Jonathan Tait
Club President

Our Inaugural Ride and Meet

Ok, I can’t lie. Organising our first club meet was a little stressful. How best to manage it? Where should we meet? Where should we ride to? What route? Who’s going to come? And with only a few days to go, we were low on numbers. Bearing in mind the club had only been running for a number of weeks, I thought I’d set my expectations too high…  

The plan was for a group to start the ride from Ducati London, join up with a group at Ducati Croydon and then head out altogether to Titsey Brewey in Westerham. Seemed straightforward enough. If folks turned up. 

Well, I was blown away by the numbers. 7 riders made the journey down from Vauxhall, meeting up with 10 at Croydon, and we made slow progress out until we hit the countryside. After inadvertently trying to lose people at various roundabouts and junctions, everyone made it to the brewery. Introductions were made, coffee was drunk, lunch was eaten, friends were made. 

This was the start of something great.