The midweek club rides are at 7pm on Wednesdays and start from the Jaw Brew Pub in Milngavie.  Parking is available at Milngavie train station car park.

What Three Words location:

https://what3words.com/tube.caked.brain

There’s no need to join GMBC to come along to your first few rides.  The routes and durations vary to suit the conditions & those present.  Covid restrictions permitting, tea, biscuits, changing facilities and bike wash are available afterwards.  All you need is a well maintained off road suitable bike, a spare tube, pump and multi-tool and some enthusiasm.

Remember: no-helmet, no ride!

GMBC Weekly Ride

The midweek club rides are at 7pm on Wednesdays and start from the Jaw Brew Pub in Milngavie.  Parking is available at Milngavie train station car park.

What Three Words location:

https://what3words.com/tube.caked.brain

There’s no need to join GMBC to come along to your first few rides.  The routes and durations vary to suit the conditions & those present.  Covid restrictions permitting, tea, biscuits, changing facilities and bike wash are available afterwards.  All you need is a well maintained off road suitable bike, a spare tube, pump and multi-tool and some enthusiasm.

Remember: no-helmet, no ride!

GMBC Weekly Ride

The midweek club rides are at 7pm on Wednesdays and start from the Jaw Brew Pub in Milngavie.  Parking is available at Milngavie train station car park.

What Three Words location:

https://what3words.com/tube.caked.brain

There’s no need to join GMBC to come along to your first few rides.  The routes and durations vary to suit the conditions & those present.  Covid restrictions permitting, tea, biscuits, changing facilities and bike wash are available afterwards.  All you need is a well maintained off road suitable bike, a spare tube, pump and multi-tool and some enthusiasm.

Remember: no-helmet, no ride!

Marina Cycles shop ride

Start time adjusted to suit the host, Pete. A local mystery spin with some fun trails.

Pete doesn’t believe in “gravel bikes”, so bring an MTB.

Unfortunately due to a prior engagement the shop won’t be accessible for this ride – so no tea or coffee 🙁

January Beginner/Introductory ride @Cathkin Braes

Happy New Year!

Was Santa good to you and brought you a new bike/ other kit you want to show off? How about working off some of those chocolates and sweeties? Maybe it’s “new year, new you” and you want to get out there and start? Come join me at Cathkin Braes for the first Beginner/Introductory ride of 2023!

Please remember your helmet and a light!

We’ll be having a play in the pump track/skills loop, doing a full lap of the red XC loop and maybe some of the trails in the middle, sticking to the main trail system.

Meetup at the lower car park for 7pm

 

Boxing day ride from Marina Cycles

Just a relatively chilled out social ride round an XC/gravel loop to work off the hangover and cabin fever from Christmas day. Start and finish at Marina Cycles, Kirkintilloch.

Back for 12. Tea, coffee and biscuits (maybe, who knows, even a mince pie) and temperature permitting, a hose, will be available at the shop after.

This could either be a lovely frosty ride or a total bogfest misery slog, but either way the company will be great (as long as you come along!)

Tina’s 40th Birthday / GMBC Lake District Weekend 19th-21st Oct

Hello folks,

Tina posted on Facebook a few weeks back looking for a show of hands for this trip. Some folk have confirmed and some are a maybe for now, the good new is; we have enough to officially call it a party weekend!  This post is for the details of accommodation, prices and how to pay. We have provisionally booked the hostel for the Friday, Saturday & Sunday night, but it’s only being held for a limited time.

We need you to confirm how may nights you’ll be staying and payment by Monday 1st October – please no later!

Accommodation – Windermere Youth Hostel, single gender shared dorms – see here for more info https://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/yha-windermere

Costs – Friday £27, Saturday £27, Sunday £12 (this includes a £9 discount per person as the club has a YHA membership). So, £54 if staying Fri/Sat, £66 if staying all 3 nights.

Riding – There will be different rides to suit all levels and abilities. More on this nearer the time, but it’ll be one hell of a great weekend…Tina has guaranteed it or your money back!*

How to book – fill in this form:

https://goo.gl/forms/W2FFMrEuyqQEbJm53

How to pay – To make this as simple as possible for everyone, we have decided to not use Webcollect and ask you to pay directly into the club bank account.  It’s the same account number and sort code you would have paid your membership fee to but here it is again.

Account # – 00875203, Sort Code – 80-07-24.  Please use Tina40 as the reference so we can cross reference the payment.

Remember – payment no later that Monday 1st October please – we need to pay the hostel in full shortly after this date.  Any payments or bookings after this date, will need to be done directly with the hostel and you may not be eligible for the £9 discount from the YHA Club Membership, so get booked up ASAP!

I’ll copy this link to Facebook so we don’t miss anyone out. Enjoy your trip!

*refund applications are filed in the bin 😉

Rob Roy Way – Better Than Going Christmas Shopping…

As a bit of a challenge and Strathpuffer training me and Robin decided to tackle the Rob Roy Way (http://www.robroyway.com/ ) in a one-er. It seemed possible – 124km of mostly good tracks from Drymen up through the Trossachs and Bredalbane. The target was the 8:30pm train home from the finish in Pitlochry. Cheap advanced tickets were confidently purchased. We planned for a 7am start in Drymen so it would involve quite a bit of riding in the dark.

Bleak conditions

Bleak conditions

We needed to average around 11km/h including breaks to make it comfortably. A lot of the route is on good tracks, using parts of national cycle network and minor roads so this seemed like no problem. We both had an eye on the deteriorating weather forecast from a few days in advance. First it was meant to be windy and showery. Then very wet and windy. Then very wet and windy followed by heavy snow. Naturally we dismissed the amber weather warnings and decided it probably wouldn’t be that bad. Continue reading