Willesden Cycling Club

It is my intention to order some ladies kit. The design will be the same as our current kit but instead of green and white, it’ll be pink and white with purple trimmings and writing.  Flash or what?

These will be ladies cut garments (so shorter in the body and more shapely), and the sizing tends to come up larger than Giordana.

The prices will be similar to our normal kit i.e. £35 for short sleeve and £42 Long Sleeve.  Sorry but no discounts on this stuff as it isn’t essential Willesden racing kit.

I’m only doing this to order and so I will not be carrying spare stock.

Please contact me with your size and I put an order together in time for the sunshine

So girls, start measuring up or I’ll send Wrighty round to do it!

Thanks, Ray K.

Paparazzi Purdy will be along with an array of photos from last Sunday’s Willesden CC Reliability Ride. In the meantime here are a few iPhone shots (courtesy of Ray Kelly ) to whet your appetite.

John “Willesden” Williams , the Reliability Ride Director and Chief Promoter arrives in non-Willesden apparel to avoid Paparazzi Purdy, blame and any payment of subs.

Ian “Arrows” Why  displays a witty line in T shirts and his latest cake purchase. Ian and John “Club Captain” Wheatley did a stirling job of setting out the arrows on a dripping wet Saturday. Well done boys

Danny of the Gregarios holds his own in the post ride bun fight. Danny later announced that the club name is to be shortened to Gregs in a salute to their fav cake shop.

Cake envy breaks out as Mr Bannister taunts Mr Oliver with his cherry topped iced bun.

Miles Back

22 Feb 12

Rocco is still receving treatment in hospital and it is regretted that the Audax events he usually organises have been cancelled

The Times are running a campaign called Cities fit for cycling – click on the following link for more details on the campaign

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/contact/

10cms of powder snow did nothing to put off five hardy competitors or the Willesden Go-Race team last Sunday. The conditions allowed creative programming so the first ever round of the Go-Race Nordic Combined was born. Events included

– Sledge racing (Dad’s race, Ladies race and under 8’s).

– A Cycle and mainly falling off race

– A Running race

– Snowballing Igor Whyski

Everyone had a good time with Inpector Whyski helpfully adding “Главное управление внутренних дел по городу Москве!!”

The Hemel event was called off due to the snow. Fortunately they’ve been able to re-schedule the event to the 4th March. All other details remain the same.

The fourth and final round of the Willesdenn CC’s Go-Race Cyclo-cross racing will feature Strider racing and a round of the Strider Cup (TM).

A Strider bike is a great learning vehicle for 1-5 year old children. Besides providing great fun and exercise, it also teaches steering, balance, and co-ordination. If a child is old enough to walk, then they can ride a Strider bike.

Strider will be bringing along a range of their bicycles to the Willesden CC Go-Race meeting forchildren to try out for free. There will also be a round of the Strider Cup(TM) to also take part in.

……….when and where?

10:00 am

Sunday 12th February 2012

Malorees School, Christchurch Avenue, London NW6 7PB

Congratulations to brand new club member, No Winner, who bagged most of the trophies!

CLUB TROPHY WINNERS 2011

Road Race

Johnny Walker Senior RR Champion – No Winner
Dulcie Walker RR Champion – No Winner
Men’s RR Champion – Roger Woodford
Ladies’ RR Champion – Jayne Paine
Junior RR Champion – Lauren Savage
Schoolboy RR Champion – Simon Passey
Schoolgirl RR Champion – Kirsten Savage

Track

Men’s Track Champion – Roger Woodford
Ladies’ Track Champion – Jayne Paine
Junior Track Champion – Lauren Savage
Schoolgirl Track Champion – Kirsten Savage
Schoolboy Track Champion – Connor Woodford

Time Trial

Men’s TT Champion 25/50/100 – No winner
Ladies’ TT Champion 10/25 – Gill Reynolds
Vet’s TT Champion 10/25/50 – No winner
Dunning Cup Fastest 25 – Peter Dixon 53:45
Alf Peyton Cup Fastest 50 – No winner
Palmer Trophy Fastest 100 – Russell O’Malley 4:38:04
Erica Spring Cup Fastest Lady 10 – Gill Reynolds 24:51
Nick Tidmarsh Cup Fastest Man 10 – Peter Dixon 21:16
Junior TT Champion 1948 Cup – No winner
Schools 10 TT Champion Newey Cup – No winner
Jim Revill Memorial Cup Hcp. 25 – Tony Savage
Jackson Cup Novices 25 TT – No winner
Tandem TT Champion Reg Yates Cup – No winner

Audax

Men’s Champion – Peter Turnbull-216 points
Ladies’ Champion – Wendy Mears – 22 points
Audax Merit Cup – Martin Lucas
Tandem Champions – S.Grison Cup No winner
Schools Audax/Touring Jean Bardol Cup – Robert Wheatley

Others

President’s Trophy – Peter Turnbull
Stayer’s Cup 12/24 Hr. – Stuart Birnie 425.84 miles 24 hr.
NYGL Sportive Cup – Stuart Birnie
WCC Friathon Shield – Jim Keogh
Marshalling Trophy – Ron and Joy Purdy
Hill Climb Trophy – Stuart Birnie
Sash of Honour – Jayne Paine
Mug Of The Year – Ron Howard (for denting his car on his way over to be guest speaker at the D&D)

NOTABLE CLUB ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2011
Jayne Paine is our Ladies’ Track Champion and continues to perform fantastically well on the track, winning 3 medals at the World Masters. She has gone to Australia for 6 months and continues her racing over there, but we want her back to resume her success with the Willesden.

John Williams and his team successfully organised two WCC Reliability Rides at the beginning of 2011. Ray Kelly will be organising it this year so help from Willesden members will be gladly accepted.

For 2011, we were the top AUK club with Peter Turnbull, Paul Stewart, Mel Kirkland, Martin Lucas, Richard Jennings and Liam Fitzpatrick gaining the top 6 points total. Peter Turnbull won the Audax Men’s Individual Champion and Liam won an award for Services to AUK. A full set of Super Randonee Audax events were organised by WCC in 2011 for PBP qualification. Ian Oliver, did a grand job in organising the Willesden over in France with sterling help from Vyv Baker, Marianne Harding, and Steve Oliver. Peter Turnbull was also busy riding in the States as well as becoming SPOTY -winning the Bucks Herald Sports Personality of the Year – look out Cav!

The road race unfortunately did not take place last year, but the Willesden Cycling Club Machine will step into the breach to make sure it happens in 2012 with Chris James hopefully back in action to lead the event. This can only be successful if he gets plenty of support from other Willesden members.

Thanks to Mick Paddington for stepping into the Time Trial Secretary role with enthusiasm. Peter Dixon again took a clean sweep of the Club’s Time Trial awards with Stuart Birnie taking the Hill Climb. Gill Reynolds continues to reign supreme as our Ladies’ Time Trialist Champion, who will challenge her?

We seem to have some excellent young riders coming along and we will be looking to them to replace our older stock. Well done to Kirsten Savage who has already won two Imperial RT Winter races for 2012.

Congratulations to Annie Birch who became First Lady Veteran for the CTC’s 2011 Tourist Competition. A well deserved result.

Thanks to Julie May for organising the New Year’s Day Parade. To say that this Year’s parade was like ‘Singing in the Rain’ would be an understatement.

Take a look at the trophies on offer and see what you could win in 2012.

(Above is taken from the D&D Menu)