How long a ride deserves a cafe stop?

[HLaB]

I am known in my club for the guy who has two cakes at the cafe stop

So am I after one stop when the waitress thought the cake slice was too small and cut me another. They were both the same size as you'd get in another cafe

 

[Welsh wheels]

So am I after one stop when the waitress thought the cake slice was too small and cut me another. They were both the same size as you'd get in another cafe

She must have had a thing for cyclists

 

[hoppym27]

Are you telling me there is such a thing as a ride without a cafe stop?????

 

[MikeG]

Are you telling me there is such a thing as a ride without a cafe stop?????

No, but there's pretty much no such thing as a cafe stop without a bike ride.

 

[CopperBrompton]

I'd say the ride has to be at least as far as the nearest cafe.

 

[Jon George]

I like this question as, until this year, I never stopped for cafe food. What convinced me, was The Old Store at Tuddenham St Martin. I'd always considered it too close to home for an early stop or too close for a pit-stop before home. It's definitely a 'Ladies Who Lunch' kind of place, but I loved it - huge slices of homemade cake and superb tea.

Oh, on Monday lunchtime, I cycled over to the other side of Ipswich to try a fish-and-chip shop (Millers) I'd been recommended , Absolutely delicious cod and chips. Does it count?

 

[Will Spin]

If cycling on my own, maybe after 20 miles, if cycling with my cycling club, definitely after 25 miles, or the ride leader is in serious trouble, if cycling with Mrs Spin after 5 miles, otherwise I am in serious trouble.

 

[Banjo]

I rarely use cafes if the pubs are open.

 

[Markymark]

I stop for cake whilst going to get my bike out of the shed.

 

[mjr]

Are you telling me there is such a thing as a ride without a cafe stop?????

There's all sorts of perverts in the world.

I stopped at a cafe on my 4½ mile ride from town today

 

[Tin Pot]

How long should a ride be before a proper cafe stop is deserved in your opinion? I was teasing a friend today who wanted a cafe stop on a 30 mile ride. I think that a cafe stop is only warranted after at least 50 miles. Just for fun, don't have a problem with those who like their cafe stops or need to stop more than some

112 miles.

 

[User10119]

I organised a ride once that had one cake stop (picnic from my panniers, by the duck puddle), one pooh sticks stop, a cafe lunch stop, an afternoon tea stop catered by my mum and a pub stop. Oh, and we started from my house where there were bacon butties, cake and coffee available. In 50 miles...

 

[Welsh wheels]

I stop at a cafe after 4 miles. That's because I work there though...

 

[Katherine]

I don't think in terms of miles but by time. So a slower group doing a shorter ride would have the same cafe stop as the faster group doing a longer ride. All our different levels of Sunday club ride have a cafe stop.

 

[tallliman]

Generally I don't stop unless I'm doing at least a 50 miler but it can be anywhere within the 50.

The most I'd do without a stop is probably 50 miles now.