Tuesday Rideout 25/03/2025
Hi All,
This weeks ride out will be to Startops End, Tring
Meet at Silver Ball, 09:30 onwards for 10:00 departure.
The lunch stop will be at the café at Startops End. We last visited Startops End February 2023.
A halfway coffee stop is planned at The Oval Café, Harpenden.
Routes as shown on attached map and gpx files. Outbound trip is approx. 55 miles, return approx. 43 miles.
Once again a good day’s riding for 14 members with only a few drops of rain to worry about. Normal start from Silver Ball Café to The Oval Café at Harpenden for coffee stop. After coffee we continued through Whipsnade, Ashridge, Aldbury and Tring to the Startops End Café on the Grand Union Canal at Marsworth.
Nice lunch as usual at Startops End followed by a more direct ride home via Ivinghoe, the edge of Dunstable and Houghton Regis, Hitchin, Baldock and on to Royston. Nice dry roads including some narrow country lanes to keep us on our toes.
Startops End Café has new owners is called Waters Edge, Marsworth and the menu has changed.
The excellent all day breakfast was a favourite with our group.
The new owners were keen to have a group photo of the bikes and bikers and we were happy to pose for them.
Report & photo by Keith