After missing several weeks from the track due to work and family commitments I returned for the final night’s racing of 2024. Amongst the riders tonight were national champions, ex professionals & other national standard riders. Luckily these riders weren’t in my group, unluckily, this meant that some very quick guys got bumped down to […]
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Lost Barn 10/11/24
Just the 4 of us out for a very steady ride in the mild weather. Out via Whitegate and Peckforton befor great food at the Lost Barn and home through Tattenhall. Thanks as always for the smiles and the miles.
Manchester Regional Track League week 3
Manchester Regional Track League week 3 Another hard evening of racing with a junior team representing the IOM and a female professional, Emma Jeffers, raising the difficulty level level. I left with another string of 5th and 6th places and the (very small) consolation that in general the riders in front of me were 35 […]
Cheshire (Holt )series no.4
By Sam Taylor The final round of the popular Wednesday night races tonight with Lloyd Smith, Jeff Wood and myself in the first race and John Keen in the second. I’ve had mixed luck so far in the series with a fourth and a last after getting caught in a crash on the last bend […]
Steve Jones Memorial RR 26/5.2024
Raced over 6 laps (60 miles) of the pretty flat Holt circuit, there was a good, strong field – my group (D) were racing with the younger (C) group, this can sometimes make things go a bit quicker than they otherwise would. The promised thunderstorm kept off for the race which was a good bonus. […]
Whitchurch, The Sheep Shed 18/2/24
Another nice, mild and not particularly windy day had John K, Geoff M, Rich M, Emily M, Sam T and Carl J take a meandering ride out to a new club destination, The Sheep Shed near Whitchurch. It was generally a pretty flat ride but the hills, as much as they were, came before we […]
Pontcysyllte Chapel Tea Room 4/2/2024
Another mild day yesterday and there were 5 eager faces at the start, Sam, Emily, Jeff F, Alex and Me (I was definitely a little jaded after yesterday’s exertions on and off the bike). We picked up Ross at Whitegate and the 6 of us headed off in to the stiffening breeze taking ad-hoc turns […]
Saturday ride to Holt 3/2/24
The 2 Carls, Andy E, Benn, Craig, Geoff, Kev and me tipped up at Hatchmere this morning & it was positively spring-like. Not a quick day, we all stayed together but Kev and big Carl needed to get home so didn’t do the BOD loop & went straight to Holt. The remaining 6 of us […]
Malpas 21/01/2024
Jeff, Carl, Sam, Emily, Stuart, Dave, Paul, Graham, Neil and me turned up for duty at 9.30 this morning, a mild but damp day. The route was the old Saturday training ride but heading to Malpas. Emily suggested a brand new cafe that she was quite excited about going to, having never tried it, The […]
Saturday training ride 20/01/2024
I drove out to the club this morning and arrived late which meant a rapid ride out to Hatchmere. I made pretty good time and arrived to see several rear lights disappearing in to the forest. I caught up with Carl, Geoff and Alex and the 4 of us were a good unit into the […]
Long club ride to Higher Kinnerton
Today’s long ride to Higher Kinnerton saw 7 of us set off in chilly, damp conditions. I initially had concerns about black ice but it warmed up and started raining a bit. We had a pretty uneventful and pleasant 30 miles to Walters cafe. My first time there & my feedback is; on a nice […]
Chorley CC Road Race 3rd September 2023
22 laps, about 46 miles in total. It was a lovely day with no wind. I was old enough to be the grandparent of a lot of the other riders It started out quick from the off and stayed quite quick & even though there were loads of attacks, nothing was able to get away […]