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I'd be up for a change of scenery on both the road bike and MTB. Cotswolds or even the Chilterns sounds good for road and perhaps @StephenT and @JohnnyG 's MTB venue of choice: the Forest of Dean?

Approximately 20 miles from Buckingham (direct ride avoiding major roads)

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Great list @woods With all this info you certainly seem like a man who has done lots of very necessary research into this important topic! 😀

@JamesT gave me a good idea on the ride yesterday of our own 'Trip Advisor' for tea shop reviews. I've created 'Stop Advisor' (genius I know ;-) ) as a sub forum in this section. We can create a post for each tea shop and all members can contribute a good/bad/indifferent review based on experiences to as many or as few as they want. It might not work but thought we could give it a go!

http://swanwheelersforum.microcosm.app/microcosms/936/

Your list gives us a brilliant set of info to get the reviews started so thanks again.

Good grub and drinks with bike parking out the back. They are happy to reserve a table for you if you give them a call in advance with the numbers on the ride (they can get very busy, particularly with other cycle clubs).

They also sell inner tubes if you get caught short!

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Will be there but not until after 8.

No @MikeDaly that's too tame! ;-) It's definitely a trip to Skye. Unsure if this is Danny Macaskil or @Dannytomblin... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_IQS3VKjA

I want to echo @Woods comments, it was a good ride out so thanks @JohnnyG and team. Thank you very much to @keithrose for rescuing me in my chain break incident! You can tell he was in the scouts!

Photos are here. Feel free to add if you got some too.

The whiplash from my crash is slowly subsiding....!!

I'd be up for that.

Sorry Paul will be away that weekend

Thanks for the route @StephenT - all loaded and ready to go!

Thanks @JohnnyG - looking forward to it

As part of looking after the club's web presence, I've been taking a look at Strava.

As the club formed we ended up with two Strava groups. We've got rid of one of them (the one with just three members in it). This group does still appear in the Google search results but should fall off soon.

For the remaining group this was open for anyone to join. However, it only seems right that it's Swan Wheeler members competing for the weekly club leaderboards and, given rides are displayed on our home page too, Swan Wheeler members who represent our club through that medium. Therefore, the group has become invitation only to members and non members removed. Of course if they would like to be part of the Strava group then they are very welcome to join the club!

I will be inviting new members to the Strava club after they've joined in the same manner as this forum. If you're on Strava and not yet part of the group please let me know and we'll get that rectified.

https://www.strava.com/clubs/145616

I think @StephenT could be persuaded 😄

Thanks for the info @Woods I'm going to be on the waiting list to join the LVRC for the next three years 😀

Interesting to hear that BC use the Bowl - is that a series they do there?

Sorry James - I'm a Speedplay man. I do have a spare pair of SPD-SLs, might have spare cleats too but guess it's unlikely you'd want to start messing with your shoe set up.

Are we on for this? (Yes I'm keen!!)

Sounds great @Woods but unfortunately wouldn't be able to get the time off work this time round. If there's more in the future might be able to make them.

I upgraded my British Cycling membership to 'Race' in October with a view to giving racing a go in 2016, but didn't know the best way to get started. This would be perfect so I'd be very keen to join a Swan Wheelers club team for the event.

Former Swan Wheelers member, ride leader, Club Secretary and Webmaster - now alumni.

Great post @Woods thanks. I'd definitely be up for a taster. Would be great to see if we've got the interest to enter a team in one of the local events you mention in 2016.

Sunday 8 November - Stoke Bruene loop, 32 miles

Café stop will be canal side in Stoke Bruene at the museum tea shop.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/11085164

Route and any other notable information about the medium pace Sunday club ride

We now have a Swan Wheelers Cycling Club Flickr site so we can share and collate all the photos we take on our club rides and events.

So how do I upload a photo?
Save this email to your smart phone or email client address book:

fin75till@photos.flickr.com

Yes it looks a bit weird but it's a randomised email address so that only those with the secret email address can upload to our site.

1. create a new email
   
2. attach the photo file(s)
   
3. set the sender to the address above
   
4. use the subject line to give the photo a title
   
5. use the body to add a description (optional)
   
   

https://www.flickr.com/people/swanwheelerscc/