First things first, what a wonderful club we have, its great to see so may members coming along to help, too many to mention, but without which, these events wouldn’t be possible. Jim Williams also did a fantastic job, even though he couldn’t remember his off on Saturday, he fortunately remembered to order the weather 🌞, […]
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Race Report – Dave Astles Memorial Chesh
Last night was the 4th and final event in the Dave Astles Memorial Cheshire Series. The whole series has been well organised and thankfully incident free. With Iain marshaling and Jules stuck at work, it left Kev (in the over 55s), Mark Adshead and myself (in the 45-54s) to fly the WVCC flag. Conditions were […]
NW Road Race Championships
This year the North West Regional Road Race Championships are being held on Saturday 4 June on the 11 mile Oakenclough circuit in the Trough of Bowland. There will be championships for senior and junior men and women as follows: – Senior Men – 7 laps – Junior Men – 5 laps – Women (incorporating […]
Tour of the Abberleys – An idiot’s exper
For those of you who I have not already bored with the story of how I came to be in this mad event in the first place here goes – Alan Kemp, on my only Sat training ride of the year, smoothly cruised up next to me and in his silky persuasive tones asked if […]
Race Report – Cheshire Series – Event 2
Tuesday evening saw the 2nd of the 4 event series in the Dave Astles Memorial Cheshire Series. Previously this was raced on the 5 mile circuit at Lower Withington, now the 10 mile circuit at Siddington due to the highly publicised Police restrictions on Cheshire. The evening also brought much better weather and was considerably warmer last week […]
Stafford RC / Stone Wheelers RR Series –
My morning started by reading the results for Kevan Underhill’s exploits for the tour of the Abbeleys, I did giggle to myself when I read the advice from Kempy, “just clip off the front” he said, if only it was easy as that!!! Anyway, on to my race, this was my third race in this […]
Stafford RC / Stone Wheelers RR Series –
Another frosty start to Sundays proceedings with the 2nd event of 4. This initially should have been held at Audlem, unfortunately, due to Roadworks, the organisers managed to get a last minute change through the police so we were back at Swynnerton. By the time the race started at 10 am, the the sun was […]
Stafford RC / Stone Wheelers RR Series –
Sunday saw my start to the new racing season, taking part the Stafford RC & Stone Wheelers RR Series first event held at Swynnerton in Staffordshire. This is a 4 event series where each rider must marshall one event. I was the only Weaver Valley CC member taking part as Julian Perrett was selected for […]
Cheshire Classic 2016 Cancelled
We are sorry to announce that the 2016 edition of the Cheshire Classic Women’s Road Race has had to be cancelled. A suitable course which met both the Cycle Racing on the Highway Regulations Act 1960 and a British Cycling risk assessment could not be found. This is not a decision that I, Andy Wood, […]
Cheshire Classic Women’s Road Race 2016
As the winter nights are drawing in, we are already looking at next year’s season, and in particular, WVCC’s own Cheshire Classic Women’s Road Race. The date is in the calendar – 24th April 2016 – and course details are pending approval. See the latest news on the Cheshire Classic web site. See the link […]
The Weaver Valley Autumn Road Race – a r
2015 – Weaver Valley CC Autumn Road Race – 11 10 15 – Results Well in the end all went well, but this race was never straightforward. Cheshire Police decided some time ago to ban any races using laps of 10 miles or less, so our race was in doubt. Then Graham Gregory came up […]
Audlem RR – Big Bunch Sprint
Last night saw the third race in a series of four at Audlem, with Jim Duffyand Gerard Lacey flying the flag for WVCC as Alan Kemp was a DNS due to a bad back i believe and Ewart Howkins Marshalling. The race was switched to the shorter circuit due to road works on the usual […]