The Beast from the East

Saturday 23rd May 2015

Start Time: 06:00

Starting from: Waltham Abbey

Entry Fee:£20.00

Supposedly this photo was taken at the 1995 Good Friday meeting at Herne Hill.

Ray Kelly has successfully obtained TWO teams places (2 x 4 riders) from BC for the Prudential Ride London-Surrey 100 Club Challenge on Sunday 2 August, 2015. He has been allocated:

1 Male team – 4 x Male Riders.

1 Mixed Team – 2 x Male Riders a+ 2 x Female Riders

The conditions are :

1. Each rider within the team must pay their own entry fee (£58) and complete their own online entry form;

2. Every rider in a team must be a current British Cycling member.

3. Riders who hold an Elite or Category 1 British Cycling Race Licence are not eligible to enter the Club Challenge.

4. Riders must be 18 or over

5. Riders who have already secured an individual place through the original entry ballot or a charity place are not eligible to enter the Club Challenge.

If you would like to enter this event then please contact Ray Kelly on raymondkelly211@btinternet.com or call him on 07563 539637.

Team entries will open on 13th April and all 4 riders in the team must have completed and paid for their entry by 17:00 6th May or the team will lose its place.

The Hillingdon Slipstreamers are pleased to announce that they have secured Monday nights for-

1. Youth only coaching sessions.
2. A full Summer Race programme
3. A 6 date Go-Ride series.

Coaching
The season will kick off with three “Coach Led Racing” sessions on

30th March (Sunset 19:30),
06th April (Sunset 19:41),
and
13th April (Sunset 19:53).

These sessions are open to anyone wishing to ride the Monday night summer series. It will enable riders to become fully familiar with the  Hillingdon Cycle Circuit in a race scenario and coaches will be on hand to explain the racing etiquette necessary to ride safely on the circuit.  There will be race scenarios to practice, possibly in teams (dependent on numbers) and they will contain equal measures of coaching and training.

These coaching sessions are open to all youth riders between the ages 7 and 16 at a cost of £5 per session. You do not need to be a British Cycling member or hold a race licence for this block of training.

The Clubhouse will be open from approx. 17:30 for signing-on and registration with Coaching sessions starting at 18:00.

Summer Race Series

The Hillingdon Slipstreamers Summer Series starts for real on Monday 27th April. The events are still in the registration process, but the provisional calendar is as follows-

Go-Ride Series

With the arrival of the longer evenings, the Slipstreamers have been able to host the following Go-Ride events on Mondays for the new or less experienced young racer

25th May, 15
01st June, 15
15th June, 15
22nd June, 15
29th June, 15
13th July, 15

Signing-on and registration will start at 18:00 and the Go-Ride races will take place between 18:30 and 19:00.

Location

The Hillingdon Cycle Circuit is located within Minet Park in Hayes in West London. It is on the east side of the A312 Hayes Bypass at the A4020 Uxbridge Road roundabout about one and a half miles north of M4 junction 3. The entrance is in Springfield Road off the A4020 Uxbridge Road.

The post code is UB4 0LP.

Happy racing!

Go-Ride Grass Track Race Series 2015

Sunday 19th April, 2015

and

Sunday 26th April, 2015

at

Malorees Junior School,
Christchurch Avenue,
London NW6 7PB

Racing Starts  at 10:00am
Get there by 09.30am to sign on.

Entry fee – £3.00 

We have a limited supply of bikes and helmets for loan so please bring your own if you can, plus gloves and warm clothes!

For information and entry form, contact Ray Kelly
on raymondkelly211@btinternet.com, or call him on 07563 539637

Go-Ride Racing is entry level competition for riders aged under 16, parental consent will be required.

The Willesden Cycling Club has an enthusiastic Go-Ride structure in place for encouraging and developing young riders. Our club has been granted prestigious “Club Mark” status and has been awarded with two generous grants by the Wembley National Stadium Trust to drive forward our young rider development programme.

Go-Ride is an excellent way of starting in cycling and developing riding skills. Over 70% of the Team England cyclists in the Commonwealth Games and in the GB cycling team at the recent UCI Track Cycling World Cup started as youngsters at their local Go-Ride Club.

Live Jazz @ Ickenham Village Hall, Saturday 21 March 2015, doors open 19.30,         33 Swakeleys Rd, Ickenham, UB10 8DG.

Enrico Tomasso (tpt) & Roy Williams (tbn)celebrate the musical collaboration of Clark Terry & Bob Brookmeyer. With Christian Vaughan, pno; Dave Green, bass & Matt Skelton, drums.

2 times winner of the best trumpet category in the British Jazz Awards, Rico is considered one of the finest on the scene today.

Multi poll winner and jazz trombone legend Roy Williams’ contribution the British and International scenes is unrivalled.

Tickets, £12 – available from Pro Music International, Swakeleys Rd, UB10 8DF, on the door on the night or at

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-jazz-ickenham-village-hall-enrico-tomasso-roy-williams-tickets-15525043824

Licensed bar serving excellently priced beers, wines & soft drinks   

More info at – www.tootsmusicmanagement.co.uk/news-events     

If you are able to pass this on to anyone you think might be interested that would be hugely appreciated.  Contact Jim or Wendy Mears if you would like some tickets. Cheers. Hope to see you there.