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Rapha Mobile Cycling Club at road.cc.jpgRapha Mobile Cycle Club coming to road.cc and you're all invited
Rapha are coming to visit us at road.cc this Friday and they're bringing their Mobile Cycle Club with them… so we thought you might like to ride out and join us for a Friday afternoon coffee*… the man in charge makes a mean espresso, we might even run to some cakes. You're going to have to earn them though we've arranged to meet Rapha and their mobile club on top of one of the bigger hills in these parts… there is though a cracking descent back down in to Bath.
The hill in question is Bannerdown; Bath's own version of the Kemmelberg which is the old Roman Road heading NE towards Cirencester from Batheaston on the outskirts of Bath. It isn't straight though except for the run along the top which can get a quiet er, blowy. Target time is 2pm and we'll be there for a couple of hours or so, hanging out and talking interlocked seams if you fancy joining us. At the moment we're torn between meeting the van at the top of the hill or further along the straight…depends how many people look like turning up, 'cos obviously we want to keep things safe… so we'll keep you posted on it's exact location during the week.
It'll be here or hereabouts, anyway...
If you're planning to come comment in below - it'll at least give us an idea of how many biscuits to bring. Oh and there will be some sort of prize** for anyone (who isn't us) turning up in road.cc kit.
Rapha have been driving their Mobile Cycle Club around Europe's big races all season, and we were lucky enough to catch up with it for an excellent round of espressos at Eurobike recently. Last week it was in Copenhagen for the Road World Championships and it really is something special - definitely worth the price of a hill.
Rapha Mobile Cycle Club, Bannerdown Hill, Bath, Friday October 7th 2011 from 2pm-4pmish
* If hundreds of you turn up, or possibly even tens coffee might be on more of a first come first served basis… there's only so much caffeine based goodness one man and an espresso machine can be expected to produce in two or so hours.
** not sure what it is yet
road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.
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Great ride out, great to meet you all..
Really great that you arranged such nice weather
See you all next time
Bugger– work strikes again...
Looking forward to it.
Will be there if I can slope off from work early. Drove up there tonight on the way home to scope it out, it goes on a bit doesn't it!
Could well be there, living close by.
Yep I think I have made a slot of time available in my busy day to slope off for a cycle ride
I'll be there as long as:
1. I can slope off work early
2. the other half lets me out
3. I can get to the top of the hill
Free stuff??? Yessssssssssss!!!
And a joke? Ok then....
Cyclist goes to the doctor:
Cyclist : Doc, I have a sore knee.
Doc : Hmmm, you are going to have to stop masturbating.
Cyclist : But doc, why??
Doc : Because I am trying to examine you.
Du dum tish
I LOVE Coffee and I can realy need a Cap for the coming winter. Yeas Pleas
I'll come up the hill for coffee!
Shame it's on a Friday and I've got to work
Would've liked a look at their kit close-up.
Make it a weekend next time..........
Modern fabrics, technical garments, but that photo looks like it was taken with a 19th Century camera and an uncoated lens that has been kept in a damp cupboard.
Crappy road surface too. Perhaps they're pushing some cyclo-cross gear this season...
sounds great, will definitely come along. no excuse really as i live in batheaston!
myself and another will be along- advantage of working in a bike shop!
Working from home friday so planning on a late lunch break to join you for some caffeine
Coffee and a cap? Wouldn't miss it for the world - see you there...
Most likely the Mobile Club will park up in the lay by at the top of the climb… and that's where we'll meet it's easily big enough for the van my only worry was the unlikely event that hundreds of riders turned up and were spilling out on to the road… but that's not going to happen is it
Look forward to seeing you there G-bitch!
I'll be there... unemployment has to have SOME advantages!
We'll put more info on later when we're sure, but i've added a map with the approximate location for you
Hi Dave. Jez at CS here; I'll be there on Friday. Can't miss the opportunity to neck a free coffee at the top of my favourite climb in Bath.
Target time is 2pm? So where do we meet... not much info given!