Coffee Ride Sunday 13 July

[Louise Kennett]

Hello
Just confirming that weather permitting, the coffee ride will be on this Sunday.   If you are coming (helpers included) can you please post on this thread. 
All club mmebers are welcome but it is a great opportunity for the new women in the club to get used to coffee riding and bunch riding skills.  So it is not a hard core ride.

COFFEE RIDE 1 (Skilled riders)
Date: Sunday 13th July
West Gosford - Umina loop 30km
Time: 7.15am (leaving on time)
Meet: West Gosford Shops (car park)
Coffee : Micheles Patissere WGS

Here is the map of the course too.

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/PA0008  West Gosford - Umina loop 30km

I am pretty sure at this stage those coming so far are: Desrae, Hollie, Kylie, Sally, Karen, Jock, Michael Hull, Jason and Chicken.   

Cheers
Louise

[Jason]

Im there got the day off work hope the weather is good for us

[Louise Kennett]

Clara will be there.

Hollie.

Sally.

Desrae.

Mick Hull.

[Karen Smits]

I will be riding if healthy. Still struggling to get over bronchitis. If unable to ride I will still come for support and first aid if anyone unlucky to get injured! And of course coffee and chance to meet others will be great.

[Louise Kennett]

Well Karen if you aren't well you can keep me company!

Nicole coming too.

[jock]

As this will be the first ride we should get together (at 7:10am) for a quick run down on how things work and what to expect on the ride. 

Riders on the regular coffee ride start arriving from about 6:55am and depart around 7:00am, so if you're keen for a chat then you can do worse than introduce yourself to them.  They tell tall tales of racing bravado and share heartrending tales of racing misfortunes.  They're always keen to rabbit on about the latest bit of bling that's appeared on someone's bike and, of course, there'll be plenty of sage commentary on the latest happenings in the Tour de France.  Not to be missed, it's better value than an episode of Cycling Central with Mick Tomalaris.

[Chicken]

I'll be there. 
I might even give the bike a polish and put my new training wheels on . 
OOH , AAH!! 

By the way thats not the training wheels you find on kiddies bikes. 

[Louise Kennett]

Cathryn McMaster will be coming too.

Rebecca McGrath may be there too.

Good numbers.  Im devastated that I can't be riding. :'(

[Jason]

hay Chicken im bringing my onix might give her a buff n shine to got to look good on the road

[Mrs Hugs]

I'll be there. Should have recovered from my ski trip by then! 

[KellieN]

Sorry won't be coming along tomorrow, but keen for the next one!

Kellie Newby

[Karen Smits]

Looks like I will be riding. Bringing Pete along in case I get a flat! Or need to be dragged along!!

[rosko]

Looks like I will be riding. Bringing Pete along in case I get a flat! Or need to be dragged along!!

I've seen Pete ride Karen, he's going to be sitting at the back of the bunch wheel sucking off everyone. You have no chance of him 'dragging you along'. 

[Hodgee]

So girls how was the coffee ride today, very interested to know how you went.

[Mrs Hugs]

It was great Hodgee. 5 brave men came along to guide us and also showed us how to order coffee. I do recall a caramel latte being ordered by one of the guys! I think there was 7 women in total. No tears and no broken nails, so I would say a very successful first coffee ride. Great advice from the men helped us to stay together, (except on last hill) and we only received a few beeps from impatient drivers. I'm sure Jock or one of the other men will be able to give a more accurate account of our ride but all in all I think we did well. Stats were: Distance-30km with average speed of 23km/hour. I think it took about 1hr and 18min. (I love my Polar product!) All women are very excited about our next ride in a couple of weeks.