Bognor via Tangmere

  • Starts: Wednesday 13 April 2022 9:30 am
  • Ride leader/Event organiser: Martyn Roberts
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  • Route grade: D - Flattish route
Start and stops
Ride start/event venueEmsworth
Emsworth
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Coffee stopCockpit café, Tangmere
Tangmere Military Aviation Museum
Tangmere
PO20 2ES
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Lunch/dinner stopBognor Regis
Bognor Regis
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All rides return to the start unless stated otherwise. Use the 'Map' link below to see a map of all locations

Contact us about this event

Send an email to ride leader/event organiser: Martyn Roberts.

Map

We'll take a route north of Chichester to Bognor, stopping at the aviation museum, Tangmere, for a coffee. We'll find a suitable cafe in Bognor for lunch. We'll return a more southerly route, passing through Chichester.

Total distance: approx 35-40miles.

This ride starts and finishes at the Square, Emsworth.

Approx timings:
Meet Square Emsworth: 09.20
Depart Emsworth: 09.30
Coffee Tangmere: 10.45-11.15
Lunch Bognor: 12.15-13.00
Return Emsworth: 15.00

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Bookings for this ride/event

Booking is required for this ride. Please let the ride leader know if you want to join. Please do not turn up for the ride unless you've had your booking confirmed or your name appears below.

This ride is currently full but we encourage you to ask to join the wait list. That will let the ride leader:

  • Find out the demand for that type of ride
  • Nominate you as a replacement if someone drops out
  • Arrange to split the ride if there is sufficient demand

Bookings recorded for this ride (Log in to see rider names):

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To ask to join this ride, please use the 'Contact us about this ride' link above to send an email to the ride leader.

Ride leader notes

I've had a bike of one description or another, probably since the age of five. I've cycled lots of different routes all around Britain and some parts of France. For many years I cycled to work using the Hayling Ferry.

Since retiring, I try to get on the bike at least twice a week; usually Wednesdays and Saturdays. Most of the rides I lead are in the region of 20 to 40 miles, somewhere between 3-5hours.
I have three bikes I tend to use: most of the year I'll ride a Spa Elan, which is a general purpose touring bike; in the summer I tend to switch to a Cube Attain, which is more of a light weight sports bike and if there's any off-road I'll tend to use by Dawes mountain bike.

It's always difficult to assess cycling speed. I'm certainly no Bradley Wiggins and cycling to me is not about doing a route in the minimum possible time. However, neither am I someone who likes to amble along and watch the daisies grow! So I tend to class my rides as medium-fast. On a scale 1-10 (1 being very slow, 10 being very fast), I would say 6or7, a notch above medium (5).

I'm not a great fan of cycling in and around Leigh Park: the traffic is bad, there's lots of dangerous road junctions and the views are hardly breath taking. We have the beautiful South Downs on our doorstep, so I tend to make the most of it by starting rides in places such as Rowlands Castle, Denmead, or Westbourne.

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About Wednesday rides

Wednesday rides usually start from Havant with stops for elevenses, lunch and sometimes tea. If you're unable to keep up or have a mechanical problem, someone will be available to help you - although we obviously cannot guarantee to solve all problems.

Wednesday rides usually provide a range of options to riders as we'll try to arrange multiple rides with different paces, distance and degree of hilliness.

On Wednesdays it is likely that there will be several riders coming back to the Havant area after an elevenses stop - although they might not include a PCTC ride leader. If that is what you'd like to do, please consult the ride organiser before the day of the ride to ensure someone knows and is able to bring you back.

This article describes what you should consider bringing with you on one of these rides.