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Spin to the Welland's Mouth

21/8/2022

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This ride is another 'century' ride - 100 miles.  It heads to the last place where the Welland can be crossed, Fosdyke.

Refreshment stops are at about 50 and 100 Km, in Market Deeping and then Pichbeck, just North of Spalding.
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Brigstock - 'Flat'

14/8/2022

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Here's a summer route that is (relatively) flat, ideal for the 2022 heatwave.  It gets the bigger hills out of the way early, allowing us to enjoy the sunshine without too much toil.  70km with the café appearing after about 50.
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Holly Lodge Cafe near Hamerton

7/8/2022

 
Short description of a longish ride, beyond Oundle to a new location, Holly Lodge Farm Cafe just beyond Hamerton, SE of Oundle.  The route is a 89 Km ride with the cafe half-way around.  Facebook page looks promising!
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Steady ride to Mint and Ginger

31/7/2022

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Anyone wishing to try a steady 25 mile cycle of 2 halves averaging 10-12mph on Sunday 31st July would be more than welcome to join Rockingham Forest Wheelers and friends.  We will be leaving the Clubhouse at 0900hrs.  Come along, we are a friendly bunch and no cyclist is left behind. "It's not a race just a steady pace"!  We will be cycling to the Mint and Ginger in Tur Langton for coffee and cake before heading back to Middleton. ​
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Café Monde in Church Brampton

24/7/2022

 
Small café at a stables with a lovely outdoor verandah.

Longish 84 km round trip from the clubhouse, but worth it.

Strava route can be found here.
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82km loop to Buddhist Centre in Thornby

10/7/2022

 
Here's the full loop in Strava

Lovely coffee and cakes from the veggie café in the grounds of an old country house.  It doesn't open until 11:00 though, so worth getting a few more miles in before the stop!
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Circuit to Uppingham

3/7/2022

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This route takes in a west and northerly circuit from the clubhouse to Uppingham.  When there we usually pause at the Uppingham Garden Centre for coffee at The Orchard Café, some 60 Km into the route.
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Spokes in Harringworth

26/6/2022

 
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Spokes is a pop-up summer cycling cafe in Harringworth (longest viaduct in the UK).  There are a number of routes that go near there, and it's only 13km back to the club.
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Northern Cobbler

12/6/2022

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A triangle route; West, North-East, South-East, with the coffee stop at the Northern point.  This is very fitting, as the stop is the Northern Cobbler, near Billesdon.
The route as a whole is 72 Km, with the stop coming after some 50 Km.
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Sunny Hunny - 282 km to Hunstanton and back

4/6/2022

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This should be on every RFW rider's bucket list, a ride to the seaside and back in a day.  It's obviously a big day, with over 282km/175ml covered.  A lot is flat, but beware the headwind on the return...

This is pretty much the most direct route, avoiding major roads the vast majority of the time.  Target an early start, with fish and chips for lunch in Hunstanton and plenty of new roads.  Take some lights in case of delays.
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Go West! (and back to Medbourne)

29/5/2022

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Medbourne is close to the club, so this route passes near it, goes West in a clockwise direction and returns for coffee to the Rural Retreats venue.

The loop is about 64 km, with the café coming up at 54 km.
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Rogation Sunday Ride

22/5/2022

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We will be riding this route on Rogation Sunday, when traditionally people circumnavigate the boundary of 'your parish'.   This gives members a longer club run; a chance to achieve a century ride of 100 miles.  This route follows closely the boundary of the old Rockingham Forest, so it is fair to say this is us 'staking our claim' for the area!

The ride will be at a pace to allow people to finish, not too slow, and not too fast.  The main group will aim for a c15mph average on the road, and will stick together.  There will be longish breaks about 1/3 and 2/3 of the way around the route, at places we usually stop for refreshment, and probably a couple of shorter ones too.
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Wymondham North

15/5/2022

 
Wymondham gives us a slightly longer ride, with there being two routes.  Here are Strava links for the 83km and 101km routes.

Wymondham Windmill Tea Rooms is a lovely café next to the old windmill with outdoor open space  and a small copse with a short walking trail.

​There's an alternative stop on the larger ride, with the Dairy Barn Café and ice cream parlour being a bright, airy modern café in a country setting.
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Cafés near Oundle

8/5/2022

 
There are two nice cafés just to the south of Oundle; Kingfisher Café and Boxwood Café.  Kingfisher is in the Barnwell Country Park, while Boxwood is behind the Barn Garden Centre one Km further south.  Both have nice outdoor and indoor spaces.
Kingfisher has a lovely terrace overlooking a small lake and is usually a family favourite.  Find out about it here. 
Boxwood is modern and usually full of adults; here's their webpage.

There are a couple of loops from the clubhouse below, one that's 86km long, is on Strava here, and a shorter one of 67km here.
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Cafe Monde - Direct Route

1/5/2022

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Here's the direct(ish) route to Café Monde in Church Brampton.  It gives a 75km round trip from the clubhouse.  Strava link here

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Tour de Leicestershire

10/4/2022

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This is a century ride (and a bit) - 180km/112 miles.   From the clubhouse we go north around Melton, across to Loughborough and Coalville, before returning via Market Harborough.
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Pennbury Farm - Summer Loop

3/4/2022

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This is an 83km loop, with 50km to the coffee stop at Pennbury Farm.  It's therefore one for the 9:00 start time.  

Here's the route in Strava. 

Wistow Cafe Bistro is passed at 45km, and Pennbury Farm at 50km.
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Around Leicester

28/3/2022

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This route takes us west, though familiar roads until we track around Leicester, now heading north, then back east through Bradgate Country Park (smooth gravel tracks, but lots of pedestrians in good weather), then home via Tilton and Tugby.  All in all, some 125 km and plenty of new/rarely ridden roads for us all to enjoy.
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Ringstead - Water Mill Tearooms

27/3/2022

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This is a 72km loop around Kettering, going anti-clockwise with the coffee stop coming up at about 45km.  The Water Mill Tearooms is (unsurprisingly) by the River Nene, with outside tables with views over the millrace (as well as inside spaces).  The cakes here are good!
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Wandering Route to Tur Langton

13/3/2022

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Sometimes you don't need to go for distance!  This route wanders around some of the roads nearby that we usually ride past, and targets Mint and Ginger at Tur Langton for the coffee stop.
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