Whistler on Canada’s west coast is best known as a ski resort, which boasts over 4,700 acres of skiable terrain and has hosted the Winter Olympics. Lesser known is that it hosts one of the most scenic Gran Fondo’s in
ELV Hill Climb
On Sunday 15th October Crest Riders, Adam Hardy, Paul Elliott and Jo Spitz-Vygotsky took part in the East London Velo hill climb, which was held at Mott Street, Waltham Abbey.
Retro Ronde 2023
In June 2023 Crest riders Adam Hardy, John Togher, Peter Wragg and Nathan Turner took part in the Retro Ronde bike race in Flanders. Looking resplendent in their retro Crest kits the riders thoroughly enjoyed the weekend. https://www.retroronde.be/en/programma
Battling The Shark
On Saturday 8th April seven Crest riders took part in The Shark, a 205km audax from Greenwich to Eastbourne and back. The team met up at 6:00 at various pick meeting points on the way to the start in Greenwich
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
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