Willesden Cycling Club

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.

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!

Willesden CC will be holding the next Rocco Memorial Ride on Sunday 20 July.   The route will follow the famous Bluebell Ride.

The Event HQ will be the traditional start point for Rocco’s Audax events, Manor Farm Ruislip.   However, this will not be an Audax event.

Please keep the date free and watch this space for further details.

Two Willesden riders, Marcus Jackson-Baker and Jane Moore, are taking part in this weekend’s
R.T.T.C National Championship 24 hour time trial, being held over several circuits centred around Hailsham in Sussex. Jane, on a trike, is in with a good chance of a VTTA medal. Marcus will be riding his normal steel Audax bike, though he’s removing the mudguards and saddlebag for the event, so it will be interesting to see how his time compares against riders on bling TT machines.

Good luck to you both. Forza Squadra Verde!!

We’ll be running three Audaxes from Jenners Cafe at Maidenhead on 6th July. They are a 200km ride, a new route called the Jack Eason Struggle, and what were formerly Mick Hill’s 10 Thames Bridges and Kaf-to-Kaf rides, at 8am, 9am and 10am respectively.

The Kaf-to-Kaf is now called the Jack Eason Giggle and at 62km (38 miles) and pretty flat is well suited as a first Audax

Full details are available on the club site

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 is organised by John “Johnny” Morris of the Wembley Road Club and the Pickwick Bicycle Club. This John has chosen the Thames Valley Adventure Playground as his nominated charity for this ride. The marked route is a pleasant ride of about 35 miles through quiet lanes around Winchmore Hill, near Amersham (not the one in in North London!!).

The ride starts and finishes in The Plough in Winchmore Hill. This pub does excellent food and their early morning cappuccinos are wonderful .

Full details of the event is as follows –

Sunday 29th June 2014 – 10:00 a.m. (Registration from 9.15 a.m.)

Start & Finish – The Plough at Winchmore Hill, Amersham. (Click here for map)

Entry is free in return for sponsorship!

So see you there.

Ray Kelly

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 some photos of the Willesden in the October 1995 edition.

Ray says “Willesden stars sharing a page with Miguel Indurain and Tony Rominger!”. ” Inside the same magazine, there is a great photo of Liz with Rocco from the PBP of that year.”

“Chris Kelly on the front and James Foster on his wheel. This was in Le Picardie event.” Ray Kelly

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 –

Sky Sports 2: Tuesday 10th June, 10pm

Eurosport: Friday 13th June, 7.30pm

Channel 4: Saturday 14th June, 5.30am