Author Archives: Miles Back

The lastest round-up of WCC achievements is a regular feature of the sports pages of the Brent & Kilburn Times – thanks to Gladys Joy for writing these reports each week. So if you have a result or an event … Continue reading →

The weekly report of the club’s achievements in the Brent & Kilburn Times. Thanks to Galdys Purdy (WCC Press Officer) for keeping up the good work. Brent & Kilburn Times – 2014 07 10

The Willesden will be holding Go-Ride races at Hillingdon cycle racing circuit on Friday 25th July, commencing 5.30 pm. These are specifically aimed at novice young riders under 16 years old. The races are being held to celebrate the Tour … Continue reading →

The WCC Under 18s were a corner stone of Team Brent at last Saturday’s London Youth Games held in wet conditions at Crystal Palace. These games are Europe’s largest youth sports festival with over 30 different sports taking place. The … Continue reading →

Gladys Purdy does a great job of submitting a weekly report to the Brent & Kilburn Times. As well as valuable publicity for the club, the reports are a good round up of results for all club members. So please send your … Continue reading →

PDF version available here – B and K Times – 14-06-26 Full E-Edition of Brent & Kilburn Times available here

Provisional results from Mark Brooking Marcus Jackson Baker – 375 miles Jane Moore (Formerly Jane Swain) – 310+ miles A tough course – more so for the trikes. Winner Jonhathan Schubert – 516 miles.

Quite a warm day, windy on the back straight. 22 women I thought I had done a cracking 500m but it wasn’t that good – 41.67s (8th). Ellie Coster came 1st with 37.73s and Janet Birkmyer (4th) 40.15 . Points … Continue reading →

At the recent Newbury RC 12 Hour TT Stuart Birnie set a distance of 293.63 miles, finishing with a second place podium position. Hippy said on Facebook “Looks like I finally put that 12hr record to rest…”. Chapeau Hippy!

The Johnny Morris annual charity ride is a bit of a Willesden CC tradition. It is a fun day out on a bike, peppered with good stops ranging from Golf Clubs to pubs… well mainly pubs. As usual the event … Continue reading →

The French are far more red blooded than us Brits. We have “Cycling Weekly”, but the French call their cycling magazine “Cyclo Passion”. Oh la la! Ray Kelly has just been leafing through some old copies of  “Cyclo Passion” and found … Continue reading →

  Here are edited highlights of both Tom’s and Janye’s Smithfield Nocturne races . Tom is featured at 6:35 and Jayne can be briefly seen at 9:47. A full one hour programme of the meeting will be broadcast as follows – … Continue reading →

  PDF file of above page available here – B and K Times – 14-06-05   Brent and Kilburn Times – 5th June 14  

Over the May Bank holiday Jane Swain traveled up to Shropshire for the Tricycle association’s “Bruce Kingsford 50” on the Sunday. Conditions were cold wet and windy but she still managed to improve her time for the course by 8 … Continue reading →

Making the same edition of the Brent & Kilburn Times as Ron Purdy is news of another local rider who has also done rather well! Will Ron have sculpture in Kilburn too?