Triangle Cyclery

Posted on 15/Dec/2013 by Miles Back

Triangle cyclery logoThis week Tom and Charlotte Zittel (with the improbable help of Mixte the Cat) opened the doors of their brand new virtual cycle store.  Currently available as an on-line cycling shop on a tablet, laptop, smartphone or PC near you,  a range of very swish looking cycling apparel is ready for you to make your own, or a prezzy for a very lucky cyclist.

Though this is a ultra modern, high tech, digital retail shopping environment, Triangle Cyclery has its roots firmly in the history of West London’s cycling.  Triangle Cycles was originally based in Ickenham and belonged to Bert Rayner who is also Charlotte’s grandfather. The shop will be familiar to anyone over a certain age…… so that’s most of the Willesden CC membership then!

Please have a look at their web site at – http://trianglecyclery.com/shop/ and while you are at it give them a big, sloppy electronic hug by “liking” them on Facebook too – https://www.facebook.com/TriangleCyclery

Triangle Cycles - Release 1.0

Triangle Cycles – Release 1.0

Miles Back
15 December 2013

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WESTERLEY XMAS SOCIAL NIGHT AND RACE NIGHT

Posted on 15/Dec/2013 by Wendy Mears

REMINDER

The Westerley Cycling Club have invited us to their Christmas Social evening at their Clubroom in Greenford on Wednesday 18 December to start at 8.30 p.m.  The address is:   Cayton Rd, Greenford UB6 8BJ.  Here’s a link for directions:  http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en-GB&q=Northolt%20Rugby%20Club%20

Please let Wendy Mears know if you intend to join them so that Roly can gauge numbers for catering.

 

 

 

 

 

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2014 WILLESDEN CC COACHING PROGRAMME

Posted on 13/Dec/2013 by Miles Back

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2014 WILLESDEN CC COACHING PROGRAMME

10:00am, Thursday 2nd January 2014

Hillingdon Circuit, Springfield Road, London UB4 0LP

The Willesden CC coaching squad will be applying their vast array of skills, knowledge and humourous banter to help realise your true potential for the coming 2014 season.

January 2nd 2014 will be the first of a series of coaching sessions aimed at developing your performance, skills and ambitions for the 2014 season. Racer, Trackie, Tester, Audaxer, Sunday club run rider or even fixie hipsters (well perhaps not fixie hipsters!), you will all gain from these sessions that are geared to your own individual needs and coaching requirements.

These sessions are definitely NOT “one-size-fits-all”, as the Willesden coaching team will be working closely with you to define and focus upon the specific skills and techniques that you have personally identified as requiring further development.

There is no requirement for any prior racing or group riding experience and you will be coached at a comfortable pace in a fun and low pressure environment. The sessions will be run at the traffic-free Hillingdon circuit by the Willlesden CC’s team of fully qualified British Cycling coaches.

The cost for Willesden CC members is £1.00 for Under-18s, £3.000 for Over-18s.

To help our Coaches plan for the day please mail them your coaching requirements and development points to either –

Tony Woodford – woodford831 {at} live {dot} co {dot} uk
Or
Ray Kelly – raymondkelly211 {at} btinternet {dot} com
On the day please bring a bike, warm cycling clothing, helmet, your training objectives and a spiffing sense of humour.

 

Miles Back

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Christmas Children’s Party

Posted on 10/Dec/2013 by Wendy Mears

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Willesden Cycling Club Children’s Christmas party is being held at Minet Park Club House on Friday 20 December 2013 at 6.30 p.m.

As usual, contributions of food and drink will be much appreciated, and as in previous years if you wish to bring a small gift for your children or anyone else of your choice, Santa will be coming along to hand out the gifts.  Please show the recipient’s name on the parcel.

If you want to wish any club folk a Merry Christmas then also bring your Christmas cards, this will save you dosh on postage.

Friends and family of club members are welcome to join in on the fun, games, and frivolity of this party.

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Blind tandem rider seeks pilot

Posted on 05/Dec/2013 by Ian Oliver

A lady who is registered blind has approached the club as she would like someone to pilot her tandem. As many of you know I already pilot Angus, which I enjoy, as it’s cycling in company and you get a different perspective on things: I’m sure someone else could find piloting as personally rewarding.

She is based in Ladbroke Grove.

If you are interested please contact me directly at ianoli2010-audax at yahoo dot co dot uk and I will put you in touch with her

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Training Day

Posted on 02/Dec/2013 by Tony Woodford

We are looking at running a training day at Hillingdon Circuit on the 2nd January 2014 for our under 18 riders.  However any Club member who wishes to come along is more than welcome. Cost £3.00 for over 18s and £1.00 for under 18s.  Please let me know if you are interested as we will only run this event if we have sufficient numbers.

Tony Woodford   woodford831@live.co.uk

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Willesden Apres-velo Polo Shirt

Posted on 02/Dec/2013 by Miles Back

Ray Kelly’s relentless internet trawling for obscure parts of arcane bikes has uncovered some suitable apres-velo attire for style conscious Willesden fashionistas.

So as Equipment Officer he is urging all of us to check out Prendas Ciclismo’s “Corsa Retro” Polo shirt which sports a splendid Willesden CC livery.

Available in all sizes at £39.95 a shot…. or just ask Santa.

Corsa Polo Shirt

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The AGM – a visual summary

Posted on 01/Dec/2013 by John Wheatley

 

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AGM Reminder

Posted on 30/Nov/2013 by Wendy Mears

Don’t forget to attend the AGM this Sunday 1st December at 2.00 p.m. at Minet Park Club House.

PS
Don’t forget it’s the most prestigous club competition of the year on Sunday. The Fryathlon. Meet at Denham at 9:30 as usual or for the spectators it’s on Gore Hill in Amersham. Get there early because the place will be rammed!! Maybe.

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Club Run – Wendover – Full Report

Posted on 26/Nov/2013 by John Wheatley

This week, no-one fell off.

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South East Women’s Time Trial Series (SEWTTS)

Posted on 25/Nov/2013 by Miles Back

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The South East Women’s Time Trial Series (SEWTTS) is a new time trial series for women. It consists of 11 events and has been designed to promote competition in a friendly and encouraging environment. SEWTTS is the work of Rebecca Slack, who has been the National 100 mile champion twice, and finished on the podium in the national 10, 25, 50 and National Hill Climb. Rebecca’s aim is to create a friendly and unintimidating environment for women of all abilities.

Those taking part in the series will be categorised by their personal bests, ranging from Elite class riders through to Novice categories for first-timers with no PB. This categorisation has been included so that women can compete against others at the same level, this means that the focus will be on competition rather than on gaining fast times on fast courses.

Joining the SEWTTS costs £10, if you are interested in finding out more then please go to www.sewtts.co.uk.

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WCC at Brooklands 1939

Posted on 22/Nov/2013 by Miles Back

Adam Huddle reported on Facebook “I thought this might be of interest. I was at Brooklands the other week (volunteer steward) and spotted this ,I took a photo of it. 100 miles works out to be about 36.5 laps of the track.”

Ian Why added ” The machine examiner F. Greenaway is presumably Frank Greenaway who I remember when I first joined The Willesden. And no it wasn’t in 1939 before you lot start!!”

WCC Brooklands

 

 

 

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Extra Willesden 200K Audax on 8th December

Posted on 21/Nov/2013 by Ian Oliver

This is the calendar version of the Audax UK Perm, The Boat Trip which has been pressed into service to fill the gap left by Terry Lister’s legendary South Bucks Winter Warmer. Terry is having a year off this year; be sure to email him to make sure he comes back next year!.

The Winter Boat Trip starts from The Wonder Cafe in Hillindon and has a pub finish at The Tichenham Inn, a Wetherspoons Pub in Ickenham, so there is a chance for a bite to eat and a pint after the ride.
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The route itself is mostly “rolling flat” on good roads, just right for a winter’s day. There will be some lanes later on though so bring your lights if youre feeling tardy. We head out of town via Chalfont St Giles and Great Kingshill to Quainton Memorial Hall for 2nd breakfast served by the Quainton Hall voluntary group, then it’s off to Stoke Bruerne for lunch at the canalside Boat Inn. The afternoon stop is another canelside cafe, The Bluebell Cafe at Marsworth nr Tring and then we rolling down to The Tichenham Inn for a pint to end the day. Excellent

Routesheet with rider notes and GPX, as well as entry forms are now on line on the Audax UK Website Clicky. Note that the GPS download contains two GPX files, the main route and an alternate which routes home via Chesham. The Chesham option is a bit busy for my tastes but if the weather turns then it may prove the better route.

The start and finish locations are about 2km apart, literally at opposite ends of a Long Lane. For those driving, a free car park is available near the finish point, so park there and ride down to the start. See the rider notes on the routesheet for details.

Paul Stewart

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Lance Woodman’s Bike Sale

Posted on 20/Nov/2013 by Miles Back

Due to ongoing work and wizard commitments Lance is hanging up his racing wheels for the time being. So he is offering up for sale a range of bikes and wheels for a Willesden bargain hunter to gleefully scoop up. Lance can be contacted at lancewoodman92 (at) gmail (dot) com, or through his blog page

His road bike is a 56cm Focus Cayo, carbon frame, for which he is looking for £500 ono

The track bike is Keith Elliot’s (and then Jumbo’s) old Cougar. It has a 56cm frame with quite a short top tube. The frame is steel and comes with sprint wheels and spare chainrings etc. The asking price is £150 (or £120 to someone in the club who needs a starter bike).

Here is Lance’s full spec  for his Planet X Stealth Time Trial bike and wheels –

 

This is the original May 2008 order and spec from Planet X. Please excuse it being shown as a graphic. My PC crashed and the recovery software on the old emails doesn’t have a copy and paste option.

Invoice from PlanetX

Invoice from PlanetX

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Here you can see the FFWD disc (it’s unbadged and was sold by Planet X as one of theirs. You can see the FFWD label in the valve hole – shown below). It’s a carbon disc with aluminium clincher rim. It has a veloflex tyre on (as does the front). It’s been in dry and cool storage a long time. The wheel cost £500 new.

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The front wheel (below) is a beauty – a Xentis Mark 1. It has a DT Swiss hub. Again it’s carbon with an alu clincher rim and veloflex shod. The skewers for the disc and the front are titanium.

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There’s a double wheel bag as well:

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The stem is longer than the one in the order.
The base bars have been replaced. They are aluminium with a wing section.
The extensions are new carbon ones by Profile. They cost £150+.

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I have replaced the saddle with a broader nosed tri saddle – Selle Italia SLR Ti (Titanium bars)

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The group set is Shimano 105 throughout.
I am thinking about £500 for the bike + £450 for the carbon wheels, skewers and tyres. I’ll throw in the wheel bag.

If you have any questions, please do get in touch.

Regards,
Lance

 

 

 

 

 

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John Brackstone passes away

Posted on 19/Nov/2013 by Miles Back

Whilst John was not a Willesden member he will be known to our senior members. One of  John’s defining moments came in 1952 when he won a stage in the Tour of Britain. See a Pathe News video of his win here

John joined us on one of the Willesden CC’s early Christmas expeditions to the Isle of Wight in the 1990’s. Whilst queuing for the ferry over to to the island John remarked on the upgrades to the ferries – the last time he visited the island they were served by venerable fleet of steam driven paddle steamers!

Please visit Ray Green’s blog site, Green Jersey,  for a warm and touching tribute to John and his palmares. John’s funeral will take place at 1.00pm on 6th December at the Breakspear Crematorium, Breakspear Road, Ruislip, Middlesex, HA4 7SJ

 

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Club run – Wokingham Farm Cafe

Posted on 17/Nov/2013 by John Wheatley

Wokingham Farm Cafe. An interesting ride?  Yes we can.

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Two groups set off, but only one made it.  An incident in the main peloton brought three riders down outside the Fat Duck in Bray.  Fortunately it is believed that no-one sustained serious injury.  Less fortunately no-one rushed out of the restaurant to invite riders in for the tasting menu.  I did not see what happened, but I am sure there are lessons to be learned.

The medium-paced group (with a few new and prospective members, led by the club runs captain) played tortoise and hare with the main peloton, and reached the Stables first.  En route, in a week of news about terrible cycling incidents, it was a shame to happen upon an ambulance and a rider down in the road on the way.  The larger group was last heard of lost somewhere in Bracknell, but they all and ended up back at Dorney with plenty of miles in their legs.

 

 

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WESTERLEY EVENTS COMING UP

Posted on 11/Nov/2013 by Wendy Mears

The Westerley have invited us to their Annual Dinner and Prize Presentation on Saturday 16 November 2013 at Stanmore Golf Club. If you would like to go please let Roly know by Tuesday morning. The tickets cost £30.00 – Crespoline Pancakes to start,  followed by either Poached Salmon, or Beef Bourguignon or Vegetable Wellington, followed by dessert.  Jim and Wendy will be going so if you would like to join them contact Roly

Weds, 18th December:  Xmas Social evening at the Clubroom:  RACE NIGHT, with Ian McNally kindly hosting again.  A great night, so don’t miss it!  (btw, Race night refers to horses (on video), not bicycles … and nor is it a KKK evening!).

Contact Roly of the Westerley if you want to attend any of the above: email:    rcollicott@chalpharm.com  or wendywearl@aol.com

 

 

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Old School Ivinghoe

Posted on 10/Nov/2013 by John Wheatley

The Old School in Ivinghoe is now a superb community run cafe (named ‘Curiousitea Rooms’ – coffees are also available).  Ivinghoe Village set up a campaign to save the building and now run it as a community asset, with responsibility transferred from Bucks CC (County Council, not another cycling club.. der)

It is highly recommended.

Extensive googling for over five minutes found that the school building, now home to the Curiousitea Rooms (you can like their Face on the Book) dates from 1856.  The building has a sign with a crown and a B motif, which probably denotes the Earl Brownlow:

These days, Ivinghoe is a lovely village within the Chiltern’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and during the nineteenth century the Earl Brownlow and his wife were benefactors in that the Countess Allford purpose built and bequeathed in perpetuity in 1856 the building of the Village School, this enticing the local village children from the ‘Straw Plait’ schools wherein they contributed plaited straw to the Hat Industry in Luton. The new village school became a ‘National School’, and formed part of the overall educational provision of Buckinghamshire County through to the late 1960’s. The County have managed the building since 1906, introducing an Environmental Study Centre as the ‘School’ moved to a new combined building with a neighbouring village, and this Environmental Study Centre flourished, combining with the local converted Brewery House Youth Hostel to open the eyes of many urban school children to the rural delights of the Chiltern Hills, Forests, Reservoir Bird Sanctuaries, Canal, Museums, Historical Houses and Mills.

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WCC Trophy List for 2013 part 2.

Posted on 06/Nov/2013 by Wendy Mears

Here is the list for Time Trial, Audax, and othe tropies for 2013.

Men’s TT Champ. 25/50/100 miles..Stewart Birnie Ave. 26.246mph
Lady’s TT Champ..????
Vet’s TT Champ…????
Dunning Cup fastest 25tt…….Stuart Birnie 55:45
Alf Peyton Cup fastest 50tt….Stuart Birnie 1:53:38
Palmer Trophy fastest 100tt….Stuart Birnie 3:56:09
Erica Spring fastest lady 25tt..????
Nick Tidmarsh fastest man 10tt…Alexander Pierce
Junior (16-18 yrs)TT champion …????
Schools 10TT champ…Connor Woodford 26:10 (10/7/13)
HCp 25 Jim Revill Trophy…Nick McCullough 1:03:22
Novice 25 TT….??????
Tandem TT Champs…Jane Swane/Arabella Maude
Men’s Audax…Martin Lucas 113 points/Lady’s Audax Arabella Maude 33PT
Audax Tandem Jane Swain/Arabella Maude
Stayers Trophy…Stuart Birnie 24Hour 518.372 miles.
Moutain bike/Off Road…Richard Cooper
Contat Jim Mears JMearsWCC@aol.com if you can add to or make any changes to the trophy list.    THANK YOU..

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WCC Trophy List for 2013

Posted on 06/Nov/2013 by Wendy Mears

Here is the list of 2013 trophy winners as I can figure out at this time. If anyone can show that someone else is elageble please contact me ASAP. To see if you may be elageble refer to the trophy list on the web site which will explain what is required to win. your contact is Jim Mears email: JMearsWCC@aol.com.

Men’s RR Champ….Richard Jerome-38 points
Lady’ RR Champ….Jayne Paine-30
Vet’S RR Champ…???
Junior RR Champ….Alexander Pierce-3 points
Schoolboy RR Champ.Kye Lewis-90 points
SchoolGirl RR ChampKirsten Savage-3 points

Men’s Track Champ…Roger Woodford
Lady’s Track Champ..Jayne Paine
Junior Track Champ..Alexander Pierce
Schoolgirl Track Champ..Kirsten Savage
Schoolboy Track Champ…Connor Woodford
Time trial, Audax, other trophies to continue on next post.

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