Category Archives: Miscellaneous

This week’s WoW ride consisted entirely of Willesde-dents (Willesden residents). They are a bit of a rare species with in the club, so a 100% Willesde-dent peloton was quite a land mark…. shame it was only a two-up! Many of … Continue reading →

Today’s WoW ride (moved forward to a Tuesday to enjoy the splendid weather) went over Cookham Bridge. I noticed with considerable surprise that our favourite way of crossing the Thames will be closed to traffic from 16th October to 22 … Continue reading →

Club members are invited to our AGM this Friday at the clubrooms on the Hillingdon Circuit. We will have the usual official reports etc but there’s an interesting section on Club Development that we want to get approved and implemented. … Continue reading →

The Pennies are back at Hillingdon for another day of high wheel racing. At stake will be the British Penny Farthing Championship race trophy, donated by The Pickwick Bicycle Club. The other trophies originate from 1910 and are for riders … Continue reading →

WCC Inaurgual 100km this Saturday Don’t forget to let Liam FitzPatrick know to expect you for the first ever running of the Willesden 100 on Saturday. Starting from Rickmansworth Station at 0900 the ride heads up into the Chilterns via … Continue reading →

Paris Brest Paris is the world’s most prestigious Audax. Willesden’s Mel Kirkland has ridden each one since 1995 and this will be his eighth. If he finishes, he will set a new club record. The tracker is at https://track.rtrt.me/e/CC-2023#/tracker I have … Continue reading →

Audax Sundays ** Don’t forget – The Inaugural Willesden CC ‘Club 100’ Audax Style Ride – 26th August 2023 from Rickmansworth *** Willesden and Audaxing From the 80s to the late naughties Willesden was one of the UK’s pre-eminent Audax … Continue reading →

All members are invited to the inaugural running of what we hope will be an annual get together for all Willesden CC audax and club run riders – The ‘Club 100’ ride. This year, our Audax specialist organiser Liam Fitzpatrick … Continue reading →

  Actually getting out on the road for a ride on a Wednesday has been a bit hit and miss over the past few months. This has been largely thanks to weeks and weeks of wet weather, plus the club’s … Continue reading →

Here is our provisional list for the next few weeks All club runs start 9.00 promptly. Rides 40-50 miles. 30-40 minute café stop. Return to start at 13:30 All ride info will be issued via the Sunday Run WhatsApp group … Continue reading →

Some members may have noticed a few changes to the website with revised text and a few new photographs over the last 6 months or so. The front page has been recently edited to include info about how we are … Continue reading →

Unfortunately there was not enough interest from members to ride the planned  time trial next Friday 11th August ahead of our club meeting / social event sat the Hillingdon Circuit. The circuit is still hired, so why not bring your … Continue reading →

Walter’s daughter Cathy has let us know that Walter Severn, who was a member of Willesden CC for many years, passed away on Tuesday 1st Aug, aged 93. His funeral will be held on Monday 21st Aug at West Herts … Continue reading →

Dr Norman Lazarus is a bit of an Audax legend in the Willesden CC, having ridden the Paris-Brest-Paris, Easter Arrows and countless 200km audax rides. In his professional life, Norman is an expert on the human ageing process at Kings … Continue reading →

Ok…… so the weather forecast (BBC) is looking a bit mixed for tomorrow, but we have a 50-50 chance of staying dry, when the rain arrives around noon. I’m going to give it a go. I suggest a ride heading … Continue reading →

It’s a bit of a late shout-out, but if you fancy a social paced ride of about 60-70km tomorrow, then meet up at Windsor End, Beaconsfield at around 10am tomorrow. The forecast looks reasonable for tomorrow as the today’s rain … Continue reading →

This well established event run by LCC is open for entries. The website at https://lcc.org.uk/events/urban-hill-climb-2023/ tells you all you ned to know. The page has only one pair of riders grovelling up a hill: I wonder if that’s enough to … Continue reading →