Reading Time: 3 minutes A dozen or so WVCC riders rode in the Wild Wales Challenge today, enjoying/enduring a tough 85 mile route with no less than 7,500 feet of ascent. We started in Bala, climbed up to the Bwlch-y-Groes, then down and up and down and up and down and up to the outskirts of Barmouth, then Dolgellau, […]
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Special events, dinners, talks, non-bike stuff!
Pedal Power Festival Northwich – Sunday
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you didn’t know already, this Sunday is the Pedal Power Festival in Northwich Town Centre. http://www.pedalpowernorthwich.co.uk/ For those club members who aren’t riding the sportives, it would be great to see you come down to our stand at some time between 08:30 and 16:30, to offer your support, help out if you can, perhaps […]
LeJoG Day four… and a club run or two
Reading Time: 3 minutes The day started with rain and wind. I didn’t expect to see too many out as I approached the club, but there was a healthy gathering of club members, all eager to trip out and try something a bit different. Today was a bit different. We were to meet Graham, Carl and the intrepid band […]
LEJOG – Help me support The British Hear
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hi Everyone, As some of you know I am riding Lands End to John O Groat’s at the end of May, 1000 miles in ten Days, Having had a couple of little heart issues, and received some excellent treatment I would like to raise some money for the British Heart Foundation and was wondering if […]
Mornant – France – 10-14th July 2015
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is an updated post to remind any club member who is interested, that we plan a trip to Mornant, in France during July (10-14th). Register your interest quickly though. Final numbers will have to be submitted for the 15th March. Why Mornant though? Well, this is best summed up by Paul Lawson, who met […]
Club Dinner – 7th February 2015 – Don’t
Reading Time: 2 minutes Only a couple of weeks now to our Club Dinner, so make sure that you contact Graham to get your tickets. This year we’re back the the Winnington Park Recreation Club, and it’ll be a great evening with a chance to not recognise all of our club members when they dressed in anything but lycra(!) […]
Club Dinner 2015
Reading Time: < 1 minute Roll up and get your place for the 2015 Club Dinner. Now in the calendar for Saturday 7th February 2015. This year we’re back the the Winnington Park Recreation Club, and it’ll be a great evening with a chance to not recognise all of our club members when they dressed in anything but lycra(!) […]
Llanberis Weekend 2015
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ladies and gents, we have decided upon the dates for the Llanberis Weekend for 2015 for members of the club. It’ll take place on Saturday 28th February and Sunday 1st March this year. As in previous years, we’ll be staying at the excellent Royal Victoria Hotel in Llanberis on Saturday evening. Register your place with Graham […]
ToB Blog
Reading Time: 5 minutes Difficult one to categorize this one, so it’s filed under Road Run, ‘cos technically, we did ride on the road for some of it, but it’s also filed under Special Event, because it was a brilliant day out. Acton Lane (or ‘The Cliff’ as it seems to have become known) wasn’t massively busy when I […]
Claire O’Brien – Funeral 29th August 201
Reading Time: < 1 minute On Friday 29th August 2014, for those who are club members and knew Claire, we are organsing a very short ride out to the funeral service at St Mary’s Whitegate. Elinor, Claire’s daughter, has asked if we can ride out from the Legion to the service. We’ll meet at 1pm at the car park at […]
WVCC/Winnington Park Rugby Club Charity ...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hi all, I have been approached by my old rugby club Winnington Park to help raise money for a little lady called Amelia. You may have seen articles about her in the local paper. Below is a little about her from her Facebook page. “Amelia Rose Hill was born on the 23/10/2012 with a rare […]
Pedal Power!!
Reading Time: 2 minutes A well manned WVCC stall was in evidence at the Pedal Power event in Northwich town centre. A few shots below, just in case you hadn’t seen them on Facebook.