Author Archives: Rich Cooper

Hi all, I’ve been out in Sharjah, U.A.E. for nearly two weeks now and have settled in to the hotel and office. The beginning of my stay has coincided with hottest part of the year (low 40 C ) and … Continue reading →

Lance Woodman returned from a 5 week visit to New Zealand and rode in the High Wycombe event at Hillingdon on Saturday managing to hold on to finish in the bunch.Pete Cookson and Joe Foley rode in the Alton C.C … Continue reading →

We are looking for a large Willesden turnout with most of the road team taking part.Come along. Time trial starts at 7pm, you will need to get there earlier to sign on. View Black Park TT in a larger map

Rich Cooper, Richard Jerome and Pete Dixon were both in action at Hillingdon circuit this week on Tuesday Richard Jerome got confused in the sprint finish and sprinted a lap early along with quite a few others. Rich Cooper got … Continue reading →

Meurig James finished in the top 10 of the Hirwaun Wheelers 25 on Sunday with a personal best time of 52.15. He is now taking a week off to join his girlfriend who is competiting in the Dragon Boat Championships … Continue reading →

ARE YOU A KEEN AND FREQUENT CYCLIST? WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE PART IN A PIONEERING ‘HUMAN POWER’ EXPERIMENT FOR BBC1? Dragonfly TV is looking for fit cyclists over 16yrs to take part in a novel experiment which attempts to … Continue reading →

In my experience very few riders seem to sport m*dguards on their commute to work. Surely it’s basic potty training for cyclists? I have just seen a new product on the CW website that seems very original in its thinking … Continue reading →

The annual John & Dulcie Walker road races have been forced to off the roads by Thames Valley Police and will now be held at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit on September 13.

The LEL (London-Edinburgh-London) has been been over for a couple of weeks now and riders have begun surface again to post some photos and films of the ride. The Willesden CC were well represented on the LEL by Martin Lucas, … Continue reading →

Hi, I raced last night and got 7th place, now need four more points toprogress to Cat 3 (first season of racing), cheers, Peter Dixon.

Message from Suzz about the two-up time trial in September. A two-up is always great fun (no sniggering, I talking about cycling!), so let’s have a good turn out for the club. Just need someone to match my glacial pace … Continue reading →

Despite the threat of rain on Saturday the 1st August we had clear sky’s and a fine afternoon for the club track champs with a turn out of 13 riders for the event. Although half were guest a good afternoons … Continue reading →

Meurig James has broken two Willesden CC records with a 19:56 for a ten and 3:45:48 for the 100. The 100 was done at the Welsh National 100 and Meurig finished in 3rd place. Well done.

Two cycling videos for your pleasure ! One total is total cheese, the other reasonablywitty. You decide! Miles Back 15/8/09 (with due credit to NYC Bike Snob’s excellent blog).

Ray Kelly is organising a photo shoot and short ride with the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, the Secretary of State for Health at 11:00am on Thursday 13th August 2009 Please turn up in your best Willesden kit and best … Continue reading →

I decided to enter the points race in the Europeans as I had done so unexpectedly well in it in the National masters. Fortunately I didn’t wear my blue National Championship jersey, because i got absolutely thrashed and effectively came … Continue reading →

Ian Why, the WCC’s foreign correspondent, files this report back from the Champs Elysees, along with some photos. Sorry I could not make the club run this week. I was in the capital of French France supporting two plucky Brits … Continue reading →

Cycling weekly have a compiled a good photo gallery of our brave boys in the tour. See http://bit.ly/iee1Y Miles Back Jul 09

Miles Back received a call from Mark Brooking and Ray Kelly as they awaited for the last riders to pass through the top Scottish LEL control. It seems a group of five Italian riders were away and had built up … Continue reading →

The WCC picnic will be held at Langley Park from noon onwards on Sunday next.Water pistols optional! I think Brian is trying to organise some bicycle polo as well this year.Cheers Gladys