iCycle – Friday and Saturday rides

With the sad closure of Flamme Rouge iCycle believe it is important to support the cycling community in Bedford and give an opportunity for those that rode the Flamme Rouge shop rides to ride as a group on a Friday and Saturday.

From Friday 4^th and Saturday 5^th July onwards iCycle will run rides on a Friday and Saturday. Here are the details……………

The Rides

iCycle will post a ride on the website each week for the subsequent Friday and Saturday. The Friday ride will be posted on a Tuesday and Saturday ride on a Wednesday.  

• The rides will be an approximately 30 mile ride with the coffee stop towards the end of the ride and close to Bedford. The aim is to use independent coffee shops and cafes.
• The ride will start from the same venue each week at The Piazza - St Paul’s Square MK40 1SQ. 
• The routes will be dictated by the wind direction and by ensuring variety.
• Rides will be posted and signed up to as they are now on the website. 
• The ride will start at 9.15am
• The speed groups will remain the same.
• Fast 19+ mph
• Fast Intermediate  17 to 19 mph
• Intermediate 15 to 17 mph
• Social 13 to 15 mph
• Those riding will need to be iCycle members or on the 6 month membership trial.

NB: The above is to get us going.  Once we are up and running and have collected feedback we can change if necessary.

Posting rides

• Peter has kindly offered to post the first 2 weeks Friday and Saturday rides to get us going.
• We are looking for 3 or 4 volunteers to help us with the route planning and posting on a rota basis.  If you would like to do this please let us Simon or Nick know ASAP.  We will train you how to do it.
• Whoever posts the ride will also confirm timings and numbers with the coffee stop.

iCycle Membership

• Anybody that does join a ride needs to be a iCycle member or be a trial member.  There is a 6 month free trial so hopefully this will encourage people to give it a go.  We will make this clear in the communication. Please do encourage anyone you know who was a Flamme Rouge rider to give us a go.