Tour Series - Canary Wharf - 6th June 2014

After the last day of a three day Bike maintenance course in Bermondsey, what better way to celebrate and unwind than to spend an afternoon on the river and an evening watching some fast bike racing at Canary Wharf. This was the penultimate venue in the Pearl Izumi Tour Series for 2014. Weather was kind to us......as it is turning out to be for most of this Summer so far!

View from the Grapes, Limehouse

Wharf Skyline

Roger Hammond and the Madison Genesis boys



 

Race time - 1

Race time 2

Team Raleigh - warm down

Thames at Limehouse

Rural Essex - A lovely surprise

Hot day  - June 21st 2014

This ride was a course setting loop for an event the following day and it took me through a number of very pretty Essex villages. I have to own up to not having known the area and this was a complete surprise to me. Such scenic beauty and well kept villages with so many thatched cottages: not at all what I thought this county would have to offer. It helped that the midsummer weather was hot and sunny but I did get though two bottles of water pretty quickly on this 38 mile route. 

Near High Easter

Immaculate Essex

Great Bardfield

Finchingfield 

Finchingfield

Stebbing