are a long-established cycling club based on the East London and Essex borders.
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
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
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
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
Early on Sunday 30 June members of Crest CC took part in the Eastern Counties Cycling Association (ECCA) 10 mile Time Trial event in Leaden Roding. All the riders rode individually over the 10 mile course and the three fastest
Darren Myers was a longtime member of Crest Cycling Club. Darren joined the club around 1990, which met at Wanstead Leisure Centre for a social chat every Friday night. Members soon got to know his parents and sister, who played
Matt Berry recounts a few of the more memorable moments from Crest’s cycling trip to Gran Canaria earlier this year. The Naked Fisherman – unfortunately the road between Puerto Rico and Mogan was closed due to rockfall. This meant we had to take
On the morning of Friday 4th April, John Togher, Andy Goll and I assembled at Ron Crawley’s house, loaded our bikes and bags into Ron’s van and the four of us set off for Oudenaarde, Belgium to ride ‘Flanders’. After
Opening weekend brings with it a number of classic races in Belgium, and in Essex it means the first serious rendezvous of the season. The Crest Road race and its nine ascents of Littlebury hill is the race that keeps
In February this year Phil Whitehorn organised a very successful club track evening at Lee Valley Velodrome. Around 40 riders were present and rode as two groups – each group getting three 20 minute blocks of track time. Group one