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
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%
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
Crest Spring Road Race 2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
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