Cotswolds B 100 Ride

Thank you fellow Swans for your replies and interest in this ride.
Now it’s going to be a Club Ride & will only ride if the weather is going to be kind to us so?
Please if you are intending riding click the "I'm Attending" tab & details as follows:

Destination stops: a couple of new ones for me so hopefully they’ll be ok.
1) Wyatts Farm Shop, Great Rollright.
2) The Leaf &Bean in Broadway
3) The Old Mill Coffee Shop, Chipping Norton

Start time: 8am
Distance: 106 miles
Pace: 15/16 mph ave
Duration: ride time 7hrs plus stop times.
Gradients: Hilly Ride some 1380m (4530ft) of ascent.

Route: we will be heading out to Evenley, Kings Sutton, Bloxham onto Great Rollright at 30mls for stop 1, retrace for a few miles and onto Shipton on Stour, Chipping Camden on to Broadway 52mls for stop 2 then up Snowshill. We will then head for stop 3 at 75mls at Chipping Norton via Stowe on the Wold, then to& through Heythrop, Over Wootton , North Marsden onto Tusmore, Fulwell and Home to finish.

Garmin Route: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/16464203
Weather forecast: temp 9°, wind from 18 at 36 mph; Precipitation: 10%

Please Ensure that your is stead in good nick? bottles filled? food in pockets?
If so I’ll see you at the pool on the day.
Paul, 07399 565 265

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I believe Cotswold Lavender are closed now till next year, last time I came past the sign said closed until June ?. Maybe be wrong but I think they only open June, July and August.

Cheers Graham, yep it’s closed, thinking hat 🎩 on🤔

Hi Paul
My friend Jo who lives over that way had a suggestion about our route around Broadway.
She thinks we should avoid the A44 and go up Buckle Street from Saintsbury ( a good hill apparently) or miss the Tower and do Snowshill road instead which is also a good hill. (She likes a hill!) anyway, it was just a thought as she says the A44 is very busy even if it is two lanes on the way up. She may join us for a while as well. Looking forward to it.

Hi @Jeff, happy to bow to some local knowledge, as we are going into Broadway for refreshments now so happy to use the Snowshill Rd as our way out.. not seeing Buckle Street or Sainsbury’s though. Clues please?

I’ve made some course changes following further inputs..👍

Well guys with “Brian” making a hasty exit on Saturday it looking like we are on for Sunday, I know we are stopping but think about carrying some food & drink too.
Anyway see you at 8 on Sunday.

weather looks to be sh... anyway we will have to pedal faster in order to keep warm ;))