Author Archives: Miles Back

It was late June and Jayne Paine was lying in the middle of the road with a broken hip. All thanks to an inattentive pedestrian. Her routine ride home from work was now anything but routine and her plans for … Continue reading →

The “Old Roads and Drove Roads” Audax offers a rare chance to ride through the closed village of Imber.  In November 1943, the Imber residents were summoned to a meeting and given 47 days notice to leave their homes, as … Continue reading →

Over the last weekend Willesden riders took part in Audax rides in two quite different parts of the country. The first report is from Sylvene, who rode the sell out “New Forest Onshore ” Audax, which started from Lymington on the … Continue reading →

The Wednesday “WoW” rides usually start from Windsor End in Beaconsfield. These rides are enjoyable and well supported, but every so often we like to vary the routes and start from somewhere different. What we fondly call a “WoW Awayday”! … Continue reading →

One of the highlights of the Willesden calendar is the excellent Tour de Ricky. This year it was held on 1st June and it was an amazing day, all impeccably organised and promoted by our remarkable club mate, Liam FitzPatrick. … Continue reading →

As many will already know, this week we heard the very sad news that Simon Doughty had recently passed. Simon was a lovely, funny person as well as a highly respected rider and talented author. Everyone liked Simon for his … Continue reading →

Jayne recently journeyed down to the South of France to race in the Tour Des Vallées Azuréennes, a multi stage event held just inland from Nice. The TdVA is a four stage race and also includes a contre-la-montre/Time Trial and was … Continue reading →

Last Wednesday (24th April) saw our friends at the Westerly CC run the first of their popular series of  evening time trials at the Hillingdon circuit. Unsurprisingly, the series is  known as the “Westerley Wednesday”! The time trial covers 11 laps … Continue reading →

It was our first bike ride in over two months and it was not just our chains that were starting to rust!  So our aims would be modest – a short flatish ride around some of our favourite lanes in Bedfordshire. … Continue reading →

John Wheatley has an update on Comac Nisbet’s pro cycling career. John says “Some members may remember Cormac Nisbet, who was in the Slipstreamers then the Willesden CC, before getting serious as a racing cyclist. “ In a very exciting … Continue reading →

Last Sunday (29th October), WCC riders were out on a couple of traditional and popular fixtures on the Audax UK calendar, namely the “Dartmoor Devil” and the “Emitremmus”. Both rides are 100+km long but are quite different in profile. The … Continue reading →

  This week’s WoW* ride had a great turn out of eight riders, namely Vyv, Anne, Juli-E, Marianne, Ian, Gerry, Pete and yours truly. As we got ready, a buzz went around the groupetto as we began to notice Ian … Continue reading →

This week’s WoW ride consisted entirely of Willesde-dents (Willesden residents). They are a bit of a rare species with in the club, so a 100% Willesde-dent peloton was quite a land mark…. shame it was only a two-up! Many of … Continue reading →