18th December 2025 : Annual Statistics for 2025

A New Year of 2026 begins with the closing off of the Old Year of club cycling with the Traditional Annual Statistics blog.  

Year	Mileage	Blogs	Av Miles/Ride
2008	1,137	24	47
2009	2,894	53	55
2010	2,640	53	50
2011	3,495	61	57
2012	3,615	76	48
2013	3,025	57	53
2014	3,708	72	52
2015	4,216	81	52
2016	4,325	83	52
2017	3,832	74	52
2018	4,472	89	50
2019	3,947	84	47
2020	2,030	47	43
2021	3,600	77	47
2022	4,357	93	47
2023	3,054	72	42
2024	3,803	96	40
2025	4,195	102	41
Totals	62,345	1,292	48
Annual Avg	3,172	73

The mileage figure only relates to the ride out and back from the ride start. Nevertheless the group has "ridden" nearly 63,000 miles since its inception in 2008. That is a lot of cafes and pubs visited!

With the official Christmas Lunch ride being called off due to rain, the Riding Year ended slightly earlier than other years. Despite this, a record 102 ride blogs were written up in 2025. The 102nd was the brave ride by the "Five Riders of the Wet Gear" from Holt to Gresford (in the dry) and then home (in the very wet)

With another year passing this has meant that the average miles per ride has hovered around the 40-41 miles over the last thee years - I wonder why??

As for blog writers then, 70 of the rides were lead and written up by just 5 ride leaders. However, there were a further 16 ride leaders who lead and wrote up blogs. Well done to all. 

The leading blogger and rider leader, and, by far the most wordy, was Neil T - LoL!! 

Well done Neil - your ride leading is very much appreciated. He narrowly pushed Dave H, our Beloved Leader, into second place but only by one ride. I feel sure that had Dave H been mobile over the last couple of months instead of having a long-overdue operation, he would still have been Blogger # 1. However with a bionic implant, Dave will continue to plot next year's rides with the traditional  OS paper maps unless Father Christmas comes good for him this year..... 

CA