Cycle Clubs

Any club will ask you to wear a helmet.

I'd give Kingston a go as they allow newbs to attend their Sunday club run to see if they like it and then take it from there...

I'm not sure why they're "too far" you're gonna be riding into Surrey anyway?

Got to ride out to Kingston, then around Surrey, then back home, so probably looking at 70 to 90 miles rather than 40 to 50. They also seem a bit fast - 15-16mph average around the Surrey Hills? After 40 miles at 16mph I'll be a gibbering wreck.

But then looking at their site they seem to do a bunch of different club runs of different lengths, so maybe they'd be ok. And maybe that 16mph average isn't a real 16mph average and they wouldn't expect me to sustain it up hills. I'm no Voeckler, that's for sure. Might give them a go too, though, as I do like the cut of their gib generally and I've heard good things about them elsewhere.