- Starts: Sunday 18 September 2022
- Ride leader/Event organiser: Phil Beed
- Supported by: John Rosbottom
- Category: Other events
At: Denmead community centre
Address: School Lane, Denmead, PO7 6LU
The Denmead Community Centre Association web site is here.
Contact us about this event
Send an email to leader: Phil Beed.
Send an email to supporter: John Rosbottom.
Send an email to both Phil Beed and John Rosbottom.
Map
The CCP Memorial Rides offer a choice of 3 Audax events to suit all abilities:
- CCP: Coastal jaunt - 50Km, 10am start
- CCP: Time is miles - 110Km, 9am start
- CCP: Century ride - 160Km, 8am start
They all start at the Denmead Community Centre (see map above) where car parking is available.
See below for more details about each ride including how to enter. We also provide some information about Chris (CCP) Davies - a legendary Portsmouth CTC rider.
CCP: Coastal Jaunt
A gentle loop down to the Meon foreshore with a café stop at Hillhead, then along the coast to Lee-on-Solent and Gosport before heading back over Portsdown Hill to finish with refreshments at Denmead.
If you’re new to Audax this ride will provide a good introduction.
Entry fee of £5 includes tea, coffee and biscuits at the start and food and drink at the finish.
Click here to enter.
Download 'Coastal jaunt' route
You can also see a route visualisation that includes height and gradient graphs here.
CCP: Time is miles
Heading first to the coast at Chichester Harbour, then along the Centurion Way and into the South Downs National Park, with a café stop at the Cadence Café Upwaltham. Then continuing across the Downs and over the Butser Cycle Path returning to finish at Denmead.
Entry fee of £8 includes tea, coffee and biscuits at the start and food and drink at the finish.
Click here to enter.
Download 'Time is miles' route
You can also see a route visualisation that includes height and gradient graphs here.
CCP: Century ride
An imperial century ride, starting with the Time is Miles 100Km route, returning to Denmead for lunch before setting off on the Coastal Jaunt 50Km route. Over the two routes you will have completed 100 miles in the saddle when you get back to the finish at Denmead.
Entry fee of £10 includes tea, coffee and biscuits at the start, food and drink when you first reach the control at Denmead (100Km) and we’ll feed you again at the finish.
Click here to enter.
You can also see a route visualisation that includes height and gradient graphs here.
Chris (CCP) Davies
CCP logged all his rides and for many years held the distance record finally achieving 916,791 miles before illness stopped him from riding.
His frequent touring in the UK, France and worldwide meant he was well-known in the cycling world. It was common, when telling someone you cycled with Portsmouth CTC, to be asked "So, you know CCP?"
He was also a:
- Founder member of Audax UK
- Cycling campaigner - he was one of a group that successfully brought about the Hayling Billy Trail - and described by a contemporary as "a thorn in my local council's side"
- Cycling correspondent with a regular column in Portsmouth News, with frequent appearances on Solent Radio and had articles published in national cycling magazines
- Tour organiser for CTC
- Volunteer driver for WRVS "Meals on wheels"
- Reader for Havant talking newspaper
- Keen photographer and member of Havant Camera Club
- Sportsman (he nearly favoured Hockey over Cycling)
He was known for being a little "cantankerous" - he criticised ride leaders if they arrived at elevenses too early or too late, for example. But he was also supportive to new riders, and riders looking to expand into new challenges.
There's a more extensive biography of CCP in the Portsmouth News here.