Club Rides Calendar

This year’s BSCC Autumn Reliability Ride will take place on Sunday the 8th October. The route is a familiar but picturesque 60 mile/100km ride on quiet roads circling around Banbury, taking in the delights of the Cotswolds with a few climbs thrown in for good measure.

Headquarters and ride starting point will be at Woodgreen Leisure Centre, Banbury, OH16 0HS. The HQ will be open from 0830. Please ensure that you arrive in plenty of time to sign on and pay.

Entry fee is a mere £2.

There will be 3 start times:

0900: Leisure Pace. For riders stating a time of 4 – 4 1/2 hours.
0915: Intermediate Pace: For riders stating a time of 3 ½ – 4 hours.
0930: Fast Pace: For riders stating a time of 3 ½ hours or less.

Maps, directions and banter will be available at the headquarters. A much sought after and highly revered certificate will be awarded to any riders who manage to stay on course and complete the route in their stated time.

A reminder to all taking part:

Please ensure you have sufficient food, drink and basic bike maintenance tools, and appropriate clothing with you during this ride. There are no marshals or support on the route and it’s the responsibility of each rider to ensure their own wellbeing.

The event is open to all cyclists, club members and non-club members alike, so please feel free to come along and invite any of your cycling friends.

Click learn more to go to the route and a downloadable Garmin map.

General information about club rides

A few members have expressed an interest in the club organising some mountain bike events so expert rider Steve Goddard has kindly volunteered to lead the very first one.

The first won’t be too technical as we get a feel for what works well, and so will be suitable for all MTB’ers but you can expect to go off-road and get a bit muddy. Please wear appropriate protectiive equipment (e.g. gloves, helmet etc) and make sure you’re bike is up to scratch.

We will meet at Spiceball Leisure Centre at 1.45pm, so you’ll be nicely warmed up if you do that mornings cafe ride, and go along the canal path before heading off-road for a couple of hours.

Naturally, the usual ride rules apply.

Go forth and get muddy!

General information about club rides

Ride rules, protocol and small print which is important to read