A club general meeting will be held this Friday 1st September at 8.00 p.m. in the Club House at Minet Park Track. Any reports from officers unable to get there would be most appreciated.
The Willesden are in desperate need for the positions below to be filled:
It would be great if you could come along to the meeting put yourself forward for one of these positions.
Wendy Mears
Club Track Champs 2017 at Welwyn on Sunday 3rd September from 11.00 to 13.00. Please arrive at 10.30 for 11.00 start. Track bike hire available for £3. Youth, Junior and Senior champs to be decided.
All welcome including spectators!
Saturday 14th October brings the start of the new Audax season, kicking off with the Nyctophobic 100km and Anfractuous 200km from ride HQ at Chalfont St Peter near Denham with wooded Chiltern lanes and rolling downs galore.
The routes head west to the Waterside Café at Benson via Christmas Common, then whilst the Nyctophobic turns for home the Anfractuous heads west to the rolling downland of Wantage and Lambourn before heading home. In fact there are two versions of the Anfractuous, the regular route and an extended and officially hilly AAAnfractuous.
Full details and online entry, available to everybody via the Audax UK website.
Anne Mograby, with the help of Mick Hill and John Tipping put on a very enjoyable ride last week, along with the weather.
“Wednesday, August 16th was a dry and mostly sunny day, unlike the previous Wednesday, so all looked good for Riverside to Riverside Audax ride from Maidenhead to Benson. 47 riders set off from Jenner’s cafe, which was great for a mid week event. All but one finished well within the time allowed.
Good to see a dozen or so Willesden members riding the event. A big thank you to Annie and Ian Birch who persuaded some Hillingdon Triathletes to forgo running and swimming and stay on the bike. Thanks also to Graham Haysom for persuading several of the Redhill CC to join us. Anne Mograby”
Thanks Anne, Mick and John for once again organising such a brilliant day.
Club Track Champs 2017 at Welwyn on Sunday 3rd September from 11.00 to 13.00. Please arrive at 10.30 for 11.00 start. Track bike hire available for £3. Youth, Junior and Senior champs to be decided.
All welcome including spectators!
We will need a lot of help with marshalling the road races on 24 September. I expect we will have a number of Accredited Marshals on the day, but the circuit will need additional marshals to ensure the safety of the races.
Details of the course etc are shown in the earlier post. Please let me know if you are available to help.
Thanks, John Wheatley
1 ride – 2 cafes, 1 river
Many of you may know this ride, previously organised by Mick Hill and John Tipping. It really does show the best of 3 counties Berkshire, Bucks and Oxfordshire. Starting at Jenner’s cafe there are a few ups at Marlow and Turville before the great descent down to Watlington. The ride goes through some pretty villages before half way stop at the riverside in Benson. The second half of the ride takes you across open farmland at Ipsden and visits the Maharajah’s Well at Stoke Row. Going through Henley sees you on the home strait back to Maidenhead via Knowl Hill, Fifield and the Fat Duck in Bray.
Happy to take entries on the line. A cheap day out £4 to Audax/ CTC members.
Anne Mograby
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/157557/John-Walker-and-Dulcie-Walker-Memorial-Road-RacesThe Willesden will be holding their annual John and Dulcie Walker road races on Sunday, 24th September 2017
Venue: Little Milton Village Hall, Thame Road, Little Milton, Oxfordshire, OX44 7PZ
The Course
Race HQ and Sign-on
The Race HQ is at –
The Pine Lodge,
Little Milton Village Hall,
Thame Road,
Little Milton,
Oxon,
OX44 7PZ
Vital Race Day Information
Race History and Trophies
The Willesden Cycling Club was founded in 1927 and our annual road race day is one of the premier events in our calendar. On race day we will have two trophies to contest, they are –
The “John Walker” Trophy
This is a E/1/2 Road race and is the main event of the day.
The winner will have their name engraved on the the prestigious and impressive trophy, which is a salute to a much loved club member, Mr John Walker.
John Walker was a great wit and raconteur in the Willesden CC and for many years he was the Master of Ceremonies at our annual club dinner. John was an avid jazz fan and his bike was badged up as a Stan Getz to honour the great American jazz saxophonist. John was also a creative and artistic person who had a talent for airbrushing incredibly intricate and dark satanic designs on to custom motorbikes.
John Walker Trophy – previous winners
2016 Matthew Cronshaw – Madison Genesis
2015 Tristan Robbins – Madison Gesesis
2014 Elliot Porter, JLD Condor
2013 Lewis Atkins, Pedal Heaven RT
2012 Matt Cronshaw, Node 4 Giordana RT
2010 David Mclean, Velosport Pasta Montegrappa
2009 Marcin Bialoblocki, Wilier Live to Ride
2008 Dan Staite, Python Racing Team
2007 Clive Nicholls
2006 Race cancelled
2005 Robert Hud, Bioagrico Fabelec Selexion
2004 Colin Roshier, Team Quest
2003 Danny Axford, Arctic Tacx RT
2002 Mark Lovatt, Compensation Group RT
2001 Justin Hoy, Evans Cycles RT
2000 Danny Axford, Arctic Tacx RT
1999 Gordon McCauley, Kingsnorth International Wheelers
1998 George Rose, Cardiff JIF
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The “Dulcie Walker” Memorial Road Race
This is a 3/4/W/J race to identify the stars of tomorrow. The winner will have their name
engraved on the “Dulcie Walker Poniard” (a ceremonial tapered knife). Dulcie Walker was John Walker’s mother. She is also remembered as a quite a character and is thought to be the first woman to hold a motor cycle licence in the UK.
Previous winners –
2016 James Thorp-Kinsley – Watford Velo Sport
2015 Luke Souter – Shutte Velo Rapide
2014 Alexander Evangelidis. London Dynamo
2013 Tim Edwards, LBRCC
2012 Richard Stanton, Arbis LLP Roy Pink Cycles
2010 Roger Prior, Zappi’s Cycling Club
2009 Thomas Moore, Cambridge University CC
2008 Ben De Wet
2007 Roy Chamberlain, Alpha Road Club
2006 Race cancelled
2005 John Wager
2004 Marc Freullet, Team Quest
2003 Thomas Wright, Oxford City RC
2002 Simon Henley, Evans RT
2001 Ashlet Freeman
2000 Adam Henley, Team Milton Keynes
1999 Martin Freeman, Wills Wheels CC
Second claim member Josh Copley rode the Junior National Road Race recently. Here is the report via Catford CC:
Earlier this year we lost Tim Wainwright, a highly respected and loved member of our club. Tim lived in Sanderstead, Croydon and rode many miles though the lanes of Kent. His great friend and riding companion, Mark Green, is inviting us all over to Kent on Sunday 16th July for a ride through the lanes that Tim loved.
The ride will be about 80 miles long but there will opportunities to cut it short if you wish. It will be social ride run at a speed to suit the group. Mark has put a great route together and it will be a real treat for those of not familiar with riding over the that side of London!
We will meet at Sanderstead station at 9:30am. The station has car parking and is less than 30 minutes away from Victoria by train. Mark is planning to make the first stop at Lullingstone to admire the lilac fields. From there we will then head along Pilgrims Way to Otford and then on to Plaxton, Wateringbury and then finally to Rochester where we will make the turn for home. We will be passing tea rooms and pubs along the route so we should have plenty of opportunity for refreshment.
It will be good to have some idea of numbers so could you either leave a comment or leave or a “like” on the Facebook posting here
Warmest regards, John Davies
Sunday 25 June: Start & Finish at The Plough, Winchmore Hill, Amersham – 10am
John Morris’s annual charity cycle ride takes place this Sunday. Funds raised will go to the Thames Valley Adventure Playground.
The ride leaves The Plough at 10am,following early Refreshments, then heads through Penn to Beaconsfield, and on to the lunch stop at Huntswood Golf Club (by about 11am). Refreshments are taken.
Afternoon stop at The Greyhound (Refreshments) & back to The Plough for Refreshments.
Entry by sponsorship or a donation to a good cause is welcome.
Willesden CC are running three Audaxes on Sunday 2nd July 2017 all starting from
Riverside Gardens, Maidenhead. The Bash has a history of attracting good weather. The rides are:
1 Jack Eason Struggle, 200K, 08:00 calling at Dorking, Leith Hill, Petworth, Black Down and Alton
2 Boulter’s Bash, 100K, 09:30 which is flat to Theale, then hilly to Pangbourne, through the Chilterns and Marlow
3 Locked and Boulted, 50K, 10:00 Hambleden Lock, Fingest and Marlow
The Boulter’s Bash pitstop has been moved to Theale this year as Pangbourne prices were getting silly.
All events will have entry on the line with a discount for online entry unless the event limits are reached.
For more info go to https://tinyurl.com/3-audaxes
Just a reminder that we will be holding our club’s general meeting this Friday 9th June at 8.00 p.m. in the Club House at Minet Park Track. Any reports from officers unable to get there would be most appreciated.
Wendy Mears
Jayne won the UCI Tour of Cambridgeshire Gran Fondo on Sunday 4 June.
She smashed it and recorded the fastest chip-time out of all the women – 3 hours 23 minutes 42 seconds. There were 54 women in her age group 50-54. She says it was 90 miles of windy hell and said she latched on to some very good wheels! We all know how hard she races and I suspect others were trying to latch on to her wheels.
Jayne has well and truly qualified for the Worlds in Albi in August.
The Club track Champs will be on Sunday 3rd September at Welwyn track from 11.00 until 13.00 please try and attend races for all ages and abilities.
Tom has been getting in the results at Welwyn track league over the last few weeks. On the 12th May he was third in the devil. On the 19th May he was 4th in the 10 lap scratch and 2nd in the devil and on the 26th May 3rd in the 10 lap block handicap all without the usual support of our track team. So came along all you track riders get up to Welwyn on a Friday night and show a few more Willesden jerseys.
