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Author Archives: Ian Oliver
Day trip to the New Forest
Yes, this year’s 3 Down 300km Audax is running on Saturday 6th April. Starting from Chalfont St Peters, you take on the Chilterns, a bit of the Berkshire Downs, the Hampshire Downs. With the ups mainly over, it’s down the … Continue reading
London-Edinburgh-London
Reminding all of you up for a challenge that the longest and largest of UK Audaxes, London-Edinburg-London (LEL), will be accepting applications from Saturday 5th January onwards. The ride will start on 28 July and the entry price of £219 … Continue reading
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Wiggo and the Willesden
You may have heard that Bradley Wiggins has won this year’s Tour de France. What you may not know is that Sean Bannister coached him in his early days. A nice article with quotes from Sean can be found in … Continue reading
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The Willesden Box Hill Prologue, 17th June
On Sunday 17th June, follow the route the stars will take on 28th July. The Sunday club run will faithfully follow the Olympic Road Race Route, except that at our pace doing all 9 circuits of Box Hill will get … Continue reading
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Ditchling Devil 200K on June 10th
A Willesden Audax, the Ditchling Devil, is on June 10th this year. LOCOG bagged our weekend from last year to open the Olympics(!) so it’s relocated to June 10. The Ditchling Devil is a 200km round trip from London to … Continue reading
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Addison-Lee Petition
Most of you have probably read about Addison-Lee’s boss John Griffin telling his drivers they can use bus lanes (here). This was followed up by an anti-cyclist rant that accidents are a cyclist’s fault, trotting out the usual tired old … Continue reading
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Chiltern Classic Reliability Rides 2012
Shake off your winter torpor with these rides organised by local clubs, including our own, all within easy reach of the WCC heartland. As the title implies, the routes take you round the Chilterns For those of you who havn’t … Continue reading
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Club Dinner – Saturday 21 January
The Willesden Cycling Club Dinner and Award Presentation to take place at The Stanmore Golf Club on Saturday 21 January 2012 at 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Stanmore Golf Club 29 Gordon Avenue Stanmore Middlesex HA7 2RL Here’s the location … Continue reading
End of season Willesden Audax, the Boat Ride
***** For better photo’s and a blog with a different view of the ride Photo Link Blog link ***** The other week Paul Stewart suddenly noticed that the Willesden was in with a realistic chance of regaining the Audax UK … Continue reading
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PBP – A Rider’s View by Pete Kelsey
This year I participated in my first ever Paris Brest Paris (PBP), wonderfully supported by a small team of Willesden members providing a quiet refuge for sleep and those vital staples of the audax menu, rice pudding, fruit salad and … Continue reading
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Paris-Brest-Paris – from the support organiser
After the grim grind in 2007’s rain, I entered again in the hope that I would have good memories of a PBP. 2011 exceeded all my expectations: all sorts of weather – mostly good and lots of tailwind, a fantastic … Continue reading
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PBP Support
Yes, it’s that time every four years when the Willesden makes a foray to France called Paris-Brest-Paris. This year it runs August 21st-25th. Are you a potential PBP rider, a potential helper wanting a trip to France, or a … Continue reading
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Willesden Audax Magazine Article
Cycling Active magazine featured Audax. Naturally they turned to the most famous Audax club in the land and so there is an article in the latest edition about the Little Willy ride, a 125km event run in January at the … Continue reading
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Audaxer gentle leg stretcher
If anyone wants to get in a flattish 200K in preparation for the longer PBP qualifiers coming up, this Saturday, 19th March, you can join me, Paul Stewart and Liam Fitzpatrick for a ride out from Baldock on the southern … Continue reading
