Or anywhere else for that matter.
Did a ride on Saturday with Ton off here & stopped at a little general dealers near Ripon that did coffee & snacks & has 2 seats outside.
We got 2 coffees, 2 chicken & bacon butties (good size too) 2 pork pies which were well decent & a can of Coke.
£11.80. Which I thought was pretty good & I've paid a lot more for less in the past.
Wonder what the average is?
However much it takes to satiate my hunger. Could be a quid, could be thirty.
Normally I get change from a fiver for a coffee and bacon roll on the sunday club run.
£7.90 for a bacon roll and a filter coffee at one place... I've never been there again!
Don't think I've even gone in a cafe after a ride. Usually have some red bull in the van and that's it.
Don't think I've even gone in a cafe after a ride.
I don't normally but when your'e out with Ton....well it's requisite. Either that or 4 pints in a country pub. 😯
Too much now, Generally around 5 quid for coffee and a slice of cake. I guess thats Hampshire for you.
In West Wales it was around 2.50 for the same.
Coffee is usually £2:50 a cake £3:50
Not bothered about the cost as long as it's decent home made food and proper coffee.
Went to the old post office in Hawnby NY Moors a few weeks back and two of us had scampi and chips with salad, a pot of coffee and a bloody massive pot of tea. 12 quid.
Bacon roll at Swinley is £3.50. Pretty generous with the bacon mind
Coffee is £2, I think
It is a visitor centre with captive market, so not too bad
Went to the old post office in Hawnby NY Moors a few weeks back and two of us had scampi and chips with salad, a pot of coffee and a bloody massive pot of tea. 12 quid.
*makes notes & plans ride from Sutton Bank* 😆
I don't drink tea or coffee and generally take my own piece with me so me neither.Don't think I've even gone in a cafe after a ride.
Anywhere between £2.20 and £10.
If the stop is somewhere around lunchtime and its an easy ride then i'll have a bit more to eat.
Saturday was £8.90 i think for macaroni cheese, garlic bread and a coffee.
Our fave cafe is just under £4 for a large coffee and cake ...
It's normally 4 pints in the pub and a packet of crisps followed by a hypothermic hill busting climb home across the Downs.
And trying not to ride through Matts head after he falls off in front of you but your shivering so bad that steering is difficult !
Usually about a five or six quid for coffee and cake?
Tried a 'highly recommended' caff in Hebden last week:
£5.00 for thimbleful of hummus and two minute strips of pitta.
Hmm.
Best value are posh places, esp NT type cafes - a nice espresso, maybe some cake plus tap water for free. Lovely - maybe £3-7 per stop.
Absolute worst are emergency service station stops - £5 gets a bottle of water plus some jelly babies or similar. Grim.
Tried a 'highly recommended' caff in Hebden last week:
£5.00 for thimbleful of hummus and two minute strips of pitta.
Sounds like a veggy one to me. Did you ask for a bacon and sausage sandwich anyway? 🙂
FWIW, I don't give any thought to post ride cafe costs as I'm usually so tired and hungry that I would give them my credit card in exchange for ham, egg and chips! I might tut a bit if it's excessive, but I don't ever remember walking out.
Slight tangent, but the middle back pocket of my endura jersey is precisely sized for a round of bacon & egg sandwiches. Great for the long game i.e order two - eat one on the spot stash one for later (discovered on a 130 mile ride to be fair}
Pork and leek slice and cuppa from Peaslake Village Store - bargain!!
Pork and leek slice and cuppa from Peaslake Village Store
Aye. And a cheese straw, or a pasty, perhaps even their cheese n onion pasty, or maybe their amazeballs lamb shoulder n mint bap. And their Bakewell is the best thing ever.
Whatever a coffee or beer and cake costs. Can't say I specifically note the price unless it's a rip off or bargain.
Although staying in a cake hotel for a week's MTBing was dangerous.
Peaslake store chilli beef sausage roll for the win. If you ever get lucky and they have the chocolate orange banana bread on the go, well worth it.
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Sounds like a veggy one to me. Did you ask for a bacon and sausage sandwich anyway?
No, I couldn't speak for a while after getting the bill.
I'll mooch on down the road and try somewhere else next time.
My favourite cafe in Hebbers (the one opposite the Watergate that did the excellent home made plate pies) disappeared after the last flood.
Used to be JJ's in Burnley for sausage and bacon barms, but they're £3.50 now! Still a fine sandwich, but possibly a trifle pricey these days....
i call in a cafe on the way to work, whilst cycling in.
bacon or sausage butty and a cuppa. £1.50
I was pretending that I was disciplined enough not to have the cheese straw as well - but go on then, you got me!!
Must try the chilli sausage roll
The Zetland caff in Redcar (not really on a cycle route) used to do a breakfast for £cheap. it was like an 'oh my god, I'm in heaven' moment. 😆
i call in a cafe on the way to work, whilst cycling in.
bacon or sausage butty and a cuppa. £1.50
Bloody hell, that's a bargain!
i call in a cafe on the way to work, whilst cycling in.
bacon or sausage butty and a cuppa. £1.50
Which cafe is this? I might change my commute route?
I'd say on average I pay roughly TAKE MY MONEY I'M HUNGRY
Peaslake store is an oasis of quality and value, especially compared to our usual road bike meet up in South West London burbs which is a s****y roadie based cafe with £5k made to measure carbon frames on the wall and reassuringly expensive expressos.
Kitty used to be £10, but now it's £20 plus £5/£10 top up at the last pub.
Which cafe is this? I might change my commute route?
bottom of wellington road, in front of the gas tanks. next to the tile warehouse.
Best value are posh places, esp NT type cafes - a nice espresso, maybe some cake plus tap water for free. Lovely - maybe £3-7 per stop.Absolute worst are emergency service station stops - £5 gets a bottle of water plus some jelly babies or similar. Grim.
😯
Which service stations do you stop at!!!
bottom of wellington road, in front of the gas tanks. next to the tile warehouse.
Sounds rather insalubrious 😐
£3 for coffee and bacon roll at local cafe. They do 20% of for bike club members. It's definitely a quantity over quality sort of place though, the cakes look like they're chopped with an axe.
I've never ever stopped at a cafe on a bike ride
I've never ever stopped at a cafe on a bike ride
Each to their own, but I enjoy the social aspect of cafe stop when out with friends. That said, I do prefer it towards the end of a ride, because it always seems harder to get going again when stuffed with bacon and cake.
Annoyingly, a favourite (Toby's at Apperley Bridge) closed for good last weekend. I didn't use it often (because it was bloody expensive!) but it was a nice spot to chill by the canal. It always seemed busy too, so I was really surprised to hear it was closing, but apparently the owners want to start a dog walking business instead. Prrft.
Personal favourite for me is the cafe at How Stean Gorge at the top end of Nidderdale. It's strange, but nearly every ride I do in that area seems to manage to go past it 🙂
My shop would get you a bacon bap (£2.50) a coffee (flat white £1.50) and a chocolate bar of some sort with change out of a fiver - problem is we are off the main road in a village you need to take a 2min detour through so we only get a few roadies who know we are here.
Personally I take food with me and an additional £5 (waterproof) note if I'm with a group.
Nice one ton, bit out of my way for an on the way to work stop, but if I'm going past that way I'll check it out.
For some reason I only do cafes on road rides, mainly because I usually mtb on my own. Standard roadie stop is tea and a toasted teacake at about £3-4
when I first started riding, with the ctc, a morning and a afternoon café stop, were the order of the day.
I used to have a handbook with all the Yorkshire region cafes listed.
a few are open still, also a few still have the ctc winged wheel sign up.
Like someone up there, I don't "get" cafe stops. If I'm on a bike ride, I want to ride my. I can be persuaded with a beer or a coffee at the end of a ride but stopping halfway just seems alien to me.
Like someone up there, I don't "get" cafe stops. If I'm on a bike ride, I want to ride my. I can be persuaded with a beer or a coffee at the end of a ride but stopping halfway just seems alien to me.
I think there's a whole different set of riders here, from short-blast riders, through trail centre lunatics, XC racers and marathon endurance head cases and each have their own expectations.
Personally, I can't see myself riding for 6 or 7 hours _without_ some form of stop, be it a sarnie by the trail, or a cafe and proper food. My legs simply can't keep going for that long. The difference here is that for some people that's a normal Saturday ride, and for others this would be a once-a-year-epic. We're all different 🙂
For myself, I normally have my son with me, so a cafe stop is a motivator to get him round. It's also a vital point in the ride to stuff him full of calories as he doesn't carry the same weight of pies wrapped around his middle as his dad (sigh, I remember when I looked like him!)
I think there's a whole different set of riders here, from short-blast riders, through trail centre lunatics, XC racers and marathon endurance head cases and each have their own expectations.
That's fair.
I tend to be time short so, whether I have an hour of 8 hours spare, if that time i allocated to bike riding then it will all be used. Food tends to be a banana, a gel or an energy bar on the move.
i also think it depends what kind of cycling background you have.
as a lifelong tourist, hunting cafe's out is all part of a ride.
Rare to get much change out of a fiver for coffee and a cake these days (Peaks).
I enjoy a good coffee, so its part of the ride for me. I still miss the Beanabout wagon that used to be at the Stanage Plantation carpark - they'd be out in all kinds of weather, likewise Jolleys at the top of Curbar Gap (who are still going). I feel supporting enterprises like that is a really good thing.
Don't tend to stop if I'm out for much less than 4 hrs, but much over that and I need something approaching a proper break, and I'd always rather have real food than an energy bar or (god forbid) a gel.
When touring I use cafes. When just out for the day only if the folk I am with want to go to one.
I've never ever stopped at a cafe on a bike ride
it's a huge part of UK roadie culture though, most weekend club runs have a café as a 'destination'. Our club puts out different paced rides, but they aim to meet at the same café at roughly the same time to be sociable.
Going rate in SE seems to be £2.50 coffee + £2.50 cake.
MTB: when the Thai van is at Chicksands I tend to spend all the cash I'm carrying!
Most rides seem to start at a cafe rather than head towards, I live 1min from where several road clubs and informal groups meet for road rides heading south out of London, there are now 3 cafe's to choose from all less than 1min apart, one has been there for years, another a cycle specific shop/cafe/workshop and a new one has just opened run by cycle club members which does the best coffee but has limited bike parking.
I guess it's nice to have the choice.
You will need more than a fiver though.
A tenner....
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If I'm on the MTB it's Peaslake stores as already mentioned numerous times.
If I'm on the road bike there are a few ranging from cheap to expensive; depends where I ride really although living and riding in Surrey my definition of cheap is probably different to yours.
If I'm riding with Italians it's a coffee before we start (strong, short, black w/sugar) at [i]least[/i] once during the ride and again at the end of the ride.
I'm literally buzzing when I get home.
As with a bunch of others here on the mtb it's Peaslake Village Stores. I go for sausage roll, cheese straw and a coffee for less than a fiver but I'm definitely going to try some of the other pastry related items noted above.
On the road bike it could be a few places, but the most regular for me at the moment is the cafe at the top of Box Hill. Get there nice and early, soup, coffee and flapjack for somewhere in the region of £6 I think.
£11, if you are in Morrisons surely binners?
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Peaslake store is an oasis of quality and value, especially compared to our usual road bike meet up in South West London burbs which is a s****y roadie based cafe with £5k made to measure carbon frames on the wall and reassuringly expensive expressos.
Giro in Esher?
We do Peaslake Village Store, Denbies (with the 20% cyclist's discount), Leith Hill Tower, the Medicine Garden in Cobham, Hanger Cafe at Fairoaks Airfield, BikeBeanz, Pilgrim Cycles, Tanhouse Cafe in Newdigate,
Beer is either very close to home on the way back, or after returning, showering and eating.
£4.70 today - filter coffee and the most amazing raspberry and vanilla scone 😯
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Filter coffee can **** off but that scone looks good 🙂
Even worse, by the look of it, its contaminated too!Filter coffee can **** off but that scone looks good
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What do you do for water resupplies. I find that on a 4+hr ride then a cafe stop makes sense as I can get some real food, a caffeine hit and get my bottles filled all in one go.I tend to be time short so, whether I have an hour of 8 hours spare, if that time i allocated to bike riding then it will all be used.
Another "not bothered about cafe stops" rider here.
I spend enough of my daily life sitting down eating cakes and drinking tea, I don't need to do it when I could be riding my bike instead!
Slight derailment but, am i right in thinking you're in Boroughbridge or some such essel? (Sorry for the stalkery question)
Could do with trying to catch up with someone local to encourage me to get off my backside at some point.
I still miss the Beanabout wagon that used to be at the Stanage Plantation carpark - they'd be out in all kinds of weather, likewise Jolleys at the top of Curbar Gap (who are still going).
The Beanabout wagon was great wasn't it? I used to love getting a coffee and having a chat with them in the drizzle ...
and +1 for Jolly's - they've saved the day on a couple of occasions on 100Km+ rides when I've had enough of energy bars etc
(although I think 'Louis' is in for repairs at the moment)
but to answer the OP these days it can be anything from a couple of quid to a fiver upwards. I don't mind if the coffee is good and the cake is [homemade] and fresh. I'm disapointed with 'bean-to-cup' machines and 'celophane' wrapped cake portions that are clearly quite a few days old which is sadly what started to happen at the Woodbine in Hope.
Yes Giro in Esher. Lovely cycling culture but amazingly expensive kit for sale on the walls - do they ever sell any of it?
To your list add Domestique in Bookham as a lovely cycling café with great caféand the H Van on Ranmore (good for MTBers too). We generally head out further south for café stops.
Some sort of sandwich/panini/rarebit, a slice of cake and a coffee is usually £7-9 around here in the Peaks although I avoid the more touristy cafes.
Same in the Lakes; avoid the tourist places and just go to Wilfs!
Cafe?
They're closed by the time we finish riding
Usually about a tenner each in the pub then a slightly more perilous (traffic free)ride home.
Cider and slippy mud/leaves is always a great combination!
Budget for a fiver for coffee and cake on the south coast.
a couple of places are (significantly) cheaper and a couple of places are over. They have to make sure it;s worth it to be over otherwise we're not coming back.
I'm disapointed with 'bean-to-cup' machines and 'celophane' wrapped cake portions
+1, Value is pretty important. I don't mind instant coffee but i don;t wanna pay more than £1.
Swinley = overpriced: coffee average cake crap. Still a fiver.
Me & dezbjr stopped at QE Park's cafe, which I thought was quite expensive. But we had a drink, 2 slices of cake, and 2 chiabattas, came to £13, pretty average I suspect.
We waddled happily back to the car. Cake was good.
(As a season ticket holder I've got a 10% voucher but forgot to use it)
What do you do for water resupplies.
Make sure i'm very hydrated before I leave, 2 full bottles, and then stop as needed. Churches almost always have an outside tap to fill bottles with.