are a long-established cycling club based on the East London and Essex borders.
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
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
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
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