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Annual Santa canal ride

On Saturday 4 December 2021 Crest CC held its annual Santa canal ride. Starting at Ponders End the 34 Santa’s rode into London exploring some of the capitals landmarks. The Santa’s made their way along to Alexandra  Palace, via different

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East London Velo Hill Climb

On Sunday the 17th October the East London Velo held their annual Hill Climb event at Mott Street, High Beech. This climb comes in at number 26 on Simon Warren’s Top 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs of Britain and averages 5%

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New Crest kit

New Crest kit

Crest CC have launched a new club kit made by leading cycling clothing manufacturer Kalas. The kit design is a modern take on the classic Crest kit worn by the club in the 60’s and 70’s, but uses the latest

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Crest Spring Road Race 2020

Crest road race

After Ciara, Dennis and Jorge, there came the earliest glimpse of Spring. With it the traditional Opening Weekend rendezvous at the Crest CC Spring Road Race, where winter training programmes would be given their first true examination, a cruel and unforgiving

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Club Christmas ride

Club Christmas ride

The annual Crest Christmas ride and lunch took place on Sunday the 8th December 2019. The meeting point was the Costa Coffee in Epping where nearly 50 club members gathered for a pre-ride cappuccino. Then after the mandatory group photo

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Crest 2019 summer tour to Somerset

Crest 2019 summer tour to Somerset

Newbury to Bathhampton Thirteen of us met on Sunday At a nice pub and BB called the Furze Bush Inn, near Newbury for the start of 2019 Crest summer tour, the culprits being Alan and Julie, Dawn and Dean, Jenny

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The mudguard season is upon us

The mudguard season is upon us

Mudguard season is here – the weekend of the Tour of Lombardy marks the official start for Crest CC, so from 12th October until mid-April all riders are asked to use mudguards on all club rides (especially the Saturday training

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Crest Hill Climb 2019

Crest Hill Climb 2019

Despite a horrible weather forecast a brave few turned out  for the  annual Crest Hill climb, held in conjunction with the Redbridge Cycling Club at Banks Lane, Epping. Congratulations to Adam Hardy who was the fastest rider of the day (out of 22

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Retro Ronde

Retro Ronde

While other Crest members were doing The Vercors, Pete Wragg was in Oudenaarde to ride The Retro Ronde van Vlaanderen. The Retro Ronde is a 120 km ride on bikes that had to be built before 1987. This basically means

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Crest Tour 2019

Crest Tour 2019

In May 2019 Crest held its summer tour of Essex. Derek Smith shares his diary of the trip. Friday 3rd May 2019 – During the afternoon and evening 14 club members rode to The Fox (Matching Tye) one of our

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Recent Posts

  • Annual Santa canal ride December 6, 2021
  • East London Velo Hill Climb October 18, 2021
  • New Crest kit February 25, 2021
  • Crest Spring Road Race 2020 March 3, 2020
  • Club Christmas ride December 9, 2019

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