The first day will take me from my home in Debenham to an overnight stay in Chelmsford. The following day I will attend the Rotary Club’s lunchtime meeting at Chelmsford Rugby Club. Then, provided my ageing legs are up to it, I will cycle home, hopefully arriving before it is too dark!
I will be sponsoring myself at £2 for every mile I cycle, and hope others who know me or are interested in supporting the following charities will support me with a donation:
If you can support me, please make your donation by direct payment to our Trust Fund bank account:
Account name: Rotary Club of Chelmsford Trust Fund
Sort code 20-19-95
Account number 90796948
Reference: cycle ride
There are some other reasons for my ride, including the following:
Wednesday 28 August
Thursday 29 August
From Debenham I will pass through the following villages and towns, in order: Stonham Aspall, Earl Stonham, Creeting St. Mary, Needham Market, Barking, Barking Tye, Great Brickett, Naughton, Semer, Kersey, Polstead, Stoke by Nayland, Nayland, Wissington, Bures, Mount Bures, Wakes Colne, Chappel, Great Tey, Little Tey, Feering, Kelvedon, Witham, Hatfield Peverel and Boreham.
The route back the following day will be broadly the same except that from Bures I will go to Kersey via Assington and Boxford.
I will be using country roads as far as possible, although I will have to use the B1113 for several miles from and to Needham Market and short sections on some A roads. The route from Kelvedon to Hatfield Peverel will be on the cycle track alongside the A12.
Provided my good friend in Debenham who is also our local cycle mechanic, gives it a clean bill of health, I will be using my 33-year-old “Claud Butler Legend”, shown in the photograph above in the Yorkshire Dales, where I have cycled on it for many years.
If it fails its MOT I will be on a relatively young (12 year old) Cannondale, that made the remaining two trips to Yorkshire, the last in 2016.
Here are a few suggestions:
A link to my current collection of Suffolk church photos is here. If you don’t feel like donating for my Rotary bike ride, perhaps these might inspire you to. All these churches have been visited by bike, and with a few exceptions, on rides starting and ending in Debenham
Francis Whitbread
Click here to download the flyer about Francis’s upcoming ride in pdf format.