly another of Robin's cracking London rides.
Expect a few pub stops along the way whereever we go.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
We will travel by train to Chelmsford. From there we will ride about 30 miles through the Essex countryside, much of it is hopefully virgin territory for Cycaleists. We will be visiting a minimum of five cracking pubs including the annual luncheon stop at the splendid Compasses, Littley Green. One of the pubs is holding a beer festival & another has a ‘celebrity’ owner. Meet at North Station (south side) at 09.45 to organise rail tickets & possible coffees.
A bit of Deja Vu in that we are getting the train to Chelmsford again, but this time to cover a different area around Chelmsford.
Meet at North Station-London side to make it easier as no carrying bikes down the stairs-at 10.30 to catch the 10.43.
Ride will be about 35 miles,with a short bit of off-roading.This is on a good quality track,but if you should wish it can be avoided with a bit of a detour,about a couple of miles.Pubs in Margaretting Tye,The Hanningfields and others.
Join Jules for a gentle short evening ride taking advantage of the long Summer nights - beginners very much welcome! Thinking of joining a CycAle day ride but don't know what to expect - come along for an evening to find out.
The route is:
1. Depart from the Hospital Arms at 7pm (those thirsty enough no doubt will arrive earlier to take advantage of the HA, rude not to)
2. The Live and Let Live
3. The Alma, Copford
4. The Crown at Messing
5. The Sun at Feering, ready for the return on the train.
About 12 miles in total.
The ride planned for July 4th has been cancelled.
A long weekend staying in Norwich.
Friday 31st - evening train to Norwich and a night out in the city's pubs.
Saturday 1st - a circular ride around the outskirts and outlying villages of Norwich.
Sunday 2nd - a short ride followed by a train home.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk. Please express an interest as soon as possible as once accomodation is booked it won't be possible to join the ride.
A ride to Chappel Beer Festival.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
4th October will be a ride to Sudbury and back. Tea stop along the way in Assington before lunch in Sudbury, back via the normal route with as many pub stops as required and catching the beer festival at the Three Horseshoes in Fordham.
About 35 miles.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
Our annual ride to Norwich Beer Festival, overnighting on the way in Beccles.
Friday - ride from Colchester to Beccles with lunch in Framlingham. Evening in Beccles.
Saturday - short ride from Beccles to Norwich to arrive at the Festival for opening. Return by train to Colchester.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
A ride to Harwich Winter Beer Festival.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
Not a ride but a meeting (although there's nothing to stop you riding to it...)
To plan the 2016 programme of rides.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
The next Cycale ride to Tattingstone will leave the Bricklayers at 10.00am on Saturday 7th May. Route will be Stratford St Mary, East Bergholt, Tattingstone, Manningtree. Options for a train back to Colchester from Manningtree or cycle back https://apotekerendk.com/.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
An overseas CycAle adventure - sleeper ferry to Holland on Friday 10th June, followed by a day of cycling and return by sleeper ferry on Saturday night - with return from Harwich by bike on Sunday 12th.
If you would like to join the ride please contact Keith at the address below before 31st January as overnight tickets for the ferry get booked up very quickly.
If you'd like to join the ride then email Keith at cycling@colchestercamra.org.uk
This year's CycALE ride for Newbies will start from the Hospital Arms at 7pm, Thursday 23rd June (or 6.30 if you're thirsty before the ride!)
We will then be stopping at the Donkey & Buskins, Layer-de-la-Haye, then the Whalebone, Fingringhoe, and finally Rowhedge, where both the Albion and the Anchor can be visited manlig-halsa.se.
Hope to see you for an easy evening cycle ride via a few pubs.
Julian