Not necessarily. Please refer to the Rides Calendar
(http://www.cyclecardiff.org.uk/whatson.html) which includes at least
one Easy ride in August. There will no doubt be another one at some
point in September.

While you may be pleasantly surprised about what you're capable of,
I'd recommend caution about coming on any ride that feels like it
might be beyond your capabilities. Please see the notes on the Rides
Policy: http://www.cyclecardiff.org.uk/ridespolicy.html . You'll
notice a few sentences emphatically in red. We rely on people being
realistic about this out of courtesy to the wider group. It's far
better to work your way up gradually.

--- In cyclecardiff@..., Paul Stacey <paulstacey16@...>
wrote:
>
> Nick,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to reply. I appreciate and understand the
points that you have made. I think that for me I will just have to
bite the bullet and go for either a medium or long ride which every is
the soonest on the ride calendar. Thanks anyway. Paul
>
> --- On Mon, 7/28/08, ndcanham <ndcanham@...> wrote:
>
> From: ndcanham <ndcanham@...>
> Subject: [cyclecardiff] Re: New Cyclists
> To: cyclecardiff@...
> Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 9:22 AM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Paul
>
> There are a number of points here.
>
> In terms of how easy they are or aren't, I'm not sure how much easier
> we could make them. We could do a lap or two of Bute Park, but people
> can do this for themselves, and it has little motivational or social
> value. I'm sure we'd also get an even smaller turn-out since none of
> our regulars would show up.
>
> Riding to Forest Farm, Gelynis Farm, or the Norwegian Church is really
> about as easy as it gets: under 10 miles, flat, and largely
traffic-free.
>
> One of the group's aims is to promote cycling, but I wouldn't go so
> far as to say that our core aim is to promote cycling to the less
> experienced; it just happens to be among the things that we do.
> Personally, I'm proud of the fact that we offer easy rides at all. I
> enjoy leading the shorter rides, but I wouldn't want to devote more
> than a handful of my Sundays in a year to these because making time to
> enjoy cycling for myself is also important to me. We have a team of
> seven or so regular ride leaders, and a smaller group again who choose
> to regularly offer the easy rides. We try to make sure that there is
> an easy ride each month, but without more people offering their time
> to lead much easier rides than they would normally undertake, we can't
> put more of them in the calendar.
>
> In brief, the easy rides are there and they're available to those who
> want to take the opportunity. Ultimately, I think we offer as many as
> we can without turning them into an onerous task for ourselves.
>
> --- In cyclecardiff@ yahoogroups. co.uk, Paul Stacey <paulstacey16@ ...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I really do think that you have missed the point in all this
discussion.
> >
> > Can I first say that from what I've read and the tone in which it
> has been written that the group has not been criticised for any
> failure on its part. Some of the comments about the website are
> opinions and I think anybody that has looked fully at the website and
> the history of the variety of the rides could only come to the
> conclusion that the group offers a wide range of rides throughout the
> year.
> >
> > The message that people like myself are trying to put across is that
> there are not enough easy rides to satisfy the needs of us as
> individuals looking to join the group. I can only say that having not
> joined the group is based solely on the fact that I am uncertain about
> being capable of completing some of the long rides based simply upon
> the lack of experience of actually doing such a long ride.
> >
> > Undestanding that the lack of experience is a problem for new
> members could well explain why the easy rides are undersubscribed
> >
>