I thought it would be useful to list all the Willesden Events that I know of between now and the end of January. Whilst I’m sure it is not a complete list it does show just how much we do as a club, even during the quiet “Winter Season” winter season.
Before Christmas we have our AGM (6/12), Christmas Party (22/12) and the Club Run Christmas lunch (20/12). In the New Year the Willesden Audax calendar kicks off with the Willy Warmer and the The Little Willy, whilst our highlight of our social calendar is the the Annual Dinner, Dance and Awards on 23 January 2010. But don’t get burnt out because our highly successful Reliability Rides will be taking place on 21st February 2009.
The Willesden CC – it fairly fills yer week!
Miles Back
29 Nov 2009 09:30
Club Run – Stoke Mandeville – Goat Centre
Meet at Shane’s Garden Centre, Oxford Road, Denham
01 Dec 2009 19:45
Tuesday Night Turbo Torture
Club Room, Wembley
03 Dec 2009 18:15
Thursday Night Circuit Training Hillingdon Circuit
06 Dec 2009 14:30
WCC Annual General Meeting
The Stables, Manor Farm Complex, Ruislip
06 Dec 2009 09:30
Club Run Ivinghoe Tea Rooms
Meet at Shane’s Garden Centre, Oxford Road, Denham
08 Dec 2009 19:45
Tuesday Night Turbo Torture
Club Room, Wembley
10 Dec 2009 18:15
Thursday Night Circuit Training Hillingdon Circuit
13 Dec 2009 09:30
Club Run – Wokingham Holme Grange
Meet at Shane’s Garden Centre, Oxford Road, Denham
15 Dec 2009 19:45
Tuesday Night Turbo Torture
Club Room, Wembley
17 Dec 2009 18:15
Thursday Night Circuit Training Hillingdon Circuit
20 Dec 2009 09:30
Club Run – Chinnor (Station, then Lions of Bledlow for lunch)
Meet at Shane’s Garden Centre, Oxford Road, Denham
22 Dec 2009 19:45
Tuesday Night Turbo Torture
Club Room, Wembley
22 Dec 2009 20:00??
Christmas Party Club Room,
Club Room, Wembley
27 Dec 2009 21:00
Club Run – Wendover Woods
Meet at Shane’s Garden Centre, Oxford Road, Denham
03 Jan 2010 09:30
Club Run – TBA
Meet at Shane’s Garden Centre, Oxford Road, Denham
05 Jan 2010 21:00
WCC Monthly General Meeting
Club Room, Wembley
05 Jan 2010 19:45
Tuesday Night Turbo Torture
Club Room, Wembley
07 Jan 2010 18:15
Thursday Night Circuit Training Hillingdon Circuit
10 Jan 2010 09:30
Club Run – TBA
Meet at Shane’s Garden Centre, Oxford Road, Denham
12 Jan 2010 19:45
Tuesday Night Turbo Torture
Club Room, Wembley
14 Jan 2010 18:15
Thursday Night Circuit Training Hillingdon Circuit
17 Jan 2010 09:30
Club Run – TBA
Meet at Shane’s Garden Centre, Oxford Road, Denham
19 Jan 2010 19:45
Tuesday Night Turbo Torture
Club Room, Wembley
21 Jan 2010 18:15
Thursday Night Circuit Training Hillingdon Circuit
23 Jan 2010 08:00
WCC Audax – The Little Willy,115km
Start -Chalfont St Peter
23 Jan 2010 07:30
WCC Audax – The Willy Warmer, 200km
Start – Chalfont St Peter
23 Jan 2010 18:45 WCC Annual Dinner & Dance
Uxbridge Golf Club
24 Jan 2010 09:30
Club Run – TBA
Meet at Shane’s Garden Centre, Oxford Road, Denham
26 Jan 2010 19:45
Tuesday Night Turbo Torture
Club Room, Wembley
28 Jan 2010 18:15
Thursday Night Circuit Training Hillingdon Circuit
31 Jan 2010 09:30
Club Run – TBA
Meet at Shane’s Garden Centre, Oxford Road, Denham
Warning- contains very strong language.
Miles Back
24 Nov 09
This is an excellent posting on car culture and how the law shifts the burden on to cyclists. Please read it if you can spare the time, it’s an informed article written by a lawyer.
http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.com/2009/11/cycling-against-car-culture.html
Miles Back
22 Nov 09
Willesden Gilets are now in stock at £40.00 each.
Please contact Ray Kelly to place your order. He can be contacted directly, or via WillesdenCyclingClub@yahoo.co.uk
Miles Back
22 Nov 09
I had several emails pointing out that the winning team, from Wednesday night’s quiz was an all Willesden team and not a joint forces operation as I originally reported.
My apologies to Mr and Mrs Peter Dixon and to Mr and Mrs Lance Woodman for my mistake.
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22 Nov 09
I spotted this excellent model of what appears to be a member of a well known Willesden cycling dynasty. Well it’s almost the right spelling!
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22 Nov 09
Not sure yet, but there may be a very interesting rider out on tomorrow’s run from Denham!!?? Lance, Hippy and E&Y will have a clue.
We’ll find out tomorrow!
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20 Nov 09
Chris Beynon is organising another of his highly interesting slide shows tomorrow evening (Friday 20th Nov). His subject will be his recent cycle tour of Vietnam and Cambodia.
Amongst other things, Vietnam is famed for it’s culinary ability and has a city named after a chef! Perhaps you’ll find the answer in his show?
Chris’s show starts at 8:00pm at the Stables, Manor Farm, Ruislip .
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19 Nov 09
The Westerly CC vs Willesden CC quiz night went well last night. A mixed team of the Woodmans and the Westerly took home the coveted first first prize. Willesden teams showed performance in depth by filling some of the minor placings.
Rocco and Liz set a very good and varied set of questions. Hardest question of the evening was “what is a Syzygy?”. Well done, you guesed right, it’s a straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies.
The evening rounded off with the customary raffle and a late-night supper. Thank you to our friends at the Westerly for hosting the evening and to Jim and Wendy Mears to setting up the event.
Miles Back
19/11/09
The hottest British Cycling Bike Event in the Race Calendar is the second annual RIDE24 Track Relay Race at Dunsfold Test Track, Surrey and you can be part of it!
Coined as one of the most unique and challenging rides in the UK, this 24 hour Le Mans on bikes race will see you and three team mates racing day and night around the Top Gear track in a battle for the champions title.
Your strategy will ensure your race status, and team categories include vets, male, female and mixed. Its just £60 per head to enter, which will include all food, drink, mechanical support gala lunch, ride medal and t-shirt, and free 24 hour massages!
You will need to raise £250 in sponsorship for Action Medical Research, a child health charity.
check out the awesome event video here on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EwpEgbRgVY
And the event brochure here at
http://www.action.org.uk/brochure/226319
Benefit from the special 50% discount in entry for the month of NOVEMBER by entering online with the following code
CY2410
The annual Willesden vs the Westerley quiz night will be held next Wednesday 18th November.
The quiz starts at 8:30 pm and I believe our very own Rocco Richardson will be the Quiz Master.
The Westerly’s club room is in the Northolt Rugby club bar, which is at the end of Cayton Road in Greenford.
The club AGM will this year be held on Sunday 6th December 2009 at the Stables, Ruislip starting at 2.30p.m.
If you would like to come along please do so as it will give you the chance to have your say for the running of the club in 2010.
New WCC member Rick Carpenter admits to getting his Cyclo-cross and Cross-Dressing a bit mixed up on a recent event. It seems he wasn’t the only only one a bit bewildered by the dress code (See http://bit.ly/3Ae7A).
Rick is clearly very comfortable with his new look and has entered a full 24 hour Cyclo-cross. Rick’s very concerned about this race – he’s unsure what length heel should wear during the early evening.
If you would like to know more about his event, “The 24 hours of FSX”, then goto to http://www.fifthstreetcross.com/. I’ve no idea where on earth it is except that it is somewhere in the USA, probably on the eastern or western side?
Miles Back
11 Nov 09
The Westerley Cycling Club requests your presence at the 85th Annual Dinner and Prize Presentation to be held at the
After last year’s success, the dinner will again be held on a Saturday 28th November 2009 7:00 for 7:30 pm. Guest speaker: Gordon Wright, World Cycling Championship coach.
Ticket price: Still only £20
RSVP Roland Collicott
01753 885997 or 07909 681661
Dress: Formal or smart casual
rcollicott@chalpharm.com
Stewart Birnie has asked “What are the club records? Is there a list of these?”
This is a very good question and I think all records and trophies should be detailed on the web site, however most of us do not know what they are.
Can Any one help? Can any one tell me what the club records are and what trophies are up for grabs. It will all help with motivation for 2010.
John Davies
10 Nov 09
Ray Kelly has just taken delivery of a new batch of Willesden CC kit.
This includes Long sleeve tops and bib shorts only – sorry no gillets at the moment.
Vast arrays of stock will be available to purchase on Tuesday evening at the Club House or contact Kit-Kelly directly via WillesdenCyclingClub@yahoo.co.uk
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09 Nov 09
Stewart “Hippy” Birne has posted a win riding for CS Grupetto at the Hounslow and District Wheelers hill climb. Hipps says his time was “1:47 on a slightly shorter course than the other week”.
I’ve crapped the following full story has off his blog http://www.thehippy.net/nucleus/
1st place in 1:47.
Today’s weather wasn’t looking good and I almost stayed in bed. I’m glad I didn’t though. I usually do better in bad weather since all the actual fast people are all scaredy bed wetters. 😉
I finally left the house and rode 30k to Windsor Hill. At the top of the hill there were a few people milling around but I assumed the sign-on was at the bottom and rode down. Nope. Doh! So I had to ride back up to the top of the hill and sign-on. Extra warm-up for the win. I met mitre_tester from lfgss here and he pinned my number on. Cheers!
The course was maybe 100m shorter than the last time I rode it, starting after the bridge. This worked to my advantage since I had wasted time on the flat start last time spinning too fast. This time I would be geared higher and take off on the actual hill. It also meant the ride would be shorter, so it wouldn’t really start to hurt until half way up.
I was #12 and got the countdown from 30 seconds.. 5..4..3..2..1 off strongly (in a good gear this time so no faffing with changes). Around the first corner ok and now the breathing starts to get ragged. There’s some photographers on the right and I get out of the saddle and grind on for a bit further, getting a little wheel spin here since the roads were damp but nothing too serious. Back in the saddle and now the real misery is all systems go. I feel like I’m moving at 1kph, my legs are like wet bags of concrete and breathing is gasps. I get out of the saddle approaching the finish and think what a waste of time this was, coming back here only to finish so slowly.
I’m over the line and roll to a stop almost immediately, lying over the bars and gasping for air. I have an ice cream headache. I think the blood that was supposed to be going to my brain has been directed to my legs (no change there, some of you will think). I have the same wobbly legs as last time but I make an effort to get the bike moving again and slowly roll down the road a bit, drop the gears down and spin a bit before returning to the finish to be congratulated for a good ride. Really?! What time did I get? “1:47, the next guy is 15 seconds down on you”. “Wow”, I’m thinking to myself, that’s pretty odd since it felt like I was riding through treacle. “Not the record, that’s something like 1:32, but still a good ride”. Also met clubman from lfgss after the ride. Had to skip the cafe stop for some xmas shopping but a big thanks to the Hounslow Wheelers for running this.
The S-Works even got washed after the event and now has (almost) white bar tape again. This will probably be the last ride it does until well into next year so it’s only fair. It has served me well this year.
I’m pleased that these show bigger power numbers than the last attempt. Even if it didn’t feel like I’d worked as hard or was going as fast, power doesn’t lie (much). 🙂
Distance: 551m
Time: 1:47
1114W max
620W avg
Some reports on unprovoked attacks on cyclists in Slough (and other) areas. See http://road.cc/node/10759
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05 Nov 09
