{"id":1926,"date":"2021-04-10T20:49:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T19:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2021-04-11T17:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T16:41:39","slug":"gins-biking-8-april-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/2021\/04\/10\/gins-biking-8-april-21\/","title":{"rendered":"GINs Biking 8 April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The day started sunny, bright and cold\u2026.too cold for us seasoned bikers, so the outing was carefully planned for the warmer afternoon (a balmy\u2026or barmy.. 9C). The usual suspects of Stephen, Peter T, Peter D, Mark and Mervyn had subscribed to this first official ride of the year but boosted by the company of e-Paul. The club has moved into the modern era with e-bikers adding to our number and ensuring that the ageing peloton keeps moving at a certain pace. E-Paul proved the sustainability of e-biking by starting his ride in Grand Saconnex and returning there afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We met at the Chavannes de Bogis Hotel and asked a waiting workman to take the starting photo of us all. Unfortunately for him, his \u201cpatron\u201d arrived and suggested that he should be doing something other than taking photos! The circuitous route had been carefully planned by the new club co-leader,Stephen, to take in the delights of the small villages of the Jura foothills without needing the exertion of a Bonmont climb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our first loop took us past the commercial Chavannes Centre through the woods towards Versoix and then back down a path parallel to the French border towards the Divonne border crossing. Having paused for breath and, for those with less well sprung bikes, to recover from the bumps and pot holes along the path, we proceeded at pace along the cemented path towards Bogis-Bossey. \u201cWe\u201d is not entirely accurate as, unknown to the front runners, the back 3 had ground to a halt with Mervyn\u2019s back tyre succumbing to those bumps and pot holes and gaining a puncture. The advance group eventually realised that there was no peleton and retraced the path back to the repair group, who had already disassembled the back wheel. Many keen hands then set about on a total revamp of Mervyn\u2019s bike, including adding symmetry to the bike by deflating the front tyre which the small hand pump stubbornly resisted re-inflating. As chance would have it, we were only a stone\u2019s throw from the bike shop near the border and so two trips later, with new inner tyre and machine inflated front and rear tyres, the bike was good to go again. A couple of British ladies wheeling a buggy had the benefit of passing the whole exercise on multiple occasions with much banter.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We continued on the well-cycled path to the Ecumenical Centre (God\u2019s Corner) and on to Eysins, Signy and up to Gingins. A final vote was taken (well, an executive decision) not to do the Bonmont hill diversion, despite the retired leader wanting to add to the mere 17 already completed this year. A refreshment stop at the Givrins bakery was a suitable alternative. Paul\u2019s e-bike was still well charged but Paul recharged his batteries not only with a drink, but also a chocolate \u00e9clair, and headed off back towards Geneva with much confusing advice as how to follow the Swiss cycle route 50 to his doorstep. We subsequently heard that this was surprisingly successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The homeward trip took us via Genolier to Duillier to Asse and via back routes (with the exception of having to cross the main approach road from Nyon to the motorway) to Avenex, through the Eysins Landi car park (much to the surprise of all but the leader) and onto Crans, C\u00e9ligny and back to the proximity of God\u2019s corner where the group dispersed to their home destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all a round route of about 50km (about double that forPaul!), just over 2 hours saddle time, 380m altitude change and an average moving speed of 22.5 km\/h. In summary, an excellent early season ride with attractive scenery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Team Biking : Peter, Mark, Peter (in shorts), Stephen, Mervyn, Paul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mt Blanc behind us<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Many hands make bike work, .. or worse…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Peter T’s Map of the bike route – Clockwise on both loops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The day started sunny, bright and cold\u2026.too cold for us seasoned bikers, so the outing was carefully planned for the warmer afternoon (a balmy\u2026or barmy.. 9C). The usual suspects of Stephen, Peter T, Peter D, Mark and Mervyn had subscribed to this first official ride of the year but boosted by the company of e-Paul. The club … Continue reading “GINs Biking 8 April 21”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}